Matt Steinglass

Zanny Minton Beddoes interviews Anthropic’s boss | The Economist Insider This week’s Insider episode will be released later than usual, on Friday at 6pm London time (1pm in New York) rather than Thursday. As AI becomes the defining technology of the 21st century, a fierce...

Our Editor interviews the boss of Anthropic, have a look. www.economist.com/insider/the-...

Shockingly, if you fire all the competent people in a govt department and replace them with flunkies, it has consequences

Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region.

Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat.

We live in Orwellian times.

💥SCOOP: Putin tasked Sergei Kiriyenko to run a Moldova-style election meddling operation in Hungary for Orbán, sending three GRU-linked political technologists with diplomatic or service passports to operate from the Russian Embassy in Budapest. More in my newsletter: vsquare.org/goulash-krem...

Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces, officials say The targeting information has included the locations of American warships and aircraft in the Middle East, the officials said.

You can see why Russia sees an opportunity to settle scores. "Russia is providing Iran with targeting information to attack American forces in the Middle East, the first indication that another major U.S. adversary is participating — even indirectly" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Foutief rekeningsmethode. Kan niet anders zijn

Er is iets mis met hun methoden. De Gini-ongelijkheidsindex ligt in de VS boven 0.4, in NL onder 0.3. Vóór belastingen/toeslagen zijn zij ongeveer gelijk. Dit klopt dus niet.

Krachtig wordt door @mathijsbouman.nl verwoord waarom Groningers boven gas gaan! 👌🏼👇🏼

Why one of Germany’s richest regions is gripped with anxiety Baden-Württemberg’s election is overshadowed by worries over deindustrialisation

Baden-Württemberg is not about to become one giant Detroit. But ahead of what looks like a nail-biting election on Sunday, The Länd is certainly consumed with economic anxiety. My report from Stuttgart and Hohenlohe.
www.economist.com/europe/2026/...

This is extremely weird

Donald Trump must find a way to cut short his ill-considered conflict with Iran. His rash approach is sowing chaos econ.st/3OYibZ1

OK pardon my ignorance: are Canadian Greens sort of like some Scandinavian/Baltic Greens, ie kind of farmer-adjacent and quasi-conservative environmentalist?

Can someone make me a sound collage of 1000 Dutch politicians saying "doorgeschoten marktwerking" so I can torture my prisoners more effectively

The North Holland water company PWN should embrace its acronym and start telling customers they have been pwned

Amsterdam een oase van betaalbare woningen? De fata morgana van wethouder Zita Pels (GroenLinks) Podcast Episode · De Jesse Frederik Show · 3 March · 1h 1m

Scherp interview van Jesse Frederik. Deprimerend vage antwoorden. podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/d...

I have an Italian friend who says he is going to be the last f***ing guy in Italy still voting for Renzi forever

I feel like you could do a funny limited series about a CIA intelligence unit during the Vietnam War that accidentally gets deployed to eastern Turkey and has a great time while trying not to alert the higher-ups to the mistake

I think people feel Spain has a real strong recovery, Italy is disappointing and some of the fall in unemployment is due to emigration?

I bet Groucho wouldn’t have been too psyched if some other set of brothers changed their last names to Marx and took their comedy show on the road

Or juries, in general. But you must have heard that your entire life, I rescind my bad pun

I guess Italy must have fixed that misalignment of educational system to business needs problem I used to read was at fault for its persistent high unemployment rate. Either that, or the ever popular “other things happened” explanation

Israel should be worried about the defense sector business competition from the new always-at-war technologically proficient country

As an editor at The Economist I should know this, but do economists also calculate a discrete impact of the price volatility of a given type of energy? Must have a cost in business uncertainty.

I’d be fine with generating more publicity for both of us

Hadn’t seen that EasyJet TM case. Ridiculous

Not necessarily. In the Iceland case the problem was that the supermarket wanted to restrict the right of Iceland-based businesses to use “Iceland” in their names; the country just wanted to void their TM so others could use it too, but they can keep their name

Putting you on notice, weird mattress chain

Iceland freezes decade-long legal battle with Iceland UK supermarket abandons trademark dispute with island nation after third legal loss

Country defeats supermarket chain. Inspiring news for those of us contemplating similar actions www.ft.com/content/329f...

GHWB did know what it meant and used it ironically. He came up in the days when feckless Birchers were constantly calling on the govt to “unleash Chiang” as if the KMT could have beaten the CCP if only the US hadn’t restrained them. He was making fun of jingoism, not engaging in it. 2/2

What I recall about “unleash Chiang” from Iraq days: GWB used the phrase to mean “open a can of whupass”, but it turned out he didn’t know what it meant. He had picked it up from his dad who used to say it jokingly when playing tennis. 1/2