Important question from the household: who was the first resigning politician to declare it’s been the honour of my life?

ohh James Naughtie sounds so sad :(

Upside down exclamation marks

Imagine what they’re having to do in the special box to keep the president entertained

If I’m honest, Gaby, i thought the referee’s can of foam was the highlight

Scrap the Romesh thing just clip Wayne Rooney saying he thought the half time show was crap and the licence fee QR code

Shakira’s got her work cut out after that dirge

I’m not sure mixing a Madge into the Muppets is tactful

Tom Cruise is not wearing a watch and someone at Patek Philippe’s getting a stern email

I have a second piece in @ftweekend.com in which, as I approach my 60th, I celebrate all the things I will not apologise for hating. It was very therapeutic to write. www.ft.com/content/6bdd...

Forget pervert glasses - what about smart plugs? Me on domestic abusers taking over home devices as.ft.com/r/8f4ab2f1-4... How smart tech is being weaponised in the home

Good morning we haven't done this for a while so welcome to your FT Weekend highlights giftlink thread. First up the great Gideon Rathman has been down several rabbit holes at the Conspiracy World Cup as.ft.com/r/a51497e0-a...

I just hope that somewhere in Kentish Town Keir Starmer is discovering one of the two nice restaurants that have opened while he's been gone

England my England

07.25am and we're got some new monkey noises on the nation's leading news programme. Welcome to the opening of the silly season everyone

Surely England must have played Argentina before. Aren’t there any previous resonant encounters that we could hear about?

amazing discussion on the radio right now -- does the reductive system of one weather symbol for a whole day put people off visiting tourist attractions and should the met office therefore reflect day parts.

i regret to tell you that Nadhim Zahawi is on Laura Kuenssberg in an england shirt.

Is it very bad to go to bed?

I'm fully briefed on this Yorkshire-born, Bellingham-loving, very charming Norwegian giant with the strong social game, and cannot wait to see 11 England players surround him and run up and down the pitch as he seems to be taking us on singlehanded

A Brit in the semis of Wimbledon, England still in the World Cup and Nigel Farage spending the summer arguing with a bin. Oh this happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea

EVERY TIME I go on holiday some one resigns, someone get me the Kalshi ceo’s number pls

Job move news: New Statesman deputy editor Will Lloyd is leaving the mag to join the Financial Times as FT Weekend's senior features writer

Beautiful

oh honestly how funny can it b... oh no it's very very funny

Important essay from Alison Wolf on the apprenticeships we need to tackle the youth unemployment crisis. If you know a 20-25 year old you'll know six who are struggling; it's such an urgent problem as.ft.com/r/00566fe0-5...

No thread this morning. It's a brilliant package especially this magazine. Go get one!

It's just really pleasing to publish a piece of important political journalism and then watch everyone go wild with pizza discourse. What a job

Morgan McSweeney spills all over Lunch with the FT in the form of @georgewparker.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/37fb90aa-7...

Right can we get back to Taylor Swift’s wedding?

Day 3 of Wimbledon and it is increasingly hard to find a patch of outside space where the tennis not being shown on a large screen in front of four beanbags and a small clutch of deck chairs

Someone has stolen a bit of That Tree from the grounds of a National Trust property and a tree valuation expert (I said what I said) observes the sapling could be worth "a huge amount". www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...

Don't forget to down tools at 12pm and announce you are off to Taylor Swift's wedding. Terribly sorry you are not at liberty to disclose any further details.

Number 10 North actually an unreleased Housemartins album from 1985

suddenly very interested in Ben Stokes who seems to have had a highly relatable fuck this for a game of soldiers moment

We should neither promote nor diss our rivals but I feel like the foot picture is so high risk and this person seems to have a sixth missing toe???? Is that normal????

Good morning and we're back with a thread of FT Weekend highlight giftlinks. Some great pieces this week so please enjoy and remember not to complain if you're late to the party, simply go here and register to read for free subs.ft.com/weekend?segm...

A little treat for you cos you've been so brave this week. Scheherazade Goldsmith and Matthew Freud show you round their London mews house. There's a Salvador Dali sofa and an AI Wei Wei table www.ft.com/content/dd96...

British heat wave uproar stage 4: They're "defying the rules" at Hampstead Heath pond.

update: by now you should be utterly feral

And I couldn't help wondering, what truly constitutes a necessary journey

At this point in the heat wave you should not be on speaking terms with anyone you know. If you can still muster any civilized behaviour we are forced to review your citizenship

No journalist followed Andy Burnham more closely than @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social for ten years at the Manchester Evening News and the FT. The Queen of the North on the King... as.ft.com/r/3ef31e1e-7...

OMG. So in November 2022, when I was at a party at Mar-a-Lago to celebrate Trump running again for president (yes), I met this guy who I described thusly... WHO IT TURNS OUT HE IS THE GUY TRUMP HIRED TO CLEAN UP THE REFLECTING POOL, CEO of the company that owns "Green Water Solutions" I am dying 🤣

A special 4am good morning only to everyone who has been awake through a massive insane electrical storm in London for the last two hours

ok, so if you know roughly where and roughly when you were baptized how do you narrow that down? Let's just say no one alive can remember...

IN a position to confirm that Keir Starmer's resignation speech is considerably more powerful with Ode to Joy stripped from the audio track.

“There is no news!” announces the BBC’s political editor cheerfully from outside 10 Downing Street. So happy to be home for our traditional lectern spotting ritual

John Lithgow came to open our @ftweekend.com Festival in New York before doing two shows on Broadway in Giant. Such a joy to get to interview him again after we spoke two year ago as he was just entering rehearsals for the play. Just an Olivier and a Tony in between…

I’m in NYC this week for our US festival - do join us it’s going to be brilliant - and the number of people who actually know me who assume I’ve come for the World Cup is … surprising