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Katie Martin

@katie0martin.ft.com

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FT, E17, Unhedged podcast, gardening, making bread, climbing, cycling, 6 Music Mum. I don't deserve my bad Uber rating and I never give investment advice - if it looks like I am, it's a scam.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · Feb 14

If only there had been some kind of warning

- on.ft.com/40Zncmv

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 2h

Some people don't super love Dubai but they get offered good money for a good job and they go for a couple of years. Wouldn't be my choice but I get it.
But a lot of people have made "slagging off the UK and going on about Dubai" their entire personality and it's quite dull

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 2h

I'm not begging anyone to stay. Off you go, have a nice time, watch out for the Russians

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 2h

People keep telling me the UK is so over and they're going to move to Dubai and, like, fine. Go on then. Would you like directions to the airport?

Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 2h

You definitely shouldn't move to Dubai, writes V&A director Tristram Hunt on.ft.com/46MfW1t

Don’t move to Dubai — this is still the place to be

[FREE TO READ] Better to buy the dip and celebrate the UK as an enduring cultural behemoth

on.ft.com

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 17h

😍

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 20h

One of my favorite moments from Nobel Prize history:

The Nobel Committee couldn’t reach Stanford professor Paul Milgrom to let him know that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics, so his fellow winner, Robert Wilson, went over to his house in the middle of the night to wake him up!

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 17h

excellent plan

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100%
life's too short

iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 17h

had a look at HERSCHT by Nobel laureate László Krasznahorkai. It doesn’t have any full stops or paragraphs. I’m out

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 17h

very reassuring to see frequent reminders that this is definitely not a bubble and everything is absolutely fine

(2nd image here is GS)

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 19h

either/or tbqh

Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 19h

applications are still open if you are interested in working with me and @robarmstrong.bsky.social on the Unhedged newsletter

main task is to try and make me look clever and to compensate for my woeful inability to make nice charts

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 19h

that 'don't be a sinner, be a winner' guy from outside topshop

Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 20h

Peter. my dude. what does yer actual Satan have to do with all this?

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 21h

Lolled at Reform's vision of the future, as rendered by the peerless Viz

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 21h

it will of course be a random person that peter thiel does not like

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 22h

yeah if i had infinity money i would honestly just STFU and sit on a yacht somewhere drinking martinis

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 22h

dude seems really preoccupied by the Antichrist emerging from random things he doesn't like, which of course is very normal

Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 22h

Conservative tech lord Thiel said tighter financial regulations “were a sign that a singular world government has begun to emerge that could be taken over by an Antichrist figure who could then use it to exert control over people.” Via WashPost

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 22h

so who wants to volunteer to tell him?

#nobel

a bald man wearing glasses is making a funny face while sitting in front of a wall .

Alt: a bald man wearing glasses is making a funny face while sitting in front of a wall .

media.tenor.com

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 1d

it's actually pronounced 'mane child'

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, happy 88th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians – and someone concussed him with a brick

A man in a suit stands at a microphone which has been mounted on the roof of a van. There are loudspeakers at his feet, and a building behind him. He has an arm raised, and is flinching as projectiles are hurled at him, because he's a fucking Nazi

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Robert Smith @bondhack.ft.com · 1d

Insurers are preparing for a wave of potential claims relating to First Brands’ bankruptcy, as one of Wall Street's biggest debacles in years ripples through the financial system

Latest on the contagion from the auto parts firm’s collapse, with the great @leeharris.ft.com here 👇🏻

on.ft.com/48iuBCO

Insurers prepare for wave of First Brands claims

[FREE TO READ] Allianz, Coface and AIG among groups to have written credit insurance policies linked to bankrupt car parts maker

on.ft.com

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 1d

It's pronounced "nope" or "GTFOOH"

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

Here’s a primer on ‘primer.’

It’s pronounced ‘PRIMM-er’ if you mean “a small book” or “a short informative piece of writing.”

It’s pronounced ‘PRY-mer’ if you mean “an initial coat of paint.”

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 1d

it's fine it's fine nothing to see here

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UK watchdog monitors Tricolor and First Brands collapse for private credit risks

Failures of two US companies reliant on asset-based lending prove ‘useful case studies’, FCA says

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 1d

i blame woke

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Alan Smith @theboysmithy.ft.com · 1d

Council tax valuation bands in England are increasingly disconnected from house prices - new with Sam Fleming and Jonathan Vincent. You can even tap in your own details to see how unfair your council tax bill is on.ft.com/46JBbB9

Screenshot of an interactive Sankey diagram showing how sale prices since January 2024 of properties in Waltham Forest relate to Council Tax bands. Band C sales are highlighted, which show sale prices ranging from under £200,000 to £1mn+

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 2d

Lizzy Line extension?

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 2d

yes. it's always worked for me.