Excellent editorial by @benjaminsire.bsky.social in @lel-media.bsky.social (a great publication spanning politics, society and scientific progress) on the expulsion from the French national territory of Xenia Fedorova, ex director of Russia Today in France. lel.media/edito/la-pou...

La poupée russe du Kremlin - Les Électrons Libres

Martyre bâillonnée, Xenia Fedorova ? La liberté d’expression protège les opinions, pas les instruments d’une puissance hostile. Reste à empêcher nos démocraties de céder, elles aussi, à la tentation d...

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I gave some comments to Fabio Tonacci from the Italian newspaper La Repubblica about the current crisis of liberal democracy in the US and around the world. www.repubblica.it/esteri/2026/...

La mappa dei diritti: così la democrazia si restringe nel mondo

Dalle interferenze russe nelle elezioni europee fino a Trump e alle tecno-oligarchie di Musk e Thiel: secondo i report 2026 del V-Dem Institute, di Freedom Hou…

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My interview for the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, on the dangers for liberal democracy today. www.repubblica.it/esteri/2026/...

Capoccia: “Oggi il vero pericolo per le democrazie sono le oligarchie della comunicazione”

Intervista al professore ordinario di Politica comparata all’Università di Oxford. “I proprietari delle piattaforme, che gesticono gli algoritmi, hanno un pote…

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My interview for the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, on the dangers for liberal democracy today. www.repubblica.it/esteri/2026/...

Capoccia: “Oggi il vero pericolo per le democrazie sono le oligarchie della comunicazione”

Intervista al professore ordinario di Politica comparata all’Università di Oxford. “I proprietari delle piattaforme, che gesticono gli algoritmi, hanno un pote…

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"...After a decade of second-raters (May), comedy dilettantes (Boris Johnson), novices (Rishi Sunak and the bizarrely apolitical Starmer) and Liz Truss..." Brilliant synthesis of the past decade of UK politics.

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2w ago

The return of the political professional ft.trib.al/eIP3FEq

On July 14, Judge Boasberg of the US Federal District Court in DC put a stay on the travel ban imposed last December on Clare Melford of the Global Disinformation Index, Thierry Breton and three other European researchers. Bravo! open.substack.com/pub/billemmo...

A victory for free speech in and about America

An article written in my capacity as Chair of the Global Disinformation Index about the attempts by the Trump administration to demonise and block our work

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Questa e' una notizia molto triste. L' avevo incontrato diverse volte a DC. Era una persona molto professionale e gentile. Very sad news. I met Daniele several times in DC. He was a very kind person and a very professional journalist. roma.corriere.it/notizie/cron...

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The Weimers Report is an unprecedented attack on the EU Court of Justice’s authority, using the court’s limited transparency as a pretense to weaken its constitutional role in ensuring judicial independence across the Union @verfassungsblog.de Read legal analysis verfassungsblog.de/the-weimers-...

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El gambito de Marine Le Pen

Marine Le Pen ha convertido su condena penal en una apuesta presidencial. El profesor de Ciencia Política en la Universidad de Oxford Giovanni Capoccia analiza cómo el recurso de Le Pen ante el Tribun...

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My piece on @verfassungsblog.de on what Marine Le Pen's decision to run for President might mean for the rule of law in France verfassungsblog.de/le-pens-gamb...

Le Pen’s Gambit

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There's no doubt that Le Pen, like others in her ilk, is more than ready to misuse justice system as article details. But all this manoeuvring and the Le Pen/Bardella uncertainty will not be politically cost free.

Giovanni Capoccia@gcapoccia.bsky.social · 3w ago

My piece on @verfassungsblog.de on what Marine Le Pen's decision to run for President might mean for the rule of law in France verfassungsblog.de/le-pens-gamb...

My piece on @verfassungsblog.de on what Marine Le Pen's decision to run for President might mean for the rule of law in France verfassungsblog.de/le-pens-gamb...

Le Pen’s Gambit

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Szabolcs Panyi@szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 4w ago

"I do not believe Vučić will concede power peacefully, the way Viktor Orbán did after losing the election in Hungary." As Serbia heads toward elections, attacks on civil society reveal a darker pattern: Moscow and Belgrade often chase the same enemies.

On the political crisis in the UK--on @verfassungsblog.de verfassungsblog.de/starmer-resi...

What happened between 2015 and 2020 taught me that, should that awful day come and we, settled EU migrants, become the target of Reform, the Great British Public will do nothing to protect us. Friends will be appaled but powerless. A few marches, some nice, principled words, that'll be all.

Peter Walker@peterwalker99.bsky.social · last mo.

NEW: EU nationals in the UK are increasingly alarmed at Reform UK’s plan to target their rights to accommodation and employment, saying this is a betrayal of promises made in the Brexit referendum 10 years ago. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Les débats actuels sur la climatisation ont un étonnant parfum de déjà-vu. Au début du XXe siècle, c’est le chauffage central qui occupait le banc des accusés, cible des mêmes anathèmes que le froid artificiel aujourd’hui.

Il y a un siècle, la France diabolisait le chauffage - Les Électrons Libres

Les débats actuels sur la climatisation ont un étonnant parfum de déjà-vu. Au début du XXe siècle, c'est le chauffage central qui occupait le banc des accusés, cible des mêmes anathèmes que le froid a...

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À chaque canicule, le rituel est bien rodé. La France suffoque. Les écoles ferment. Les hôpitaux calfeutrent leurs fenêtres avec des couvertures de survie. C’est alors qu’invariablement arrive quelqu’un pour expliquer que la climatisation ne serait pas la solution.

Climatisation : ces 12 idées reçues qui empêchent la France de s’adapter

À chaque canicule, le rituel est bien rodé. La France suffoque. Les écoles ferment. Les hôpitaux calfeutrent leurs fenêtres avec des couvertures de survie. Les médias conseillent de dormir dans des dr...

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My take on Starmer's resignation open.substack.com/pub/giovanni...

The inevitable Reflecting Pool Dolchstoßlegende.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Trump: "They did something to create the algae"

"It is a shame that the world’s democracies are having to prepare for potential economic warfare with each other. But that is the world that Trump has created." www.ft.com/content/a718...

America’s allies look to declare independence from the US

Traditional partners are rethinking their economic ties

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Excellent summary of where the UK economy is one decade after the Brexit referendum.

Jacob Öberg@profjacob.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨🚨When closing down on the momentous (and disastrous) #brexit referendum @rjpartington.bsky.social has published a great concise piece titled "How Brexit has made Britain poorer – in charts". 🧵https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/14/how-uk-economy-changed-since-brexit-vote-charts

UK would be blocked from rejoining ‘wounded’ EU, says Juncker ft.trib.al/jVrEBYp

UK would be blocked from rejoining ‘wounded’ EU, says Juncker

Former Commission president says other countries would ‘cold-shoulder’ Britain because of its closeness to the US

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Oh, the replies. Yet again, anonymous tankie accounts incapable of acknowledging that communist regimes were highly repressive and widely reviled by their own people. iF yOu CrITIcIZE CoMmuNisM YoU'rE a Fascist AlSo! CapITaliST WeST BaD so CoMMUniSm GoOd OMFGBBQ

Anna Grzymala-Busse@annagbusse.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Communist regimes in the 1940/50s battled what they saw as “alien anti-communist agitators,” traitors trained and paid up by the West. Autocratic regimes can never quite believe their opposition is sincere, popular, and intense

Not yet worried about tyranny in Britain? This is why you should be | Owen Jones

Not yet worried about tyranny in Britain? This is why you should be | Owen Jones

Chilling comments by Reform figures can’t be dismissed when you consider the overwhelming power of the UK’s centralised state, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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IF WE TOLERATE THIS is out today! These are worrying times politically but if there's one thing I want to get across, it's that the slide into far-right nationalism is not inevitable. Please help me spread the word. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...

The scale of Trump's weaponization of the Justice Department against his enemies www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

To read them all now, check out @lawfaremedia.org: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Tom Joscelyn@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It’s no big surprise that Trump’s DOJ is deleting all of the January 6th press releases from its website. Here’s the thing: I downloaded all of them in Feb. 2025 (that’s right, more than a year ago) suspecting that they’d do just that. And we’re working to post them all online, as are others.

The most corrupt president in history:

I'm shocked and so deeply saddened that my colleague and friend, Ran Hirschl, passed away. A towering figure in law and politics, he was so supportive of junior faculty like me, and had so much intellectual firepower to go. I'll miss him so much 😢 www.politics.utoronto.ca/news/memoria...