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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 11h

If you want to read an actually good piece about integration in the United Kingdom, try @samfr.bsky.social:

The Truth About Integration

I have been challenged by readers to write something less depressing about the state of the country.

samf.substack.com

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FT Weekend @ftweekend.com · 3d

The careers of moguls are growing to unprecedented lengths, says Simon Kuper: on.ft.com/4gShOci

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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 2d

Help FT Weekend crown the best business lunch restaurant in London - @harrietfl.ft.com is calling for your nominations and votes www.ft.com/content/00f3...

Help FT Weekend crown the best business lunch restaurant in London

Nominations are now open for our inaugural Business Lunch Awards in partnership with OpenTable

www.ft.com

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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 4d

loved this from Simon Kuper on the real Grand Budapest Hotel which is actually in Baden Baden and has reopened after a £££ revamp. Like a Wes Anderson film but featuring Frank Sinatra, Hosni Mubarak, Marlene Dietrich, Henry Ford, Lilian Gish and Walt Disney. Heaven. on.ft.com/4mJKXI5

Simon Kuper: in the footsteps of Queen Victoria (and Victoria Beckham) at Germany’s grandest spa hotel

[FREE TO READ] After two years of restoration work, Brenners Park in Baden-Baden reopens this month

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Simon Kuper @simonkuper.bsky.social · 6d

The retirement age for moguls (Murdoch, Buffett, Armani etc) is now in the 90s. It will rise further for Musk, Zuckerberg et al. Meanwhile, politicians come and go like fruitflies. Me
@financialtimes.com on longevity reshaping the power class, + how Putin, Trump want some of that on.ft.com/46xjG6X

Why 94 is the new 54 for moguls

[FREE TO READ] The careers of moguls are growing to unprecedented lengths

on.ft.com

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Simon Kuper @simonkuper.bsky.social · 5d

Brenners Park, Baden-Baden, may be the poshest hotel in Germany's poshest resort. Its story is a potted history of the global elite since 1872. I become the nearest thing to an ordinary person ever to darken its towels (and lose at roulette, like Dostoevsky) @financialtimes.com on.ft.com/4gOoCHW

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Simon Kuper @simonkuper.bsky.social · 6d

The retirement age for moguls (Murdoch, Buffett, Armani etc) is now in the 90s. It will rise further for Musk, Zuckerberg et al. Meanwhile, politicians come and go like fruitflies. Me
@financialtimes.com on longevity reshaping the power class, + how Putin, Trump want some of that on.ft.com/46xjG6X

Why 94 is the new 54 for moguls

[FREE TO READ] The careers of moguls are growing to unprecedented lengths

on.ft.com

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Simon Kuper @simonkuper.bsky.social · 6d

Voorpublicatie uit mijn nieuwe boek De wereld aan mijn voeten, over het WK en mijn negen toernooien sinds Italia '90. fhm.nl/entertainmen... Nederlandse editie is hier verkrijgbaar: www.bol.com/nl/nl/f/de-w...

Voorpublicatie: De wereld aan mijn voeten van Simon Kuper

Voor de echte voetbaljunkies hebben we hier het perfecte boek. In deze voorpublicatie delen we een fragment uit De wereld aan mijn voeten van Simon Kuper. Het boek komt 10 oktober uit. Internationaal....

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Simon Kuper @simonkuper.bsky.social · 6d

Publication day!

Profile Books @profilebooks.bsky.social · 6d

⚽️📢 G O A L ! 📢⚽️

Today, we publish @simonkuper.bsky.social's #WorldCupFever, the story of how the World Cup tournament has touched and changed our lives, by one of the best writers on the beautiful game.

Get your copy here: tinyurl.com/WorldCupFeverBook

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Simon Kuper @simonkuper.bsky.social · 8d

veel plezier, Henk

henk spaan @hardgras.bsky.social · 8d

Erik van der Burg is de grootste huichelaar denkbaar. En nu ga ik Ajax kijken.

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Simon Kuper @simonkuper.bsky.social · 8d

Sehr stolz auf die deutsche Übersetzung meines neuen WM-Buches! Eine Reise durch meine neun WMs seit Italia '90. Das Buch können Sie hier bestellen: www.amazon.de/-/en/gr%C3%B...

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Simon Kuper @simonkuper.bsky.social · 11d

Israel has never been so alone. It is committing the most public genocide in history, has bombed 6 countries, and is alienating its oldest allies to leave itself with only the unreliable Trump. It's also increasingly religious. Could it survive in isolation? Me @financialtimes.com on.ft.com/4nU6gYx

Can Israel go it alone?

[FREE TO READ] The secular Zionists who founded the state were desperate for allies. No longer

on.ft.com

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Simon Kuper @simonkuper.bsky.social · 11d

Israel has never been so alone. It is committing the most public genocide in history, has bombed 6 countries, and is alienating its oldest allies to leave itself with only the unreliable Trump. It's also increasingly religious. Could it survive in isolation? Me @financialtimes.com on.ft.com/4nU6gYx

Can Israel go it alone?

[FREE TO READ] The secular Zionists who founded the state were desperate for allies. No longer

on.ft.com

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Simon Kuper @simonkuper.bsky.social · 15d

I cannot believe we live in this era

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

Trump to the UN: "The 'carbon footprint' is a hoax made up by people with evil intentions, and they're heading down a path of total destruction."

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 15d

Wow.

Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 15d

Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds

open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...

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Profile Books @profilebooks.bsky.social · 16d

#ImpossibleCity by @simonkuper.bsky.social is one of @waterstones.bsky.social's #PaperbacksOfTheYear 📖

Get your copy – perfect for gifting! – here: tinyurl.com/ImpossibleCi...

An ecard with a golden starry background featuring the book Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century by Simon Kuper. The book cover shows an illustration of the Eiffel Tower in blue and red with the title integrated vertically in bold blue letters. Review quotes from New Statesman and Independent flank the design. On the right, text reads: Waterstones Paperbacks of the Year. At the bottom: Available from your local Waterstones or Waterstones.com.

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Simon Kuper @simonkuper.bsky.social · 19d

Poland never wants to be invaded by Russia again, so it has built the biggest army of any EU country. But as Putin knows, it has a different vulnerability: its split and distrustful society. That's where he's striking. Me
@financialtimes.com
after my recent visit to Poland on.ft.com/3IrSfC8

The threats facing Poland

[FREE TO READ] Warsaw’s economic miracle over the past 30 years is being undermined by Russian attacks and growing internal discord

on.ft.com

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Simon Kuper @simonkuper.bsky.social · 19d

Poland never wants to be invaded by Russia again, so it has built the biggest army of any EU country. But as Putin knows, it has a different vulnerability: its split and distrustful society. That's where he's striking. Me
@financialtimes.com
after my recent visit to Poland on.ft.com/3IrSfC8

The threats facing Poland

[FREE TO READ] Warsaw’s economic miracle over the past 30 years is being undermined by Russian attacks and growing internal discord

on.ft.com

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Profile Books @profilebooks.bsky.social · 22d

Calling all football fans! ⚽️

#WorldCupFever: A Footballing Journey in Nine Tournaments by @simonkuper.bsky.social is available in audiobook on NetGalley now.

Request here: tinyurl.com/WorldCupFeverNetGalley

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 23d

Brilliant piece by @gideonrachman.bsky.social, both in spotting the phenomenon and parsing it so insightfully.

How Ukraine and Gaza scrambled the ideological map

The two wars have divided the west — and not along the old left-right lines

www.ft.com

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Simon Kuper @simonkuper.bsky.social · 23d

Key date at the American Library in Paris on Sept 30: Sam Tanenhaus, biographer of William F. Buckley, the creator of the modern US conservative movement, is giving a lecture based on the book americanlibraryinparis.org/event/tanenh...

Sam Tanenhaus on William F. Buckley, Jr.

The rise of modern conservatism—and the man who made it happen.

americanlibraryinparis.org

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Simon Kuper @simonkuper.bsky.social · 26d

Me @financialtimes.com on the curious similarities between populism and communism. The one is an emotional replacement for the other on.ft.com/4pk1Cof As ever, please read first before shouting at me

How Maga rewrote the Little Red Book

[FREE TO READ] Trump’s populist rhetoric has echoes of communism

on.ft.com

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Simon Kuper @simonkuper.bsky.social · 27d

Always smart to read the column before commenting

Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 27d

Oh come ON

A regime full of self-identified white nationalists and fascists do a bunch of white nationalist and fascist things

Simon Kuper: wow this is so communist if you really think about it

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 27d

How Maga rewrote the Little Red Book on.ft.com/3JQsHPI | opinion

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Simon Kuper @simonkuper.bsky.social · 28d

Have lunch with me or any number of top @FT colleagues AND help fund the Financial Literacy & Inclusion Campaign. Bid in the auction here app.galabid.com/ftflicluncha... Lunch with me is at Quo Vadis in London so why wait?

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Hurst Publishers @hurstpublishers.bsky.social · 28d

Congratulations @npw99.bsky.social, Orange Sky, Rising Water is out now! 🍊🌊🇳🇱

‘Walton is a wonderful guide to the Netherlands’ hidden oddities, and perhaps even to the country’s soul.’ – @simonkuper.bsky.social

Get 25% off w/code ORANGE25 ➡️ tinyurl.com/v7v4p9vx

Book cover of Orange Sky, Rising Water by Nicholas Walton. The design features a bright orange sky above a blue flood, with a traditional Dutch windmill partially submerged in water. The subtitle reads: The Remarkable Past and Uncertain Future of the Netherlands.

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