Scully let's split up. I'll interview this beautiful botanist and you go check out the sewer system full of human bones

Don’t be fooled — everything has changed for the global economy: strong FT oped from Gita Gopinath. The lesson from Brexit is simple: "Structural damage reveals itself slowly, and always too late to be reversed." www.ft.com/content/9c82...

From “e pluribus unum“ to “dominant predator force” — a story of decadence delusion and demise

Apparently I read 2,473 FT articles last year. I suppose I am getting decent value for money.

Thank you to the person who gave me the info that led to this headline, you know who you are and you are much appreciated. www.londoncentric.media/p/nicolas-ca...

US running surveillance flights near Russia-linked tanker in north Atlantic ft.trib.al/lEfRWPE

Nigel Farage had already acknowledged, generally, that many of these allegations were broadly true in 2013 and 2021. Now that there is more detailed testimony from about 30 people, he is claiming they are making up things he had previously tacitly accepted happened.

If you'd like to watch the hour long special programme on maternity care - it's on YouTube. It's an emotional watch - but it's important www.youtube.com/live/kfqmmoV...

Breaking out the braces

‘The lesson is simple: structural damage reveals itself slowly, and always too late to be reversed.’ Amazingly wide ranging concise piece this www.ft.com/content/9c82...

I will be talking about some of the outrageous things I’ve seen perpetrated in the art market (excluding Damien Hirst’s career since the 1990s)

TICKETS ARE NOW ON SALE FOR THE NEXT OUTSIDERS ARTS CLUB February 10! Handbag Factory in Vauxhall! over 50 pieces of original art from up-and-coming artists, all between £200 and £500! free wine! a 10-minute talk from the FT's Josh Spero on the art market! join us! outsidersartsclub.com

Or what?

Honest question, (some of the most bad faith shit you've ever heard)

The waterlogged, anaerobic environment within prehistoric pile dwellings provided ideal conditions for the preservation of organic materials like wood. This bucket-like vessel made of oak wood and two smaller bowls (maple and ash wood) were found in In Reute Schorrenried. Dating 3900-3500 BC. 🏺

Shout-out to law firm Boodle Hatfield, whose meeting biscuit of choice is Clubs

The Philharmonia are currently giving away 80 free tickets per performance to first-time bookers, worth knowing if you haven't seen them before philharmonia.co.uk/series/80-fr...

Big: Wyoming supreme court just struck down abortion ban. And get this: The reason is a constitutional amendment codifying a right to make health care decisions... passed in 2012 by conservatives who thought it'd screw Obamacare! Quite the backfire. We explained this lawsuit a few years back:

Three stars for Heated Rivalry as.ft.com/r/27cf1fa2-b...

Someone asked me to comment on the anniversary of Jan 6. I will consider having comments on it….should it ever end. We are very much still reaching for the nadir of this reclamation. No time yet for historicizing it. Still trying to survive it.

Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter - as.ft.com/r/2f3e7a51-e...

Surely "sent to the glug"

Back at it as.ft.com/r/c624830e-e...

The Adoration of the Magi (detail) Avignon or Naples About 1340-4 For the feast of ephinany - One of the #medieval paintings in @nationalgalleryuk.bsky.social - “Siena: The Rise of Painting 1300-50” Loaned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art Other details from the painting in 🧵👇

On Alaa Abdel Fattah and the incredibly stupid game the government is playing, @stephenkb.bsky.social is spot on www.ft.com/content/0e12...

The destruction doesn't make for a photo-op like tearing down the East Wing of the White House or bulldozing the Rose Garden, but it's every bit as bad. Generations of American children learned to spell and count, learned the Preamble to the Constitution, from watching shows produced by the CPB.

"did you try to bribe the president of the united states by giving him your nobel peace prize so he will declare that you are in charge of venezuela after abducting its leader by military force" is just a thing that someone can be asked in an interview now and we all have to deal with that

Morning!

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

The Nobel peace laureate and opposition leader faces difficult choices — when to return to her homeland and whether to mobilise her supporters. ft.trib.al/zfJKyFh

"Swapping American dominance of the western hemisphere for Chinese dominance of east Asia would be the deal of the century. For China." Gideon Rachman in the @FT

WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize. “If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Interesting Bloomberg story about physical robbery attacks on crypto investors www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Ten years at the FT today — I couldn’t be prouder to work with such smart and (never to be taken for granted) nice people

An American military operation in Venezuela killed 32 Cuban officers over the weekend, the Cuban government said in the first official acknowledgement of the deaths.

5 January 1936 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Lea Cohen, was born in Assen. In November 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz with her brother Mozes (in the picture with Lea), and mother Kaatje. They were all murdered in a gas chamber after selection.

NYT reaches new level of bathos in headline

So we now appear to be up to at least 80 Venezuelans killed. For an operation that anonymous admin officials said yesterday was"virtually flawless." www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Denmark tells Trump to stop threatening to seize Greenland ft.trib.al/Gzzizn9

Just saw Marty Supreme, a film about a cocksure, amoral American who leaves a trail of destruction in his quest for profit

Berlin suspects ‘leftwing extremists’ of causing huge power outage ft.trib.al/tzj8mrT

For all that the media has spent years freaking out about what social media does to our brains, I don’t understand why there appears to be little effort to grapple with the fact that these chatbots are, for some not insignificant portion of the population, literally psychosis machines

Any attempt to install an occupation force would face a hostile reaction from Venezuela’s fiercely nationalist government and armed forces, as well as from a network of well-armed neighbourhood militias ft.trib.al/Rv8LZ2J

Time to build this universe out! I’d read a whole series about Gutman’s globe-trotting Falcon-hunting adventures. Or about Effie opening her own agency in the ‘60s. So many possibilities.

🫠

Tragödie, Farce, Facepalm, Meme.

“Venezuela has as many as 2,000 generals and admirals, more than double the number in the United States. Senior and retired officers control food distribution, raw materials and the state oil company PDVSA, while dozens of generals sit on the boards of private firms.” www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Get her, Jade!* as.ft.com/r/7b0838e5-9... *her = Boulez, Jade = the FT’s classical music critic

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

Russia signed a treaty to defend Venezuela just two months ago but its crickets this morning from the Kremlin. Utter humiliation and evidence of just how weak it is globally.