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.
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The EU has diversified supplies away from Russia and only gets around 10% of its gas from Qatar ... but a wider price crunch could still drive up European inflation, especially on LNG-dependent Germany and Italy
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.
thanks Andy!
Natgas...
"In sheer volume, this could be worse than 2022"
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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? 🤖📧
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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
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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…
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"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
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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
For this graphic we compare the terrain of the three most expensive rail projects in the world.
HS2 costs an eye watering $537mn per km despite being built on relatively flat terrain.
Read Gill Plimmer, @pickardje.bsky.social and Jonathan Vincent's excellent article
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The only good thing about Stansted is the guy who works at Harris & Hoole who's learning a bunch of languages and seems to try out different ones on every customer. (Unclear whether he got lucky speaking Irish to me or does ginger based profiling but either way I respect the commitment to the bit)
Great piece by @claradoodle.bsky.social in the @financialtimes.com including comments from me about why, with the ever growing list of issues planning applications are expected to consider, it's little surprise that it takes so long for applications to be determined.
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'Venezuela' rapidly replacing 'tariff' as the word my brain refuses to spell correctly on the first try despite typing it ~100 times per day
Our @yougov.co.uk data journalism extraordinaire Matt Smith has compiled all news tracker results from 2025 into this stunning graphic
This tells us so much about what 'cuts through', how news cycles evolve, and what grabs attention re: flash moments vs ongoing stories
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Maybe a mildly hot take, but the prevalence of firework shows was a function of the nation's industrial capacity for gunpowder and a demonstration of that power capacity via excess.
Drone shows will have the same function in a drone warfare era. "Look how many we can control at once more than you"
