BREAKING: “in my 24th year of my quest to settle the planet Mars, I have just been informed of a basic fact of celestial mechanics.”

BREAKING: Morgan McSweeney quits as Keir Starmer's chief of staff amid fall-out from the Mandelson scandal

A great piece.

the FT had by Saturday night broken two stories showing that the Mandelsons had taken over $100,000 from the world’s most famous paedophile by Monday we were all writing various stories about him leaking sensitive state secrets to Epstein they could have easily pulled this puff piece in time

Maybe this Superbowl ad will be less irritating than its one with Matt Damon four years ago

Much to consider. www.ft.com/content/3382...

Even the dog doesn't want to be in this pic

Leverage and fixed term contract length sounds like short-term options on what EA will say on their earnings call and "Will the US confirm that aliens exist before 2027?" It's what people wanted. www.ft.com/content/e036...

At $87,515 M2M

My word

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

For all the talk about deleveraging in crypto, there's not a lot of forced liquidations going on right now. Compare with 10/10.

Remember these Gemini crypto ads around London? No more, they're quitting the UK. www.gemini.com/en-GB/blog/g...

🚨 Bitcoin dips below $70,000, wiping out its post-election gains After surging following Trump’s victory in November, the rally has fully unwound #BTC #Bitcoin #Crypto

Another overnight drop for the store of value/hedge against deflation, dedollarisation. More than any asset, BTC needs a narrative to sustain it and there just isn't one right now. Feels like a severe lack of confidence and heavy deleveraging.

Crazy story: A bank analyst published a report showing Kalshi users lose money even faster than sports gamblers, so Kalshi first tried to pressure the data provider to change their data and then accused them and the analyst of conspiring to extort them when that doesn’t work.

Impressive gymnastics from Canaccord on MSTR. A double pivot and finish still facing the same direction.

Hot Take 2: if this is Mandelson's position, there is no reason for him not to issue a statement to this effect. If he has not issued a statement to this effect, the BBC's "understanding" of his actual position may be inaccurate. Stop letting people play this game.

Hard to justify $500bn when Q4 profits are $30mn, despite having $122bn in Treasuries. Fortunately the rise in gold *just about* offset the fall in bitcoin to declare a Q4 'profit', which is more like a mark-to-market valuation. www.ft.com/content/3f7f...

It’s so bad, pals

Imagine Mandelson is under a lot of stress right now so just as well his husband is a trained osteopath.

It says a lot about how government works in Britain that people will pretend you’re not a massive sleazebag for decades but the moment the calculus shifts to negative they will mobilise every resource to destroy you

exactly. this is not difficult. as.ft.com/r/58ed1b23-d...

the problem with this newfound “bursary” argument aired in the Times is this: twhen we first heard about these payments in September a person close to Mandelson said it couldn’t possibly be the case and, er, threatened to sue us

Seeing these Epstein transcripts go by is like a precursor to people vanishing into the AI solipsism loop. A confidant who a little cryptically encourages you in your own impulses. And an entourage of attractive young things who will also listen to your ramblings, and nod and say "tell me more".

Sometimes you eat the bear, sometimes the bear eats you. as.ft.com/r/be0954e3-f...

BREAKING on ft website: Lord Peter Mandelson leaked a sensitive UK government document to Jeffrey Epstein while he was business secretary that proposed £20bn of asset sales and revealed Labour’s tax policy plans www.ft.com/content/fdf7...

Crypto markets are on one.

My word.

Strategy's Michael Saylor shows up in the Epstein files. And is pretty roasted www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

the story now makes clear it was far more than just £10,000, regular payments from Epstein to Mandelson partner

Perhaps only British readers can truly appreciate that this was done while Armstrong was talking to Tony Blair

Davos 2026: "A spirit of dialogue", they said. “You are full of s—,” said Dimon, a longtime crypto skeptic who previously called bitcoin a fraud, his index finger pointed squarely at Armstrong’s face. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

President Xi is a Red

Early reviews are in: ‘Even if they showed this on a plane, people would still walk out’

So what’s interesting about this is that the new regulated Tether will immediately be available on exchanges that US residents can’t use, which they even acknowledge in their press release

Theoretically, another opportunity for the Tories to detoxify the party. In practice...well you wouldn't bet on it.

These hikers sound like lovely people. Get rescued, don't pay the bill, walk off with rescuers' head torches. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A spirit of dialogue inspired by Davos

FTX #2 Caroline Ellison is out after 14 months www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

No doubt he'd then be the first to complain that the BoE wasn't in control of monetary policy or stabilsing the financial system. www.ft.com/content/acbe...

We've had the UK's failure to adequately exploit North Sea Oil, we've had France's prescriptions, now we're onto Swiss watches not having a high enough tariff on them. Is each European nation getting a shout-out?

"We're right behind you" "I'd rather you were in front of me where I can see you" www.ft.com/content/15a3...

1/Carney laying out in plan language the logical conclusion of US weaponization of interdependence. As US turns to coercion for parochial political goals rather than global public goods, it will spur growing backlash.

“The system that made America the richest country in the history of world has failed America”

guys guys the Americans are waking up. Everyone act normal and maybe they'll follow our lead. maybe. good morning, americans

Didn’t believe this was true but have checked and am told it was sent to the Norwegian government yesterday.

A Trump Card? In the unlikely event these things see the light of day, I have a foreboding there'll be some effort to tie them to stablecoins.