The FT's favourite non-FT articles of 2025 www.ft.com/content/72d0...

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Two strangers sit on a bench outside a Leeds hospital. One is carrying a homemade bomb in a bag. He plans to set it off inside. The other makes the extraordinary decision to try to talk him out of it. A brilliant, brilliant piece by Ravi Somaiya, edited by Neil O’Sullivan as.ft.com/r/153da9db-e...

Equator Magazine just launched today. It’s the sort of venture we need like we need air- erudite, cosmopolita, merciless and brave. Congratulations my brilliant friends @equatormag.bsky.social www.equator.org

This is such a great read from the FT's @courtneyweaver.bsky.social and Laura Du Bois.... Enjoy. on.ft.com/4n8I2sF

In which I explore the history of socialism in America from Eugene Debs to DSA and the Milwaukee ‘sewer socialists’ to Zohran Mamdani on.ft.com/47quBib

Our new magazine, Equator, is officially out in the world — and here @equatormag.bsky.social Sign up for preview emails, donate, and get tickets to our launch event in London: equator.org

Had a few conversations recently that make me think, for the first time in ages, there are some exciting things happening in media. This is one of the highlights: Equator, a new magazine set up by Nesrine Malik, Pankaj Mishra, Jonathan Shainin and others. Sign up for info here: www.equator.org

I think this fascinating piece by @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social is one of the best things we've published all year. Don't miss it! on.ft.com/48e4qwP

Best read of the week How Tokyo became an unexpected haven for China’s middle class - on.ft.com/4n1dSs7 by Leo Lewis of the FT

Really happy to have this essay by @hzeavin.bsky.social in this weekend's magazine. I've been thinking about it non-stop for months. www.ft.com/content/a248...

This is so good...

This column by @okr.bsky.social has made me laugh a lot today... on.ft.com/45cFT8t

@christopherjm.ft.com is so far ahead of any other non-Ukrainian journalist on what is happening in that country on.ft.com/414Z2b2

After my son was diagnosed with autism, I've been thinking about my own relationship to this strange, highly contentious condition. During a sabbatical this spring, I spoke to some experts about it. My essay based on all that has just gone online on FT.Com: on.ft.com/4kKdCfe

Very delighted to have this profile of the dauntless Wasfi Kani, the woman who sold country house opera to the English establishment by John Phipps in this week's magazine. Have a read! on.ft.com/40NVEBf

The brilliant @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social has gotten to the bottom of Zuckerberg's macho makeover. I love this piece... on.ft.com/3TB0kq0

Who’s in charge, me or the Devil? The agony and the ecstasy of elite darts https://www.ft.com/content/9a28a3d9-a439-4109-a0fc-284c01af3f03

Really happy to have @lioneltrolling.bsky.social in the FT Magazine this weekend - with a great essay on what the '90s taught Donald Trump on.ft.com/458jISv

I wrote for the Guardian’s Saturday magazine about my son Max, who changed how I see the world. Took ages. More jokes after the first bit. Thanks Merope Mills for being the most patient and generous editor. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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A brilliant and bizarre story here from @christopherkay.ft.com

“'When the history of the 20th century is written, circa 2100,' Thiel claims, Girard 'will be seen as truly one of the great intellectuals.'” Delighted to have this great essay in the magazine this weekend by @orlandoreade.bsky.social on.ft.com/3Z80Pew

Totally fascinating reporting from @davidkeo.bsky.social and Harry Dempsey on a weird work experiment - a company run by the invisible hand of its internal currency. No one has a boss. Or gets told what to do. But every action you take is prompted by the thirst to make more Will... on.ft.com/4jFaa5T

This is the most brilliant read. Seriously. You will not regret it. Here's another free link... on.ft.com/4jTiMWd

This essay by @jacobsilverman.com on living in slop world is a great read - explaining how and why an increasingly 'hostile internet' is driving us crazy... on.ft.com/4k12iLV

MPs 100% get why supermarkets caffs closing is a disaster for the local community. Other SW1ers can look a bit blank - my @financialtimes.com RANT on 'place making' while businesses accidentally melt our social glue - www.ft.com/content/33f0...

This is such a delight - so pleased to have learned about Peter Grainger and DC SMith... enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/6e669...

Truly what could be better than having this to read all weekend. It’s even better in print. A masterwork by @harrietfl.ft.com on.ft.com/4c43ag1

This beautifully written and important piece by @madisonmarriage.bsky.social about the inquest into her brother’s death, after an unbearable wrangle with NHS services to get his epilepsy medication, is free to read today and I can’t recommend it highly enough on.ft.com/434zZqn

Yet, insanely, 20 years later there’s still no other way to signal that you’re pregnant and knackered than by wearing a badge that makes a coy pun about your body being a vessel for something more precious. If we can’t get “I’m pregnant” in 2025 I’d at least like the full “Quinquireme of Nineveh”

This is such a gripping read from John Phipps…. Confessions of the world’s most elite sober coach on.ft.com/3WEp3fa

One of my favourites for the ages… by the excellent Monica Mark on.ft.com/3E7A6r0

‘Phrases such as “creaturely life-practices” fall in the category of the venial, but flourishes like “We do not coincide with ourselves. Only psychopaths coincide with themselves” are mortal.’ @tricialockwood.bsky.social on Simon Critchley’s ‘On Mysticism’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

My story in the FT Weekend Magazine today - The Fugitive Prince: how a man with a claim to a royal title and a vast fortune made a deal with a notorious businessman that cost him more than he could have imagined. www.ft.com/content/51f8...

In which @henrymance.bsky.social explores the utterly plausible case that global warming could actually make the UK much, much colder …https://on.ft.com/40soac0

Love this essay by @danhancox.bsky.social on the Walter Benjamin’s unlucky death, the mystery of his black briefcase, and what his final piece of work teaches us about the world we live in now. on.ft.com/4hbdBQ1

Happy Birthday from @timhayward.bsky.social to Trullo, one of the all-time greats... on.ft.com/49MEs2q

And this total saga by the tireless @thomas_m_wilson is the result of many many months of reporting - and contains one of the most heartbreaking quotes ever. A completely riveting read... on.ft.com/3P2gDtH

A fantastic piece from @stuartmcgurk who went inside Sainsbury's Christmas ad campaign to tell the story of the ad execs that spend the whole year working out how to make the nation cry. Its ... joyful? on.ft.com/3Bv9y1I

over the moon to have been awarded a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant for my forthcoming book - alongside such a brilliant group of writers. You can read more about it here: www.whiting.org/writers/crea...

If people wonder what will happen when Trump is done with the DOJ, SEC and FBI, it will be stuff like this not being caught or prosecuted. For all the talk of invading Mexico to stop the cartels from producing fentanyl, this kind of money laundering has much bigger impact. www.ft.com/content/31b9...

Could this year be the year you actually make the most of December? With the help of this week’s magazine, yes! ft.com/christmas2024

I’m in the @financialtimes.com magazine today, writing about simple, no-effort eats and treats, including anchovy and stracciatella crostini, smoked salmon with Sanbaizu vinegar, chestnut and pancetta salad, Mont Blanc and Pedro Ximénez affogato!

One of my favourite long reads is back! In October 2020 an emergency call was received from a ship in British waters. After a full-scale commando raid, seven Nigerians were taken off in handcuffs – but no one was ever charged. What really happened on board? By @samirashackle.bsky.social

I couldn't get through more than a couple of paragraphs of that VF Cormac McCarthy piece, but it made me realise that I'll take hell-for-leather bad writing over cautious, dully declarative bad writing. Ultimately I'll avoid both kinds, but at least one of them is trying something

atoms, vacuums, lasers, and subcommittees — the technology and politics behind redefinining the second: www.ft.com/content/625d...