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I joined @BBCWorld last night to talk about the EU’s long-anticipated $1bn pair of fines against Google and how the decisions may impact transatlantic relations.
Has anyone written about the bizarre post-internet-core rebrand of KFC UK’s online presence? While I am assuming this is some sort of appeal to a Gen Z customer base, I don’t know why a multinational fast food brand needs an irony-pilled persona.
.@sanchezcastejon on Lula’s upset: "What happened in Brazil will happen in Spain.
The comeback of global progressivism has just begun."
El Pais on the 'Pele of progressives'
elpais.com/america/2026-10-2…
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Elections, turns out you still have to let people vote
🇧🇷Brazil runoff on @Kalshi, in one chart.
Bolsonaro traded at 80%+ for two days. In the space of about an hour this afternoon, Lula went from 20% to 70% and Bolsonaro collapsed to 31%, on the heaviest volume of the market's life.
The bottom panel tells the story: low volumes all weekend, then everything at once as results came in.
Track live on @TheTerminal
Lula's win last night is also a win for Pedro Sánchez's global project. Sánchez moved his Global Progressive Mobilisation, a meeting of the world's left-wing forces, from November to April at Lula's request to give him a platform before the vote.
Countries whose flag I was not expecting to see protesting today outside the Berlaymont: South Vietnam.
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When the cost of eggs spiked in 2022, economists said bird flu alone was to blame. Anyone who suspected corporate price-fixing was dismissed as a crank.
Inside the alleged egg cartel the experts said couldn’t exist.
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A few hundred trade unionists have taken over Schuman with a gigantic "NO EU INC" banner in protest of the Commission's corporate law proposal.
"If you can't fix it, you have to stop it," @etuc_ces General Secretary Esther Lynch told me. "There isn't one single improvement on the table for employment rights." Unions are irked the Commission didn’t go thought the formal channel for labour matters.
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If you read one thing today, make it @PhelimKine's excellent POLITICO Magazine profile of Jacob Helberg, a fascinating character in the Trump admin who has been shaped by Silicon Valley and is now a leading voice in the U.S.-China tech rivalry:
politico.com/news/magazine/2…
the Kennedy Center except its the Palast der Republik and DC gets a neo-Baroque replacement.
The Kennedy Center Board voted nearly unanimously to close the building immediately for safety reasons and prepare for reconstruction. Renovation cannot begin until the D.C. Circuit rules on the Board’s approved name.
In the meantime, $17M raised by President Trump has been placed in the Kennedy Center account to keep it afloat.
Fwiw, the full Dickens quote is a lament for the overuse of superlatives in describing the present – not that it was actually the best of times and the worst of times. #SOTEU
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” @vonderleyen quoted Dickens to describe today’s world in her #SOTEU address. Canada’s PM @MarkJCarney attended as guest of honour and will address the European Parliament tomorrow.🇪🇺
Hasan Piker wandering the halls of the European Parliament, ECR holding a Charlie Kirk vigil outside the hemicycle — EU politics is feeling particularly America-pilled at the moment.
It goes under appreciated how consistent parts of the Trump administration are with their Obama, Biden admin predecessors on some topics. This, for e.g., could easily be Gina Raimondo speaking.
Ribera ‘respectfully curious’ as to why a US judge spared Google a break up in its ad tech case – a development that has dimmed the possibility of structural measures in Europe's own case.
politico.eu/article/eu-teres…
