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Tom Braithwaite @tombraithwaite.bsky.social · Jul 6

Tony Blair Institute staff worked alongside BCG on a project for postwar Gaza that ended up proposing a 'Trump Riviera', 'MBS ring' road and 'Elon Musk smart manufacturing zone'. Latest scoop from @stephenfoley and @PickardJE www.ft.com/content/0b1b...

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · Jul 6

It’s amazing what people get away with

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Penniless and homeless, the Winns found fame and fortune with the story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. We can reveal it was far from the truth

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Tom Braithwaite @tombraithwaite.bsky.social · Jun 7

on.ft.com/4mS2orf Triumphing under Trump: the corporate winners and losers

Triumphing under Trump: the corporate winners and losers

[FREE TO READ] How global companies have fared since the US president’s inauguration

Gwen Robinson, FT foreign correspondent and editor, 1960-2025

Tom Braithwaite @tombraithwaite.bsky.social · Apr 28

Vanilla Ice

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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · Mar 31

Goodbye to Gwen Robinson, Asia correspondent extraordinaire, doyenne of FT oped editors, a one-person nuclear power plant, and a true & beloved friend to so many people all over the world. FT's obituary free to read here. enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/3de26...

[FREE TO READ] The Asia expert was known for her network of contacts, intrepid reporting and ability to handle big egos

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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · Mar 27

Do you write good? Are you keen on wonky stuff? Then come work for us.

on.ft.com/41Nc11W

FT Alphaville is hiring

The best job in journalism is open for applications

The madness of the £100,000 childcare tax trap

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Tom Braithwaite @tombraithwaite.bsky.social · Mar 21

The infuriatingly stupid UK tax trap that is dissuading people from working and taking pay rises. www.ft.com/content/8fc5...

With some parents requiring a 50 per cent pay rise to mitigate the effects of the threshold, the trap is zapping productivity

Inside the downfall of trading titan and Blackpool FC owner Simon Sadler

Tom Braithwaite @tombraithwaite.bsky.social · Mar 14

Hong Kong hedge funds, Blackpool football, 70 sources, 5 uses of the c-word. Something for everyone in @kayewiggins epic tale of Simon Sadler www.ft.com/content/4420...

He was a heavyweight in Hong Kong finance and a hometown hero. Now he faces the possibility of jail

DeepSeek spreads across China with Beijing’s backing

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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · Mar 7

Who is Jan Marsalek, the absconded fraudster and Russian spymaster to 3 Bulgarians convicted in the UK today?

Well, let me tell you a story about a high school drop-out who masterminded a $30bn financial fraud in the heart of Europe while trying to build a North African militia as a side hustle.

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · Feb 27

"One doctor at a public hospital in Hubei province in central China said the institution’s leadership had issued a directive that DeepSeek should be used as a third-party arbiter if two doctors have differing views on a patient’s treatment"

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The AI start-up’s models are being rapidly adopted by state-owned enterprises, hospitals and local governments

Politico’s owner praises JD Vance for ‘inspiring message’

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Madison Marriage @madisonmarriage.bsky.social · Feb 23

I wrote about my brother Charlie’s final 48 hours, and his increasingly desperate attempts to track down an emergency supply of medication from the NHS. It’s an upsetting read but one I’m proud of. He’d be delighted to have made the @financialtimes.com magazine front cover: on.ft.com/434zZqn

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Tom Braithwaite @tombraithwaite.bsky.social · Feb 20

What does Politico’s owner think of Trump after he falsely accused it of taking $8m of US aid money and ended government subscriptions to the “left wing rag”? Interview by Laura Pitel and @gideonrachman.bsky.social on.ft.com/41l2Aqj

Mathias Döpfner says many Europeans had ‘intentionally misunderstood’ the US vice-president’s speech that caused widespread horror

Gary Stevenson claims to have been the best trader in the world. His old colleagues disagree

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Joe Miller @joemillerjr.ft.com · Feb 4

📣 If you work at any of the DOGE-targeted US govt agencies and want to talk to the Financial Times in CONFIDENCE about recent developments, my details are below. 📣

✉️ [email protected]
🔐 Signal: @joemillerjr.48
LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/joemiller...

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Tom Braithwaite @tombraithwaite.bsky.social · Jan 24

Two useful sentences in this latest Guardian puff piece on ex-Citi trader Gary Stevenson.
1. "Stevenson’s is an incredible story."
2. "There are fundamentals here that I’m embarrassed to admit I don’t really get."
Anyway, this other piece is good www.ft.com/content/7e8b...

What is the truth behind the inequality campaigner’s Citigroup memoir?

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Tom Braithwaite @tombraithwaite.bsky.social · Jan 11

A kicker to live by.

Alphaville LLC issues new research report on Greenland

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Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social · Jan 8

Thursday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

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Tom Braithwaite @tombraithwaite.bsky.social · Jan 8

Our reiterated $1.1tn sum-of-the-parts value for Greenland is a significant premium to its government’s end-2023 NAV of DKr1bn ($138bn). America Corp's last formal offer for the territory ($100mn in gold bullion, 1946,
rejected)… on.ft.com/3DIGKno

A sell-side icebreaker

The slow assassination of the free press.

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · Jan 5

The trend lines are bad for the free press.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/its-not-lo...

It's Not Looking Great

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Tom Braithwaite @tombraithwaite.bsky.social · Dec 31

Smashed this. Hny 🎉

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Tom Braithwaite @tombraithwaite.bsky.social · Dec 11

Syria's Doge is already quizzing bureaucrats on what they do all day. Great piece from Raya Jalabi and Sarah Dadouch
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Tom Braithwaite @tombraithwaite.bsky.social · Dec 11

“And of course, the Assads may yet plunge further – for all the overly impressed reports of apartments in glittering Moscow skyscrapers, I must say I’d have picked something on the ground floor myself.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Memo to the Assads: Putin may welcome you in Moscow, but I wouldn't drink his tea | Marina Hyde

The Russian leader may be a warm and attentive host: he may also be cross that Assad is now his problem. But then life’s full of uncertainty, isn’t it, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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Russian forces stay put at key military bases in Syria

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Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com · Dec 10

Russia is holding on to the main naval and air bases it uses as staging points for the Mediterranean and Africa, even as it pulls its forces back from smaller outposts in Syria following the overthrow of its ally Bashar al-Assad. www.ft.com/content/1922...

Satellite imagery shows no signs of withdrawal from air and naval facilities