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NEW: China has made huge progress in cleaning up its air pollution since the 2013 peak, but reliance on coal during the Iran war has led to a deterioration in air quality this year. Huge thanks to Haohsiang Ko and Eleanor Olcott, read the report. www.ft.com/content/e67f... #dataviz

Friends who code say so much has radically changed in the last six months in what they do and this excellent piece gives great insights into how

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...

Fascinating, beautifully written magazine cover story by @samlearner.bsky.social on how vibe coding is overwhelming the unsung human caretakers who keep the web running. Your weekend must read right here as.ft.com/r/1e761e4c-c...

Sobering to see in one chart how June temperature records have been broken this year in so many European countries www.ft.com/content/5f06...

every time a stutter step penalty is saved an angel gets its wings

NEW: a look at how surging power demands from data centers are helping to drive a shortage of electrical transformers ig.ft.com/transformers/

"Binface himself told the FT..." Get the lowdown on the Dunny-on-the-Wold/Clacton by-election from one of the leading candidates in our exclusive from Elizabeth Bratton as.ft.com/r/ec02c5a3-e...

We're hiring in my team at @financialtimes.com - please do reach out if you have any questions. Whilst this is currently a contract role we have every hope of extending. job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtim...

'Match momentum' visual should just be a flat line. #PORESP #PORSPA

This is not Donald Trump's first intervention in a major football tournament.There was also the time he did the draw for the quarter finals of the Rumbelows Cup on Saint and Greavsie ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzO8...

Ukraine is striking Russian energy infrastructure at an unprecedented rate, according to an FT data analysis showing that Kyiv’s intensified drone campaign is spurring Russia’s worst fuel crisis in decades. w/ @theboysmithy.ft.com Anastasia Stognei @maxseddon.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/1368...

So many amazing/horrifying details and visuals in our piece on how Trump is remaking DC ig.ft.com/trump-dc/

Most people know that richer people tend to be thinner. Less appreciated is that this divide is largely driven by women. My column: The economics of women's weight 300 free clicks: as.ft.com/r/feaaaacf-8...

What happens with the AI boom ends, for the economy and for markets? Our piece on an interesting report from the Bank for International Settlements 👇 AI ‘exuberance’ risks ending in lengthy investment bust, BIS warns www.ft.com/content/e81c...

⚽ Every World Cup 2026 match, live All 12 groups, A to L | Knockout bracket on a toggle Dark mode, fast, no ads, no bloat, just the whole tournament on one screen Bookmark: raydouglas.co.uk/worldcup2026/ #WorldCup 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇧🇷 🇦🇷 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇳🇱 🇨🇦 🇵🇹 🇨🇭🇲🇦 🇵🇦 🇧🇪 🇿🇦 🇬🇭 🇯🇵

I wrote about how much choice streaming TV has given us, and how accessing it is more confuising and annoying all the time. Commentors reply: pirate everything, it's way easier! Does the industry worry that platform fragmentation is an incentive to theft? as.ft.com/r/32856af3-1...

One thing I didn’t expect to see at London Climate Action Week in June: an event on extreme heat cancelled because of extreme heat.

Draw your own chart game: how well do you know Brexit? Test your knowledge on what has happened in the 10 years since the UK voted to leave the EU: ft.trib.al/ecqxt4c

play the FT's chart game - how well do you know what happened since Brexit? as.ft.com/r/102554df-5...

Celtic Cross, Hindhead Common, on the summer solstice

Who'd ever have thunk that ten years on almost exactly as many Leave voters have died as would now vote Tory.

Ten years on from the Brexit referendum, Leave and Remain voters still have wildly different voting patterns. Reform UK has consolidated about half of the Leave bloc, while the Remain vote has fragmented across many parties. Read the full article: as.ft.com/r/fc065c3b-9...

"Sensational Sankeys" from @jonathanvincent.bsky.social and @sdbernard.bsky.social

In 1908 the Lancet called for an 18+ age limit on reading in bed for U.K. children.

Cracking out the Gruyère and Emmental to support the Swiss

FIFA's Gianni Infantino speaks many languages but feels sadly misunderstood. So I'm pleased to present some translations of his deepest thoughts as.ft.com/r/67bb6b41-6...

One standout article that crossed my desk as FT opinion editor back in the day was this by David Hockney. An illuminating, thought-provoking piece (sparked by a comment in a letter) - along with illustrations. Other opeds (smoking) and pics followed. A delight to work with. How lucky we were. RIP

One of the most dystopian charts I’ve ever seen

NEW: China's campaign of oppression in Xinjiang has entered a pernicious new phase - and FT analysis shows that the region still has the highest detention capacity in the world, relative to its population. as.ft.com/r/a4b72955-5...

How China is breaking apart the Uyghur people and its culture - FT investigation by @alisonkilling.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/119d...

An initial dispatch from Makerfield as.ft.com/r/42148349-f...

🇺🇸 Trump disclosed hundreds of millions of dollars in trades, worth between $211mn and $687mn, in Q1 Among them: Nvidia, Boeing, Apple and Meta, whose CEOs flew to Beijing with him this week. The Trump Organisation says he plays no role in the trades FT → www.ft.com/content/f921...

It's that time again #psephologist

The FT @financialtimes.com is hiring a new data journalist to join our US data and visuals team in New York. Great job, great team, great place to work. Apply here 👉 job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtim...

At least $106bn worth of deals struck in North America and Europe that hinge on commitments from the Gulf are yet to be completed, as regional investors review their portfolios and deployment strategies after the war in Iran New story with @sdbernard.bsky.social & FT ME team

work on my team!: job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtim...

🚨Job🚨 at @data.ft.com: We're hiring a data journalist in the US, based in New York or Washington #ddj: job-boards.greenhouse.io/financialtim...

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

a very nice story with lovely data viz on the absolute shitshow in energy supplies across the world as.ft.com/r/657153fb-8...

🛢️ Record-breaking oil Brent crude hit $118 a barrel on Tuesday, on course for its biggest monthly gain in data going back to 1988 Who would've predicted this... FT www.ft.com/content/b2c8...

Hmmmmmmmmm. www.ft.com/content/1171...

The Bank of England’s hawkish pivot in language has rattled markets. @financialtimes.com analysis shows it was the largest shift of any major central bank, raising questions about whether it misjudged its tone Lots of number crunching from me and @joelsuss.ft.com here: as.ft.com/r/bd03a4a9-e...

The Bank of England was a real outlier with its comms this week, far more hawkish than peers Language analysis shows a sharp shift in tone from the UK central bank this week as.ft.com/r/41e01e51-9...

This was such an amazing project to work on, it really pushed me to the limits of what I can do with mapping tools

Ghostly Farsi-speaking broadcasts “have been sent out regularly over long-distance short wave radio from a transmitter somewhere in western Europe since the hours after the first US and Israeli strikes on Iran on February 28...” www.ft.com/content/86c4...

🇺🇸 🇮🇷 The US pulled the trigger, but emerging markets absorbed the shock Middle East war pushed investors to the dollar -- strongest week since July 2025. A surging greenback means weaker EM currencies, higher debt costs & capital flight EM stocks down 6.9%, the sector's worst week in almost 6 years