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Worth saying that the Obamas have always behaved with impeccable class.

"The British Olympic Association... is understood to be relaxed that Kenworthy has given a personal opinion on a subject that sits outside the Games." www.thetimes.com/sport/winter...

The problem is that the opponents to the repairs to parliamentary refit a) complain costs too much b) say that MPs should stay in Westminster during the works (which will dramatically increase costs) Doesn't feel like a grown-up debate www.ft.com/content/7fca...

Pulitzer incoming

Looking forward to reading Bruce Friedrich's new book Meat. He knows a huge amount about the food system, and how we can move to eating less meat www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I reviewed Gabriel Sherman's Bonfire of the Murdochs - a concise and damning account of the Murdoch family (Nice picture 😉) www.ft.com/content/c3ed...

RFK Jr. Questions Efficacy Of Skin https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-questions-efficacy-of-skin/

The perfect newspaper proprietor: someone who finds it difficult to give away money fast enough.

Juries - you never can tell. www.ft.com/content/f9ea...

The guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody

In the most important news today, @nigella.bsky.social is joining @ftweekend.com as a food and drink columnist! She joins @harrietfl.ft.com's shock and awe roster of @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social @jayrayner1.bsky.social, Tim Hayward and Jancis Robinson aboutus.ft.com/press_releas...

people are very quick to overlook Epstein's championing of young osteopaths

"And how long have you felt these symptoms." "Ooh, about 108 years?"

The Epstein files definitively prove how much boomers will put on email.

Best, Most Original Idea Man’s Ever Had Returns 114,000 Google Search Results theonion.com/best-most-or...

Trump calling the Grammys "virtually unwatchable" = Trump watched the whole thing

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...

One thing about Bad Bunny's anti-ICE speech is how he seems... nervous? Resembles a very likeable groom at a wedding, rather than one of the biggest music stars on the planet

The way that Apple Airpods emit a genuinely painful bleep when the battery goes below 20% is insane. Which engineer decided that battery life mattered more than our eardrums?!

"What I'm most excited about is [measles]."

Revealed: one of the members of Donald Trump's Board of Peace "repeatedly corresponded" with Jeffrey Epstein in the 2010s, despite claiming never to have done business with him www.ft.com/content/092d...

"Dad, open your Christmas presents!" "Not now, I'm emailing Jeffrey Epstein."

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

"It’s an FT obsession and frankly you can all fuck off. OK?”

"the UN's largest contributor, the US, refused to contribute to its regular and peacekeeping budgets... Several other members are in arrears or are simply refusing to pay." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

great story from Jim Pickard and Peter Foster www.ft.com/content/c950...

Carlos Alcaraz, stop it

Trump’s Board of Corruption signs up a truly awesome member.

The forgotten victims of lockdown: hard-working murderers

"At least 32 people died in ICE custody last year, the highest number since 2004. An autopsy... showed that Geraldo Lunas Campos, a Cuban migrant held at Fort Bliss in Texas, was killed by his jailers. ICE had previously said he had committed suicide." www.economist.com/briefing/202...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

preparations for a third state visit going well

This is completely shocking. The police and CPS prosecuted a woman for allegedly making up rape allegation, despite strong evidence that she had been raped. It should have ended people's careers. It hasn't. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Mary Beard? Sarah Gilbert? David Olugosa?

Sad to hear that fewer schools are marking Holocaust Memorial Day. It's plausible that this is partly to do with a particular version of Holocaust memorial becoming politically dominant. A more inclusive version is available: as.ft.com/r/dd9a3513-3...

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

‘Humanity needs to wake up’ to dangers of AI, says Anthropic chief www.ft.com/content/c309...

What a headline.

Wow! This read-along of the NYT moment-by-moment leading to the murder of Alex Pretti should shake everyone awake. He was a Good Samaritan. Agents fired at least ten shots in roughly five seconds. DHS and Pam Bondi claim Pretti approached them armed and intent on a “massacre.”

Bluesky idea: if people who didn't agree with you change their opinions so that they do agree with you, why not be happy that you are making progress - rather than complaining that they are "only just catching up"?

Despite the focus on small boats, most refugees stay in poor countries. I went to Sudan, where nearly 1/3 of the population has left their homes, to see how the UN is coping with Trump's cuts and the west's retreat. Sudan is a brutal, forgotten war. Please do read: as.ft.com/r/7db76b9a-8...

This is all great, but shouldn't he get himself in front of a TV camera to say it?

This story - about a Democratic congresswoman charged with assault after an encounter at an immigrant detention facility - really makes clear how far Trump has weaponised the justice system. And how the US government can no longer be treated as a reliable source. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Maybe Trump's lawsuit is having the effect he intended?

Western countries are hitting refugees twice: they are making it harder to claim asylum *and* they are cutting aid to troubled regions. I went to Sudan, the world's worst humanitarian situation, where the UN refugee agency has had to cut half its staff. Please have a read: as.ft.com/r/df593f1e-e...