Simon Nixon

Shameful. Congress should pass a revised version of the Russia sanctions bill with no Presidential waiver authority.

Is Burnham winging it? My latest... nixons.substack.com/p/so-many-lo...

Elon Musk not only controls the satellite systems that the Ukrainian army - and other European armies - rely upon, he also controls the algorithms that govern a large swathe of the European information space. Europe needs to decouple from this clear and present threat to their security. My latest

Zelenskyy said five days ago that freezing the conflict on current lines, with security guarantees, is "a real way to end this war". www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Elon Musk not only controls the satellite systems that the Ukrainian army - and other European armies - rely upon, he also controls the algorithms that govern a large swathe of the European information space. Europe needs to decouple from this clear and present threat to their security. My latest

Is Burnham winging it? My latest... nixons.substack.com/p/so-many-lo...

💯The case for democracy is not that voters are always right, or wise, or good. It's that they can correct their mistakes. That's why it's so dangerous to have billionaires controlling the media or regulating the flow of information. It shuts down the immune system of democracy.

Why Europe needs to decouple from a dangerous control freak; Greek lessons for France; is Andy Burnham winging it; why chokepoint wars are so hard to win; and counting the cost of Europe’s deadliest summer. Latest edition of Wealth of Nations nixons.substack.com/p/musks-powe...

Why Europe needs to decouple from a dangerous control freak; Greek lessons for France; is Andy Burnham winging it; why chokepoint wars are so hard to win; and counting the cost of Europe’s deadliest summer. Latest edition of Wealth of Nations nixons.substack.com/p/musks-powe...

Another one.

Trump said he had to takeover Greenland to keep China and Russia out. And then he snuck Russia onto the North Slope. Literally just ... inviting them in. www.ft.com/content/e9cf...

Trump’s alignment with Russia makes America a potential risk to Europe’s own security. What can and should Europeans do about it? My latest

Trump’s alignment with Russia makes America a potential risk to Europe’s own security. What can and should Europeans do about it? My latest

At a time when UK governments like making declarations about Britain's place in the world somehow France24 manages to have 10 correspondents in South America while the BBC has 0

Completely unhinged

What I found interesting about the Kushner story is that the leak came from the Dutch intelligence services. Assuming the story is true, perhaps points to Europeans playing hardball with the compromised Trump syndicate. I hope so…

Trump’s embrace of Putin and the throttling of Ukraine’s Starlink show that Europe can no longer trust America on defence. A deep dive on how Europe can reduce its dependence on the US, regain some autonomy and make itself less vulnerable to coercion. nixons.substack.com/p/can-europe...

“There has been little to suggest that this will be the most transformational government of the last four decades. What we have been treated to instead is the now familiar sight of a British PM being mugged by leading a country with a broken economic model and public finances hit by new shocks”

Ahead of next week's budget, my essay on how Britain over the last four decades wrecked its balance sheet and why the government needs a strategy to repair it nixons.substack.com/p/how-britai...

Looking at the news over the past week or so, it is hard to escape a profound sense of silos violently colliding in ways that leave us all, but Europeans in particular, at the mercy of events largely beyond our control. Here's my attempt to join the dots - and identify what may break the doom loop

“Is there a way out of this apparent doom loop? In the spirit of trying to stay positive, here are five possible circuit-breakers, though each comes with a snag …”

"The alternative is surrender to the kind of far-right nationalism that Marco Rubio endorsed in a somewhat chilling speech in Athens this month. That would be a recipe for European fragmentation, atomisation and ultimately domination by the imperial powers to the continent’s west and east"

Looking at the news over the past week or so, it is hard to escape a profound sense of silos violently colliding in ways that leave us all, but Europeans in particular, at the mercy of events largely beyond our control. Here's my attempt to join the dots - and identify what may break the doom loop

Only connect. This is a brilliant (if not exactly comforting) tour d'horizon from @nixonsimon.bsky.social

Europe seems caught in a doom loop. Here are five possible ways out

Europe seems caught in a doom loop. Here are five possible ways out

This would not have come as a surprise if the mainstream media had bothered to do any reporting during the Clacton by-election, rather than treating it as a joke. I wrote about what I heard on the doorstep in The Guardian www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Time to transfer them swiftly to an EU-controlled fund well beyond the reach of the Trump-Putin syndicate

❗️Ukraine needs Starlink’s speed limit raised to at least 450 km/h, or removed entirely, sources told Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalist Alex Raufoglu. They say the current 160 km/h limit is insufficient for countering jet-powered Shahed drones. #Ukraine

Some credit to the Telegraph for running this story.

How do decent Americans feel about the fact that their country is now actively siding with Russia in a war against Europeans?

Terrific piece by @pilitaclark.bsky.social on what to do about Britain's broken energy system, making strong case for more central planning and state control to reduce cost of capital to drive. Agree that Dieter Helm seems to have sadly drifted off the reservation... www.ft.com/content/2d99...

Trump's dirty diesel deal with Putin is not just a betrayal of Ukraine. It sends an ominous message to Kyiv, Europe and the world. My latest on what's at stake for Ukraine and the transatlantic relationship and whether domestic US politics might come to the rescue nixons.substack.com/p/trumps-bet...

Great stuff from the Telegraph. archive.ph/r2nTA

Why Trump’s diesel deal sets traps for Europe, how Brussels scored a small win over China, whether Pedro Sanchez is a victim of his own success, and can Brazil walk a geopolitical tightrope - latest edition of Wealth of Nations nixons.substack.com/p/trumps-bet...

Why Trump’s diesel deal sets traps for Europe, how Brussels scored a small win over China, whether Pedro Sanchez is a victim of his own success, and can Brazil walk a geopolitical tightrope - latest edition of Wealth of Nations nixons.substack.com/p/trumps-bet...

Possibly the most sad and pathetic we’ve yet seen him - and that’s saying something. Embarrassing.

The euro has an 83% approval rates in the countries that use it and former eurozone crises countries are growing faster than Britain with falling debt and lower borrowing costs. So why is the euro question considered so toxic to the UK Rejoin debate? My latest

Should Britain Adopt the Euro? My answer to the question that absolutely no one is asking - but which a putative Rejoin campaign might find hard to avoid…

Putin is reportedly unable to land in Moscow amid drone activity and aerial balloons. Four aircraft from the Rossiya presidential flight unit are said to be circling near Moscow, while the capital’s airports are closed due to the drone threat. #Russia

Should Britain Adopt the Euro? My answer to the question that absolutely no one is asking - but which a putative Rejoin campaign might find hard to avoid…

My latest in which I look at some of the tricky currency related questions that are likely to concern both sides if Britain opts to rejoin the EU - and why returning to a pre-Brexit status quo that was proving increasingly problematic is unlikely to be straightforward.

Even if Britain cannot be forced to adopt the euro, the currency question is sure to loom large over any bid to return to the EU. The first in a two part series on the third rail of British politics… My latest

The right-wing papers seem happy to overlook that Badenoch has united her party by losing the right, purging the left and embracing Trussonomics and the myth of self-funding tax cuts, leaving the party at least four points down in the polls on the last election. What a splendid achievement!

Important! The euro will be big in (re)-Join debate. UK could join and put off euro membership like Swed & PL. But how would obvious reluctance to defer indefinitely the Euro commitment affect negotiations? And how would the Stability and Growth Pact rules for non Euro MS's affect UK?

Even if Britain cannot be forced to adopt the euro, the currency question is sure to loom large over any bid to return to the EU. The first in a two part series on the third rail of British politics… My latest

Bravo to Private Eye for reporting what the cowardly mainstream client media chose to ignore…

Amid all the focus on French bond yields, don't lose sight of the US which has worse debt dynamics and more political dysfunction. Europeans should brace for the Trump administration to use financial repression and coercion to keep Treasury yields down. My latest nixons.substack.com/p/europe-reu...

Amid all the focus on French bond yields, don't lose sight of the US which has worse debt dynamics and more political dysfunction. Europeans should brace for the Trump administration to use financial repression and coercion to keep Treasury yields down. My latest nixons.substack.com/p/europe-reu...