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Intriguing new job at the FT open for applications: Explainer Editor job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtim...

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NEW: Queen Elizabeth’s private solicitor spent eight years helping to manage the offshore wealth of an alleged war criminal, Rifaat Al-Assad, the "butcher of Hama" and uncle of Bashar. Via @tbij.bsky.social & @theguardian.com www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

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the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time

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They did, and you can read the letters written by Roman aristocrats living in Gaul who had basically given up on trying to fix anything and retreated to a comfortable self-exile on their vast estates

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Redemptive #Weidringer[TM] at the Wiener Staatsoper for the easterly #Parsifal. Conductor, who cares. But thr singing! Günther Friedrich Groissböck, Klaus Florian Vogt, Anja Kampe, Schmeckenbecher et al.

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Slava Ukraini! Danny Chambers MP, Angus Macdonald MP, Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP, Paul Sweeney MSP, together with the businessman Robert Kilgour have just returned from delivering five repurposed ambulances to troops on the Ukrainian frontline. www.mightyconvoy.org

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“Killed… to death”

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wikipedia editors sometimes make FAQ pages for controversial articles that gets the same complaints over and over and over and i think they're some of the most interesting pages on the entire website!!!

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Interesting proposition from @aitorehm.bsky.social www.politico.eu/article/dona...

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[turning up to the fist fight with a loaded gun] maybe Americans wouldn't be so obsessed with "seasoning" if they actually had access to produce that tastes of something

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And then there's this, one of the most beautiful, most moving paintings I've ever seen. Giotto, The Arrest of Christ / Kiss of Judas, c.1304–6, Scrovegni Chapel, Padova (If you've not visited this chapel, and have the chance, please do. Basically, if you go to Venice, go to Padova, too.)

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Pathetic argument. In the UK authors get royalties on photocopies made of our work for teaching even though each will typically be a negligible part of a school or university’s total photocopying and easily replaced by other work. Let them train on noise if there’s no difference.

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I helped organise the display of some panels in St Paul's a few years ago, it was really moving and I highly recommend visiting this display if people can

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When I write my maximum opus, a history of the British, it’s going to be called Cold in the Shade

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Oops www.spectator.co.uk/article/jenr...

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The UK AIDS Memorial Quilt is going to be shown in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall June 12-16. I saw sections of it a couple of years ago and it was one of the most moving experiences I've had, to feel connected to my queer kith and kin.

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I legit think it's a fetish at this point, there's not really another explanation for it.

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Downturn in China hits sales at Hermès https://www.ft.com/content/34537bf7-3c08-407b-8e85-5297629f9cc2

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Retirement isn’t an epilogue — it’s a rewrite. I’ve been learning the hard way that freedom isn’t about doing everything — but choosing what matters. My essay on life after investment banking in @financialtimes.com Weekend Magazine is up on the website. www.ft.com/content/1c64...

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delusional. he’s 2 years old tops.

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Exactly. No one has a problem with basic bitch patriotism, they have problems with the policy

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Using the tax authorities to punish political & ideological enemies. A classic authoritarian move. “The Internal Revenue Service is weighing whether to revoke Harvard’s tax exemption, according to three people familiar with the matter” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/u...

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It made me feel some kind of way today to drive home through Altadena and see the roses flowering in front of the charred remains of houses 💔🌹

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Young people aren’t spending enough on lattes and avocado toast.

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on.ft.com/4ihnrQr

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One of the Blue Origin crew from this week just told the World Service: “Space is humbling, it’s quiet, it’s vast and it’s unlike anything on Earth.” So glad Bezos sent such sharp minds up there.

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Living within your means is hurting the economy.

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Nasty work. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

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Imagine learning from a prison in Belarus that Elon Musk is shutting down the U.S. media outlet where your work covering an authoritarian government landed you in jail for three years. Meet Andrei Kuznechyk: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/w...

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I've been in El Salvador all day fighting for the return of Mr. Abrego Garcia. The Trump Administration can lie all they want, but the Court said they failed to show he was part of MS-13. This is about bringing home a man they ADMIT should never have been abducted. I won't rest until then.

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Grok, is it good if you still have pictures of traders with their head in their hands two weeks after a market shock? - on.ft.com/3Et51yl

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Fyre Festival 2 has been "postponed," according to the event organizers

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Rauschenberg's assistant Hisachika Takahashi: Then he started making his Cardboard [1971– 72] artwork. My job was to cut plywood in the shape he wanted and to glue the cardboard box and then he signed it and that’s it, he was done. It happened to be not too successful. Q: What do you mean?

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‘Rural Electrification 1956’ by Maurice Riordan (from Selected Poems)

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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro says he hasn't heard from Trump since the arson incident at the governor's mansion.

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The Onion uncovers what’s inside Elon Musk’s $35 million Texas compound. Explore Elon Musk's entire compound here: theonion.com/inside-elon-...

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Mr. Abrego Garcia was illegally abducted by the Trump Admin and, by their own admission, wrongly deported to El Salvador. He shouldn’t have to spend another second away from his family. I'm flying to El Salvador tomorrow morning to check on his condition and discuss his return.

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Tuesday, MLB's annual Jackie Robinson commemoration served as a flashpoint of President Donald Trump’s quest to eliminate DEI efforts. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar used a Dodger Stadium speech to issue a forceful rebuke of Trump’s policies. http://dlvr.it/TKBpcz

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I’m not being helpful, am I?

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Crushing ending to this piece written by a doctor at a residence for asylum-seekers www.the-fence.com/hotel-britan...

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Letter in the FT: on.ft.com/42wOdi5

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Among other things in this insane wsj article, Elon hits up women on DMs to have his babies, of which he seems to have dozens. He sets them up with money partly structured as loans. He has a compound in TX where he wants each mom/kids to live in separate residences. Kids are called his “legion”.

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In an open letter, the 36 members of the Board of Deputies of British Jews said they could not “turn a blind eye or remain silent at this renewed loss of life and livelihoods”. on.ft.com/3RPJoez

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Remember this isn't even the guy that the Supreme Court is insisting be brought back. This is ANOTHER guy picked up and shipped to the gulag for no reason.

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