Several people stuck in the Gulf told the FT that helplines and websites meant to offer support were defective, with one stranded traveller saying they felt as if they were being “trolled”
Doge consequence? as.ft.com/r/278590c7-9... Americans stranded in UAE vent anger at lack of US government support
Sorry, couldn't resist.
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If the Conservative party know anything about Axel Springer (I imagine they don't/don't care), they ought to like this
Massive UK media scoop - Germany's Axel Springer is poised to agree a shock £500mn deal for the Telegraph in a move that will scupper the acquisition of the UK newspaper group by the Daily Mail. W/ the FT's finest @JFK_America @ArashMassoudi
www.ft.com/content/e5cb...
POD O'CLOCK
God knows there's enough to worry about, but please find space in your head to also worry about stablecoins.
@robarmstrong.bsky.social and I chatted to brainbox @bhgreeley.bsky.social to explain why
www.ft.com/content/f9c8...
Four arrested on suspicion of helping Iran spy on Jews in London
www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...
The best critics are not afraid to sit in ambiguity, just as Ariella Budick does here in her first-rate review of Ceija Stojka, an artist who survived the concentration camps as.ft.com/r/e65fffc4-1...
Reports that the CIA is aiding Kurdish armed groups to drum up resistance against the Iranian regime have sharpened Tehran’s fears.
This story never ends well as.ft.com/r/9a37cb1a-1...
Corey Lewandowski is expected to leave DHS with Kristi Noem, according to Fox News' Jacqui Heinrich.
A Whte House source also says that "t was a combination of her many unfortunate leadership failures. From MN to the ad campaign to the allegations of an affair."
Barnes had a self-imposed 40-year ban on writing about people who went to Oxbridge and I wish he had kept it up. Unfortunately it expired before Departure(s).
![Their connection, it turns out, goes back decades. To say more risks spoilers but it’s worth noting that this is the second novel this year by a major English writer (the other was Julian Barnes’s Departure[s]) to feature characters in late middle age who are preoccupied with things that happened to them when they were undergraduates at Oxford university. Are Oxford students uniquely bad at getting over things or is this just a convenient novelistic device?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ovcqkwjayo3lwjbzpupi5rkx/bafkreiguotfvewo7ufxdixvhppw5rszqcqt3id6at3st3vindswcqgfdra@jpeg)
Their connection, it turns out, goes back decades. To say more risks spoilers but it’s worth noting that this is the second novel this year by a major English writer (the other was Julian Barnes’s Departure[s]) to feature characters in late middle age who are preoccupied with things that happened to them when they were undergraduates at Oxford university. Are Oxford students uniquely bad at getting over things or is this just a convenient novelistic device?
No comment as.ft.com/r/08291fc6-6...
"What motivates these baby-faced New Yorkers besides their bank accounts?"
answers itself, doesn't it? www.interviewmagazine.com/fashion/meet...
Todd @ Why are we bothering with the Strait of Hormuz when we could simply do this? Explain it to me like I'm 5. Canal RIOS 508 MOUNTAIN HARD AND BIG, WATER NO UP. MANY MANY DIG DIG.
this the FT not The Onion
Some Dubai residents stuck abroad because of the Iran war are hiring private jets to return to the UAE and avoid incurring large tax bills by spending too long outside the emirate ft.trib.al/eTl2E6e
Wealthy Dubai residents race back to UAE to avoid tax bills as.ft.com/r/7fbc0a64-9... with colleagues @petercampbell1.bsky.social and Emma Agyemang
Bessent rn:
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
“There were several occasions when Gemini reminded Gavalas that it was a large language model—effectively an appliance—engaging in fictitious role play, according to the transcripts, but the scenario resumed. Gemini also, at times, tried to end the conversation. The chatbot said that for them to truly be together, it needed a robotic body. Throughout September, the chatbot devised missions to do just that, according to the lawsuit. It sent Gavalas to a storage facility near the Miami International Airport to intercept an expensive humanoid robot that it said would be in a truck. Gavalas told the bot that he went to the location, armed with knives, but the truck never showed. Along the way, it suggested that federal agents were monitoring him and that his own father couldn’t be trusted”
Helps you code though, so hard to tell if it’s good or bad.
A small girl wearing a rabbit costume and blue coat carries a book as she walks to school. Her mother (head out of shot) wheels her baby brother along in a pushchair. The baby says "Peter Rabbit may be the 'Hero' of the story, but surely the obedient, widowed Mrs Rabbit is a more effective symbol of the oppression inherent within Mister McGregor's regime" The girls looks furious and snaps "Mum!! He's critiquing my world book day costume from a marxist perspective again!"
A cartoon reminder that tomorrow is World Book Day (In the UK anyway). Originally for the @theguardian.com
I was once stroked on the cheek by Gloria Swanson. As she did so she said “Why, you’re just a baby!” I was 25 at the time.
Suddenly, its turns out that it is not smart to arrogantly shit on an ally that has learned how to down 200 Shaheds every single night and then wipe out and oil refinery or a military airfield with a handful of cheap drones.
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All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.
Also valid -- should not be a transitive verb
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I dislike them but they tend to be contained within sporting contexts, so they rarely trouble me.
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