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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 3h

cheers Hetan!

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 1d

Great piece from @emmavj.bsky.social who is calling Peak Vibe www.ft.com/content/14ef...

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 2d

Or... an opportunity to develop colouring-in skills!

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 2d

Yes it is.

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 2d

Those tall stools on that tiny raised platform are making me nervous... do you really want to be adding pints into the mix?

Cat Neilan @catneilan.bsky.social · 2d

Ben Houchen, having a pint of Guinness at 10am, says former PM and close ally Boris Johnson did get immigration wrong.

"The mass increase in immigration we saw over the last 3/4 years - those chickens have come home to roost"

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 2d

I wish you a lifetime of happiness!

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 2d

The Brother HL-L2445DW Mono Laser is the King of Printers. (more here: www.ft.com/content/b48b...) However, it's not a tank printer and only does black-and-white, so it depends what you need it for.

Why do people keep buying printers they hate?

A puzzling tale of capitalism and consumer psychology at a time of technological change

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 6d

No.

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 6d

From my piece on what Jane Austen can teach us on taking feedback - Austen transcribed and compiled lists of people's opinions of her novels... basically she created her own online reader comment section.

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 6d

Even Jane Austen had to put up with Those Guys www.ft.com/content/bdcd...

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 7d

I know there are the ICE raids etc, but this is pretty weird given everything we're hearing about the scale of the data centre construction boom, no?

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7d

First decline in ADP construction payrolls since 2021.

(via Kev Gordon)

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 8d

I don't think I can find it now as it was way back in the days I wrote for Lex (so anonymously) but it was a flippant remark about fish!

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 14d

Brutal and enjoyable piece from @willdunn.bsky.social on Clegg's return from Silicon Valley with Views to Share on standing up to the US and how to save the internet (errr) www.newstatesman.com/comment/2025...

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 15d

Great piece by @georginaq.bsky.social on the cottage industry that's grown up around UK universities, which are paying agents to recruit international students for them www.ft.com/content/3f49...

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 15d

A cool use of AI in newsgathering, this. US companies are talking more and more about the risks rather than the benefits of AI in their SEC filings (while still being super-optimistic in earnings calls). By @melissahei.bsky.social @chriscook.news & @claradoodle.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/e93e...

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 20d

Cool cool, all sounds very normal in a very normal competitive market-based economy www.ft.com/content/be8d...

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 20d

I don’t know if it’s the tone or the frequency of these messages from Microsoft, but whenever they pop up I hear Regina George in my head saying “stop trying to make ‘fetch’ happen”

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 22d

yep

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 22d

And now I've written a column about both my last name (www.ft.com/content/48d4...) and my first name, I have truly scraped the naval-gazing barrell, I think

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 22d

Why do some names get "second winds" like Sarah in the 80s? Why are the most popular names today waaay less popular than the most popular names of the past? I "fell into the onomastic rabbit hole" (as one academic researcher I spoke to so charmingly put it) www.ft.com/content/f929...

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 22d

Yeah good luck with that. Humans are hard-wired to anthropomorphise, and kids especially. My kid is friends with a pair of chopsticks. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Reposted by Sarah O'Connor

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 22d

Check out this scatterplot of health spending per capita (x axis) & life expectancy (y axis) in OECD countries (lines = averages).

The United States sits alone in the bottom right area due to its very high spending rate and below-average life expectancy.

More www.oecd.org/en/publicati... 🧪

Figure 1.7 illustrates the extent to which countries that spend more on health have better health outcomes.
There is a clear positive association between health spending per capita and life expectancy at birth (Figure 1.7). Among the
38 OECD countries, 18 spend more and have higher life expectancy than the OECD average (top right quadrant). A further
11 countries spend less and have lower life expectancy than the OECD average (bottom left quadrant).
Of particular interest are countries that deviate from this basic relationship. Eight countries spend less than the OECD average
but achieve higher life expectancy overall (top left quadrant). This may indicate relatively good value for money of health systems,
notwithstanding the fact that many other factors also have an impact on health outcomes. These eight countries are Korea, Spain,
Italy, Israel, Portugal, Chile, Costa Rica and Slovenia. The only country in the bottom right quadrant is the United States, with
much higher spending than all other OECD countries but lower life expectancy than the OECD average.

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 27d

A reminder of what Mandelson said to the FT's questions about Epstein in February this year

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 28d

Very cool sentiment analysis using FT articles by @joelsuss.ft.com. Also brings home how precisely I missed the Good Times. www.ft.com/content/9a99...

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 28d

On time and on budget? Whaaat? Make this man prime minister immediately www.ft.com/content/639a...

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