Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

I’m crying www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

If you feel the need to do something in the wake of the Manchester attack why not donate to the Community Security Trust, the organisation that works to keep jews in Britain safe cst.org.uk/donate-now

Sadiq Khan at New Statesman event at Labour conference. "I love coming to Liverpool. I love the people, I love the food, I love the football. And it gives me a break from Sharia Law in London"

Burnham speaks... to @mattgarrahan.bsky.social on.ft.com/4nOWyGC

“.. He told POLITICO his experts are “able to reveal a face using AI, if they have 35 percent or more of the face visible.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

NEW: Tony Blair's staff took part in a BCG project for the redevelopment of Gaza along the lines of the 'Trump Riviera' plan www.ft.com/content/0b1b...

A poignant report from our ever-brilliant Najmeh Bozorgmehr

Scott Galloway on Mark Zuckerberg ("a c***"), the UK ("a butler economy") and the plight of young men ("no group has fallen further, faster") on.ft.com/4k23zlu

Paul Caruana Galizia, Daphne’s son (and our wonderful colleague), has written a piece today on where Malta stands now, following these convictions. on.ft.com/3HEoj5b

The nuclear mountain that haunts Israel - a look at Iran’s Fordow enrichment facility buried deep underground near the ancient religious city of Qom. www.ft.com/content/46c6...

Blunt advice from Michael Moritz for fellow Silicon Valley techies following the Musk-Trump fallout: on.ft.com/4kEErlW Musk vs Trump is a cautionary tale for Silicon Valley

Lolololol

I went to San Francisco to interview Laurene Powell Jobs and Jony Ive. Friends for 28 years, they are both worried about the direction tech has taken on.ft.com/4ksEktA

So my mum decided to try using Uber. Long story short, she downloaded the wrong app and has accidentally signed up as a driver

NEW: OpenAI to buy Jonny Ive's company for $6.5bn on.ft.com/4k0ahZT

This is such a powerful piece from Alf Dubs and Jacob Rees-Mogg, political opponents united in their belief that British citizens are equal under the law and deserve the right to trial by jury, whoever they are on.ft.com/3FdrOi4

In the spirit of timeline cleanses (thanks @katie0martin.ft.com) here are the Brockwell Park cygnets, two weeks old and counting

Jan Marsalek selfie sent five months after the Ukraine invasion. Nose looks different?

Bill Gates doesn't hide his fury at Elon Musk and his cuts to US Aid - and what they mean for the fight against HIV on.ft.com/4589fGq

This is some v good reporting in today's FT: Chinese exporters are dodging Trump's tariffs by first shipping goods to nearby countries and getting clean export licences before they go to the US on.ft.com/43hIrCg

There is a deepfake Martin Wolf doing the rounds on social media. The fake account purports to offer investment advice and has been seen by almost a million people. Meta seems unable, or unwilling, to anything about it. Martin Wolf (the real one) takes them to task here on.ft.com/4cPEMiu

There is a deepfake Martin Wolf doing the rounds on social media. The fake account purports to offer investment advice and has been seen by almost a million people. Meta seems unable, or unwilling, to anything about it. Martin Wolf (the real one) takes them to task here on.ft.com/4cPEMiu

Donald Trump vs Mr Market As the US president’s rollercoaster tariff policy creates global financial chaos, is he in a fight he can’t win? on.ft.com/3RX7Ri9

I spoke to Lord Browne about BP's green u-turn and his imminent run to be chancellor of Cambridge university. Eighteen years since he was outed by the Mail on Sunday, he also reflected on the importance of DEI in the workplace, now under attack by Trump on.ft.com/3EhsBOA

Wired continues to break some of the best Trump stories. Only $5m to dine with the prez www.wired.com/story/people...

Trump has excluded smartphones from reciprocal tariffs 🤷‍♂️ on.ft.com/4iidLp0

Great to be in Perugia for the International Journalism Festival #ijf25

Superb obit here of my friend and former colleague Gwen Robinson by @edwardluce.bsky.social - she was one of a kind. Probably had the widest network of contacts of any journo I have known. Lost far too soon. www.ft.com/content/ec0b...

Sotheby's CEO Charlie Stewart on the $6m banana, crypto billionaires and Freddie Mercury's $150k moustache comb enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/171d3...

Five years ago this week everyone went home

London's High Court has heard how former Barclays boss Jes Staley referred to the now dead paedophile Jeffrey Epstein as “uncle Jeffrey” to his student daughter, months after Epstein’s conviction for soliciting a minor. Full story from @ortenca.bsky.social on.ft.com/3R4JEpI

This is phenomenal journalism from the FT's visual storytelling team ig.ft.com/baltic-sea/

EXCL: David Lammy says a new multilateral fund is needed to secure Europe’s defence, confirming that Britain is “open to” joint financing of military spending My interview with UK Foreign Secretary in Toyko 👇 www.ft.com/content/99a1...

Remember Jan Marsalek, the fraudster at the heart of the Wirecard collapse? His story gets ever weirder on.ft.com/4bzzjLO

FT editorial: "In the past 10 days, [Donald Trump] has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership" on.ft.com/3D2RrkA

Late to this desperately sad news about the great Paddy Barclay. He was a kind and generous journalist who helped me so much when I was a young reporter covering Fifa and Uefa. He wrote about the game with such verve and knowledge and will be greatly missed www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Now Trump dangles removing Biden-era economic sanctions on Russia 🤷‍♂️ — invade a sovereign state, get rewarded with a trade deal?? Trump is empowering Putin. But Europe will bear the cost. on.ft.com/4100XwP Marco Rubio speaks with Sergei Lavrov ahead of US-Russia talks next week

NEW: Chip designer Arm is going to make its own chip. To be announced as early as this summer - with Meta signed up as first customer. A big move that potentially pits it against customers such as Nvidia on.ft.com/40Xrb39

NEW: Singapore and Saudi Arabia are backing an F1-style touring basketball league which will be trying to lure players and fans from the NBA on.ft.com/4170Qk8

this is such a brilliant interview/profile with Peter Mandelson by @georgewparker.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/085e...

*TESLA NEW REGISTRATIONS IN GERMANY FELL 59.5% IN JANUARY: KBA Previously reported January registrations were -63% in France, and 2024 registrations in Germany for 2024 were -41% vs 2023. Sales also in freefall in the Nordics and Tesla was reported to Swedish police over illegal charger work.

Big FT scoop led by the brilliant Richard Milne on Trump's angry phone call with the Danish PM over Greenland. It turns out he's serious about taking it on.ft.com/40J8SzI

Lime bikes. Leg bones. A very bad combination. www.londoncentric.media/p/lime-bikes...

My FT Magazine story “The Fugitive Prince” is available as a free audio version in the player at the top of this webpage. It is read by me, produced by Mischa Frankl-Duval and scored by Breen Turner. #longreads www.ft.com/content/51f8...

White dog plus park = mud

Incredible story from @miles-johnson.bsky.social on the fugitive Romanian prince (or is he?) and the wrong crowd he fell in with in search of his family fortune on.ft.com/40kS5kX