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Simon Nixon

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European political economy and geoeconomics commentator. Publisher of the Wealth of Nations newsletter. Previously chief Europe commentator @WSJ, chief leader writer @TheTimes. Runner, cold water swimmer, aspiring chef. nixons.substack.com

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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 16h
Great that Burnham is looking at options to recast Britain’s relationship with the EU and undo the damage of Brexit. But he will surely soon find that there is only one option that works for Britain politically, economically and strategically.
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 11h
Great if that means Burnham secures a mandate for a new EU relationship without the need for a plebiscite. Of course, Brexiteers could still push for another referendum if and when they secure a parliamentary majority (under the new electoral system)...
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 16h
Interesting dilemma for the right-wing media which has noisily spent the last year demanding Labour scrap the triple lock as a test of Labour seriousness. Maybe the oligarch press will now throw their support behind Burnham?
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 16h
Great that Burnham is looking at options to recast Britain’s relationship with the EU and undo the damage of Brexit. But he will surely soon find that there is only one option that works for Britain politically, economically and strategically.
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It was a remarkable speech on many levels, but mainly on this one… 👏
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s not a conspiracy theory says certified loon
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Haha. So hoping this turns out to be a prank designed to flush out at the absolutely worst people in Britain…
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
How to stop rogue companies such as OpenAI blowing up the world? Force them to take out liability insurance - if they can find anyone to take on their catastrophic risks. My latest on whether OpenAI will ever IPO - and what will become of the boom if it doesn't... nixons.substack.com/p/the-bigges...
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Andy Langenkamp @andylangenkamp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"At this point, one might ask whether OpenAI’s real problem is not that it enables rogue agents but that it is a rogue business... Who would want to buy shares in a company whose products keep doing things that, in any other walk of life, would be regarded as criminal?"
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Andy Langenkamp @andylangenkamp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Of the 0.97 percentage point rise in US 10-year nominal yields so far this year, only around 0.1 percentage point is due to higher breakevens. The remainder reflects significantly higher real yields, reflecting expectations of higher interest rates and competition for capital"
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Barely a day goes by without reports of some new OpenAI hack. At what point does a company with rogue agents become a rogue company, and will it ever be able to IPO? Latest from Wealth of Nations on the implications for the biggest capex boom in history nixons.substack.com/p/the-bigges...
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The Biggest Boom in History
Trump’s red-hot economy, whether OpenAI will ever IPO, why Blair’s Brexit Third Way won’t work, and why Europeans should contain their excitement about a midterm blue wave
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Tony Blair’s suggestion that Burnham should adopt a reverse Cameron strategy and commit to rejoining a reformed EU is no solution to Britain’s Brexit dilemma. There is no Third Way this time. The PM needs to choose, or he will find his choice made for him. nixons.substack.com/p/the-bigges...
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Burnham has a blank page where his Europe policy should be - and Tony Blair’s latest Third Way ideas are not the way to fill it - latest edition of Wealth of Nations nixons.substack.com/p/the-bigges...
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The Biggest Boom in History
Trump’s red-hot economy, whether OpenAI will ever IPO, why Blair’s Brexit Third Way won’t work, and why Europeans should contain their excitement about a midterm blue wave
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Trump’s red-hot economy, whether OpenAI will ever IPO, why Blair’s Brexit Third Way won’t work, and why Europeans should contain their excitement about a midterm blue wave - latest edition of Wealth of Nations
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The Biggest Boom in History
Trump’s red-hot economy, whether OpenAI will ever IPO, why Blair’s Brexit Third Way won’t work, and why Europeans should contain their excitement about a midterm blue wave
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.
It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to
Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate
from the people. He has no real ideas, and
no plan,

Johnson on X
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Don't count on a circus of magic PuFINS to fly to Britain's economic rescue. My latest on how Labour's reforms to the fiscal rules were not the silver bullet some seem to hope they are - and may have made Britain's debt problems worse. First in a two-part series on Britain's wrecked balance sheet
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How Britain Wrecked its Balance Sheet
Four decades of consuming public wealth rather than building it has eroded Britain’s resilience and its long-term debt sustainability, leaving the country acutely vulnerable to deglobalisation
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Don't count on a circus of magic PuFINS to fly to Britain's economic rescue. My latest on how Labour's reforms to the fiscal rules were not the silver bullet some seem to hope they are - and may have made Britain's debt problems worse. First in a two-part series on Britain's wrecked balance sheet
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How Britain Wrecked its Balance Sheet
Four decades of consuming public wealth rather than building it has eroded Britain’s resilience and its long-term debt sustainability, leaving the country acutely vulnerable to deglobalisation
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
How four decades of consuming public wealth rather than building it has eroded Britain’s resilience and its long-term debt sustainability - first in a two part series on how Britain wrecked its balance sheet and how to repair it
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How Britain Wrecked its Balance Sheet
Four decades of consuming public wealth rather than building it has eroded Britain’s resilience and its long-term debt sustainability, leaving the country acutely vulnerable to deglobalisation
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
How four decades of consuming public wealth rather than building it has eroded Britain’s resilience and its long-term debt sustainability - first in a two part series on how Britain wrecked its balance sheet and how to repair it
nixons.substack.com
How Britain Wrecked its Balance Sheet
Four decades of consuming public wealth rather than building it has eroded Britain’s resilience and its long-term debt sustainability, leaving the country acutely vulnerable to deglobalisation
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What’s really depressing is that Davey could have used the moment to back full Rejoin. That would have given the LibDems a distinctive and coherent economic and foreign policy, was unlikely to cost the party a single vote and might have shifted the Overton window. Now Burnham may get there first
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Henry Foy @henryjfoy.ft.com · 23/09/2026
So it's official. EU sanctions on Russia are no longer only for the benefit of Ukraine's existential fight against Moscow's invasion - they are now currency for EU capitals to trade for prisoners. Welcome to the Brussels bazaar.
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Anyone know what on earth the shadow chancellor is talking about here? Alarming that the Times, who used to be a serious newspaper, would publish this economically illiterate misleading gobbledygook.
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What’s really depressing is that Davey could have used the moment to back full Rejoin. That would have given the LibDems a distinctive and coherent economic and foreign policy, was unlikely to cost the party a single vote and might have shifted the Overton window. Now Burnham may get there first
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Rejoining the single market but not the EU is also a fantasy policy. No responsible government could agree to the City becoming a rule-taker given the risks to financial stability, even if the country was willing to become a rule-taker in everything else (highly unlikely)
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Really sad to see the LibDems come up with such obvious nonsense - at the very moment when there was a giant hole in the UK political firmament for a serious party. Who on earth is this policy aimed at? Right-wing populist pro-Europeans? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Ed Davey promises £17bn income tax cut if Lib Dems are elected
Growth created by rejoining EU single market and customs union would fund change, Davey tells the party’s conference
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Depressing but necessary read.
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Focusing on the mechanics of Canada’s proposed EU associate membership misses the point. As Carney said, the aim is not to great a new great power “with better manners” but to boost collective resilience in the face of an arrogant hegemon. Trump’s Greenland fold shows that it works - my latest
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Trump vs Carney
Trump’s broken world order, Carney’s new one, and is Kevin Warsh the new Paul Volcker?
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Trump’s incompetence, malevolence and recklessness has wrecked the global order. A momentous week of summitry offers an opportunity to repair some of the damage. Don’t bet on any major breakthroughs. Latest edition of Wealth of Nations nixons.substack.com/p/trump-vs-c...
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Trump vs Carney
Trump’s broken world order, Carney’s new one, and is Kevin Warsh the new Paul Volcker?
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Focusing on the mechanics of Canada’s proposed EU associate membership misses the point. As Carney said, the aim is not to great a new great power “with better manners” but to boost collective resilience in the face of an arrogant hegemon. Trump’s Greenland fold shows that it works - my latest
nixons.substack.com
Trump vs Carney
Trump’s broken world order, Carney’s new one, and is Kevin Warsh the new Paul Volcker?
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Trump’s incompetence, malevolence and recklessness has wrecked the global order. A momentous week of summitry offers an opportunity to repair some of the damage. Don’t bet on any major breakthroughs. Latest edition of Wealth of Nations nixons.substack.com/p/trump-vs-c...
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Trump vs Carney
Trump’s broken world order, Carney’s new one, and is Kevin Warsh the new Paul Volcker?
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump's broken world order, Carney's new one, and is Kevin Warsh the new Paul Volcker? Latest edition of Wealth of Nations
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Trump vs Carney
Trump’s broken world order, Carney’s new one, and is Kevin Warsh the new Paul Volcker?
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump's broken world order, Carney's new one, and is Kevin Warsh the new Paul Volcker? Latest edition of Wealth of Nations
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Trump vs Carney
Trump’s broken world order, Carney’s new one, and is Kevin Warsh the new Paul Volcker?
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Labour lead up to 4 points in the latest Ipsos poll. (And congrats to them for using error bars - all pollsters should do this).
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Tories, early 2010s: "We've raised the tax-free allowance, taking low-paid workers out of having to pay income tax. Aren't we great!" 2020s: "Isn't it terrible that these low-paid immigrants aren't paying enough tax"
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Bloody hell
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This was wonderful trolling by Carney of British Brexiteers for whom he rightly has such unbridled contempt
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
No surprise that as Canada moves closer to the EU, the UK reset stalls. The UK political class have still not internalised that there is no half-in, half-out option that magics way the costs of Brexit. Meanwhile the Tories would take the UK even further out www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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‘Made in Europe’ law threatens UK plans for reset with EU
Government sources say legislation aimed at China poses a risk to British businesses and must be addressed
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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Trump has thoughts about interest rates. Notably he doesn't seem to attack Warsh after the rate hike, at least for now.
Interest Rates in the United States should be 1%, or less, because we are the Best Credit in the World — BY FAR. Our Country is BOOMING with new Investment! If we stopped Trading with every country that we have a Deficit with, which is most of them, we would make, at least, 1.5 Trillion Dollars a year. The word “Deficit” is nothing more than a fancy word for LOSS. We are “carrying” almost every country in the World, and that cannot go on any longer. LOWER THE INTEREST RATES FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND FAST! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🟡 From This Month’s Magazine What Burnham’s Got Wrong About Thatcherism The Prime Minister misunderstands exactly why four decades of neoliberalism have failed the UK, writes Simon Nixon
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What Burnham’s Got Wrong About Thatcherism
The Prime Minister misunderstands exactly why four decades of neoliberalism have failed the UK, writes Simon Nixon
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Terrific reporting on Musk's UK obsession, based on detailed analysis of his X feed which has twice included more than 200 posts about Britain in a month. www.wsj.com/world/uk/elo...
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Elon Musk Trains His Political Chaos Machine on the U.K.
Using his social-media megaphone to roil the waters, Musk is promoting a new anti-immigration party.
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 15/09/2026
Chancellor Friedrich Merz will not fly to New York next week to attend the United Nations General Assembly as planned.
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Germany’s embattled leader Merz cancels New York trip amid mounting domestic pressure
Chancellor Friedrich Merz will instead stay in Germany to deal with fallout of elections in which his party is expected to fare badly.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It would be quite funny to see the CANZ part of CANZUK turn to the EU and leave the UK high and dry.
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Is Scott Bessent becoming a risk to global financial stability? How else to explain the US Treasury Secretary's endless self-sabotaging of his dwindling credibility? My latest how his bombastic interventions are creating anxieties in markets and undermining confidence in US policymaking
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I Am The House
Scott Bessent’s self-sabotage, Canada’s return to Europe, the politics of Britain’s super-rich
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Who knows if Carney’s pursuit of Associate EU Membership status will amount to anything substantial. But his Middle Powers strategy offers the only chance of preserving something of the rules-based global order upon which all Europeans depend. nixons.substack.com/p/i-am-the-h...
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I Am The House
Scott Bessent’s self-sabotage, Canada’s return to Europe, the politics of Britain’s super-rich
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Crypto billlionaires arriving, hedge fund tycoons leaving. My latest on why the comings and goings of the super-rich do not bode well for Britain nixons.substack.com/p/i-am-the-h...
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I Am The House
Scott Bessent’s self-sabotage, Canada’s return to Europe, the politics of Britain’s super-rich
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Crypto billlionaires arriving, hedge fund tycoons leaving. My latest on why the comings and goings of the super-rich do not bode well for Britain nixons.substack.com/p/i-am-the-h...
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I Am The House
Scott Bessent’s self-sabotage, Canada’s return to Europe, the politics of Britain’s super-rich
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Who knows if Carney’s pursuit of Associate EU Membership status will amount to anything substantial. But his Middle Powers strategy offers the only chance of preserving something of the rules-based global order upon which all Europeans depend. nixons.substack.com/p/i-am-the-h...
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I Am The House
Scott Bessent’s self-sabotage, Canada’s return to Europe, the politics of Britain’s super-rich
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Genevieve Signoret @gsignoret.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“Bessent is one of Trump’s courtiers, for which the core qualification is a willingness to endorse the president’s endless falsehoods while sharing his exaggerated idea of US power, contempt for allies and outrageous insults.” So we should not be surprised.
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Is Scott Bessent becoming a risk to global financial stability? How else to explain the US Treasury Secretary's endless self-sabotaging of his dwindling credibility? My latest how his bombastic interventions are creating anxieties in markets and undermining confidence in US policymaking
nixons.substack.com
I Am The House
Scott Bessent’s self-sabotage, Canada’s return to Europe, the politics of Britain’s super-rich
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