Evening from Amiens, Emmanuel Macron’s hometown, where I’m gauging the pulse of the President’s popularity ahead of EU elections.

There’s not a lot of love lost for the local boy in this part of Picardie, I’m discovering,

I’ll be filing spoken & printed words on it next week.

Political satire may not survive as we know it at this rate.

In 2016 during the Trump election I interviewed Armando Iannucci & he said as much then.

Spare a thought for new comedians like Will Sebag-Montefiore who’s on tour. What will have happened by the time he makes it to Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Aug?

A catwalk? 🤷‍♀️

Here’s me ten minutes in talking about why we should be keeping an eye on New Caledonia amid concerns the overseas territory could slip into civil war. Macron has flown there, troops have been deployed & there’s a curfew in place which has calmed tensions somewhat but what next?

The Globalist: George Parker with the latest as the UK’s prime minister sets the date for a July general election. Plus: Nina de Roy dos Santos on Emmanuel Macron’s visit to New Caledonia and Julie Finch on Hay Festival as the hallowed literary gathering begins monocle.com/radio/shows/th…

The Globalist: George Parker with the latest as the UK’s prime minister sets the date for a July general election. Plus: Nina de Roy dos Santos on Emmanuel Macron’s visit to New Caledonia and Julie Finch on Hay Festival as the hallowed literary gathering begins monocle.com/radio/shows/th…

Early start and off to talk about Macron’s visit to New Caledonia on ⁦Monocle Radio⁩ this morning amid deadly riots and a state of emergency in the restive French overseas territory, which Paris blames on outside forces, including (what may sound somewhat randomly) 🇦🇿

It’s the swiftness of this UK election that’s making people snap..

Swift and snappy! Top tech speculation on the question everyone seems to be asking this evening: Why now? #generalelection

Quote of the day from an important voice in the Transatlantic community..

Very timely piece.. and also the theme tune to the Vicar of Dibley, if i’m not mistaken.. 🤔

We may be in the midst of Election Fever but ironically Downing Street is possibly *the* coldest street I’ve ever reported from..

Even in spring it’s freezing, as my photo-stream attests.. plus it frequently rains when there’s a big announcement to be made.

I used to get called “Nina dos Sat-Nav” by former colleagues for my dulcet tones on CNN … “after the commercial break, go straight on..” Jonathan Hawkins would say..

Out with the great, Greek Brussels political operator ⁦Jerry Zagoritis⁩.

Just weeks to go before EU parliament elections and lots for talk about! 🇪🇺

Cocktail party at ⁦Monocle Magazine⁩ this evening .. now joining ⁦Henry Bonsu⁩ in a bit on ⁦Times Radio⁩

Fantastic to welcome Nina de Roy dos Santos onto BBC News (UK) with Christian Fraser tonight for the first time. Expert guest analysis alongside our lyse doucet on the breaking news from Slovakia #TheContext

Two hours at BBC News (World) with Christian Fraser on his show. Nice way to spend a Wednesday evening talking the day’s big news events. @bbcnews

Nice to be on The Context this evening on ⁦BBC News (World)⁩ ⁦BBC News (UK)⁩ with Christian Fraser⁩ & ⁦lyse doucet⁩ talking about the attack on Slovakia’s PM, Robert Fico.

Made a new canine friend in Kensington this afternoon.

Meet “Mr Bronze” a Caucasian Shepherd. Weighing in at 80 kg (vs my 47 kg), he’s so big we couldn’t both fit in the photo…

On Monocle Radio first thing this morning to talk UK’s latest espionage arrests… made it back from
Baker St to Earl’s Court in less than half an hour running 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️.

Half way through the day though and shattered already… but feeling better for it!