Current special relationship is that Britain gives Donald Trump two state visits, and he attacks bans British citizens from entry to the US www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Come on, which English person didn't have a few drinks after the first two Test matches?

Pure fanaticism, just objectively bad policy especially while building all these new data centers. But also an opportunity for Democrats to say loudly, over and over again, that Trump and Republicans are making everything more expensive. Higher electricity costs impact everything.

"She's been on remand for over a year, her trial's not until April next year and bail keeps getting denied." news.sky.com/story/fears-...

is this "free speech campaigner Bari Weiss" or a different one? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

'The initial experience was like trying to hug a PowerPoint slide. “Maybe you could talk to me as a friend,” I suggested.' @henrymance.ft.com tries a generative AI therapist ft.trib.al/i1Azrz3

Can ChatGPT help with a midlife crisis? www.ft.com/content/8b6e...

a beautiful Lunch with the FT with Diébédo Francis Kéré, who grew up in a village in Burkina Faso but won a scholarship to Germany and became an award-winning architect as.ft.com/r/09386a34-4...

Can ChatGPT help with a midlife crisis? www.ft.com/content/8b6e...

Shoot this into my veins / trains www.ft.com/content/ff71...

Paul Marshall said he always thought there would "short-term economic downside" to Brexit. Does anyone remember him mentioning this at the time? www.ft.com/content/42b3...

Netanyahu is going to decide the make-up and mandate of a commission of inquiry into Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel, a national tragedy and national security fiasco that happened on his watch. as.ft.com/r/a21f06dd-8... @nerizilber.bsky.social

Maybe the English batsmen need to be more aggressive

how did I not know that Sarkozy met his second wife when he officiated at her wedding as the local mayor en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas...

Keir Starmer festive message to Reform UK at start of PMQs: “If mysterious men from the east appear bearing gifts…this time report it to the police”

GB News has apologised on air to the mother of Meghan Markle, Doria Ragland, after Carole Malone wrongly claimed she had spent time in prison pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/new...

It is remarkable how quickly the loonie right has gone from 'young people are pathetic, they would never fight for our great country' to 'we hate Britain so much that we wouldn't even fight Russia for it'

Interesting background on Paul Doyle, who drove his car into the Liverpool parade www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...

the most amazing thing is that Salt Bae may no longer be the biggest Salt grifter www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.

Is the context that the BBC aired The Black and White Minstrel Show in the 1970s?

Part of the Chanukah tradition is to place the light menorah either outside or in a window where outsiders can see it. This is supposed to advertise the miracle of Chanukah. These days, it is also a way of saying, “This is a Jewish home.” Every year I think about how it is also an act of bravery.

Good morning and welcome to your FT Weekend highlight giftlink thread. We start with this fantastic essay by Tim Wu, one of the big brains of web 1.0, cautioning that Silicon valley may be winning the AI battle to lose the bigger economic war to China as.ft.com/r/83deb81e-3...

FT Person of the Year: Ange Postecoglu

Nothing can stop Europe now. www.politico.eu/article/eu-v...

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

just catching up with this - an amazing example of misleading statistics. Badenoch tries to blame the government for teacher numbers falling, but the fall was between November 2023 *and November 2024* (it's just that the figures were published in 2025). we don't have 2025 figure.

we need to make more electrons

Note to US officials checking my social media: likes and reposts are appreciated

i asked chat gpt to fact check an article for me

Having just read a longer write up in the NYT, the flag’s been relocated temporarily to a different corner of the stadium, but will still be on display. Which is still far from ideal, but considerably better than taking it down.

Excellent www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/w...

Check maaaaate

Most-read story on the BBC website is about cars getting bigger - and these are the most recommended comments (Possible lesson: if you have to raises taxes, tax things that annoy people) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Brilliant piece by @mjrobbins.com on the Oxfordshire rubbish dump - and what it says about the failure of state institutions and rising sense of lawlessness. martinrobbins.substack.com/p/rubbish-mo...

The problem for Zipcar was surely that, for people without a car, it couldn't compete with Uber on most short journeys and on proper car hire for holidays

Absolutely everyone: Google: We've automatically switched Smart Compose back on for you.

Should England's great houses and gardens have a right to a protected view? Monty Don and others are up in arms about a potential new town near Rousham, near Oxford. Elswhere it's pylons and solar panels... www.ft.com/content/e1f6...

if only there was a recent speech where the chancellor could have made this case to a packed House of Commons 😉

Rachel Reeves did not tell me what the weather would be this morning.

yes exactly, I wrote about this a while back “Hug a hoodie”, “You’ve never had it so good”, “Crisis, what crisis?” All were written by newspaper sub-editors rather than politicians www.ft.com/content/2c07...

Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved. Don't look up!

Elephants need more space than zoos can provide. So where should they go? Europe's first large-scale elephant sanctuary is about to launch in Portugal, promising a place that the elephants can live out their final years with space and companionship www.ft.com/content/060a...

The founder of Dignitas, Ludwig Minelli, has died by assisted suicide aged 92. A remarkable character - this interview was two years ago: www.ft.com/content/0f96...

Elephants need more space than zoos can provide. So where should they go? Europe's first large-scale elephant sanctuary is about to launch in Portugal, promising a place that the elephants can live out their final years with space and companionship www.ft.com/content/060a...

Should England's great houses and gardens have a right to a protected view? Monty Don and others are up in arms about a potential new town near Rousham, near Oxford. Elswhere it's pylons and solar panels... www.ft.com/content/e1f6...