Lovely bit of writing, this on.ft.com/4gB7pli

A little bit of navel-gazing on the last twelve months of trying to run a start-up local news organisation with no investment or plan, entirely funded by readers. www.londoncentric.media/p/london-new...

"The first ever second state visit for an elected leader who claims a third presidential election win started off with a bang on Tuesday night, when Donald Trump landed at London’s fourth most glamorous airport." @jemima.bsky.social on sublime form on.ft.com/41XZUih

file under "you couldn't make it up": A former head of the Institute of Directors has been banned from acting as a company director for 11 years for abusing a pandemic-era business loan scheme on.ft.com/42wtT0P

Cracking reporting from the New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

Apollo Global Management has amassed a short position against the debt of a US automotive parts supplier that has come under scrutiny for its accounting policies and financing techniques. More on the tussle over First Brands Group rattling the private credit market from team FT 👇🏻 on.ft.com/4n3WMKg

Feels like ABS investors might be about to get a painful lesson in how effective “back-up servicers” are in practice

Some amusing stuff in this dispatch from the FT Weekend Festival, but amazing how sloppy the writing / subbing is. Manages to misspell Roula Khalaf's name two different ways! thecritic.co.uk/britains-eli...

Strong NYT read on JPMorgan's enduring relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Lots here will be familiar to those who followed the Jes Staley high court case, but there's plenty of new detail too, all woven together into a damming account of America's most powerful bank www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/m...

Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book, including the letter with Trump’s signature that he has said doesn’t exist. Read more: 🔗 on.wsj.com/4nGGdnJ

So much weird in here, but hard to disagree that the average Saxon would have recognised policies of sinking vessels you don't like the look of, and imprisoning people who look different.

"When a door closes, a window opens", Russian version "There have been 56 deaths of successful businesspeople and officials under strange circumstances since February 2022. Many of them have fallen out of windows" (Foreign Affairs)

this is a cracking piece on "Uncle Steve" Cohen's lobbying campaign to build one of New York's first casinos in Queens from @pollard.bsky.social on.ft.com/4pdl7Pc

"If god weren’t already dead, this might’ve been enough to kill him" @bryce.lol on sublime form filleting Goldman Sachs's latest "research" on "the postmodern cycle" www.ft.com/content/0723...

Reform is Britain's first alternative investment-alternative political party crossover.

We got to get away from this as a society where we can't see rich people as being capable of doing dumb stuff. Rich people do dumb stuff all the time. They're human, many are greedy, that makes you do dumb stuff! They just don't usually suffer the consequences of it because they're rich!

Absolutely top tier financial investigation into sports chicanery from @pablo.show. no notes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Owz...

You probably haven’t heard of Patrick James, the little-known car parts entrepreneur behind Ohio-based First Brands Group. However, his company is causing ructions in the private credit industry, after borrowing billions and then coming under scrutiny for its financial disclosures on.ft.com/47nJWSb

I’ve always enjoyed @adamfriedlandnyc.bsky.social’s show, but this episode with Ritchie Torres is one of the most extraordinary interviews I’ve ever seen. Very much worth watching the full hour and not just the clips about Israel floating around on social media. youtu.be/q0Eeht171HQ?...

this is a jaw dropping read www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...

I had no idea that Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC's AUM was a state secret! Great piece from @tobyn.bsky.social breaking down how you can take a stab at estimating it on.ft.com/41u29cT

Very nice deep dive into Drahi’s ownership of Sotheby’s, by @samknightwrites.bsky.social for the NYer www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

the times objectively thinks bribery by the staff of the current mayor is less urgently newsworthy than the admissions application for a mayoral candidate to a college he didn't get into.

I was in the High Court over two days this week covering the collapse of Sanjeev Gupta's Speciality Steel. Two reporters who weren't there used the exact same quotes as me from proceedings and a govt letter I obtained, right down to the comma placement and square brackets. No citation naturally.

a much more persuasive version of this article would be like "here's why I'm forcing myself to get on TikTok"

I’m increasingly of the opinion that Bryan Johnson is simply doing one of the greatest extended bits in comedy history

The thing you don’t see about lengthy libel cases like this is the mental impact on witnesses - and on news outlets’ willingness to do similar stories. Respect to all the women who chose to go to court to defend this story - plus Sirin Kale, Lucy Osborne, Paul Lewis and the Guardian team.

entirely normal state of affairs for two independent companies that just happen by coincidence to have similar names

"STATE TO TAKE OVER LINCHPIN OF GUPTA'S UK STEEL BUSINESS" @bondhack.ft.com / #LaithAlKhalaf for @financialtimes.com ​ British Government is set to take over a major part of #SanjeevGupta's #LibertySteel. FULL STORY: t.ly/IBuYE #FinancialTimes #TomorrowsPapersToday #IBPAPERS

Unclear what the potential fallout for the Lochaber Smelter deal with GFG Alliance and the Scottish Government is But in terms of a general health check of GFG's assets, it's hardly a ringing endorsement.

BREAKING: The British government is set to take over the running of a major part of Sanjeev Gupta’s Liberty Steel business, after one of the UK’s largest steelworks was declared insolvent in London’s High Court. on.ft.com/4mtFtC4

Collapse of FX broker Argentex - which lacked treasury function, confusion at highest levels over reliance on high-risk 'zero-zero' trades - has tied up one of Nigel Farage's biggest patrons. www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-20/fx-brokerage-implosion-ties-up-millions-owed-to-farage-backer

Is it finally the beginning of the end for Sanjeev Gupta's steel operations in the UK? The British government is ready to step in and oversee an imminent insolvency of a crucial part of his Liberty Steel business if necessary, London’s High Court heard on Wednesday on.ft.com/3UA2WoX

Very good, proper and normal that erstwhile SBF whisperer Will MacAskill asked for the software's consent before posting this online.

this is absolutely horrifying www.reuters.com/investigates...

Another excellent investigation into Aziz who appears story by story to be a total menace to London’s social fabric at the motivation of profit by property

Hell of a pic

Elon Musk appears to be suggesting that Sam Altman is somehow gaming Twitter, the company that Elon Musk owns

Not sure Zuber Issa’s explanation of why EG Group gave the brothers interest-free loans to buy private jets passes the smell test! From interview with my colleague Ivan Levingston: on.ft.com/45F2f3P

remarkable that jemima kelly has filed a more jemima kelly story than shooting lizards with the chairman of interactive brokers

This is a complete riot

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Irish billionaire Paul Coulson strikes $300mn deal to walk away from Ardagh-capping more than a year of negotiations with creditors owed more than $10bn built up in the era of cheap money and low interest rates. www.ft.com/content/a14c... @bondhack.ft.com @financialtimes.com

While I'd suggest that any "Wannabe Rob Smith" seek psychiatric help immediately, this is a great job going at the FT covering one of the most important markets in the world. Happy to lend some advice to anyone interested in applying!

Reposting in honour of the great Stanley Kubrick’s birthday!

Thames Water is allowing senior executives to retain bonuses awarded last year, even though an accounting restatement meant they missed a cash flow target. on.ft.com/4m6nVuY

Really great discussion between Mark Hilley, founder of short-focused research firm The Analyst, and @bryce.lol www.ft.com/content/a5ab...