The BBC will fuck things up from time to time. Lots of major news organisations do; just look at The Times having to memoryhole several fake news stories in a matter of weeks. No one is calling for the abolition of The Times, however. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

How ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...

When deception’s more profitable than honesty, users lose. Internal documents suggest that Meta earns $3.5B(!) every 6 mo. from scam ads, revealing a deeper systemic problem: the economic incentive to tolerate “higher legal risk” content still outweighs any penalty. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Summing up Trump authoritarianism in one figure on.ft.com/3Xf3EZM

📢 I interviewed Thomas Piketty for the Financial Times 📢 We covered a lot of ground including populism (a term he despises), fiscal debt and the long-term trend of economic equality The full interview 👉 on.ft.com/4nFLyLk

Thomas Piketty in the FT! - fascinating Q&A exchange here with @joelsuss.ft.com www.ft.com/content/860f...

Also remarkable: the polarisation of young UK voters. Top two parties supported now Reform and Greens on.ft.com/4qKurLm Young Britons’ attitudes hardening on crime and welfare

Remarkable and surprising data on hardening attitudes towards welfare recipients in UK, especially among younger cohorts. Why now? on.ft.com/4qKurLm

1. Binance founder pardon after enriching Trump family 2. DT Jr. enmeshed in firms getting DOD contracts 3. Trump trying to extract $230 million for himself from DOJ

Why is WaPo now regularly publishing absolute nonsense from Telegraph columnists?! www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

I wrote about the economic costs of US political polarisation in the @financialtimes.com In short: they are high, due to myriad channels on.ft.com/47pDYhL

"Populism is often triggered by bad economies, but then makes what is already bad still worse." Martin Wolf on why escaping the populist trap is so difficult on.ft.com/4qn3Svn

Checking in on Trump’s mission to save Argentina’s foundering libertarian political experiment with American taxpayer cash.

Fantastic detailed reporting here on Trump inc “the heart of Trump’s newfound wealth is a rapidly growing cryptocurrency empire built by the president and his family.” on.ft.com/4olkLoi How the Trump companies made $1bn from crypto

Really interesting post by Tej Parikh on the declining effectiveness of monetary policy (e.g. due to more and longer fixed loan terms) Not clear though what central banks can do about it. Financial conditions targeting? What alternative to blunt interest rate tool? on.ft.com/4h34Hp6

Great detailed reporting here on how Netanyahu finally succumbed to pressure from a US president eg. Trump to Netanyahu (when he said Hamas delaying): “Why are you so fucking negative?” www.ft.com/content/6a62...

📢New piece from me on US inflation today in the @financialtimes.com📢 It's not just (still modest) tariff-related effects boosting core goods and headline above target, core services excluding housing remain elevated

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Eeee the cover for the UK edition of How to Win a Trade War is out! Pre-order your copy here... www.amazon.co.uk/How-Win-Trad...

Social media use appears to have peaked everywhere but North America on.ft.com/4gP83eW Have we passed peak social media?

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

Why yesterday’s terrorist attack felt inevitable on.ft.com/3KRfer6

Opinion: It would be a hugely welcome development to discover that we have not merely reached social media saturation point, but that the experience has been degraded to such an extent that it has shocked people out of their stupor. on.ft.com/476Dcr8

In our latest blog, Javier Terrero Dávila (@oecdsocial.bsky.social) asks how much income mobility do different countries exhibit? And how does it vary across different groups relating to age, gender, education and where people live? #LSEInequalitiesBlog buff.ly/6Jo3KX7

US electricity prices have risen significantly due to data centre needs “electricity now costs as much as 267% more for a single month than it did five years ago in areas located near significant data center activity.” www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Great reporting here on the political pressure affecting prosecutions of white-collar crime in the US Featuring also great use of LLMs for structuring data 👇👇 on.ft.com/3VFYuW3

The Fed's decision to cut rates last week have been criticised with inflation above target A dovish turn also risks making a frothy US market frothier, raising financial stability risk My latest in the @financialtimes.com (free-to-read) 👉 on.ft.com/4gEiMZF

Very interesting on Apollo’s clever (and possibly dangerous) arbitraging of capital regulation rules by @leeharris.ft.com on.ft.com/46CguXE The niche debt tool at the heart of Apollo’s private credit machine

Big gap in income gains for 65+ versus working age populations in UK and France, with the increased cost of pensions for governments sending fiscal debts to unsustainable levels and crowding out other spending priorities on.ft.com/46AUDjd

US CPI data is out: inflation continues rising, but the Fed will most likely cut next week due to labour market concerns The tension between price stability and maximum employment will not ease quickly More on the challenge facing the Fed, with lots of charts Free-to-read: on.ft.com/41K2yIn

Very cool sentiment analysis using FT articles by @joelsuss.ft.com. Also brings home how precisely I missed the Good Times. www.ft.com/content/9a99...

Partly because both Trump and Manelson were close friends with Epstein? on.ft.com/47D3G4e Peter Mandelson predicts fresh revelations about friendship with Jeffrey Epstein

After my article on the rise in negative news yesterday, nice to see a good news story!: "the delivery of one of the largest UK infrastructure projects roughly on time and close to budget" on.ft.com/41OFYOS

It was only a matter of time I guess? The question is whether plunging share prices of these crypto hoarders will force crypto fire sales and push down crypto prices, potentially setting off further selling www.ft.com/content/ad06...

It was only a matter of time I guess? Question is whether the plunging shares of these crypto hoarders will force crypto fire sales and push down crypto prices

Sentiment analysis on four decades worth of FT newspaper articles. 🥳 Rreally cool stuff from @joelsuss.ft.com. on.ft.com/4n2TVBq

We read the news today. Oh boy. on.ft.com/4n2TVBq

I wrote about negative news for @alphaville.ft.com, featuring 40+ years of FT content (over 3mn articles) distilled down to a single economic sentiment series on.ft.com/4n2TVBq

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

I watched Miran's senate confirmation hearing so you don't have to. He didn't persuade anyone he would actually be independent, indeed he made his case worse by saying he would not resign from white house role as chair of council of economic advisers 🤯 on.ft.com/47oAZba

Fascinating article on why demographic decline may not actually be good for the environment One reason is that the decline in birth rates are concentrated amongst progressives, meaning the future may be more conservative on.ft.com/47iURMX

"there is sufficient reason to believe you may have made false statements..." from Trump's letter to Cook 🤦‍♂️ www.ft.com/content/0cae...

📢 I've written the @financialtimes.com Free Lunch newsletter today on the rise of populism & its economic implications 📢 No surprise: populism makes for very bad economics, with clear negative impacts regardless of whether it is left-wing or right wing variety Free-to-read link👉 on.ft.com/4fViP31

This is very interesting on the practice of head shaping in Andean culture, different groups made different shapes to signify sacred mountains. Remains me a bit of the Smeds and the Smoos www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/s...

"Snowfall is rare in the area, so the ski resort intended to rely entirely on artificial snow" Why did anyone think building a ski resort in the Saudi desert was a good idea? www.ft.com/content/6dfc...

For @wired.com I wrote about the Trump admin's latest propaganda strategy: incorporating the casual nihilism and cruelty of the highly online far-right into memes about deportation www.wired.com/story/trump-...

Lovely article here about the surprising diversity and cosmopolitanism in the Canadian arctic town of Inuvik on.ft.com/45ueQp4

I can't fucking believe it, these idiots exempted 700 goods from the 50% tariffs on Brazil—orange juice, nuts, iron ore, gas, etc etc—BUT THEY SPECIFICALLY LEFT THE 50% TARIFFS ON COFFEE, OUR 2ND LARGEST IMPORT FROM BRAZIL. They're genuinely trying to kill me for drinking coffee.