@jhooper
Economist correspondent for Italy and the Vatican. Also writes on international organised crime. Author of The Italians and The New Spaniards. Honorary fellow, St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Former Stanford lecturer.
A scary dispatch from the world's fastest-heating continent--Europe. My latest for @theeconomist. www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
#Wildfires #globalwarming #climate #climatechange #Europe #EU
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Big changes afoot at Europe’s thought factory in the hills above Florence
#EUI #EU #Europe #Europa #Firenze #Florence
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
#Italy #Italia #migration #migranti #asylum #asilo
A landmark judgement on Italy’s controversial policy of sending migrants to Albania is not quite what it seems.
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
My early thoughts on the election of pope Leo XIV, interviewed on @economist.com 's podcast The Intelligence: www.economist.com/podcasts/202... #conclave #pope #popeleoXIV #vatican
I hope you got good odds!
A team at the Corvinus University of Budapest did an analysis led by a game theory expert and Czerny emerged as the ‘cardinal most likely to’. The same team apparently predicted Bergoglio~Francis. #conclave #pope #vaticano #machilosa
Just a thought, but why has NO ONE put Cardinal Michael Czerny on their list of papabili? Right age. Heads a big Vatican department. Too outspoken? Or someone’s ace-in-the-hole contender? #conclave #pope #vaticano
Thank you for your kind comment. Much appreciated!
My report on the significance of Pope Francis’s funeral for @economist.com
The pope’s last coded message
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Live from St Peter’s… #pope #vatican #conclave
Thoughts on the approaching conclave to elect the late Pope Francis's successor for @economist.com's The Intelligence podcast
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First thoughts on the next conclave for @economist.com : www.economist.com/internationa...
Extraordinary indeed: "Claude, on occasion, will give a plausible-sounding argument designed to agree with the user rather than to follow logical steps." But the researchers found him (?) it (?) out...
Can Europe benefit from a science exodus from America?
It's complicated. My latest for @economist.com. www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
Trump becomes "a real problem" for his fellow-nationalists in France and Italy. My take with
@sophiepedder.bsky.social for @economist.com: www.economist.com/internationa... #france #italy #trump #alt-right
Frazzled friars take on the developers in tourist-saturated Florence. A dispatch from the ecclesiastical frontline for @economist.com www.economist.com/europe/2025/... #Florence #Firenze #Italy #Italia #Catholic #overtourism
How Trump is becoming "a real problem" for his fellow-nationalists in France and Italy. My take with
@sophiepedder.bsky.social
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@economist.com
www.economist.com/internationa... #france #italy #trump #alt-right
This sounds innocent and normal. Nothing to see here. “President Donald Trump on Friday transported back to Florida with him boxes of documents that the FBI had seized from Mar-a-Lago after executing a court-ordered search warrant in August 2022.” www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...
For weeks, men carrying rifles have guarded the roads leading into Lincoln Heights, Ohio, stopping and questioning those who approach.
The men, some of whom wear masks and body armor, are residents of this small, majority-Black town. They say they’re protecting their own. And they’re on edge.
Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East says a summit will soon be held with real estate developers and planners to discuss the plan for the future of Gaza.
From yesterday's Times Diary. A gem.
I couldn't agree more!
@natashaloder.bsky.social How come you knew the delightful Tim Radford? He was deputy features ed of the Guardian an age ago when I was assistant news ed. Morning conferences were never the same without his Tiggerish enthusiasm.
Dovetailing neatly with the removal of the director of the government ethics office… www.cnbc.com/2025/02/10/t...
Don’t look up…
This is very good
It’s called prioritising, I believe…
Graph showing that Americans get MUCH more oil from Canada than they think.
This isn’t going to go well. #TrumpsTariffs
They also covered the People of Color in Cryptologic History honorees—like Wash Wong and Ralph Adams.
