Tom Braithwaite

The covert trip by Iranian nuclear experts to Russia An Iranian delegation visited Russian scientific institutes that produce dual-use technologies — components with potential applications in nuclear weapons research

Iranian nuclear experts made a covert trip to Russia, visiting US-sanctioned scientific institutes that specialise in nuclear technology with civilian and weapons application.
investigation by
@miles-johnson.bsky.social and @maxseddon.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/00f6...

Tony Blair Institute staff worked alongside BCG on a project for postwar Gaza that ended up proposing a 'Trump Riviera', 'MBS ring' road and 'Elon Musk smart manufacturing zone'. Latest scoop from @stephenfoley and @PickardJE www.ft.com/content/0b1b...

The real Salt Path: how the couple behind a bestseller le... Penniless and homeless, the Winns found fame and fortune with the story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. We can reveal it was far from the truth

It’s amazing what people get away with

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Triumphing under Trump: the corporate winners and losers [FREE TO READ] How global companies have fared since the US president’s inauguration

on.ft.com/4mS2orf Triumphing under Trump: the corporate winners and losers

Vanilla Ice

Gwen Robinson, FT foreign correspondent and editor, 1960-2025 [FREE TO READ] The Asia expert was known for her network of contacts, intrepid reporting and ability to handle big egos

Goodbye to Gwen Robinson, Asia correspondent extraordinaire, doyenne of FT oped editors, a one-person nuclear power plant, and a true & beloved friend to so many people all over the world. FT's obituary free to read here. enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/3de26...

FT Alphaville is hiring The best job in journalism is open for applications

Do you write good? Are you keen on wonky stuff? Then come work for us.

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The madness of the £100,000 childcare tax trap With some parents requiring a 50 per cent pay rise to mitigate the effects of the threshold, the trap is zapping productivity

The infuriatingly stupid UK tax trap that is dissuading people from working and taking pay rises. www.ft.com/content/8fc5...

Inside the downfall of trading titan and Blackpool FC owner Simon Sadler He was a heavyweight in Hong Kong finance and a hometown hero. Now he faces the possibility of jail

Hong Kong hedge funds, Blackpool football, 70 sources, 5 uses of the c-word. Something for everyone in @kayewiggins epic tale of Simon Sadler www.ft.com/content/4420...

Who is Jan Marsalek, the absconded fraudster and Russian spymaster to 3 Bulgarians convicted in the UK today?

Well, let me tell you a story about a high school drop-out who masterminded a $30bn financial fraud in the heart of Europe while trying to build a North African militia as a side hustle.

DeepSeek spreads across China with Beijing’s backing The AI start-up’s models are being rapidly adopted by state-owned enterprises, hospitals and local governments

"One doctor at a public hospital in Hubei province in central China said the institution’s leadership had issued a directive that DeepSeek should be used as a third-party arbiter if two doctors have differing views on a patient’s treatment"

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I wrote about my brother Charlie’s final 48 hours, and his increasingly desperate attempts to track down an emergency supply of medication from the NHS. It’s an upsetting read but one I’m proud of. He’d be delighted to have made the @financialtimes.com magazine front cover: on.ft.com/434zZqn

Politico’s owner praises JD Vance for ‘inspiring message’ Mathias Döpfner says many Europeans had ‘intentionally misunderstood’ the US vice-president’s speech that caused widespread horror

What does Politico’s owner think of Trump after he falsely accused it of taking $8m of US aid money and ended government subscriptions to the “left wing rag”? Interview by Laura Pitel and @gideonrachman.bsky.social on.ft.com/41l2Aqj

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Gary Stevenson claims to have been the best trader in the world. His old colleagues disagree What is the truth behind the inequality campaigner’s Citigroup memoir?

Two useful sentences in this latest Guardian puff piece on ex-Citi trader Gary Stevenson.
1. "Stevenson’s is an incredible story."
2. "There are fundamentals here that I’m embarrassed to admit I don’t really get."
Anyway, this other piece is good www.ft.com/content/7e8b...

A kicker to live by.

Thursday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

Alphaville LLC issues new research report on Greenland A sell-side icebreaker

Our reiterated $1.1tn sum-of-the-parts value for Greenland is a significant premium to its government’s end-2023 NAV of DKr1bn ($138bn). America Corp's last formal offer for the territory ($100mn in gold bullion, 1946,
rejected)… on.ft.com/3DIGKno

It's Not Looking Great The slow assassination of the free press.

The trend lines are bad for the free press.
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Smashed this. Hny 🎉

Syria's Doge is already quizzing bureaucrats on what they do all day. Great piece from Raya Jalabi and Sarah Dadouch
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Memo to the Assads: Putin may welcome you in Moscow, but I wouldn't drink his tea | Marina Hyde The Russian leader may be a warm and attentive host: he may also be cross that Assad is now his problem. But then life’s full of uncertainty, isn’t it, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

“And of course, the Assads may yet plunge further – for all the overly impressed reports of apartments in glittering Moscow skyscrapers, I must say I’d have picked something on the ground floor myself.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Russian forces stay put at key military bases in Syria Satellite imagery shows no signs of withdrawal from air and naval facilities

Russia is holding on to the main naval and air bases it uses as staging points for the Mediterranean and Africa, even as it pulls its forces back from smaller outposts in Syria following the overthrow of its ally Bashar al-Assad. www.ft.com/content/1922...

One of the FT’s biggest UK reporting jobs was posted this week

Chief UK Business Correspondent

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Nato chief Mark Rutte toDonald Trump: “We cannot have a situation where we have Kim Jong Un and the Russian leader and Xi Jinping and Iran high-fiving…” www.ft.com/content/8a80... . Interview by Henry Foy

Keir Starmer meets BlackRock boss Larry Fink in Downing Street Discussions between ministers and asset manager’s board covered regulatory delays and boosting UK growth

This is where we’re at:
BlackRock held a board meeting in London “in what the government described as a ‘vote of confidence’ in the UK.” on.ft.com/3OhBitH