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BA is performing better than other airlines at Heathrow for the first time since the pandemic - although it's still worse than it used to be, with 8 in every 100 flights cancelled or severely delayed over the past year ✈️ www.ft.com/content/7ece...

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🟡 NEW: As the PR industry scrambles to figure out how to buffer its clients’ brands and reputations through the new medium of AI chatbots, some firms have reached a surprising conclusion: The best way to get your client’s message into the output is by talking to journalists

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Alphaville x Weekend FT on.ft.com/3H2aWLC

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“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”

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New story from me, @eadehemingway.bsky.social, @chriscook.news and Paul Caruana Galizia. We found evidence of people buying Melania Coin from its online marketplace before it was launched. They made around 100 million dollars selling their holdings as the price rose. www.ft.com/content/f579...

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It's officially summer in London Fields

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New 📈✍️ with @rafeuddin.ft.com Trump execs suggest robots can fill US manufacturing labour gaps after reshoring. But experts say cost and lack of skilled workers mean companies can't "pivot on a dime". China & Korea's 🤖 booms came after lots of government subsidies. US robots will be tariffed...

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My contribution to our charticle on Trump's tumultuous first 100 days. It's not uncommon for presidents to use exec orders to roll back previous admin's ones, but Trump has taken it to extremes enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/64949...

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this seems not great - demand slump fuelled by Trump tariffs hits US ports and air freight. FT report here www.ft.com/content/967a...

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I don't think I've ever read an article more precision engineered to my interests (as a data journalist and owner of a chicken wine T-shirt) pudding.cool/2025/04/wine...

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The evolution of European tech style — and what it says about the industry.

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The closing of the gender gap in reporting gender gap and the shift from CEO to HR for reporting of gender pay gap data in the UK as a sign that this reporting is institutionalising by @claradoodle.bsky.social on.ft.com/4lvZ0BE

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The gender gap in gender pay gap reporting closed for the first time this year, according to my analysis of UK gov data

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peak enshittification - if I want to stop Gemini popping up all over the place and interrupting my work, I'm not allowed to use email categories 💩

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😬 pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...

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This chart was made in America by skilled artisans. It also provides important context for understanding our current tariff situation.

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It looks like it was Pink who broke U.K. statistics, not Taylor Swift! on.ft.com/4iXjem7

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NEW: Trump hopes that his tariffs will erode China’s surplus and allow US factories to compete. But the Chinese trade juggernaut is built on deep competitive advantages built up over decades and will not be easily dislodged Our visual deep dive into China's trade dominance ig.ft.com/china-trade-...

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Charting solar power's explosive global growth! From 2019 to 2024, countries have moved right (higher share, %) and up (more solar power, TWh), with the boom spanning small to large power markets. @ember-energy.org's Global Electricity Review is out today! ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

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NEW: Spoke to 25 small publishers about the kind of impact Google's AI changes to search has had on their businesses. Things don't look good—not for the publishers, and not for the quality of information out on the open web, which ironically Google itself relies on. Gift link: bloom.bg/43Jmzk3

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Was looking at options to book a dinner this weekend & I'm sorry to this pub but an entire website of AI generated photos is incredibly off-putting 😬

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The US imports most of its trainers from Vietnam and other countries hit by the highest levels of tariffs. Charts for a story on what that will mean for Nike, Puma and Adidas www.ft.com/content/c6fe...

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Look At This Chart. What If It Means Something Bad?

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New! The median UK gender pay gap is at a record low, filings ahead of today's deadline suggest - but it's remained stubbornly high in the financial sector, even ticking upward at some major bank groups this year on.ft.com/3YiX0mh

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Top Wall Street institutions are prepping for global warming that blows past the Paris Agreement. "We now expect a 3°C world," Morgan Stanley analysts wrote, a scenario in which harvest failures are widespread and sea-level rise is measured in feet rather than inches. www.eenews.net/articles/big...

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When weed is legalized go long McD’s/ short gyms - Klement open.substack.com/pub/klemento...

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💩📈: The headline sewage overflow figures are pretty dire, but digging into the data there's some really shocking stuff. For e.g., one of South West Water’s overflows in Devon spewed for 365 full days in 2024 - but the company failed to carry out any repairs or maintenance on.ft.com/3XDELYC

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DWP is using a sleight of hand in its disability benefit cuts impact assessment: Actual increase in poverty is closer to 400,000, not the 250,000 in the impact assessment. Quick thread explaining why. 🧵1/7

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The OBR forecasts that in 5 years' time, cuts to disability benefits will be the single biggest change to Government finances announced today

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NEW: Hossam Shabat’s Last Article Filed hours before his killing in an Israeli airstrike, journalist Hossam Shabat describes the resumption of Israel's scorched earth campaign in his hometown of Beit Hanoun. Translated through tears by Sharif Kouddous dropsitenews.com/p/hossam-sha...

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This is the first time Bluesky has truly felt like old Twitter, in that my entire feed is just increasingly esoteric jokes about a single news event (new phone, houthis?)

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"A visit by the Holy Father to Yemen, while admittedly unlikely at present for a variety of reasons, would potentially have a significant effect on the amount of molluscs that it sells to Italy or Ireland." on.ft.com/41U9kdU

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For this weekend’s mag @claradoodle.bsky.social did something I have always dreamt of: she got restaurants to show us their booking data and how it’s effected by various forms of publicity. What matters more, TopJaw or an FT review? 😬 … with lovely interactive charts on.ft.com/4iE7PYj

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How do restaurants build up a buzz? Some of the UK's coolest restaurants were kind enough to share their insights and bookings data with me for FT Magazine 📈🍝 on.ft.com/41KF3y7 (Gift link)

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I wrote about Irishness, sort of www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

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EV sales v Tesla sales Is it politics in China, or just that Chinese EVs are now better? Excellent Chart of the Week from @tortoisemedia.bsky.social

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More than 200 of America’s largest corporate groups have culled references to 'diversity, equity and inclusion' from their annual reports in a rapid pullback from the corporate values that have become a target of President Donald Trump’s administration www.ft.com/content/c232...

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New 📈: How US companies are dropping DEI from annual reports as Trump targets corporate values (gift link) on.ft.com/3Fz5Ypa

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The lovely local community garden in Hoxton is closing due to lack of funds - not sure what the options are to save it at this point but signing this petition seems like a good start 🙏 chng.it/ppQr7Cy5VX

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🚨 @newscientist.com SCOOP: I've exclusively obtained Peter Kyle's interactions with ChatGPT using FOI laws - in what I believe may be a world-first transparency release. The chatbot said "Lack of Government or Institutional Support" slowed UK AI adoption www.newscientist.com/article/2472...

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How Donald Trump Jr is championing the Maga economy is explored by Alex Rogers, Paul Caruana Galizia and James Fontanella-Khan FT www.ft.com/content/cae2...

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English cows go “moo”, while French cows go “meuh”, and Korean cows go “음메”. Our newest project takes a look at how animal sounds translate across languages and cultures. pudding.cool/2025/03/lang...

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Yep, I think that pretty much sums it up, @simoncalder.bsky.social

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This is so beside the point but I enjoyed the phrase "dressed to avoid attention — wearing high vis"

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Huge win! Government announces plans to open up the Land Registry. If delivered, will finally reveal more about who owns land in England and Wales. Read my blog post for more details & how you can write to the Minister to make sure this now happens: whoownsengland.org/2025/03/06/h... 🧵1/

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