Not the most important thing here, but a periodic reminder that journalists remember PRs that lie, and tell other journalists about it. on.ft.com/3If9Cpx

"Morning rush-hour speed from New Jersey through the Holland Tunnel, a main route under the Hudson River into Manhattan, has almost doubled to 28mph compared with a year earlier. Evening speed over the Manhattan Bridge to Brooklyn has increased from 13mph to 23mph" on.ft.com/40kdbjn Extraordinary

I can’t stop thinking about this brilliant New York Times scoop (gift link) in large part because it’s the first one of these stories where I’ve gone “my god, that worked on me!”: I really thought that ‘It Ends With Us’ had been a commercial failure, & that Reynolds & Lively had failed to boost it.

A lovely little bit here on the Xmas meat auction

It's been bad for a few years but this year has been stark. - Biggest net outflow of companies since 09 - 88 companies delisted, 18 coming in -Fewest new listings since 09 www.ft.com/content/aef0...

Fascinating piece on how South Korea’s collective memory of the 1980s shaped its reaction to last week’s declaration of martial law:

On this day I like to think back to 2010, when I was in New York and KKR announced ~ on Thanksgiving ~ that they were buying Del Monte -- something that I still maintain was incredibly poor form.

Can only assume Pony AI has never encountered rhyming slang.

Anyone got an Ark? Trains only using one track in and out of Blackfriars thanks to flooding.

Has the film thread migrated here @stephenkb.bsky.social ? I’ve made my annual trip to the cinema and need to know if my opinions are correct. (Now with right account tagged)

Want to read more about that $6.2mn banana? Thinking about what it means as bitcoin approaches $100k? Lex has you covered. Bitcoin and bananas add a new twist to conspicuous consumption on.ft.com/4eDSgwY

What do you think someone under US sanctions can do in the U.K.? You get a point if you guessed, “field two polo teams and play against Prince William”. My just-published story about Alessandro Bazzoni: on.ft.com/3OnSn50

London Centric continues to smash it: open.substack.com/pub/londonce...

The handles on this place — and the inability of my brain to let go of the BSkyB branding that the U.K. broadcaster ditched a decade ago — means I spend my whole time on here thinking “oh I didn’t know they worked for Sky”. IS THIS JUST ME? It’s just me, isn’t it?

Trains delayed this morning because of “slippery rails”. 🌧️ Is there any season or weather where rail transit is safe?

The campaign for trigger warnings on tuna mayo and egg n cress starts here…

Sure, sure but this is the ultimate sandwich read and brooks no rivals. www.theguardian.com/news/2017/no...

In what can only be described as a total outrage, I have virtually stopped drinking, am eating less meat than ever before and now appear to have gout. Keep at the steaks and red wine, people.

“the UK sex party planner backed by the government”

Nissan is poised to warn ministers that the UK car industry has reached a “crisis point”, with jobs and competitiveness at risk unless the government relaxes electric vehicle production rules, according to two people with direct knowledge of internal discussions www.ft.com/content/fe50...

Here’s a starter pack of FT journalists on here you may find useful go.bsky.app/FuqnwdD

SLAY.

Just introduced the children (7 and 5) to Frazzles. Minds were blown.

This is a fascinating lunch with Signal's Meredith Whittaker about privacy, surveillance, AI, and the ethics (or not) of Big Tech. I think it will appeal to Blue Sky-ers so here is a free (x300) link on.ft.com/3XLeu9Q

Can you mastermind a US presidential campaign? https://www.ft.com/content/2bed4c66-07a8-440c-80c2-43762efed462

If anyone wants to mix it up, I can confirm that I have never been to a drinks party in Stoke Newington.

🧀 The Cheese Riot of 1764 🧀 In 1764 the people of Nottingham were so angry about cheese prices that they gatecrashed the city Goose Fair & knocked the mayor over with a massive piece of cheese. The military were drafted in. 🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀

I need to know more about my nemesis, the rail replacement bus service. How are they used, are they on the rise, and how do we rid the country of this scourge?

Private equity is doing badly — however you measure it: very strong FT Lex note here www.ft.com/content/4906...

Who could have possibly foreseen that Big Tobacco buying an inhaler company was a ragingly terrible idea? Three years on and sold for about a third of the price. www.ft.com/content/b489...

New favourite video which reduced @katie0martin.bsky.social and me to near hysterics in the office.

The piece I wish I’d written on Basel backsliding and the regulatory pendulum

The Bank of London told potential investors in July it had an “immediate” need to raise £18.5m for regulatory capital, in a further sign of its financial pressures. Follows news of the HMRC winding-up petition against its holdco, first spotted by @danneidle.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/dad3...

very good FT Lex note here on how the EU is approaching AI regulation www.ft.com/content/773e...

Do you know what antimony is? Me neither, before this morning. www.ft.com/content/390a...

Well all I can say is that I wish the DoJ the very best in its suit against Live Nation.

Can confirm that if you get on a flight Ticketmaster decides you’re a bot and suspends your session.

Hold up. We’ve been delayed by an hour. Now I just need the queue to move approximately twice as fast as it has been or Gatwick air traffic control to be about twice as shit as they’ve said.

If, hypothetically speaking, you were in a queue on Ticketmaster and on a plane taking off in 20 minutes, would you phone pick up where it left off on landing?

I join you from a queue in Bologna airport and a queue for Oasis tickets. Who will move faster? EasyJet or Ticketmaster?

Missed a lot of action on here while away. But on the upside, I made this little beauty with my own bare hands.

Just paid £8.40 for two coffees and had to navigate an ordering process worthy of the krypton factor. Good luck Brian Niccol. Starbucks’ $113mn man has a China problem on.ft.com/4cppQpq

The uninsurable world: rethinking how to cover for climate damage https://www.ft.com/content/272fac7a-9d8f-4afe-a489-0ea6b5837ee5

FT job alert: come and help me run the FT's flagship investment column as deputy head of Lex in London. You can write, edit, and contribute across the FT more broadly. Get in touch to discuss. DEADLINE: June 17th boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtim...

What’s going on at the other place nowadays? An advertiser exodus, negative cash flow, heavy debt burden and a plummeting valuation. But users — well, they seem to be sticking around. From @financialtimes.com Lex column. Musk’s X still has one thing going for it: its users on.ft.com/48wVTCL

So I’ve been up for about three days and it’s only 25 past 8. I forgot that actually this is the longest day.

I appreciate I care an unusual amount about audit reform. But honestly, as an example of where Britain can produce hundreds of pages of reports while accomplishing increasingly little over many years it really does take some beating.

Wrote this on our failure to make progress on audit and corporate governance reform since the Carillion collapse. Then today, the business department backslides on new measures it only announced in July, including an annual resilience statement. on.ft.com/3ZVyzLk

I didn’t post much on the last place. I’m not entirely sure I’ll do better here. But hello. Here is something I wrote this week: uninsurability is the first stage of uninhabitability.