I know there are bigger problems in the world but the queues at the British Museum are absolutely crazy. Even if you pre book! @britishmuseum.bsky.social

Delighted to see that How To Spend It has discovered, of all places, Woolwich and Plumstead … www.ft.com/content/903c...

Controversial London office worker opinion of the day: Farmer J is wildly overrated.

I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

Re-upping for anyone interested (part of a short thread).

Thanks for the many shares and warm responses to this piece today. I think we need to hear more from asylum seekers to counter the myths and lies being deliberately spread about them

News this afternoon: it’s looking increasingly likely that employment rights will be the first big internecine battle within Labour after Angela Rayner’s downfall … www.ft.com/content/1816...

💥 European capitals are working on “pretty precise plans” for potential military deployments to post-conflict Ukraine including “the necessary items for a functioning build-up of troops” with US backing, EU president Ursula @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu tells @financialtimes.com on.ft.com/4p0FdvZ

Good news for Glasgow: a new winter coat, and shoes for the wife - and a bicycle on the boy's birthday … www.ft.com/content/2316...

The assassination of Andriy Parubiy, the former speaker of Ukraine’s parliament and a fierce opponent of Russia, is the most significant killing in a string of high-profile murders since the war with Russia began. www.ft.com/content/d08a...

Here’s what the Taylor swift and Travis kelce engagement taught me about B2B sales:

1953. Molesworth invents AI.

A dose of reality for those obsessed with immigration: in another generation (or sooner) the problem will not be TOO MANY IMMIGRANTS!!!! It will be too few. www.ft.com/content/8bfd...

A dose of reality for those obsessed with immigration: in another generation (or sooner) the problem will not be TOO MANY IMMIGRANTS!!!! It will be too few. www.ft.com/content/8bfd...

Enjoying these two sharply differing comments sitting next to each other under @stephenkb.bsky.social ‘s weekend books essay on James the VI and I www.ft.com/content/2c12...

FT still has full-time critics in art (US and UK), film, theatre, dance, pop music, classical music and architecture/design, plus many other regular contributors. You can read them all here www.ft.com/arts Subscribe if you want to support them/us!

“What if the real doomer scenario is that we pollute the internet and the planet, reorient our economy and leverage ourselves, outsource big chunks of our minds, realign our geopolitics and culture, and fight endlessly over a technology that never comes close to delivering on its grandest promises?”

A short thread about the process of narrative construction in mass communications, and how ‘news’ works …

Calling mid-career biz & finance journalists! Check out this amazing fellowship at @stiglercenter.bsky.social at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business … It’s 1 term in spring 2026, you get to live & study in Chicago, I did it a few years ago. www.chicagobooth.edu/research/sti...

Israel kills five journalists, because it alleges that one of them works for Hamas, which he and his employer Al Jazeera deny. Reports say at least one other person killed. Proportionality out the window. www.ft.com/content/1bd1...

Tonight’s front: Europe wants to be in the room where it happens, in Alaska on Friday … a legal wrangle over Russia oil sanctions … and - nice problem to have? Spain has a solar energy glut.

A short thread about the process of narrative construction in mass communications, and how ‘news’ works …

As a big fan of Greek salad, I would like to report a crime …

Great example of why it’s important to be careful about numbers: “The BLS asks people each month whether they and members of their household were born in the US or elsewhere … [apparently] people who’d previously identified as foreign-born have changed their minds” … www.ft.com/content/dfd8...

If you were this restaurateur today, my email address is [email protected]. No promises but it might save you a £2k a month retainer.

Any PR firms out there want to own up to this one?

Tonight’s @financialtimes.com front: poorest hit by wage slowdown but Trump’s team continue to attack economic data … Plus, Switzerland’s 39% tariff is the country’s worst defeat since 1515, apparently. They are not happy. and OPEC has given up on its attempt to boost oil prices with output cuts.

After the railway stock market boom (& subsequent crash) in 1848 we were left with a lot of handy railways

Buy the @financialtimes.com, folks.

The FT View: The longer it has continued, the more it has borne the hallmarks of a vengeful assault by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government to destroy the very fabric of Palestinian society. https://on.ft.com/3UBv3Us

Tonight’s front - an EU/US trade deal, and Brits turn to VPNs to dodge new internet controls designed to protect children

Oh dear. 🤦‍♀️

Easily foreseen consequence of poorly thought through legislation predictably happens. www.ft.com/content/3566...

The striking theme for me in this piece by @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social is how far our institutions are unable to keep up with (let alone counter) the online aspects of the information environment which often galvanises and underpins disorder on.ft.com/4lKmp1T

Breaking: Israel is starting to shift policy on Gaza under immense international pressure … www.ft.com/content/058a...

tl;dr No guarantee of a EU-US trade deal tomorrow Negotiators have been locked in intense talks on the eve of a crunch meeting between Trump & von der Leyen in Scotland, as Brussels seeks to avoid a transatlantic tariff war w @aimewilliams.bsky.social & @andybounds.bsky.social on.ft.com/4l4LzqZ

Today, in ‘violence against women and girls is the gateway drug to lots of other types of violence, so why don’t we take it more seriously?’ : www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Important reporting from Gaza:

A spokesperson for the Tea app, which aims to be a place for women to “safely talk about men,” confirmed it was hacked. The company “estimates that 72,000 images, including 13,000 verification photos and images of government IDs, were accessed”

The @financialtimes.com front page tonight.

The most important story in the world right now.

10pm story as promised: the Home Office has got Keir Starmer into quite a spot of bother with Trump and Vance over its demand that Apple creates a special back door into its systems so the U.K. can spy on people more efficiently. Tactical retreat in the offing. www.ft.com/content/3a3e...

It may be high summer but @financialtimes.com reporters are unrelenting in their search for news. First of all, the London Stock Exchange is considering moving to 24hr trading, in a bid to keep up with the kids and their smartphones and their crypto and all that. www.ft.com/content/8813...

If you were born between 1970-1990 you may not have full MMR protection, even if you had parents who took you for all your jabs. The NHS will give you a free booster. With cases surging, this is a great way to protect yourself & your community. I’m getting mine tomorrow www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...

This is so British. ‘I say, would you mind awfully, er …’

I know this grates against the “buy equity ETFs and forget about them” retail investment advice (usually correct) but were I *this particular Labour government and this specific moment in history* why wouldn’t you be encouraging people to…buy the bonds?

This is so British. ‘I say, would you mind awfully, er …’

Well that was a waste of a news cycle, wasn’t it.