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Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · 13d

A new financial impetus for peace in Ukraine -- Friedrich Merz writes for @financialtimes.com on.ft.com/48176hn

A new financial impetus for peace in Ukraine

[FREE TO READ] We need the mobilisation of resources on a scale that will secure Kyiv’s military resilience

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Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · 15d

In which @ranaforoohar.bsky.social and I discuss the 'Donroe doctrine' on.ft.com/4mCkigl

Trump’s U-turn on China

[FREE TO READ] There has been a discernible shift in how this administration is dealing with Beijing

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Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · 20d

"Trump namechecked Shakespeare, Dickens, Orwell — authors whose works he has undoubtedly devoured."
@jemima.bsky.social on the US president's adventures in Windsorland on.ft.com/4nbU45u

Donald Trump’s adventures in Windsorland

[FREE TO READ] The US president luxuriated in a warm bath of royal pomp and circumstance

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Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · 27d

Desmond King, professor of American government at Oxford, for @ftopinion on Charlie Kirk and America’s inability to escape political violence on.ft.com/46iaWQL

Charlie Kirk and America’s inability to escape political violence

[FREE TO READ] The killings of an activist, politician and CEO in the past year show the resurgence of violent means across the spectrum

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Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · Sep 5

In today's edition of FT Swamp Notes I examine the idea of 'state capitalism with American characteristics'. @ranaforoohar.bsky.social responds on.ft.com/4mNZmno

American capitalism: inspired by China?

[FREE TO READ] How are we to understand Trump’s meddling in the US economy?

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Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · Aug 18

@sohrabahmari.bsky.social and I debate Trump’s federalisation of the Washington DC police force on.ft.com/3JiOmjb

Donald Trump says DC is a ‘horror show’. How should Democrats respond?

[FREE TO READ] Simply denying the president, who rose to prominence in New York’s 1970s crime wave, is not effective politics

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Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · Aug 15

Great to have @gideonrachman.bsky.social writing today's edition of FT Swamp Notes on Wang Huning's vision of America (with a brief response from me) on.ft.com/41L6BE6

China’s vision of America

[FREE TO READ] A book published more than 30 years ago by a close confidant of Xi Jinping now looks uncannily prescient

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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · Aug 13

George called Dave who called his mate Johnny who owns the manor then George called Robert and Chris to come for drinks and Nigel for breakfast! All united by their determination to bring down the elites!

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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · Aug 12

One of the many consequences of Trump is that he strips all our old ambitions down to simple preservation. A year ago I wanted a better Fed, with better tools, one that actually thought about productive loans, like the law says it should. Now I just want the old Fed to survive.

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Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · Aug 12

What if Trump picks an inflation nutter for Fed chair?
@chrisgiles.ft.com asks the question on everyone's lips on.ft.com/47bLqPp

What if Trump picks an inflation nutter for Fed chair?

[FREE TO READ] With US checks and balances on the retreat, it is unwise to be an optimist

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Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · Aug 11

I've written today's edition of the FT's Swamp Notes newsletter on the Texas redistricting affair (with a reply from our esteemed Washington bureau chief, James Politi) on.ft.com/3UZ5FrS

You say ‘redistricting’, I say ‘gerrymandering’ — let’s call the whole thing off

[FREE TO READ] Democrats face some uncomfortable choices in the face of the GOP’s cartographical shock and awe

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Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · Aug 6

We can end the scandal of child poverty if we want to, argues Rowan Williams in @financialtimes.com on.ft.com/45mukeZ

We can end the scandal of child poverty if we want to

[FREE TO READ] Too often the very young are made to carry the consequences of decisions they haven’t made

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Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · Aug 6

Trump's war on data will do lasting damage - former BLS commissioners @ericagroshen.bsky.social and William Beach write for @financialtimes.com on.ft.com/3UNbf0x

Former BLS commissioners: Trump’s war on data will do lasting harm

[FREE TO READ] Reliable government statistics are one of the cornerstones of the American economy

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Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · Aug 1

The latest edition of the FT's Swamp Notes newsletter:
@edwardluce.bsky.social on the west's complicity in Gaza on.ft.com/4lTdtax

The west’s complicity in Gaza

[FREE TO READ] Trump’s acknowledgment of starvation could mark a belated turning point in his relationship with Netanyahu

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Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · Jul 29

Me on new books by JM Coetzee and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · Jul 29

Can language ever be objective? on.ft.com/4l5us8D

Can language ever be objective?

[FREE TO READ] New books by JM Coetzee and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o look at the global dominance of English and the complicated job of translation

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Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · Jul 29

Me on new books by JM Coetzee and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · Jul 29

Can language ever be objective? on.ft.com/4l5us8D

Can language ever be objective?

[FREE TO READ] New books by JM Coetzee and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o look at the global dominance of English and the complicated job of translation

on.ft.com

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Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · Jul 29

Can language ever be objective? on.ft.com/4l5us8D

Can language ever be objective?

[FREE TO READ] New books by JM Coetzee and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o look at the global dominance of English and the complicated job of translation

on.ft.com

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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · Jul 24

"The most employable person in conservative circles today is usually the one who makes the loudest claim to have been rendered unemployable."

Matthew Goodwin, Reform and the politics of resentment

The ‘heterodox intellectual’ turned populist is a morbid symptom of the digital age

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Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · Jul 24

Buzz Aldrin writes for @financialtimes.com
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Buzz Aldrin and Vivek Lall: Calling all space pioneers — America needs you

[FREE TO READ] Nasa must work with the private sector and international allies if it wants strategic dominance

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Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · Jul 23

Wonderful scoop here from Kaye Wiggins on.ft.com/3GZXSqA

Macrons file US lawsuit over claims France’s first lady was born male

[FREE TO READ] Case against rightwing influencer Candace Owens is a rare defamation suit from a serving world leader

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Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · Jul 21

I don’t think anyone captured the essence of Mailer-ness as Diane Arbus did (from the fabulous ‘Constellation’ show at the Oark Avenue Armory)

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Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · Jul 21

Andy Haldane on. 'fiscal dominance', 'fiscal populism' and the future of central bank independence on.ft.com/40ZB80C

‘Fiscal populism’ is coming for central banks

[FREE TO READ] When monetary policy is set to meet government budgetary needs, these institutions become piggy banks

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Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · Jul 21

Nicolas Guilhot for @financialtimes.com on digital democratic centralism (aka the 'America party') on.ft.com/44Tva2r

Big Tech can beat political parties at their own game

[FREE TO READ] Elon Musk does not need to launch the “America party” — he already owns the tools to herd individuals into a critical mass

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Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · Jul 18

Pam Bondi, the Trump loyalist swallowed up by the Epstein affair - profile by Stefania Palma on.ft.com/4kJiAJ2

Pam Bondi, the Trump loyalist swallowed up by the Epstein affair

[FREE TO READ] The US attorney-general’s stance has disappointed the president’s Maga base

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Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · Jul 16

I was the NS's culture editor back then, not the deputy. But in all other particulars Nick Lezard's recollection of my small part in his becoming a columnist is spot on

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