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Alessia Manzoni

@alessia.bsky.social
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Made in Milan. Londoner, bookworm, journalist. Homepage editor for Europe @theguardian. Views my own and all that jazz

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Alessia Manzoni @alessia.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
‘i’m a H.O.O.D. low-life scum that’s what they say about me’ i mean, if the shoe fits..
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Alessia Manzoni @alessia.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
USA, look at the state of ya. You made me cheer for a Lukaku goal
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Alessia Manzoni @alessia.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
the catholics:
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a man with glasses says mo ce ripigliamm tutti chell che e o nuost
Alt: Clip from Gomorrah of man wearing glasses saying: ‘now we’re taking back everything that is ours’
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Alessia Manzoni @alessia.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
gli hair stylist devono fare due chiacchiere con i rapper sul concetto di cultural appropriation #sanremo
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Alessia Manzoni @alessia.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
AI slop a Sanremo. Ma gonfiamola ancora un po’ sta bolla consumando il fabbisogno annuale di acqua di una piccola città, yay le papere e i papaveri
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Alessia Manzoni @alessia.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
All madness aside, quello che mi sconvolge di sta storia è che in UK chiunque sembra poter diventare ambasciatore..? Niente master all’ISPI? Nessun esame da preparare in un anno intero? Nessuna carriera iniziata come sottosegretario di legazione a timbuktu? Basta avere amici influenti? Wow
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Alessia Manzoni @alessia.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
'this is gonna be perfect for my needs,' I say, as I add another work bag to my cart that will, in fact, NOT be perfect for my needs
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Alessia Manzoni @alessia.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Recupero ora la cerimonia di apertura e sono orripilata che la Rai abbia scelto di non mostrare la faccia di Ghali nemmeno per un secondo. Il suo nome non fatto. Una damnatio memoriae che è una vergogna tutta italiana. Però le moine per Charlize Theron si. Che schifo
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
NEW: Our investigation for @thenerve_news reveals not only that Peter Thiel’s Palantir is completely enmeshed in our critical national infrastructure. It’s also the ‘cloud support’ for our nuclear weapons system 🤯 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...
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Alessia Manzoni @alessia.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Im gearing up to go back to work after nine months of maternity leave and reading more news, plugging in with the discourse.. and oh boy 2025 was a good time not to have time to do all that
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Melissa Chan @melissakchan.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
It’s old-fashioned to defend mainstream journalism these days but some of the most reliable reporting from people actually on the ground will be the AP and Reuters the next 24 hours. Your Substack journalist writing takes will be using frontline reporting from them.
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 02/01/2026
OPINION: When Roman Oleksiv described seeing his dead mother under the rubble of a hospital hit by Russian missiles, Ievgeniia Razumkova, the interpreter translating his words, broke down in tears. It was not inefficiency, but care made visible. 🔗 politi.co/3LfJiNQ
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Alessia Manzoni @alessia.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Kneecap 🤝 Tom Harwood when it comes to NI
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Alessia Manzoni @alessia.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Santa’s little helper is clocking on for her night shift - happy Christmas to all, I’ve always loved this holiday but this year is extra special 🎄👶🏽 buon natale ❣️
Picture of baby, face is turned the other side, with a Santa’s hat and a Christmas pudding outfit under the tree, presents
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Alessia Manzoni @alessia.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Please think of this anytime you feel the need to share “[something something] in the style of Studio Ghibli!!!” The master himself despises you
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
I know coverage of disability benefits can be very distressing. So, I’ve worked with colleagues to make a range of support visible on The Guardian’s site. If you click on a relevant news story, you’ll see a “drop box” of signposted mental health help as well as benefits advice.
Mental health support
• Mind runs a support line on 0300 102 1234 as a safe and confidential place to talk openly. It also has an information line, on 0300 123 3393, for details of where to get help near you. And its welfare benefits line – 0300 222 5782 – supports anyone with mental health problems who is navigating the benefits system.
• Samaritans is there to talk to you for free 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Call them on 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org.
• The disability charity Scope has a forum where you can chat in a supportive atmosphere to people going through the same experiences.
• NHS England has an online mental health triage service.Benefits support
• The Trussell Trust's Help through Hardship helpline, on 0808 208 2138, is a free and confidential phone service offered alongside Citizens Advice that provides advice to people experiencing hardship. You can also find your local Trussell Trust food bank here.
• Benefits and Work provides guides, forums and newsletters to help people navigate the benefits system and get the support they are entitled to. This includes benefit applications and appeals.
• Turn2Us provides a free benefits calculator to help you find out what benefits you can claim, as well as a grants search service and a Pip Helper to assist you in applying for the benefit.
• The Law Centres website helps people find their local service for benefits support and more, while Advicelocal provides a search directory tool to find your local advice provider.
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Laurent Pech 🇺🇦 @profpech.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Meanwhile, in the EU, authorities in five EU MS (Bulgaria, Croatia, Italy, Romania and Slovakia) have “intentionally" undermined "the rule of law in nearly all aspects” acc to a report by the Civil Liberties Union for Europe (Liberties) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Italy one of five ‘dismantlers’ causing ‘democratic recession’ in Europe, report says
Civil liberties report warns that Italy along with Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania and Slovakia intentionally undermining rule of law ‘in nearly all aspects’
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Alessia Manzoni @alessia.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
and like every year, here I am longing for carnevale – with its masks and costumes and coriandoli and tasty chiacchiere – while in uk we get.. pancake day
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Alessia Manzoni @alessia.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
love this but guys the word you’re looking for is ‘canadese’ 🥹🇨🇦
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Alessia Manzoni @alessia.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Also, there’s absolutely nothing wrong in not knowing something and having to Google it! The world is granular and we’re all have different interests - one of the remaining good things about the internet is the easy access to knowledge it provides us..
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Alessia Manzoni @alessia.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
la brigata 'non siamo né di destra né di sinistra' chissà perché poi è sempre allineata con la destra
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Alessia Manzoni @alessia.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Giorgia is disassociating, she just can't believe she has to side with the antifascist alliance, poor thing
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Alessia Manzoni @alessia.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
🎵 when I was/a young boyyyy/my father took me into the cityyyyy🎵 #irama #sanremo2025
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Alessia Manzoni @alessia.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
ma lucio con scritto andy sulla suola degli stivali?? 🥹 #sanremo #sanremo2025
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Alessia Manzoni @alessia.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
la stylist di giorgia chiaramente la odia ed è gelosa della sua voce da angelo. gli ankle boots?? la giacca?? in total black?? #sanremo #sanremo2025
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a close up of a woman 's face in a pink dress
ALT: a close up of a woman 's face in a pink dress
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Alessia Manzoni @alessia.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
domanda per i più esperti, ma c’è un modo per avere i sottotitoli -almeno delle canzoni- su rai play stile ESC? sono stanca di tradurre i testi live al mio compagno lol #sanremo #sanremo2025
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Alessia Manzoni @alessia.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
live footage di me stamattina che passo l’aspirapolvere mentre senza vergogna canto a squarciagola la canzone di olly #sanremo #sanremo2025
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a dining room with a table and chairs and a plant .
Alt: Mrs doubtfire che spazza per terra e usa la scopa come se fosse una chitarra
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Alessia Manzoni @alessia.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
ma come spieghi daddy alberto angela agli inglesi #sanremo #sanremo2025
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Alessia Manzoni @alessia.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
la canzone non è neanche male ma tony baby sei intonato come un rutto 🥲 #sanremo2025 #sanremo
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Alessia Manzoni @alessia.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
a che punto smetti di essere un cantate e diventi un performer di spoken word? chiedo per simone cristicchi #sanremo #sanremo2025
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Alessia Manzoni @alessia.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
e quando mio padre sessantottino diceva che gli anni 80 hanno rovinato la musica di chi parlava? e secondo voi perché proprio dei Duran Duran? #sanremo #sanremo2025
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Alessia Manzoni @alessia.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
le dating apps mi hanno lasciato una serie infinita di traumi, il mio compagno e una skill non monetizzabile #sanremo #sanremo2025 olly il mio gigante preferito @bibigu.bsky.social
Io con anni di esperienza sulle dating app sono bravissima a capire quanto è alto un uomo. Conto quante volte ci sta la testa nel resto del corpo
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Alessia Manzoni @alessia.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Clara con il vestito che Jenny Humphrey ha fatto per Vanessa senza fodera per vendetta per essere andata al ballo con Nate Archibald al posto suo #sanremo #sanremo2025 #gossipgirl
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Alessia Manzoni @alessia.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
complimentissimi (/s) a carlo conti per essere riuscito a fare un festival completamente unmemeable. che noia #sanremo #sanremo2025
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Alessia Manzoni @alessia.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
sentiti abat-jour #sanremo #sanremo2025
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Alessia Manzoni @alessia.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
e come sempre io rischio l’attacco epilettico perché #sanremo e #eurovision amano le luci a strobo. ma anche basta - soprattutto senza dare il trigger warning #epilepsyawareness
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Alessia Manzoni @alessia.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
l’anno scorso ghali e oggi ci tocca questo #sanremo #sanremo2025
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a woman in a red shirt is talking about a cake filled with rainbows and smiles and everyone would eat and be happy
ALT: a woman in a red shirt is talking about a cake filled with rainbows and smiles and everyone would eat and be happy
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Alessia Manzoni @alessia.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
ma carlo conti non si ricorda quando tutto il mondo perculava le celebrities che cantavano imagine durante il covid? #sanremo #sanremo2025
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Alessia Manzoni @alessia.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Irama molto meglio l’anno scorso con la sua canzone copiata da Lewis Capaldi. questa terribile #sanremo2025
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Alessia Manzoni @alessia.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Un pensiero per il mio compagno British Nigerian e per tutti i partner internazionali di italiani all’estero che stasera si devono sorbire #sanremo senza capire ‘na parola 🥰
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Alessia Manzoni @alessia.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Le rigogliose piantagioni di caffé italiane
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Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
The 'Roman salute' is so explicitly fascist that in Italy it is prohibited by law (under 'apology of fascism') and you can be prosecuted over it
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Alessia Manzoni @alessia.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
for the non-Italians and their mental gymnastics 'It WaS a RoMaN SalUtE!!!11!' let me spell it out for you: a 'Roman salute' is not Roman, it was used by Mussolini, the actual inventor of FASCISM, because he had a hard-on for everything strong and empire-ish ...
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Alessia Manzoni @alessia.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Anyone still actively using X/Twitter, we won’t believe you when you’ll say you didn’t know what was happening
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Elon Musk appears to make back-to-back fascist salutes at inauguration rally
Tech billionaire wades into controversy after shooting right arm on upwards diagonal during celebrations of Trump
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Alessia Manzoni @alessia.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Lei ha visto cose che noi umani non possiamo neanche immaginare
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Alessia Manzoni @alessia.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
I feel like I won as an Italian - 2for1 on panettone at Eataly!
Pic of two panettone boxes
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Fran Singh @fransingh.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
I think to a lot of people it may seem confusing why we as Guardian journalists are upset and why we think our employers should listen to us when that would not be the case in other organisations. This piece explains the history a lot better than I could www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
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The Observer strike is about the future of liberal journalism. We should be worried
The sale of the Observer has prompted the biggest staff strike in more than 50 years and created a fracture that will be hard to heal
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Alessia Manzoni @alessia.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
And yet there are scores of children born in Italy who will have to wait until they’re 18 to apply for citizenship. This is just shameful
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Alessia Manzoni @alessia.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Happy One Hundred Years of Solitude on Netflix to those who celebrate! (me, I celebrate, it’s incredibile)
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