so, uh, can we get JD Vance to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

And how he dodges Brussels’ anti-graft measures. It takes money, time, patience and really good lawyers to report this kind of stuff. Buy a paper! #buyapaper www.ft.com/content/8973...

His relationships with oligarchs … www.ft.com/content/70c2...

Then there is the Kremlin’s involvement … www.ft.com/content/34df...

Perhaps now is a good time to share the @financialtimes.com investigative series on Viktor Orban. To start with here’s the one we sent a reporter up in a plane for … (300 free clicks) as.ft.com/r/8cd54659-d...

Hungary’s Orbán concedes defeat as opposition heads for landslide win ft.trib.al/QyIb0GJ

This is part 4 of a series on The Orban System - how the White House and Kremlin’s favourite EU leader really works

argh, c’mon, various teams from this archipelago

Has the war in Iran enabled the shadow fleet as the US eases sanctions? At least 15 Iranian oil tankers have passed through the Strait of Hormuz since Feb 28, earning Iran possibly around $140mn a day. Our interactive deep dive: ig.ft.com/shadow-fleet/ @nassosstylianou.bsky.social & Lucy Rodgers

I started reporting on the use of private messaging channels to evade accountability laws about 5,600 days ago

Modern autocracy in action: use culture war methods to rob people you're claiming to protect

Our latest on the Orban System: how a dozen or so businessmen closely tied to the Hungarian premier hit gold from state contracts when he took over www.ft.com/content/70c2...

9) Here is the Hatozla NW Website. The loss of four ambulances will have a significant effect on their ability to operate. If you're able to donate something - anything - please consider it - hatzolanw.org Thank you. Thread ends.

Our latest on the Orban System: how a dozen or so businessmen closely tied to the Hungarian premier hit gold from state contracts when he took over www.ft.com/content/70c2...

It's been a while. I'm finally back at work and happy to share our newest piece on the detained Iranian tanker Nora, which is currently moored in Kalundborg for mysterious reasons. Leaked data shows it's crewed by Iranians and a single Russian and that all its papers are seemingly falsified.

Viktor Orbán’s home village is swimming in cash. So we hired a plane to take a look.

Viktor Orbán’s home village is swimming in cash. So we hired a plane to take a look.

The probability of a US attack on Iran shot up on Polymarket well ahead of the attack, great figure and coverage of insider trading on the platform by @chriscook.news & co 👇👇 as.ft.com/r/e8bda9f9-4...

strange things happened in the polymarket markets on the attack on Iran — a lot of very heavy betting, strange odds movements and 12 very suspicious wallets: www.ft.com/content/2883...

@mattwoosie.bsky.social Summarise the game more fully for those of us queuing outside, please Matt

aaaaaand: 175 entities in the network were sanctioned today by the UK.

there’s so much in this story, but I the final video of an area draped fibre-optic cables is especially incredible

2) there's been a wave of pop-up institutions that take oil and sell it, which makes figuring it all out quite taxing. Turns out, most of them are sharing this email server. And: if you line them up, you can see the strategy of setting up and disposing of companies in real time.

Two very big things here: 1) since sanctioning of Rosneft and Lukoil, the largest exporter of Russian crude is an entity called "Redwood Global". It SO HAPPENS that they share an e-mail server with a group of Azeri traders who EU sanctions officials believe are pals with the chief exec of Rosneft.

one of the world's largest smuggling networks has accidentally exposed itself because of a stupid e-mail configuration blunder, which has revealed around 50 apparently unconnected companies are all sharing back-office functions: www.ft.com/content/4310...

Two very big things here: 1) since sanctioning of Rosneft and Lukoil, the largest exporter of Russian crude is an entity called "Redwood Global". It SO HAPPENS that they share an e-mail server with a group of Azeri traders who EU sanctions officials believe are pals with the chief exec of Rosneft.

Email blunder exposes $90bn Russian oil smuggling ring ft.trib.al/10RpCLV

one of the world's largest smuggling networks has accidentally exposed itself because of a stupid e-mail configuration blunder, which has revealed around 50 apparently unconnected companies are all sharing back-office functions: www.ft.com/content/4310...

Catholics might want to check on whether their parishes are supporting SPUC, which has been promoting this man's output.

The Trump admin has indicated to Ukraine that US security guarantees are contingent on Kyiv first agreeing a peace deal that would likely involve ceding the Donbas region to Russia… Scoop with FT comrades @maxseddon.bsky.social @henryjfoy.ft.com @a-mackinnon.bsky.social

The sorting of the bones of Cnut the Great is a rather timely reminder of a moment when Denmark and England might have become one state: www.winchester.ac.uk/News-and-Eve...

why do politicians feel the need to speak at such length.

A story from last year that’s more salient than ever by @lauramdubois.ft.com, Davjd Djambazov and me ::: Europe builds for war as arms factories expand at triple speed : www.ft.com/content/ce61...

Robert Jenrick's speech, now entering its 53rd hour

well I liked the first part of being involved in two historically huge cup upsets in two consecutive seasons

Really feel like I’ve got my old Crystal Palace back

update: a spokesman for Summers says he didn't know he was one of the executors of Epstein's will

🚨 New article by @chriscook.news

wrote about Kalshi's business being about 5% truth machine/95% sportsbook (even if they refuse to mention it) www.ft.com/content/1ac0...

I'd hoped normal service might resume today. I woke up with a tight 600 words mentally typed out on the suspension of the US-UK technology deal. The subject line included a terrific pun. Then, I went for a walk in Sydney.

an update: some amazing work by the Belarusian Investigative Centr giving a sense of how massive the Rustakt drone network, now partly Chinese-owned, is investigatebel.org/en/investiga...

big news!

It’s unusual to see an organisation see Conquest’s second law - that you can explain organisations’ behaviour by assuming they are controlled by their enemies - embraced so enthusiastically and literally

if anyone wants to regift panettones to me, I will eat them all. A no-regifting guarantee.

Chinese parts supplier takes stake in leading Russian drone maker on.ft.com/440b1s5

a big deal on the geopolitics around Ukraine — we’ve found a Chinese drone supplier taking a stake in a Russian military supply company: www.ft.com/content/e907...

🚨 New article by @chriscook.news

Trump envoys issue ultimatum to Ukraine to sign peace deal by Thursday on.ft.com/4rd0JP1

This is a big moment for Europe. on.ft.com/3K3kM1S

fair play d-sheps @oilsheppard.bsky.social on.ft.com/43LzYqW