Tony Tassell

Marinelli: my 15-year quest to ski the biggest face in the Alps The FT’s travel editor on falling down a rabbit hole of obsession with the ‘most difficult, most beautiful’ descent in Europe

helluva an adventure from the FT travel editor Tom Robbins - skiing down the Monte Rosa, a huge massif that sits on the Swiss-Italian border - described as "the most impressive, most dangerous, most difficult — but also most beautiful — descent in the Alps”. www.ft.com/content/3fc3...

How western governments took down Europe’s most powerful crime group Our second series investigates the rise and fall of a Dubai-based super cartel

the Kinahans also featured in a podcast series by @miles-johnson.bsky.social in late 2023 www.ft.com/content/4040...

The world is looking for the Kinahan drug lords. We found them Our investigation has obtained images of Daniel and Christy Kinahan living freely in Dubai despite an international manhunt. Why aren’t they in custody?

maybe there should be less focus on the influencers of Dubai and more on the likes of Kinahans - this is a remarkable investigation, tracking them down through an AI-powered facial recognition search by the Times and Bellingcat www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...

The Mansfield Town scorer Will Evans only turned professional at age 24 in 2022

This story should probably get more attention - @jamiesmythft.bsky.social rpts anlaysts are warning Trump’s decision not to refill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve drained by Biden has left consumers exposed to an oil price shock www.ft.com/content/d546...

YouTube video by Federal Reserve Chair Powell’s Birthday Message for Chairman Greenspan, March 6, 2026

Here at the Fed, we are rationally exuberant to celebrate your 100th birthday with you. Happy birthday, Alan Greenspan!
youtu.be/lp1sJDa5MsI

Politico’s owner praises JD Vance for his ‘inspiring message’ in Munich Mathias Döpfner says many Europeans had ‘intentionally misunderstood’ the US vice-president’s speech

an interview here from last year with Mathias Döpfner, chief executive of Axel Springer, which has just agreed to buy the Telegraph www.ft.com/content/cb1c...

Axel Springer poised to buy Telegraph in £500mn deal German media group has gatecrashed a proposed acquisition by the owner of the Daily Mail

Media group Axel Springer is poised to agree a £500mn deal for the Telegraph in a move that will scupper the proposed acquisition of the UK newspaper group by the Daily Mail - FT scoop by @danielthomasldn.bsky.social @arashmassoudi.ft.com James Fontanella Khan www.ft.com/content/e5cb...

super impressive...you have a very cool daughter - her mother's genes?

The billionaire ‘buccaneer’ braving the Strait of Hormuz George Prokopiou’s Dynacom is one of the few legal operators willing to sail to and from the Gulf

The billionaire ‘buccaneer’ braving the Strait of Hormuz - report by @jamie-john.ft.com Malcolm Moore and @nassosstylianou.bsky.social. Shipping is such an interesting business www.ft.com/content/dd34...

From @duncanrobinson.bsky.social's take on the schadenfreude over the plight of British expats in Dubai www.economist.com/britain/2026...

Fabian Hürzeler Called Out Arsenal Over Time-Wasting, But Were They Really That Bad? | Opta Analyst Brighton boss Fabian Hürzeler was scathing of Arsenal's perceived timewasting at the Amex Stadium on Wednesday. Opta data can tell us how bad it really was.

theanalyst.com/articles/ars...

Iran war risks turning into a battle of endurance Tehran tactics seek to draw in Gulf states and others

"This doesn’t end with total capitulation, total victory. This likely ends with a very messy security situation, with heightened risk lingering for weeks and months." - @emile-hokayem.bsky.social here in this excellent podcast with @gideonrachman.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/7318...

Looking forward to Arsenal fans counting every time a Hürzeler team goalkeeper goes down in a match or producing data how many times his current goalkeeper has done it.

this was a great chart from the year book too. As Rob says: " But if you think the market is concentrated now, have a look at the market in 1900, when it was basically a forum for owning bits of railroads. " www.ft.com/content/1693...

"The day the UBS Global Investment Returns Yearbook appears is something like Christmas Day for sad markets nerds." - @robarmstrong.bsky.social here on some of its findings this year. One ignore geopolitics

Arsenal are 10 points better off than last season in the equivalent results after winning tonight. City are 11 points better off. If both teams match last season's results to the end of the season, the points tallies will be:

84 Arsenal
82 Man City

Phew - that was a very long second half. Very tough league.

Supply chain disruption will be a big problem from the Iran war and the closing of the Strait of Hormuz - often coming in ways that might not be well known. Ie this example in the FT live blog www.ft.com/content/9a9b...

Energy prices up, markets down

We done a pod innit

Me + @robarmstrong.bsky.social + FT oil nerd @jamiesmythft.bsky.social on The Obvious featuring:

-oil 📈
-Gas 🚀
-anyone fancy piloting a ship through the Strait of Hormuz? Anyone? 🚢
-markets 🤮
-sausage rolls 🥧
-2026 is going *just great* 👍🏻

open.spotify.com/episode/3h5w...

sorry....

Guys, the Italian unemployment rate has just fallen below the UK's.

Restarting tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz is not going to be quick even with US military escorts and government insurance schemes, experts tell the FT www.ft.com/content/e006...

Iran war presents a different script for markets Investors have been right to identify geopolitics as a rising risk factor

Iran war presents a different script for markets - FT column here from @duncanweldon.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/8ed9...

think Arteta tried to recruit to have has many options for different attack as possible..whether it has worked or not is a different matter

yes and team sit back and defend deep against us - harder to get open play goals in such circumstances

other site even

seen on the other side though

In charts: How serious is the Middle East gas price shock? Qatar LNG shutdown threatens bigger supply hit than the Ukraine war

In charts: How serious is the Middle East gas price shock www.ft.com/content/78fb...

Kevin Warsh’s push to shrink Federal Reserve’s balance sheet would evolve slowly Central bank chair nominee faces scepticism over his hopes to scale back one of policymakers’ most powerful tools

Kevin Warsh’s push to shrink Fed’s balance sheet would evolve slowly, according to people familiar with his thinking. FT Scoop by @senojerialc.bsky.social @pollard.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/6cd6...