Turns out this was the piece in which H.E. (Al-Rumayyan), PIF, and MBS learned that Scott O'Neil considered them dumb money. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

The @financialtimes.com has great articles on the intersection of French culture and politics. This one by Leila Abboud on the Chicken Wars is brilliant. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

J. Craig Venter, a scientist and entrepreneur who decoded the human genome, has died at 79.

I highly recommend “Everybody Loses” by @dannyfunt.bsky.social. One of my favorite all-time reads is “Jackpot” @byrobdavies.bsky.social. Danny‘s book is the perfect US complement to Rob's brilliant look at how gambling broke Britain.

The Long Read: ‘Any other child would have died’: the miraculous survival of Nada Itrab. After a nine-year-old girl was kidnapped and taken from Spain to Bolivia, authorities feared the worst. They found her in the rainforest nine months later – but that wasn’t the end of her ordeal.

Marta Kostyuk celebrates winning her 1st WTA 1000 title in Madrid by doing a BACKFLIP on court AURA.

What if I told you that in 2014 I wrote an @upshot.nytimes.com column for the @nytimes.com forecasting that the first sub-two hour marathon would probably occur in a dozen years, and it happened in today's 2026 London marathon. www.nytimes.com/2014/09/30/u...

Great piece from @mollyknight.bsky.social. We can add this to the pile of obvious mistakes by Yankees ownership and management. mollyknight.substack.com/p/did-the-en...

Baby Rafa Nadal playing tennis is a sight to see. Hitting the ball so well at only 3 years old. I hear it runs in the family 🇪🇸🥹 (via Línea Caliente Noticias)

Love this comment, @greenwell.bsky.social: “It’s a move that can pay off and put you on every Main Street in America, or it can collapse spectacularly.” (huge fan of “Bad Company” -- brilliant writing) www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/d...

designing a new timberwolves jersey after every win 🐺 record: 49-32

rory

Pope to Olympic Athletes: “It is possible to win without humiliating. One can lose without losing oneself. And this also applies beyond sport. It applies in social life, in politics, in relationships between peoples, because sport, if lived well, becomes a workshop for a reconciled humanity.”

Mayor Mamdani chats with New Yorkers while walking the six miles from City Hall to Gracie Mansion, fulfilling the promise he made in his inauguration speech to “be outside” as Mayor — “because this is a government of New York, by New York, and for New York.”

I do feel like a semicolon might’ve been helpful

The Resurrection: The Angel Rolling Away the Stone from the Sepulchre, by William Blake, 1808, 📸 by Kayleigh K

on the list of “most badass things ever”, robbing three home runs in a 1-0 victory where the final one you fall into the stands and strike a superhero pose among screaming adoring fans has to rank pretty damn high

*movie trailer guy voice*

First new photo from the moon:

@beharjournalist.bsky.social "Madoff: The Final Word" was an extraordinary listening experience. Thank you for a superb piece of reporting and storytelling. Hearing those phone calls was just riveting...and so on and so forth.

Can you imagine how many people approved it before publishing? Shameful.

“I didn’t look.”

If you were fortunate enough to read the extraordinary “Apple in China" by @patrickmcgee.bsky.social, then you will immediately recognize this piece as something that could only come from him. The absolute riches of being a subscriber to the @financialtimes.com! giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

If anyone's confused about whether to read my interview with Trump, or with Bryan Stevenson, please choose the latter. Remarkable man. Here's another free link. as.ft.com/r/af3cb056-1...

Read the most popular story on the @wsj.com sports page right now: How a Nobel laureate helped the WNBA negotiate the biggest raise in US sports league history. (gift link) www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

This reporting was powered by @berileski.bsky.social's tireless determination to get to every facet of the story, and by @bradleysecker.bsky.social whose photos illuminated the story. It was made possible by @anniekelly.bsky.social and @theguardian.com Saturday eds, inc @robfearn.bsky.social

"A statue of Jefferson Davis still holds pride of place inside the Capitol a mile or two from where we are meeting. “I mean, are there statues of Adolf Hitler in Berlin?” Stevenson asks." My Lunch with Bryan Stevenson - one of the most remarkable people I've met. as.ft.com/r/03ca3d70-9...

After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations. She accepted three. One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history. www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

And this is my solution for TODAY'S Wordle!! It's true: check it out. Spoiler alert: If you enjoy the daily Wordle and haven't solved it yet, don't read on.

Truly thank you. Impossible without @berileski.bsky.social

@ruthmichaelson.com This is superb reporting, Ruth: www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Good morning and welcome to your FT Weekend highlights in giftlinks thread. Highlinks. Giftlights. Anyway, 300 clicks then they're gone. Or you can buy a lovely paper, lasts all week. Or you can subscribe to FT Edit which at £5 a month is a bargain. www.ft.com/ft-edit

More food! This time in Milan where James Fontanella Khan has lunch with the RedBird deal maker Gerry Cardinale. In a handful of weeks he bought WB/Discovery, merged an enormo indie TV producer and (finally) sold the Telegraph. See what you think as.ft.com/r/b6c6d699-b...

good news the dogs are still good

Tim Harford on what we can learn from Bobby Bonilla – the man who fooled the Mets into agreeing to one of the worst contracts in the history of baseball: ft.trib.al/SeBSqgt

Mountains Beyond Mountains is one of most beautiful books I've ever read.

I met Tracy Kidder twice as a student. After my classmates & I had disliked New Machine, we tortured him. Second time, I'd come to suspect I was missing something. In later years I found it, first in Old Friends, then in Hometown, a modest masterpiece. A good writer. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/b...

When I was embarking on my first book of narrative non-fiction, I wrote a proposal for publishers that cited three examples of the form that I thought beautiful and flawless. Two were "Soul of A New Machine" and "Among School Children." Tracy Kidder was a gentle, graceful master of the form.

Tracy Kidder was a lovely writer, an absolute pro to work with, and, in our few but memorable encounters, quite the nicest fellow. I'm very sorry to read of his death.

Former special counsel Robert Mueller has passed away at age 81. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The New York Times is right. I don’t care! (And huge credit to the @wired.com team, whose intrepid, fearless, always fair reporting gives the tech bros plenty to be mad about.)

"Sure, everyone who talks to Isaac Chotiner gets eviscerated, but not me. I'm built different!

Today is the birthday of Charlie Chaplin's half-brother Sydney, which in part reminded me of my surprise in v. belatedly realizing that the other Sydney Chaplin (of Bells Are Ringing, Subways Are for Sleeping, and Funny Girl) was Charlie's son (and Geraldine's half-brother). As you were.

Superb FT piece by @okr.bsky.social & @stephistacey.ft.com. All this played out in the UK just as it's doing here. See “Jackpot” by Rob Davies. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

If you read the superb "Jackpot" @byrobdavies.bsky.social, approximately 0% of these outcomes will surprise you. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

BYD is rolling this out now (in China) and probably across Europe in the next. BYD is a battery company at the heart, builds the cars and now also the charging stations (the gas stations of the future). 1.5 MW, 10-70% in less than 5 minutes. Amazing www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rrch...

Happy publication day to this brilliant biography from Richard Lapper 🥳🎉 From factory floor to three time President of Brazil, discover the story of Lula’s extraordinary career.