Sam Wilkin
@MrSamWilkin
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Freelance (managing) editor and media consultant. Former senior editor at Politico & MLex, reporter at Bloomberg & Reuters. Amateur essayist at https://t.co/lhWTUnEKcm
Brussels
Joined September 2014
I've been giving the Substack some love including this new welcome email. Here you'll find links to some of my most successful essays, along with a short explanation of what they're about and why I think they struck a chord. In other words, it's a perfect time to sign up!
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Some things I learned living in the Middle East, travelling in India and studying lots of languages - and why they're more relevant than ever today.
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How cultural Christians misunderstand the wider world.
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One of the UK's best-known pro-EU outfits also taken over by the unrelated issue of Palestine:
🚨 RIGHT NOW opposite Labour Party HQ in London. We’ve turned their street into Jabaliya camp in Gaza. A genocide is happening, but the Labour government is supplying weapons, intelligence and diplomatic cover to the perpetrator. Protesting this is not terrorism.
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Good morning, America! I need you to like this essay so people in Europe can read it. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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The only way to reach Europe’s single market.
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What a viral essay taught me about Europe's economy: If you want to conquer Europe, get big in America first.
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The only way to reach Europe’s single market.
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Jeremy Corbyn splits the UK left with a new pro-Palestine vehicle, helping Nigel Farage on his way to Number 10. And it just so happens that I had drafted an essay on how Palestine activism has taken over the European left:
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A big chunk of creative work is done away from the office. As AI takes away mundane tasks and frees us think more deeply, spending eight hours at the office isn't just unnecessary - it's a hindrance to the creative process. New essay:.
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The Liverpool ramming attack wasn't entirely apolitical - it was the natural extension of embedded, and sometimes violent, driver entitlement. New essay:
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Driver entitlement is a violent ideology.
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Why do so many people in the West hate their own civilisation? I argue it's because of a lopsided teaching of history and culture, where the West gets an interrogation and other peoples get a hagiography. New essay:
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The global flood of misinformation could revive a dying breed: the foreign correspondent. Not long ago, the value of having a trusted reporter on the ground was in freefall as reliable information flowed on social media. Fake news is reversing that trend.
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Case in point
Illegal migration risks our security. I get it, you’re angry. So am I. That’s why I’m rolling up my sleeves to fix it.
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There's something about Starmer's Twitter account that reads like a parody. Is it the small-bore issues? The 'ban it harder' vibe? The hard man language?.
This is a message to the fly-tippers blighting our towns and villages:. For too long, your actions have gone unpunished. That ends now. We'll use drones and new tech to identify your vehicle. Then we'll crush it.
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Too much stuff? Most cities in Europe provide you with a large storage space in front of your house for a token fee. You can put anything there so long as it's in a car.
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The most dangerous racists are the people who think they can't possibly be racist. This week's essay:.
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Alongside this week's copy of the Economist (4 days late), I have also received an issue from June 2024 #AbolishBelgium
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RT @spectator: The Spectator’s 2025 no-CV internship scheme is now open. We don’t ask for a CV, we don’t use your name. We don’t care where….
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I want my 55% tax back (Nala loves it but she doesn't pay tax)
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An essay on the joy and toil of writing essays, with a digression into the Substack economy. Tl/dr: Work is really busy so I can't publish every week for the next few months. Going to prioritise quality over quantity and slow down a bit.
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