The Iran war has laid bare a growing global battle for supplies of chemical elements with crucial industrial uses from car-making to computer chips. The Gulf conflict has disrupted shipments of substances such as helium, sulphur and aluminium. Our updated visual story: www.ft.com/content/de4d...

London’s viral video crisis: “London has fallen” content has become so pervasive globally that Sadiq Khan held a meeting with the foreign office and British ambassadors to discuss how to convince foreign investors/tourists to ignore it and come to London. www.londoncentric.media/p/sadiq-khan...

🚨 EXC: The captain of one of Britain’s nuclear-armed submarines has stepped back from his role this week after being investigated over his relationship with Joani Reid, the Labour MP whose husband has been arrested on suspicion of spying for China as.ft.com/r/dfb74254-8...

Scoop from my FT colleagues: Pete Hegseth’s broker looked to buy defence fund before Iran attack as.ft.com/r/11b90ddb-2...

Ed speaks to Trump more often than I speak to my mum.

Blimey. Even a plurality of *Reform voters* say that the US has had a negative impact on the world in recent years: Positive: 30% Mixed: 30% Negative: 35% Source: YouGov

“To be honest with you, my favourite thing is to take the oil in Iran but some stupid people back in the US say: ‘why are you doing that?’ But they’re stupid people.” @edwardluce.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/81a6c2cd-5...

Astrud Gilberto was a housewife in 1964 when saxophonist Stan Getz decided he wanted his hit “Girl From Ipanema” to be sung in English — something her husband, Joao, who sang the original track, couldn’t do. Sold 2 million copies. Born today in 1940. 💕

40 years after the world's worst ever nuclear accident, Chernobyl still poses a threat to Ukraine - and potentially the world too. Yes, you read that right. Read our report on the hole in the plant's steel "arch", made by a Russian drone - and the push to repair it. as.ft.com/r/e500b463-1...

Ok step one is to make them look less delicious

AI Iran Propaganda Videos Flood Social Media Scoring Millions Of Views With No Social Media Bans

Bleak! Stocks and bonds slump in tandem as Iran shock leaves investors ‘nowhere to hide’ as.ft.com/r/55ba535f-0...

Department of business as usual: Ferrari flies personalised supercars to super-rich Middle East buyers as.ft.com/r/3cf67a12-0...

40 years after the world's worst ever nuclear accident, Chernobyl still poses a threat to Ukraine - and potentially the world too. Yes, you read that right. Read our report on the hole in the plant's steel "arch", made by a Russian drone - and the push to repair it. as.ft.com/r/e500b463-1...

Astute report that gets to the nub ofTrump's Venezuela non-regime change: it's "the same brutal regime, with faces that are friendlier to Washington". as.ft.com/r/f75cac71-b...

as.ft.com/r/67832a88-d... Trump’s Armageddon-Taco shuffle @edwardluce.bsky.social

"Traders made bets worth half a billion dollars in the oil market about 15 minutes before Donald Trump’s post touting “productive” talks with Iran sent the price of crude tumbling and ignited volatility in other assets." as.ft.com/r/5003c4d4-4...

Ruchir Sharma: “Trump is layering a haphazard shooting war on top of an ill-conceived tariff war and largely getting away with it, in part because other nations have become too dependent on America — militarily, technologically and, above all, financially.” as.ft.com/r/62b977a6-5...

fT Editorial Board: “The Iran war is metastasising into a global economic calamity.” as.ft.com/r/edbbf8bb-e...

Brick Lane. londonist.com/london/histo...

Russia sends ships with oil and gas to Cuba as.ft.com/r/24e3dc8c-1...

I didn't want friends anyway. Everyone is just jealous of me. I like sitting alone at lunch

China is not going to bail Trump out: "Why interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake?" @edwardluce.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/4ff5093e-3...

as.ft.com/r/f8d7c4b9-8... Middle East war live: Oil jumps as Iran steps up attacks on infrastructure

"Proud Islamophobe" Laura Loomer celebrates the world's most famous monument to Islamic art

Pretty staggering that the FT Trump interview opens with ‘if NATO doesn’t help us sort this mess, there’ll be problems’ and ends with ‘Russia might be helping target American soldiers, but really that’s sort of fair enough - we started it’. www.ft.com/content/1ca6...

This is a very strange moment, in how obvious it is that a major crisis is approaching, and how calmly and clearly people are observing it come. www.ft.com/content/3647...

Are markets being too complacent about the Iran war? “The key danger, of course, is that unlike the shock of supersized worldwide US trade tariffs nearly a year ago, Trump is not able to switch this off.” @katie0martin.ft.com as.ft.com/r/15584fe2-b...

as.ft.com/r/51385a3f-6... Photo shows Mandelson and former prince Andrew together with Epstein

Gillian Tett, of course, knows a thing or two about impending crises. In this column, she looks at the private credit risks which are gaining so much attention. She says the problem is more akin to a slow-moving cancer than a sudden heart attack www.ft.com/content/d8d1...

Another day, another stupid Excel chart.

The Iranian school bombing and the information war: "Internet shutdowns and patchy connectivity inside Iran have limited citizen videos and witness testimony, while the war has made much of the country practically inaccessible for independent journalists." as.ft.com/r/2be24f43-c...

as.ft.com/r/eadccfca-7... Middle East war live: US to ease Russian oil sanctions as energy prices soar

"If things stay like this, we're in a worse place now than before the war. A country destroyed; Khamenei replaced by another Khamenei, 30 years younger." - Mahboubeh Najmeh Bozorgmehr für @financialtimes.com aus Teheran mit Stimmen, die nach 12 Tagen Bomben so gar nicht nach Begeisterung klingen.

Military briefing: the closest US-Israel war yet. "Israel since its independence in 1948 has almost exclusively fought alone." as.ft.com/r/2d777306-4... @nerizilber.bsky.social

Why aren't Iranians rising up to challenge their regime, as they did in January? Many answers here in this insightful report by the FT's Teheran correspondent Najmeh Bozorgmehr as.ft.com/r/6e31d260-f...

Sharp column by my colleagues @katie0martin.ft.com, @hakyungkim.bsky.social, and @robarmstrong.bsky.social (the man who coined the acronym "TACO"): The thing that everyone expecte to happen has happened as.ft.com/r/2efa0b72-a...

Good morning, New York. While you were sleeping, this was the most-read story ft.trib.al/95URcrc

Explainer reel: Is the US-Israel-Iran war a new frontier for AI fakes? www.facebook.com/share/v/1B4j...

New from Bellingcat - New photos released by the Israeli Air Force show a bomb not previously seen in Israeli service. Analysis suggests it’s a 2,000-lb class bomb fitted with a JDAM guidance kit, with markings indicating a possible incendiary component. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

President Trump tells CNN he's not worried whether Iran becomes a democratic state https://cnn.it/4svPDol

Why Trump won't clean up his own mess @gilliantett.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/2649eebd-a...

noem's dog looking down from heaven

This war isn’t an emergency that requires us to give the president more latitude. It’s a monstrosity that requires that judges, lawmakers and above all citizens work to preserve the integrity of elections and the republic.

Kurds backed by Mossad, CIA could lead next phase of war in Iran www.axios.com/2026/03/05/i...

Peter Mandelson offered to take me clubbing in Riyadh