I love the mediterranean cafe on.ft.com/3JMxz8Q Former MI6 chief Richard Moore: Britain must regain the ‘power of example’

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

"If a country as rich as Norway can’t afford to stick to principles, who can?" Great edition of the Free Lunch newsletter today by @martinsandbu.ft.com on Norway suspending its $2.1 trillion oil fund's ethics rules. www.ft.com/content/f6b3...

More consequences for UK figures in Epstein than US ones.

Why don’t Starmer and Streeting make a pact?

Noah Smith after getting lost in the airport, WHICH IS ALL THE FAILING UK’S FAULT

Me blaming the map for being a twat

Do we? “As the British would say, I’m ‘going quiet’. Sort of,” Buffett wrote in a letter published on Monday. on.ft.com/4hXiu0K Warren Buffett says he is ‘going quiet’

I think about the BBC a bit like social media usage. I’m slightly surprised more doesn’t go wrong

So to be clear: Trump is a peacenik and the BBC owes him $1bn Robbie Gibb is impartial

From my ltd experience of museum coverage, the biggest omission seemed to be drugs on.ft.com/4qXuOlR How rave culture went from the dance floor to the museum gallery

Trying to think of things I care less about

Agree it was good to see someone celebrate having a good time in a vibrant city

Just bought my poppy

Swindly

Is the US socialist? Am I in a dream

Honestly the whole the world is going to hell in a handcart is just marketing grift

It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points

👂🏼 POD TIME 👂🏼 Me and @robarmstrong.bsky.social on: -DIY data -DIY dishwasher tablets? -being mean to Rob -flying taxis -people saying stupid stuff about the UK open.spotify.com/episode/1fR4...

Definitely veer green on this topic

Feel starstruck even reading her name on.ft.com/47PqKLG Bridget Riley: ‘I want my paintings to make people feel alive’

If John Lewis sold maracas

"everyone knows the project won’t work; it is now just a matter of letting MBS down gently" Deep dive on Neom focuses on The Line - a building planned at a scale that would run from London to the Norfolk coast but in the desert. Absolutely wild, absolutely doomed ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...

PSA: all’s fair is as bad as they say… well the first 10 minutes which is as far as I got

Live Loval laugh

This is all desperately sad www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Bill Ackman gotta be on the third draft of a tweet longer than Middlemarch right now

I actually think kids are already better at this than their older relatives

34!!! 34!

Been wrestling with whether 33 is a good or bad age to run a major city. Maybe it’s good as you are old enough to know some stuff but young enough to be certain you are right

If John Lewis ad makes you tear up, try scrolling through Instagram trend www.instagram.com/reel/DP_z92W...

You can’t put a price on a chat bot telling you how smart you are tho

Our mayor was the son of a bus driver and seamstress not a fancy lecturer and film director so I feel we have the edge Also I was at the count when he became an mp

Do New Yorkers get invested in the London mayoral race

Mum: When we’ve finished eating I think we should watch a Muppet Christmas Carol. Say you like, but Michael Caine is a really good Ebenezer.. Dad: Ooh, that reminds me… er back in a second…

Omg. You know what would get the dad and son closer? 3 Es

Is she in the audience

🤔Why would young people take on £45,000 of student debt if they can earn the same stacking shelves?” asked one. “It would actually be damaging for social mobility because only the people who can afford to pay their way through university will be immediately incentivised to do so. on.ft.com/3LkS8JM

Next time someone bangs on about how grubby London is and how it wasn’t like this in the Olsen days I’ll make them watch this www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Enjoying Keir Starmer on private passions. Sorry, no snark

Friend? The one in my head

Can’t stop thinking about this.

Ignoring a mum chat by trying to pretend I don’t have kids

Wish I was a *something something defamatory*

Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

It’s like a david hare play.. the kind where you roll your eyes at the crashingly obvious symbolism

Unpins my gold and marble Pinterest board