anne mcelvoy
@annemcelvoy
Head of podcasting @POLITICOEurope. Co-host: politics At Sam and Anne’s https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/politics-at-sam-and-annes/id1709628885
Good morning: here we are your new duo with the indispensable Sky-Politico podcast guide to the week in Politics at Sam and Anne’s. Lucky me to have “inherited” @SamCoatesSky from @Jack_Blanchard_ (now starring in our 🇺🇸coverage.) First official podcast together in the new dawn…
Would be tough for Thomas Mann getting a publisher for Buddenbrooks
The fiction departments of publishing houses are run by people who shudder at the thought of “big business” just as big businesses are run by people who regard novels as effete nonsense. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
[Podcast] #EUBudget - The €2 trillion question: Inside the battle over the EU’s budget, by @swheaton, @DionisiosSturis and @annemcelvoy | Politico pubaffairsbruxelles.eu/podcast/the-e2…
The answer was “ we are investing in helping Ukraine build own long range capacity, “but it does not look like he is going to deliver Taurus
@annemcelvoy Well done for asking about Taurus at the Starmer/Merz press conference. Germany should feel its allies' impatience at the continuing foot dragging.
I’ve had fun telling ChatGPT to write my upcoming c”column about Trump, golf courses and Germany,. Unfortunately, it seems to have missed out an entire election result. “Germans , allergic to volatility, are quietly gaming out a second Trump term. Olaf Scholz, as understated…
On today's episode of Politics at Sam and Anne's... 🔵 Will Sir James Cleverly return to the frontbench? @SamCoatesSky and @AnneMcelvoy discuss why Kemi Badenoch is reshuffling her pack on the last day before summer recess Listen Now 👇🏼
Ich war dabei! Summer of 1990 was “bliss it was in that dawn to be alive, but to be young was very heaven” in the newly united Berlin
35 years ago today, British rock legend Roger Waters and guest artists, including The Scorpions, Sinéad O'Connor & more, performed 'The Wall - Live in Berlin'. The show was staged on former death strip terrain close to Potsdamer Platz and attracted more than 300,000 spectators.
So very sorry to read the obituary of the brilliant Tim Dutton @middletemple, who has died from motor neurone disease. He was a Durham chorister (over which we bonded)- hugely commited figure as Bar as chairman fighting legal aid cuts and enjoyed arguing with journalists…
Here's today's dive into the big political rumbles - on the plan for the UK's water industry and the reshuffle-that-isn't.-happening - but summer changes afoot in the Keir apparat. "Politics at Sam and Anne's" form @samcoates et moi - plus more from my POLITICO Playbook…
NEW: Environment Sec Steve Reed confims @danbloom1 scoop from last week that the govt will abolish water regulator Ofwat
Will the "Reed Reforms" fix Britain's 🚰 water system? Politics @SamCoatesSky and @annemcelvoy has all you need to know for the day ahead in 🇬🇧 British Politics Listen below ⬇️ open.spotify.com/episode/4VPcWn…
A looked at the BBC blame game and the main players and arguments - if you can pole vault or even pay your way across the paywall @theipaper Questions for leaders go beyond process and impartiality arguments (which are inevitable). They creep closer to the main players and why…
Quelle joie to live in such a sheltered part of Paris that locals object to a Carrefour nearby: imagine how left bank would feel about getting a Spar
Love this Paris Left Bank controversy: the media and artistic élites in the neighbourhood are outraged that a Carrefour City mini-supermarket is opening near the Luxembourg Gardens, at 19 rue Vavin. Quelle horreur ! lemonde.fr/m-le-mag/artic…
Bumper compound German noun to enjoy: namely the “legal framework for taking sth into public ownership. “
EXCL: Ministers are poised to announce they will scrap Ofwat next week Two people with knowledge of the planning tell me an announcement on ditching the water regulator is being lined up for Monday (A long-awaited independent report on the state of the industry drops at 7am)
Hi @marionhorn : kannst du mir bitte folgen, um Dir eine DM zuschicken?? Herzlichen Dank aus London.
Okay, my modest claim to fame this week is that I made stern Friedrich Merz laugh. (by reminding him to congratulate Angela Merkel on her birthday). My stand-up career is launched. bild.de/politik/auslan…
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I am all for the kidz having the vote, but as long as they are financially dependent on me, I should be their proxy. “You can’t put an X in the box until you’re buying your own Big Macs, son.”
I have now bribed two of three grownup (ish ) children to get a haircut. And they say 16-year-old should have the vote….
”Administratively suspended” has a kind of double menace to it
BREAKING A Labour Party spokesperson said: “Diane Abbott has been administratively suspended from the Labour Party, pending an investigation. We cannot comment further while this investigation is ongoing.”
Die 2 Powerfrauen auf der Starmer/Merz PK. Great fun to do a mashup of questions to the PM and Chancellor with @bethrigby. Tho I couldn’t get Merz to say whether he would ever deliver Taurusto Ukraine!
It’s an Electoral Dysfunction, Politics at Sam & Anne’s mash up @annemcelvoy
Really interesting thread here @SophyRidgeSky – I do also worry about the bombarding of young people with political messages which will be tailored to them at a sensitive point in their development.
16 & 17 year olds are going to be able to vote in UK elections in the biggest shake up of the voting system since 1969. It's most likely to benefit parties on the left - the Greens, the Labour Party - but I also wonder if it will help Reform further leapfrog the Conservatives as…