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Bill Emmott

@billemmott.bsky.social
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Writer, former ed-in-chief of The Economist, author “Deterrence, Diplomacy and the Risk of Conflict over Taiwan” (IISS 2024), addict of all things Japanese, Italian and geopolitical

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Bill Emmott @billemmott.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Very sad at the death of the great and utterly charming Emma Bonino, an inspirational figure in Italian and European politics, and thoroughly nice and sincere in whatever she was doing www.ansa.it//english/new...
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>>>ANSA/Groundbreaking campaigner, politician Emma Bonino dies - Politics - Ansa.it
Groundbreaking Italian civil and women's rights campaigner and Radical politician Emma Bonino has died, her More Europe (+Europa) party said on Friday. The former Italian foreign minister and former E...
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PINO FOTUS @pino-fotus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“40,000 🇨🇦 Canadian Soldiers, 153 of whom died, fought with us after 911. They weren’t attacked. WE were attacked, but they sent their troops to go fight with us.” The way the Felon has treated our Canadian friends, we are not worthy of their friendship. His actions are disgusting and disgraceful.
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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now
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Bill Emmott @billemmott.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Ignore claims that Giorgia Meloni has broken any records for political longevity--all she has done is avoid altering her government for four years, and indeed avoid doing very much at all. Stability has actually been paralysis
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Bill Emmott @billemmott.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
No one can predict it, but if your company or government is not doing scenario planning for a post-Putin Russia they are not paying proper attention billemmott.substack.com/p/time-to-st...
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Time to start preparing for a post-Putin Russia
English original of article published today in Japanese and English by Mainichi Shimbun, in their Jidai no Kaze (winds of our time) column
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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Remember what fascism brings: death and destruction.
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Bill Emmott @billemmott.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
My essay for Engelsberg Ideas on how a conservative nostalgia promises to hinder Japan's ambitious prime minister open.substack.com/pub/billemmo...
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Sanae Takaichi's backward-looking vision
Essay on Japan published today by Engelsberg Ideas
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Bill Emmott @billemmott.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
My new essay on Japan’s nostalgic prime minister
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Anders Åslund @andersaslund.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Daily Beast: "Putin Gets Spectacularly Ambushed on Live TV After Leaving His Bunker" We must not overestimate Putin's remaining staying power. www.yahoo.com/news/world/a...
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Putin Gets Spectacularly Ambushed on Live TV After Leaving His Bunker
Vladimir Putin ventured out in public for the first time in months and walked smack dab into an ambush during a televised meeting that went off the rails. Fresh off a tightly controlled publicity stun...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES Department of Justice lawsuit seeking to compel Kentucky to provide the DOJ with access to its complete statewide voter registration database. DOJ is now 0-17 in these case. Elias Law Group remains undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/kentuc...
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🚨 United States of America v. Adams
Learn more.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Another long night. But I am just going to end the day by leaving this here.
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Bill Emmott @billemmott.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
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...
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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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Bill Emmott @billemmott.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Welcome to Number 10, Mr Burnham: the path back to Europe must run via electoral reform. My piece on Substack and for La Stampa: open.substack.com/pub/billemmo...
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Welcome to Number 10, Mr Burnham
English original of article published yesterday in Italian by La Stampa
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Bill Emmott @billemmott.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
It is time to tell Trump and Hegseth that America's 40-plus military bases in Europe are a privilege, not a right open.substack.com/pub/billemmo...
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The purpose of NATO is to guard against Russia, not to appease Donald Trump
English original of article published this morning in Italian by La Stampa
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Bill Emmott @billemmott.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
America this week represented a cascade of emotions: sadness, at military failure and decline; hope and joy, at the World Cup; and the very Wall Street blend of fear and greed with SpaceX's bid to repeat Britain's South Sea Bubble of 1720 open.substack.com/pub/billemmo...
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O, America! On failed wars, sporting emotion and the space version of the South Sea Bubble
English original of article published this morning in Italian by La Stampa
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Paul Adamson @padamson.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
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Ukraine’s destiny is European. And the EU’s destiny is to embrace Ukraine
Wouldn’t you like as a member of your club an applicant who has just humiliated your most dangerous enemy through an audacious attack? That is what Ukraine did this week with its drone…
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Bill Emmott @billemmott.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
All three of the combatants in the US-Israel-Iran war of 2025-26 have lost and now are in no shape to continue the fighting. Which is why the oil markets’ optimism about a deal looks sound open.substack.com/pub/billemmo...
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Finally, Kissinger's joke has come true
English original of article published in Italian by La Stampa this morning
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Bill Emmott @billemmott.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
With Trump's America both unreliable and cuddling up to Putin's Russia, European NATO members need to get ready to act on their own open.substack.com/pub/billemmo...
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For the time being, Europe needs to assume it is on its own -- and plan accordingly
English original of article published in Italian this morning by La Stampa
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Bill Emmott @billemmott.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
It is not NATO that can or will "show teeth" to Russia but European members of NATO acting separately from Russia's supporter, Donald Trump: open.substack.com/pub/billemmo...
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For the time being, Europe needs to assume it is on its own -- and plan accordingly
English original of article published in Italian this morning by La Stampa
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Bill Emmott @billemmott.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
When Trump meets Xi Jinping in Beijing on Thursday, he will be in the weaker position, for he needs China's help on Iran and China knows it open.substack.com/pub/billemmo...
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Donald Trump's coming kowtow to the Chinese dictator he so admires and envies
English original of article published in Italian this morning by La Stampa. Footnotes and references added.
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Anders Åslund @andersaslund.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Don't Hegseth & Trump understand how absurd they are? 1. They prompt Iran to close the Strait of Hormuz without consulting any allies. 2. They don't know how to open the Strait again, so they blame their innocent allies. 3. Take note: Nobody will listen to idiots.
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Anders Åslund @andersaslund.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Should the West accept invitation to Trump's G20 Summit at his Doral Golf course 14-15 December? No! Don't! Trump's kleptocracy is a major global problem & Doral is his private golf club. To go there means to support Trump's corruption. /1
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Bill Emmott @billemmott.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
How China will play a crucial role in any Iran-US peace deal open.substack.com/pub/billemmo...
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Next, an Iran nuclear deal with Chinese characteristics
English original of article published in Italian this morning by La Stampa
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Anders Åslund @andersaslund.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
High time for all republicans to realize that Trump & Vance and the whole leadership of the GOP supports Russia, Putin, autocracy, kleptocracy, lying and Russian imperialism. No person who supports that can be considered decent.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
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Marcy Gall @marcygall.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Oh, the irony!
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Marcy Gall @marcygall.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Should be part of his next test.
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Bill Emmott @billemmott.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Completely agree. This is an appalling shirking of responsibility. George Robertson is right to make his criticism public
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Bill Emmott @billemmott.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Evaluating the new possibilities -- good and bad -- created by America's blockade of Hormuz open.substack.com/pub/billemmo...
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Blockade v blockade, and the world's wholly unnecessary energy crisis
English original of article published this morning in Italian by La Stampa
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Bill Emmott @billemmott.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
How NOT to handle the Pope open.substack.com/pub/billemmo...
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With God on his side?
Provoked by an unPresidential post on Pravda Social
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Bill Emmott @billemmott.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Wow! Wonderful news, and not only because it is a slap in the face for the Trump-Vance-Putin axis
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Lying from the White House Podium is now a family tradition.
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Bill Emmott @billemmott.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Sober and therefore all the more devastating analysis by @ldfreedman.bsky.social The causes and consequences of Trump’s defeat open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
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The causes and consequences of Trump’s defeat
The Islamabad negotiations were supposed to conclude the Iran War in such a way that the US and Israel would have something to show for the thousands of lives lost and ruined, the vast quantities of o...
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Bill Emmott @billemmott.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Hear hear
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Bill Emmott @billemmott.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Why Hungary's election tomorrow matters, for Europe and for the world open.substack.com/pub/billemmo...
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Time to give the Trump-Putin-Orban axis a slap in the face
English original of article published in Italian this morning by La Stampa. [Additions in square brackets.]
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Bill Emmott @billemmott.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Interfering American complains about foreign interference. Shameful but priceless
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Bill Emmott @billemmott.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
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Five emerging themes for Japan and Asia from Trump's Iran war
English original of article published today in Japanese and English by the Mainichi Shimbun
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Bill Emmott @billemmott.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
My latest on Substack. In a world of three weak but dangerous superpowers, Europe and Japan need to build their own resilience, urgently open.substack.com/pub/billemmo...
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The success of MAWA and the risks it poses
English original of article published in Italian this morning by La Stampa. [Updates in square brackets].
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Bill Emmott @billemmott.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Trump is showing Beijing how to seize Taiwan www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2...
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Trump is showing Beijing how to seize Taiwan
Great powers study each other closely, observing the strategies used, the resistance met, and the outcomes realized.
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Bill Emmott @billemmott.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
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The Vietnam lesson that America is yet to learn
English original of article published in Italian by La Stampa this morning
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Bill Emmott @billemmott.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
The Iran war has shown, yet again, that superpowers are not, in fact, super-powerful open.substack.com/pub/billemmo...
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The Vietnam lesson that America is yet to learn
English original of article published in Italian by La Stampa this morning
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Mitì Vigliero @mitivigliero.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Quanto durerà questo conflitto lo può decidere soltanto Netanyahu - di @billemmott.bsky.social
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Quanto durerà questo conflitto lo può decidere soltanto Netanyahu
L’obiettivo strategico della guerra con l’Iran è eliminare la minaccia a lungo termine per Israele
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Fred Studemann @frederick65.ft.com · 08/03/2026
“We are all Canadians now …” FT Books essay by @billemmott.bsky.social on navigating a world churned upside down. as.ft.com/r/0adad367-7... Trapped in the middle of a new world disorder
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Trapped in the middle of a new world disorder
[FREE TO READ] From a capricious White House to chilling parallels with a previous global conflict, three books analyse this moment of churn and change in international affairs
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover
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Bill Emmott @billemmott.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Trump, from ketchup to King Lear open.substack.com/pub/billemmo...
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"Ketchup dripping down the wall"
The American president claims he is "absolutely ashamed of certain members" of the Supreme Court over their ruling on his tariffs. Well, plenty of Americans should be ashamed of his uncivil response
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Bill Emmott @billemmott.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
The right benchmark for Japan's now powerful prime minister, Sanae Takaichi will be the value of the yen open.substack.com/pub/billemmo...
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The yen will tell us whether Japan's triumphant "Iron Lady" is rusting
English original of article published today by the Mainichi Shimbun in both Japanese and English
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Bill Emmott @billemmott.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Forget national "competitiveness". Get costs lower instead open.substack.com/pub/billemmo...
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Europe needs lower costs, not protected companies
English original of article published this morning in Italian by La Stampa, exploring an old bugbear of mine about "competitiveness"
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Bill Emmott @billemmott.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Watch the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics by all means, but remember what happened four years ago during and after the Beijing games, between Putin, Xi and then Ukraine open.substack.com/pub/billemmo...
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Four years on, Putin is showing no interest in peace. Only Ukraine can change this
English original of article published in Italian by La Stampa this morning
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carolkilliney.bsky.social @carolkilliney.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
An utterly unseen tragedy.
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Bill Emmott @billemmott.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Weekend Update #170: Russian Advances Are Slower Than The Battle Of The Somme open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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Weekend Update #170: Russian Advances Are Slower Than The Battle Of The Somme
Trump And Putin Together, Different Examples
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