breaking global tariff news on Friday afternoon is a great day to be editing FT Weekend. Everyone practise asking about implications for IEEPA before afternoon conference!

I’m unusually in a rush hour uber and the driver is reading about coal-fired power plants on chat GPT on his dashboard mounted phone while driving. Rethinking my kneejerk opposition to driverless cars.

wait is he a guest of his brother?

take a shot every time you hear the words "just glad the queen isn't here to see this"

every device i own just pinged with the news that andrew has been arrested. I think probably the oven did.

Small Prophets! On iPlayer. Don’t read about it just watch the whole thing

I made this for my daughter’s 21st dinner party at her request and a non-trivial number of north london young people think I am some sort of gourmet chef. Get on it. Impress people.

"most notably, he made an organ out of Furbies" - @scottygb.bsky.social on the Today programme

A correspondent has just offered as a thank you to recommend some bars for me to go to on my own when I am next in the city in which he lives. Going to be thinking about this for some time.

Bath has now won more Winter Olympic golds than Canada

Ahhh Matt and Tabby seem lovely. Is mad how proud you can be of your national sportspeople

THREEEEEEEEEEE GOLDS

GOOOOOOOOOLDDDDDDDDDD 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🏂🏂🏂🏂 in this excellent sport I have never seen before

imagine the nextdoor tho

"We’re charging graduates a higher marginal tax rate than somebody earning £150,000" www.thetimes.com/money/family...

You should definitely consider picking up a Weekend FT today, because it's the magazine MAPS special. Radical cartography, maps that changed the world, an FT reader competition that almost started a war, they don't love you like i love you, MAPS! www.ft.com/content/efab...

Lunch with the FT: Jeremy Bowen I spoke to the BBC's international editor about Israel, impartiality, and whether Gaddafi farted through interviews: www.ft.com/content/b139...

I tell you what Right Said Fred are enjoying a massive royalty boost from the Winter Olympic ice dancing finals.

Nothing makes one prouder to be British than someone resigning in disgrace because we still understand both those words

Is it a tradition? Or is it just what @jayrayner1.bsky.social did? Is that the same thing?

Right up there with “mistakes have been made”

Someone just tried to take my FT Weekend at Gatwick. I should probably have offered her a trial but I panicked and gabbled “no it’s mine sorry no you can’t”. She looked quite scared tbh. Maybe not a brand boosting exercise don’t tell marketing

Rather typically Gordon Brown becomes the first person to have accepted responsibility for a consequence of the actions of the Jeffrey Epstein in the guardian/on radio 4

Good morning and welcome to your FT Weekend highlights giftlink thread. First the Weekend Essay "both Putin and Trump know that we live in a world where being able to impose your story is what matters". Peter Pomerantsev writes that Europe needs to change the story as.ft.com/r/1b2d55d0-8...

The console table with its prized photographs of the rich, powerful and compromised which lays out Jeffrey Epstein's "social Ponzi scheme". Fantastic piece by Paul Caruana Galizia and Kaye Wiggins as.ft.com/r/3d0a85b9-c...

We're delighted to announce that Nigella Lawson is joining FT Weekend's food & drink pages as a columnist.⁠ Her first monthly column will appear in FT Weekend Magazine on April 4. Until then, you can read what she has already written for the FT here ft.trib.al/Vg2IlEI

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...

I feel like Reform Media Training is just "find a reason to be inexplicably rude to your interviewer"

don't rule out sinking into the warm bath which is a moderately amusing superbowl ad. We must take our distractions in the incredibly expensive 1:45 chunks which are available to us. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKwx...

Well obviously we do need primary legislation to denoble our illustrious criminals. With the frequency this question is arising perhaps some sort of sliding snake directly from the chamber in to the Thames would be more efficient

Only at the FT could you boast about spending a stupid amount of time on a “war and peace” length piece for no reason in morning conference

OH MY "Nobody wants to be the one to tell thousands of people their divorces, inheritances or verdicts don’t exist — but every avalanche starts with a single stone.”

Not quite one year ago as.ft.com/r/52c094cb-4...

Interesting that the book writing politics professor has pivoted to Anti-Nerd while running for Reform. Absolutely no reason for drive by on MARY GODDAMN BEARD unless you want to oppose thought and nuance. She's been on Top Gear! #teammary

From Marilynne Robinson in today’s FT:

For today’s @ftweekend.com I am at Dover St Counter, the late night hideaway London didn’t know it needed. Come for the fried chicken; stay for the French dip. www.ft.com/content/c8f3...

Good morning mostly there is a lot of this, this morning, but before they dumped 3m files last night, FT Weekend had a very fine collection of reads. Let's have a thread of highlights and giftlinks which will expire (and your mission is to resist the urget to complain when that happens)

This is the piece of the day - please enjoy the absolute insanity of Grindcore or How the Tech Bros like to work 9am to 9pm and fill the rest with workouts, Paleo diets and Chinese peptides. By @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/6da0e29b-1...

someone is reading lord of the rings out loud on britain's premier broadcast news programme at 7.25am

Andy Burnham is now Easter. He must Make A Move on an annual basis but the actual dates may vary. He has been officially categorised as a Moveable Feast.

Oh come on now fair’s fair this is magnificent. Cosplay Kate Middleton here has knocked it out the park and up what I think are some alps towards Greenwich

Prepared to propose at this time that we simply make smart glasses a licensed purchase and openly approve warrantless surveillance of all recorded footage. Sure, sure you go right ahead. Make sure you watch Minority Report first

What a thing that a) people are just wandering round secretly filming women and putting their details on the internet and b) that we have devised a piece of equipment to make that sneakier www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I’ve been on holiday this week but I can see we’ve put up with some tremendous bullshit from the United States over the last six days. This, however takes the biscuit. Of COURSE it’s a word.

Has anyone considered that Macron simply mislaid his prescription glasses but didn’t want to admit it? Signed the middle aged woman wearing sunglasses to read her phone at hotel breakfast

It’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago

I'll say one thing, it was never clear who would win the battle of wits between kemi and jenrick.

Marina tests the boundaries of FT readers with a report from dinner by a latex-clad chef near Venice. Personally I’m very taken by the view of the vineyards as.ft.com/r/b6fadba4-a... (Gift link works for first 300 prurient clicks)

LISTEN TO A RAINCOAT! (you can hum this to the tune of I can sing a Rainbow, but that may impair your ability to listen to the raincoat)

Brilliant on-the-ground reporting, this: