Matthew Garrahan

Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

He is, instead, a 59-year-old Long Island wine importer named Bill DeBlasio, who merely responded to an email from a journalist seeking his views on Democrat Zohran Mamdani’s policies. “I’m Bill DeBlasio. I’ve always been Bill DeBlasio,” DeBlasio said in an interview conducted Wednesday evening through his Ring doorbell in Huntington Station, Long Island, from his current location in Florida. “I never once said I was the mayor. He never addressed me as the mayor,” DeBlasio told Semafor Wednesday evening. “So I just gave him my opinion.”

I’m crying

www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

If you feel the need to do something in the wake of the Manchester attack why not donate to the Community Security Trust, the organisation that works to keep jews in Britain safe

cst.org.uk/donate-now

Sadiq Khan at New Statesman event at Labour conference. "I love coming to Liverpool. I love the people, I love the food, I love the football. And it gives me a break from Sharia Law in London"

Burnham speaks... to @mattgarrahan.bsky.social
on.ft.com/4nOWyGC

“.. He told POLITICO his experts are “able to reveal a face using AI, if they have 35 percent or more of the face visible.”

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

PS BCG consultants raved that their great development plan could "increase the value of Gaza to $324bn from $0 today". So that's nice

I mean...

One of the great reverse ferrets

Tony Blair’s staff took part in ‘Gaza Riviera’ project with BCG Former UK prime minister’s institute participated in meetings on plan to turn shattered enclave into trading hub

NEW: Tony Blair's staff took part in a BCG project for the redevelopment of Gaza along the lines of the 'Trump Riviera' plan www.ft.com/content/0b1b...

What have I, what have I, what have I done to deserve this?

No no no you have to wait

A poignant report from our ever-brilliant Najmeh Bozorgmehr

@profgalloway.com on the risk difference between UK/Europe and the US

Scott Galloway: ‘This is the time to fight for America’ [FREE TO READ] The podcaster, professor and investor pulls no punches on Trump, wealth and the plight of young men

Scott Galloway on Mark Zuckerberg ("a c***"), the UK ("a butler economy") and the plight of young men ("no group has fallen further, faster")

on.ft.com/4k23zlu

What Malta owes my murdered mother Those in power seem more focused on moving on than making changes to protect those who speak the truth

Paul Caruana Galizia, Daphne’s son (and our wonderful colleague), has written a piece today on where Malta stands now, following these convictions. on.ft.com/3HEoj5b

The nuclear mountain that haunts Israel Buried half a kilometre underground, Iran’s Fordow enrichment facility is the ultimate test of Israeli air power

The nuclear mountain that haunts Israel - a look at Iran’s Fordow enrichment facility buried deep underground near the ancient religious city of Qom. www.ft.com/content/46c6...

Sabres! 👏

You're allowed to join the old ranks now

Blunt advice from Michael Moritz for fellow Silicon Valley techies following the Musk-Trump fallout:

on.ft.com/4kEErlW Musk vs Trump is a cautionary tale for Silicon Valley

Lolololol

LPJ literally owns The Atlantic magazine, which has broken some of the biggest Trump scoops. So I'm not sure I agree

Ive says of San Francisco and Silicon Valley: "When I first moved here [in 1992] I came because it was characterised by people who genuinely saw that their purpose was in service to humanity, to inspire people and help people create. I don’t feel that way about this place right now.”

‘Humanity deserves better’: Jony Ive and Laurene Powell Jobs on tech’s next chapter [FREE TO READ] After Apple, the Silicon Valley visionaries are looking to artificial intelligence to shape the future again

I went to San Francisco to interview Laurene Powell Jobs and Jony Ive. Friends for 28 years, they are both worried about the direction tech has taken on.ft.com/4ksEktA

Do you get those leather patches on the elbows if you spend $3.3k?

So my mum decided to try using Uber. Long story short, she downloaded the wrong app and has accidentally signed up as a driver

I like how you're working your way through the canon. But the DC movies, with the exception of the Nolan Batman films, can't touch the MCU

Call RSPB!