Forget Wordle. Play small caged mammal on the run. www.ft.com/content/dad4...

A SF startup is secretly testing robots in Airbnbs, and trashing them, lawsuit claims sfstandard.com/2026/05/28/s...

This summer, children age 5-15 will be able to pilot oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz for free

The 1920s version of your favourite restaurant being called a “hidden gem” on TikTok?

With Keir Starmer's premiership hanging in the balance, @amyborrett.ft.com has put together the definitive set of charts to summarise his tumultuous tenure A few 👇👇and more 👉https://as.ft.com/r/41e56e14-02de-400a-96bd-38a0a4b6efc6

Just when you thought there was no possible way to do a fresh data angle on the Eurovision... Love this look at the lyrics by @puntofisso.bsky.social puntofisso.net/eurovision/

as a data journalist I am obliged to argue for a synthesis. a third way. We can create a world where both stories and spreadsheets support each other to thrive. A world where we don't judge a spreadsheet by its file extension but by the content of its cells

New: Oil prices are spiralling & consumers are cutting back... But the world's biggest companies have added more than $5.4tn in value since the start of the war on Iran. I took a deep dive - w/the help of our expert companies reporters - into how the AI boom is hiding wider hits to big business.

Super interesting deep dive into the economics of touring as an indie band open.substack.com/pub/loscampe...

New: Companies are warning that soaring oil and gas prices following the Iran war are forcing them to put up prices. At least 10% of S&P500 companies — including P&G, Kimberley Clark and United Airlines — used their Q1 earnings call to signal price rises, our analysis found. @chriscook.news

Got my first election chart crime today

Most Reform-leaning councillor names: - Barry - Thomas - Adrian Most Labour: - Angela - Laura - Dave Most Conservative: - Roger - Phil - Nick Most Lib Dem: - Tim - Sam - Richard Most Green: - Jonathan - Ben - Kate

At least $106bn worth of deals struck in North America and Europe that hinge on commitments from the Gulf are yet to be completed, as regional investors review their portfolios and deployment strategies after the war in Iran New story with @sdbernard.bsky.social & FT ME team

🚨Job🚨 at @data.ft.com: We're hiring a data journalist in the US, based in New York or Washington #ddj: job-boards.greenhouse.io/financialtim...

Really important Big Read this on what is just straightforwardly a misselling scandal taking place in plain sight in my view:

For my first post for @alphaville.ft.com, I ran the (hypothetical) numbers on the Green Party's new policy of a 10:1 pay ratio at UK companies. Including house style massive clickable scatter charts 📈 www.ft.com/content/2b9e...

Love this

Choose wisely. www.ft.com/content/dddf...

Honestly more surprised at how much golf Obama squeezed in

My friend who runs an award-winning bookshop has probed the question: readers prefer paperback novels. So why are there so many goddamn hardback releases?

New: US business adoption of Anthropic’s products is closing in on OpenAI even after the Pentagon branded it a supply chain risk in Feb, Ramp data shows

More people died in Israel's latest bombing of Lebanon than died in the 2020 Beirut port blast Brilliant reporting by @rayajalabi.ft.com as.ft.com/r/3d576d7b-9...

Our colleague needs your help keeping a 1,200-year dataset alive! If you have botanical expertise or are based near Arashiyama, Kyoto — DM her or email [email protected].

Ten years ago today, in April 2016, the Boston Globe printed a satirical front page imagining a future Trump administration. The page was called "alarmist," "hyperbolic," "dystopian." But we’ve put up with so much since then it now looks like . . . a slow Thursday?

This was an interesting breakdown of Claude Code’s leak, and I’m still loling at the “sentiment analysis“ code. If you want Claude to know you’re mad, you better say “wtf,“ “shit,“ “fuck,” “horrible,“ “awful,“ or “terrible.” Don‘t try to get fancy with “atrocious“ or “balls.”

New 📈👩‍💼The gender pay gap at large UK firms has narrowed for the sixth consecutive year to a record low of 8.2%* — but remains stubbornly high in the professional, finance and insurance sectors

Ouch. Jet fuel. www.ft.com/content/7181...

🔋⚡ spiralling fuel prices and looming energy shortages are forcing governments to take drastic measures to conserve supplies. Lots of charts in this @financialtimes.com piece about the global wave of energy rationing as.ft.com/r/a26a41a9-6...

Small swings, high drama: why UK polls are less volatile than they seem – in charts - www.theguardian.com/politics/202... "we might see is that people still identify with being on the right or left, but being more willing to switch within those sides.” #greens

The Bank of England was a real outlier with its comms this week, far more hawkish than peers Language analysis shows a sharp shift in tone from the UK central bank this week as.ft.com/r/41e01e51-9...

Niche user experience complaint but I cannot understand why Vinted decided to ruin their search by only allowing size ranges (8-10, 12-14) rather than specific sizes. On the plus side I am saving a lot of money 🥲

exclusive: Nigel Farage has recorded Cameo videos in which he endorsed a neo-Nazi event, repeated extremist slogans and supported a man convicted over his involvement in a far-right riot. w/ @michaelgoodier.bsky.social

Anglosphere agony vs Nordic nirvana. (PS Can't believe I'd never seen this graph before, so grateful to @stephenkb.bsky.social for sharing in his fab morning newsletter (www.ft.com/inside-polit...)

New 📝📈: From next year, large employers in the EU will have to report on their gender pay gap. But will this help to close it? I looked at the evidence from countries -- including the UK -- that have already tried it. www.ft.com/content/9ffe...

New 📊: Should we be worried about another gas crisis in Europe? Prices are up 70% to their highest level since 2023 this week while a particularly cold winter has depleted reserves.

Natgas... "In sheer volume, this could be worse than 2022" www.ft.com/content/78fb... But... zoom out

New 🏭: The price of natural gas in Europe has surged almost 80% since Friday after Iranian strikes on the world's second-largest exporter Qatar and the effective closure of key shipping routes... But zooming out, we're still a long way from the 2022 price crisis

Time for something different, radar for wind farms… 📡 I've been working on a prototype that you can use on your phone to discover more about the wind farms around you.

The first woman in Parliament to appear in the Guardian's 'best-dressed at Glastonbury' feature. You'll never sing that, etc...

Interesting on the future of email vis a vis AI from @claradoodle.bsky.social: feels like the volume will go wild as inboxes play table-tennis with each other as.ft.com/r/f4cf734b-c...

I wrote about the proliferation of AI tools promising to finally sort out our inboxes — will they give us back hours a week or accelerate a broken system? 🤖📧 giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

rare positive journalism news story

Pancake Day reveals a new, highly divisive intergenerational split - while older generations are loyal to traditional lemon and sugar pancake topping, younger adults are more likely to say they prefer Nutella or chocolate spread on their pancakes.

Actually... from my reading of the artists' basic income report, the government did not earn money back from the scheme (although its costs were offset 37%) Most gains were societal and came from putting the artists' improvements in wellbeing in € terms assets.gov.ie/static/docum...

V glad to see this frankly disturbing trend finally being called out !! ‘It’s ridiculous’: publicans bemused by rise of single-file queues to get served | Pubs | The Guardian share.google/riza1ctU9Z1k...

Wowsers look at what happened to posts on Twitter/X about London crime after monetisation of posts was introduced… economist.com/britain/2026...

"COMPANIES SCOOP $22BN IN CONTRACTS FROM TRUMP'S IMMIGRATION AGENCIES" #PeterAndringa / @claradoodle.bsky.social for @financialtimes.com Full Story: t.ly/-C65c #Palantir and #Deloitte are profiting from #DonaldTrump's immigration crackdown. #FinancialTimesUSA #TomorrowsPapersToday #IBPAPERS

Hundreds of companies, including big names like Palantir, Deloitte and Accenture, are earning millions from contracts with ICE and CBP during Trump's second term. Many are mundane but others are directly assisting the crackdown w/ @peter.andringa.me @rafeuddin.ft.com www.ft.com/content/c741...

The Star Tribune had an insane graphic about the presence of immigration enforcement in Minneapolis. There are more immigration officers in the metro right now than local police officers.

New 🤖: Anthropic's latest Economic Index report is out, revealing some interesting differences in how people use Claude around the world. Higher-income countries aremore likely to use it for personal tasks, vs lower-income correlating with education