Emma-Kate Symons
@eksymons.bsky.social
Paris-based writer, correspondent. Bylines in @franc-tireur @TheNewEuropean @ConspiracyWatch Global @ForeignPolicy @wsj @PostOpinions @reuters. Alum @columbiajourn 🇦🇺
For all the success, the billions and the international fame, the boss of LVMH is revealed as a man made miserable by his own success ✏️ @eksymons.bsky.social
The miserable triumph of Bernard Arnault, richest man in Europe
For all the success, the billions and the international fame, the boss of LVMH is revealed as a man made miserable by his own success
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Europe's richest man, Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessey (LVMH) luxury boss Bernard Arnault is furious. The 'last king of France' is out for revenge, launching on X amid a bitter Succession-style war among his 5 offspring from 2 marriages that would make Rupert Murdoch blush. Read our ✏️ in The New World 👇
The New World@thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 5d agoFor all the success, the billions and the international fame, the boss of LVMH is revealed as a man made miserable by his own success ✏️ @eksymons.bsky.social
Confused by Trump whisperer Laura Loomer's conversion on Russia and Ukraine? Read Conspiracy Watch Global for all the receipts on the anti-Muslim, 9/11 truther, election denying, Andrew Tate-defending influencer. ✏️ #Conspiracypedia @conspiracywen.bsky.social www.conspiracywatch.info/en/brieffing...
Laura Loomer - Conspiracy Watch
Laura Loomer (born 1993) is an American far-right conspiracy merchant and a powerful figure in Trumpism. A supporter of Israel in foreign policy, she describes herself as a "proud Islamophobe." She be...
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NEW PODCAST 🚨 The Matts answer listener questions including: Has Burnham made a mistake appointing so many loyalists; why aren’t the courts more honest about what time prisoners will actually serve, plus more! Tune in 🎧 buff.ly/fOzZh8m
🇫🇷 The iconic D-Day landing beaches in Normandy were on Sunday inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List, marking the culmination of a project launched nearly two decades ago. ➡️ u.afp.com/SrBo
Assassinat du père Hamel en 2016 : la France rend hommage au prêtre tué dans un attentat à Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray
Assassinat du père Hamel en 2016 : la France rend hommage au prêtre tué dans un attentat à Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray
Le 26 juillet 2016, le prêtre catholique avait été égorgé pendant qu’il célébrait la messe. Il fut « pris pour cible parce qu’il incarnait le refus de la haine, la fraternité et l’espérance », a écrit Emmanuel Macron sur X.
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Another book review of Emily Eakin's ode to the postmodernist 'French Theory' men's club that waves away Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser's 1980 cold-blooded murder of his sociologist wife Hélène Legotien Rytmann - a femicide victim whose name is even erased. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/b...
How a Band of Difficult Thinkers Shaped One Author, and the World
In “The Frenchmen,” Emily Eakin traces the rise and fall of postmodernist philosophy, and the surprising ways its influence lingers.
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The men who made theory French? What about masculinist Marxist Louis Althusser who murdered his wife, resistant, sociologist Hélène Rytmann-Legotien in 1980. Her name is erased in this review treating femicide as ‘dissociative psychotic episode’ @francesca-b.bsky.social voxeurop.eu/en/femicide-he…
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The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 2w agoFrench theory, as taught in American classrooms, has acquired a reputation of forbidding difficulty and hauteur. A new history seeks to surface its human side. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The martial arts star wrote down his philosophies and hopes as a means of enacting them ✏️ John Osborne
Inside the notebooks that built Bruce Lee
The martial arts star wrote down his philosophies and hopes as a means of enacting them
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This year’s World Cup has faced sweltering heat and humidity. Now it may need to deal with wildfire smoke. www.wired.com/story/fifa-d...
FIFA Doesn’t Have a Plan to Deal With Climate Change
This year’s World Cup has faced sweltering heat and humidity. Now it may need to deal with wildfire smoke.
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Expecting to escape scrutiny over that £5m donation was a huge blunder – and a gift to Burnham ✏️ @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social
Alastair Campbell’s diary: Britain isn’t America – and that’s why Farage had to fall
Expecting to escape scrutiny over that £5m donation was a huge blunder – and a gift to Burnham
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Open warfare between supporters of the far right rivals has turned the National Rally party into an episode of Succession ✏️ @eksymons.bsky.social
Le Pen’s rift with Bardella could wreck her run for power
Open warfare between supporters of the far right rivals has turned the National Rally party into an episode of Succession
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"Sticking 2 fingers up the establishment would be refusing to re-elect a man who threw a tantrum because he was asked to explain millions he failed to declare, and was held to account for first time in his long slimy political life”. @thenewworldmag.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/lucy-reade-f...
Farage’s meltdown was the worst speech in modern British political history
Reform’s leader triggered a by-election at the end of a rant that veered wildly between incoherent defences and bizarre anecdotes
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European football's governing body has somehow become the moral voice of FIFA's increasingly absurd competition 🐀 Rats in a Sack
How UEFA became the true star of the World Cup
European football's governing body has somehow become the moral voice of FIFA's increasingly absurd competition
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As thousands die in France's deadly hot summer, and after years of climate scepticism and obstruction, Marine Le Pen’s National Rally has cynically reinvented itself as the party of cooling. It now calls for a national AC plan and the tactic could help drive it to power. @thenewworldmag.bsky.social
The New World@thenewworldmag.bsky.social · last mo.As a killer heatwave grips France, an argument over air conditioning has become so fierce that it could sway the national political mood. ✏️ @eksymons.bsky.social
From liars like Johnson, Farage and Gove to incompetents like Cameron, May and Corbyn, here are the guilty men and women responsible for a nightmare ✏️ Jonty Bloom
The 13 people most to blame for Brexit
From liars like Johnson, Farage and Gove to incompetents like Cameron, May and Corbyn, here are the guilty men and women responsible for a nightmare
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In New York, left-wing Mayor Mamdani is mandating right to aircon for renters, installs green-tech heat pumps for heating+cooling in public housing. In Paris 1500 died of heat in 3 days amid widespread eco-left aversion to AC. Read ✏️ @thenewworldmag.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/emma-kate-sy...
The politics of air conditioning
As a killer heatwave grips France, an argument over air conditioning has become so fierce that it could sway the national political mood.
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"We can debate defeating capitalism or building climate-adapted housing, but the reality today is our hospitals are operating under wartime conditions because we have no air conditioning.” The French AC wars are getting deadly. My ✏️ @thenewworldmag.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/emma-kate-sy...
The politics of air conditioning
As a killer heatwave grips France, an argument over air conditioning has become so fierce that it could sway the national political mood.
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"Heat pumps can reduce emissions by enabling a transition from gas-powered boilers, running on renewable electricity, and providing both heating and cooling". NYC under Mayor Mamdani is doing it for public housing and mandating AC for renters. France should follow! shelterforce.org/2026/05/26/w...
What NYCHA’s Heat Pump Strategy Says About the Future of Green Affordable Housing — Shelterforce
NYCHA's installation of tens of thousands of green appliances shows how large-scale procurement could help lower the cost of green upgrades.
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Blood on their hands: deaths in Paris surged 1457% yesterday, more bodies will be found. Will 🇫🇷 anti-AC ideologues, civil servants+politicians who blocked even clean cooling take responsibility for this preventable catastrophe? My 📝 @thenewworldmag.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/emma-kate-sy...
The politics of air conditioning
As a killer heatwave grips France, an argument over air conditioning has become so fierce that it could sway the national political mood.
thenewworld.co.uk
The French are dying in droves because 40°C+ rooms+homes lack AC. The eco-left anti-aircon brigade has long used bureaucracy to ban clean cooling in hospitals/schools/buses/creches/elderly homes. Is 🇫🇷 over with 'ecological sin'? My✏️ @thenewworldmag.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/emma-kate-sy...
The politics of air conditioning
As a killer heatwave grips France, an argument over air conditioning has become so fierce that it could sway the national political mood.
thenewworld.co.uk
When antisemitic conspiracy merchant ‘Kremlin Candace’ Owens goes to Moscow…in ecstasy just like Tucker Carlson before her on his pilgrimage to pay homage to Putin. Follow our Candace Owens’ coverage ✍️ Conspiracy Watch Global @conspiracywen.bsky.social www.conspiracywatch.info/en/will-brig...
🙏Thanks @f24debate.france24.com @francoisf24.bsky.social for a wide-ranging discussion about the perils of the populist far right in Europe and 🇺🇸 and beyond. Read Andy Pemberton's excellent analysis for The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social ✏️ www.thenewworld.co.uk/andy-pembert...
The Debate - France 24 @f24debate.france24.com · 2mo agoHow long can the far-right cling to conspiracies? @thenewworldmag.bsky.social's @eksymons.bsky.social tells #F24Debate how ‘The Great Replacement Theory’ links together conservative leaders across the globe
How long can the far-right cling to conspiracies? @thenewworldmag.bsky.social's @eksymons.bsky.social tells #F24Debate how ‘The Great Replacement Theory’ links together conservative leaders across the globe
Where does Europe’s far-right turn? As #Hungary returns to the fold after ouster of MAGA favourite Viktor Orbán, Tuesday's #F24Debate asks if Europe's populists can make do without support from Trump and Putin. Tune in live at 7:10PM Paris Time ➡️ https://go.france24.com/p7pM
The email instructs workers to report behavior that predates Donald Trump’s second inauguration. One employee tells WIRED it felt like a “reminder to narc on your coworkers.” www.wired.com/story/depart...
Department of Labor Tells Employees to Report Anyone Prioritizing DEI
The email instructs workers to report behavior that predates Donald Trump’s second inauguration. One employee tells WIRED it felt like a “reminder to narc on your coworkers.”
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In a Vanity Fair interview, the star footballer said he was worried by the rise of the hard right. The result was a wave of race-baiting, and the return of the big Le Pen lie: that unless you’re white, you’re not really French ✏️ @eksymons.bsky.social
The far right declares war on Kylian Mbappé
In a Vanity Fair interview, the star footballer said he was worried by the rise of the hard right. The result was a wave of race-baiting, and the return of the big Le Pen lie: that unless you’re…
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