RIP. One of the last things he called for was a Gaza ceasefire. Itโs hard not to feel like a beacon of light has died with him in these uncertain, precarious times.
21.04.2025 08:38 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0RIP. One of the last things he called for was a Gaza ceasefire. Itโs hard not to feel like a beacon of light has died with him in these uncertain, precarious times.
21.04.2025 08:38 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Old mobile phones and keyboards. Overlaid text reads: FT Exclusive: EU issues US-bound staff with burner phones to avoid espionage
Breaking news: The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage โ a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China www.ft.com/content/20d0...
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Markets update:
And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Uplifting thread, like sun after days and days and days of clouds ๐ค๏ธ
31.03.2025 18:32 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I believe this theory has been explored in the FT enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/9799d... The podcast bros who helped put Trump back in the White House
31.03.2025 18:26 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0โI still have nightmaresโ: the tourists shackled and jailed for weeks at US borders via FT: Several nations have now changed โโฆ their travel advice and triggered a frenzy of questions in online travel forums about whether it is safe to go to the US.โ enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/53e61...
30.03.2025 16:28 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Deepening US consumer gloom raises stagflation fears via @FT: A Chicago Fed official said the US โwas no longer on the โgolden pathโ of โ23/โ24 when inflation appeared to be returning to 2% target w/out derailing economic growth or lifting unemployment.โ on.ft.com/3Rpi8n1
29.03.2025 06:25 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0A bit hit with readers. @jderbyshire.ft.com on his early brush with the philosopher behind Trump's "Dark Enlightenment" and his *fanged noumena*. Brace brace brace for the English magus of anti-democratic neoreaction www.ft.com/content/7330...
27.03.2025 15:20 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0on.ft.com/4bUdd7i Howard Lutnick touts Elon Muskโs Starlink for US broadband schemeโฆthis after a spokeswoman told The NYT that the White House had installed Starlink on its grounds to improve WiFi connectivity. Itโs all getting a bit cosy between business & gov a la Indonesia under Suhartoโฆ
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At popular request, weโre intro-ing a semi-regular Political Fix Q&A episode from next month ๐ช
So pls get in touch! Send a voicenote with your name & Q to politicalfix@ft.com - and we'll play it on the podcast ๐คณ ๐ฃ๏ธ โ๏ธ
I'll field Qs to Stephen, Jim, Robert, Miranda, George, Anna & other FT experts!
โNote to all who get their validation from work: the workaholic is the most accepted addict of all. In fact, he and she are celebrated. Why would you want to change when the bosses and society applaud you? Work is the great permissive addiction.โ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
26.01.2025 09:02 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Benedict Andersen in Imagined Communities wrote that shared media was key to a sense of belonging & the creation of nation state. If media turns this niche, belonging is fragmented & surely some will stop identifying with the nation state theyโre supposed to belong to? What then? on.ft.com/3Ea205v
25.01.2025 11:41 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Call to fix palliative care before assisted dying: MPs okay assisted dying but palliative care in UK is in parlous, cash-strapped state. So isnโt a vote on assisted dying a bit like running before you can walk? Shouldnโt palliative care be sorted 1st? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
30.11.2024 09:34 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Worth watching: the strange โunholy allianceโ of Christian evangelicals raising money for Jewish settlers in Israel because evangelicals want to fulfill the prophecy that the 2nd coming can only happen with the return of diaspora Jews to the Holy Land www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KKK...
17.11.2024 08:49 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0This is the most personal piece of writing Iโve ever had published. I hope it helps the conversation around severe mental illness & suicide & the urgency around funding mental health services โDaddy isnโt coming backโ: surviving my partnerโs suicide | Free to read on.ft.com/30iKRTr
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