Alexander Hurst
Columnist on 🇫🇷 🇪🇺 for The Guardian @theguardian.com / GENERATION DESPERATION (Jan 2026) from Hodder & Stoughton / Hachette (🇬🇧), Goldmann / PRH (🇩🇪)
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- Reposted by Alexander HurstIt might sound silly, but I mean it: The easiest and most potent way for Europe to hurt Trump this year is to once again use its cultural soft power and to threaten a boycott of the World Cup. It would become a completely meaningless event and would hurt him where he is most vulnerable - his vanity.
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- Will Europe finally choose between Europe and the US? The only thing that can protect us is federalism and a rupture — a real one — with Trump. With the side bonus that just maybe, it will rally Europeans against the far right and shock Americans into action www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Hey @longreads.com, can I flag you on this narrative longform I did about French Guiana at the intersection of ecological collapse, climate change, European space autonomy, and the French Foreign Legion?
- I love the chance to write long things about places that we should be talking more about. A lot of work went into to this — 7 weeks in Guyane, 2 dozen interviews (many thanks to everyone who gave me their time!), and a month and a half spent drafting and editing www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
- I love the chance to write long things about places that we should be talking more about. A lot of work went into to this — 7 weeks in Guyane, 2 dozen interviews (many thanks to everyone who gave me their time!), and a month and a half spent drafting and editing www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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- Genuinely confused at how so many people (not Margaret!) read this as an EU bashing column, or ‘hard Brexit’ equivalent, when it’s the opposite Brexit was delusional bc it involved a small power attempting to act like a big one; the EU is actually. Large power but acts like a small one. 1/
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- Perfect time to repost me from last month on why the EU should learn the right lesson (enfin, putain 🙄) and stand up for itself for once www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Let’s demand more courage and leadership from those who… lead www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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- Reposted by Alexander HurstPoisoning the air of a Black community for a fucking chatbot.
- Can’t wait to see how Netflix, Max, Peacock, Apple TV, Disney, Prime react to being hit with a response tariff on their streaming subscriptions (the revenues from which should be earmarked for European public broadcasters) and same for Fox, Warner, Disney, Paramount, Universal (to fund local film)
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- I love stumbling onto the original influence for an artists sound Like - with alll due respect to LP - I thought their voice was quite unique, and then I listened to Pavlov’s Dog from the 70s…
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- I’ve made several actual, real friends by talking to strangers
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- This is a Rubicon moment
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- Ce qui le fait vraiment inexcusable, c'est que cette série est une coprod européenne, notamment française... Et vous l'avez rendu tellement ennuyeux à vissionner en faisant ça 👇 que franchement, j'ai pas envie de continuer @cineteve.bsky.social
- There's something that really annoys me, which is when shows/movies are filmed in English for scenes where the characters obviously wouldn't be speaking English to each other I.e., "Kaboul" -- 0% chance the French ambassador would be speaking English to his French head of security.
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- Sad to see Pope Francis pass -- may the next one also be committed to social justice, compassion, the environment, and the poor
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- “Trumpism, too, has an aesthetic. Allow me to pretentiously, subjectively, declare it not beautiful. The aesthetic of Trumpism is sprawl…” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Reposted by Alexander Hurst"On Wednesday, just days before her wedding, 25-year-old Hassouna was killed in an Israeli airstrike that hit her home in northern Gaza. Ten members of her family, including her pregnant sister, were also killed." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
- Depending on how Harvard’s resistance goes, other universities and colleges should seriously start to consider what I suggested in November, and then again last month…
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- I agree with @simonkuper.bsky.social ! The grass really is greener (and the fruit tastes fruitier) 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺 www.ft.com/content/fcf9...
- Oh come ON, so this season also has aliens ? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/s...
- Oh we Americans living in Paris, London, etc are worried alright — we’re worried about traveling to the US after posting exactly what we think about you and your clique of gangster thug autocrats
- The US healthcare system sucks: a take of two knee injuries Me in 🇫🇷 : within 1 month I had an MRI, CT Scan, 3 appointments with 2 different orthopedic surgeons, began physio bc no surgery needed My mom in 🇺🇸 : 2 months to get 1 MRI and see ortho 1 time, unknown if medicare will ✅ a 2nd opinion
- JD Vance thinks the Iraq War is Europe’s fault for not doing more to stop the US from doing it 🤪
- I say this to point out that it is in fact, a courageous decision, for a university - even a wealthy one - to fight the Trump administration. Harvard should - all the other universities should as well. Let's just acknowledge that their choice to fight really is a courageous one
- Is China’s export ban on rare earths universal, or just to the US?
- American commenters really are way off track when it comes to Europe. They really don’t understand it, and it shows on.ft.com/3XSy5G7
- One thing the EU should be intransigent on with China, though, is any coordination to respond to Trump entails China cutting off its support for Russia’s war on Ukraine. Period.
- To any Greenlanders out there, let me tell you about when the United States once promised every freed slave “40 acres and a mule”
- This is the week that the idea of the US as impregnable broke down. The EU should keep that in mind — Trump isn’t done with his aggressive fixation on Europe, but he will back down if his bullying is met with pressure www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
