Breen Turner

Really getting me in the holiday mood

Ridgeline plot showing daily sea ice extent compared with 1981-2010 average, million sq km, by year. 1979-2024. More days have less Arctic sea ice in recent years.

The Arctic Ocean could see its first ice-free day by 2030, new research shows

"The fact that the Arctic sea ice cover has changed so significantly that [its loss in] 2030 is even a remote possibility shows how much change there has already been in the Arctic environment”

on.ft.com/3DgyKJK

‘Sophisticated’ spy ring passed secrets to Russia for three years, UK court told Court told Bulgarian nationals surveilled targets including a journalist linked to Russian dissident Alexei Navalny

"Marsalek and Roussev...discussed options relating to Christo Grozev...lead Russia investigator with Bellingcat"

"such as carrying out surveillance of him, kidnapping him and taking him to Moscow, killing him and infiltrating Bellingcat"

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

Bulgarians plead guilty to involvement in Jan Marsalek spy ring [FREE TO READ] Two admit conspiracy to spy while three others deny the charge

Bulgarians plead guilty to involvement in Jan Marsalek spy ring

Court hears that former Wirecard executive “was acting as the intermediary for the Russian Intelligence Services”.

Directed them to spy on US air base, among other plots.

The biggest shock of the Haigh resignation is discovering that once upon a time the police actually investigated a stolen phone.

Good man yourself Oedipus, how’re ye keeping these days, tell me now, do y’still have the

A terrific theory that pairs well with the Economist's terrific and terrifying chart of Musk's tweeting.

Rachel Reeves pushes back multiyear UK spending review until June Delay from planned spring 2025 Treasury announcement will extend period of uncertainty for government departments

FT can reveal that the big spending review has been pushed back from the spring to June

(but Treasury still pretending that June is in the spring lol)

www.ft.com/content/edc2...

Captaen Haddock A leithéid de sheachtain Tintin Dé Céadaoin atá ann a Chaptaein

Seasta

Israel will split the western alliance Destroying the International Criminal Court is not in America’s interests

"The fact that the ICC has also indicted Putin, Hamas and numerous African leaders will be brushed aside as the court and its European backers are tarred as Jew-haters." Excellent column by my colleague @gideonrachman.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/896d...

Financial Times having quite a sexy time at the moment aren't they, lot of fun appointments, fun stories, just seem to be generally thriving

Really? Thought she’d prefer an entirely web-based publication 🥁

This is a real shame - odd decision imo and we're all worse off for it

The Media Show - Investigating abuse in the Church of England, Tyson vs Paul, NYT Games, Leaving X for Bluesky - BBC Sounds Cathy Newman on how her journalism brought down the archbishop of Canterbury.

one of the points I made in here (I'm on from c 51:30) is all this talk of Bluesky being an echo chamber is silly.
We all choose newspapers, TV channels, podcasts etc etc that broadly align with our world view, all the time. Always have. All media is an echo chamber www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

where's the obligatory spider?

GRMA!