I've written about the Fed and BoE's trust deficit for the @financialtimes.com central banks newsletter A growing % of households in US and UK are 'de-anchored', expecting far higher inflation in long run. Low levels of trust are an important reason why as.ft.com/r/99d85a19-0...

wrote for the magazine about the open source software that underpins our digital lives, how it is being upended by AI code tools, and about maintainers as.ft.com/r/b7f62212-9...

🤖 Can an AI ‘superforecaster’ beat the market? 🤖 When it comes to predicting Fed decisions, the AI does not (yet) have an edge as.ft.com/r/aded4aa2-4...

🚨NHS hospitals have admitted to a litany of errors in the data behind a headline claim about the success of the controversial £330mn Palantir contract after a @financialtimes.com investigation found dozens of irregularities. Scoop w/ @laurahughesft.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/7ab92d75-3...

🚨We're hiring!🚨 The @data.ft.com team is hiring a graphics journalist. job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtim...

Back on my bullsh

💡Does the UK lose its best ideas to America? New data suggests the bigger challenge is much closer to home: scaling spinouts from outside Oxford and Cambridge. Enjoyed digging into the data with the help of @paulswinney.bsky.social for @alphaville.ft.com Full story here: as.ft.com/r/d60411f3-9...

Kevin Warsh's desire to turn back the clock on Federal Reserve communications will add volatility to the rates markets Warsh, as evidenced by his first meeting, wants to return to the Greenspan era, a time characterised by frequent & large monetary policy surprises More: as.ft.com/r/72d10976-8...

This is really interesting -- on the misdirected spending targeting UK 'left behind' places High street makeover is far less important than good jobs www.ft.com/content/a108...

It's great that the UK govt is looking to encourage solar panels, heat pumps and batteries, but there's got to be a more direct and effective way than this? as.ft.com/r/373ea167-a... UK government to subsidise bank loans for green home improvements

My homage to Alan Greenspan’s Fedspeak in this weekend’s @financialtimes.com Where I consider also the prospects of Kevin Warsh’s desire to turn back the clock on Fed comms as.ft.com/r/7ee6eb0f-0...

I think we just passed oops.

We hear a lot about how AI promises, or threatens, to transform the world of work. But for that to happen companies will actually need to use the tech -- so far, adoption is very low @sarahoconnorft.ft.com & I look at why in the @financialtimes.com AI shift newsletter --> as.ft.com/r/bf9e25ce-0...

Yes, obviously it is suspended, but is it operating or not? Useless TfL app.

Political ideology is the strongest predictor of Messi-Ronaldo preference. Authoritarians who like short-form video are more likely to think Ronaldo is the GOAT.

It’s been quite the ride. Me on Burnham, the Manchester years as.ft.com/r/2d95cb4b-8...

The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism

Reminder that the world's first trillionaire is a far-right activist who barely sleeps so he can promote far-right content on his microblogging site Here's an updated version of that famous Economist figure

🚨A handful of NHS trusts have driven the national performance gains attributed to Palantir. For one key claim, 84% of the headline figure reflects improvements at Chelsea and Westminster - a trust recently jointly chaired by a former Palantir adviser. as.ft.com/r/ce4b840b-f...

How good is Palantir's NHS platform? Important story from Laura Hughes and Amy Borrett - www.ft.com/content/a3e9...

AI will lead to mass unemployment according to the technologists. Will this include central bankers? I ran a simulation of Kevin Warsh's first FOMC to find out. Rate-setters should probably be worried about their future job prospects... as.ft.com/r/0041dd19-b...

"Silicon Kevin Warsh chairs his first Fed rate meeting" I've written a @financialtimes.com exclusive -- a fly-on-the-wall of a simulated FOMC meeting where fake Warsh (an LLM fed with his bio, writings, and public remarks) interacts with his new, fake colleagues as.ft.com/r/ea6068d6-1...

Right-wing UK MPs are posting far more on X/twitter since Musk's takeover, while the left retreats (but has not fully abandoned the site) One notable exception is the very online @zackpolanski.bsky.social My article w @pickardje.bsky.social & @rachel-rees.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/295c9f7e-c...

Looking at change rates in wages versus consumer prices 3-month annualized, in the most recent data... Wages (red) up at a 2.8% rate and prices up at 8.2% rate (blue). So real hourly wages falling at abt 5.4% annualized rate. If continues, average hour'll buy 5.4% less than a year before

How persistent will inflation be in the UK? Megan Greene thinks v persistent & large second round effects - hence ~3 rate hikes But this is effectively a bet on companies passing-through costs -- the current data suggests margins will instead be compressed My piece: as.ft.com/r/2b923832-7...

Trump told me this a couple of hours before Bibi struck Iran. He has turned himself into a prisoner of other people's decisions.

Reform’s financial reliance on the crypto industry is wild www.ft.com/content/091c...

In the wake of our @financialtimes.com article, the PM today made his strongest criticism of Musk to date Starmer accused the billionaire of “trying to whip up division” and “interfering in our politics” Updated story here - as.ft.com/r/eafa2b54-9...

🚀 Elon Musk has shifted focus from SpaceX to UK politics, amplifying far-right voices to his 240mn followers. We found a third of Musk's recent posts focused on the UK, a 10-year high, raising concern about his political influence ahead of a critical by-election. as.ft.com/r/b1cb096a-e...

this is a really strong column from Ruchir Sharma on the truth about the American profit machine www.ft.com/content/362c...

🚨Elon Musk has boosted the public profile of Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe on X, pulling Britain’s political discourse towards extreme content and amplifying his influence ahead of a knife-edge election in Makerfield More @FT: as.ft.com/r/80f4639f-0...

📢Companies are gearing up for price increases📢 My new piece in the @financialtimes.com on potential for the pricing channel as a source of persistent inflation The wage bargaining channel, on other hand, is not looking as problematic for central banks -- see fig 👇 Link: as.ft.com/r/7230402a-e...

So, uh, @chadpbown.com and I went on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart last night and Jon had read the book and really liked it. And I think my head might explode? m.youtube.com/watch?v=GYcw...

😱 Trump wants to undermine ICC with Putin and Xi

Important reminder: “Historically, futures prices have been poor at forecasting the future, especially at times of geopolitical uncertainty.” Options show elevated price uncertainty V nice work here: as.ft.com/r/a6011e4d-0... Why the oil futures curve is not a crystal ball

The FT asked 10 fund managers which of the frontrunners to replace Keir Starmer would trigger the most negative bond market reaction. The results were clear-cut ... but at odds with Polymarket predictions. Read the story on #FTEdit 👉 Who do gilt investors want to lead Britain? ft.trib.al/tpYc6Np

We need to talk about Huw Huw Pill that is, chief economist of the Bank of England, who has become an outlier on the BoE's monetary policy committee My latest in the @financialtimes.com as.ft.com/r/3d233df6-d...

US CPI report indeed looking problematic for the Fed. Core inflation and Warsh's preferred median weighted CPI both OKish compared with looking at the % of items rising in price -- this is 87% versus 70% average, rising since Apr 2025 as.ft.com/r/e7f2700e-8...

Posting this purely for the picture as.ft.com/r/bfb8526f-d...

With Keir Starmer's premiership hanging in the balance, @amyborrett.ft.com has put together the definitive set of charts to summarise his tumultuous tenure A few 👇👇and more 👉https://as.ft.com/r/41e56e14-02de-400a-96bd-38a0a4b6efc6

📢 I've written a piece for @financialtimes.com on monetary policy surprises in the UK -- they are relatively large and getting larger 📢 Free link: as.ft.com/r/65020096-1...

“Someone who cannot criticise the actions of the Israeli government without suggesting that British Jews should be punished for those actions is, at a basic level, incompetent.” Hear, hear @stephenkb.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/a0177a88-e...

'References to “pricing action” and “passing on costs” during first-quarter US earnings calls have climbed to the highest level since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine sparked the last global inflation shock in 2022, according to an FT analysis.' as.ft.com/r/beafa412-4...

🚨 Maybe the best Venn diagram of BDC holdings you'll ever see. www.ft.com/content/c60b...

This is some incredible journalism from Ukraine as.ft.com/r/346747e6-5... ‘I’m fighting two wars. One against the Russians. And one inside myself.’

That’s quite a chart www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This is a really excellent and inspiring lunch w perhaps China's pre-eminent dissident Li Ying "I just want my life to count" as.ft.com/r/af126800-9...

Outflanked by Reform on the right and a revitalised Green Party on the left, Labour faces a reckoning in elections across the UK on May 7. Can the prime minister survive this looming Starmergeddon? And what will Labour's meltdown mean for the UK? Today's Big Read is on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/09QobTl

Chris Waller deadlifting 365lbs! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...