Darren Dodd
@badlyoverdrawnboy.ft.com
Financial Times journalist.
Politics, health, politics of health.
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Politics, health, politics of health.
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Perhaps we should celebrate more of what the BBC is so good at....https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002lnl7
Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - Patti Smith Forever: Art Time Punks - BBC Sounds
As Patti Smith's Horses turns 50, Stuart explores the artier side of Punk Rock.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Perhaps we should celebrate more of what the BBC is so good at....https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002lnl7
“When you flush the toilet, the stuff goes downhill, right?” the architect asked. “We’ve worked that out,” he replied, “We’re going to have hundreds of shuttle cars running back and forth, picking up the sewage on retractable bridges.” ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
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November 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
“When you flush the toilet, the stuff goes downhill, right?” the architect asked. “We’ve worked that out,” he replied, “We’re going to have hundreds of shuttle cars running back and forth, picking up the sewage on retractable bridges.” ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
All schoolchildren in England to be taught financial literacy www.ft.com/content/8f0d... via financialtimes.com
All schoolchildren in England to be taught financial literacy
Major changes to curriculum also include teaching about fake news and climate change
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November 5, 2025 at 10:13 AM
All schoolchildren in England to be taught financial literacy www.ft.com/content/8f0d... via financialtimes.com
“I dread hearing Aldi opening up nearby . . . I know I will lose staff” www.ft.com/content/d5c4... via financialtimes.com
Inside England’s broken care economy
Council-commissioned providers are fast losing headroom needed to improve pay and compete with other employers
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November 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
“I dread hearing Aldi opening up nearby . . . I know I will lose staff” www.ft.com/content/d5c4... via financialtimes.com
5,000 steps a day may help slow Alzheimer’s-linked decline, study shows www.ft.com/content/91fc... via financialtimes.com
5,000 steps a day may help slow Alzheimer’s-linked decline, study shows
Research using data from Harvard Aging Brain Study showed more active patients saw slower cognitive deterioration
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November 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
5,000 steps a day may help slow Alzheimer’s-linked decline, study shows www.ft.com/content/91fc... via financialtimes.com
How a warmer world is making pregnancy riskier www.ft.com/content/a6a0... via financialtimes.com
How a warmer world is making pregnancy riskier
Some scientists argue that the link between increasing heat and adverse maternal outcomes is quietly becoming a public health emergency
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November 3, 2025 at 8:38 AM
How a warmer world is making pregnancy riskier www.ft.com/content/a6a0... via financialtimes.com
Gates Foundation skews global health agenda after US retreat, study says www.ft.com/content/d2c6... via financialtimes.com
Gates Foundation skews global health agenda after US retreat, study says
World Health Organization’s priorities tilted by reliance on charitable foundation, according to research
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October 29, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Gates Foundation skews global health agenda after US retreat, study says www.ft.com/content/d2c6... via financialtimes.com
UK trade contribution to GDP ‘stagnated’ since Brexit, warns WTO www.ft.com/content/8f4d... via financialtimes.com
UK trade contribution to GDP ‘stagnated’ since Brexit, warns WTO
Export of goods are languishing at 17% below pre-Covid levels
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October 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
UK trade contribution to GDP ‘stagnated’ since Brexit, warns WTO www.ft.com/content/8f4d... via financialtimes.com
The Trump Supremacy www.ft.com/content/1377... via financialtimes.com
The Trump Supremacy
Opponents in disarray, allies in line, followers enthralled — the US president is already on his way to building a new world order
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October 24, 2025 at 9:18 AM
The Trump Supremacy www.ft.com/content/1377... via financialtimes.com
Tory deportation plan would upend Britain www.ft.com/content/9a1d... via financialtimes.com
Tory deportation plan would upend Britain
Proposing such a radical bill with little public support is a gift to Nigel Farage
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October 23, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Tory deportation plan would upend Britain www.ft.com/content/9a1d... via financialtimes.com
Brexit blame game returns ahead of Budget www.ft.com/content/3806... via financialtimes.com
Brexit blame game returns ahead of Budget
UK fiscal watchdog to link next month’s productivity downgrade to EU exit and Covid-19
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October 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Brexit blame game returns ahead of Budget www.ft.com/content/3806... via financialtimes.com
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Breaking news: Donald Trump urged Volodymyr Zelenskyy to accept Russia’s terms for ending its war in a volatile White House meeting on Friday, warning that Vladimir Putin had said he would 'destroy' Ukraine if it did not agree on.ft.com/4ou5h1A
October 19, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Breaking news: Donald Trump urged Volodymyr Zelenskyy to accept Russia’s terms for ending its war in a volatile White House meeting on Friday, warning that Vladimir Putin had said he would 'destroy' Ukraine if it did not agree on.ft.com/4ou5h1A
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FT Investigation: The heart of Trump’s wealth is a rapidly growing cryptocurrency empire, which has already reaped more than $1bn in pre-tax profits, in part thanks to a crypto boom fuelled by the US administration’s own industry-friendly policies on.ft.com/47bCXtE
October 16, 2025 at 9:16 AM
FT Investigation: The heart of Trump’s wealth is a rapidly growing cryptocurrency empire, which has already reaped more than $1bn in pre-tax profits, in part thanks to a crypto boom fuelled by the US administration’s own industry-friendly policies on.ft.com/47bCXtE
How Brexit drained the Tories’ talent pool www.ft.com/content/a65f... via financialtimes.com
How Brexit drained the Tories’ talent pool
The party can’t keep expecting successful people to pretend that leaving the EU was a good idea
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October 14, 2025 at 9:42 AM
How Brexit drained the Tories’ talent pool www.ft.com/content/a65f... via financialtimes.com
Novo Nordisk’s ‘lottery ticket’: can obesity drugs help treat Alzheimer’s? www.ft.com/content/87a8... via financialtimes.com
Novo Nordisk’s ‘lottery ticket’: can obesity drugs help treat Alzheimer’s?
Results are due soon from two studies using semaglutide to treat thousands of people with the disease
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October 13, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Novo Nordisk’s ‘lottery ticket’: can obesity drugs help treat Alzheimer’s? www.ft.com/content/87a8... via financialtimes.com
One in six bacterial infections now resistant to treatment, says WHO www.ft.com/content/ae1d... via financialtimes.com
One in six bacterial infections now resistant to treatment, says WHO
Levels of antimicrobial resistance highest in south-east Asia and eastern Mediterranean
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October 13, 2025 at 7:49 AM
One in six bacterial infections now resistant to treatment, says WHO www.ft.com/content/ae1d... via financialtimes.com
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Send @financialtimes.com your questions on the global economy and I will answer them, alongside Martin E. Sandbu, in a live Q&A from 1pm to 2pm (BST) on Thursday October 9.
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Submit your questions: Can the global economy withstand new shocks?
Take part in a live Ask an Expert Q&A with the FT’s Tej Parikh and Martin Sandbu on Thursday October 9 at 1pm BST
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October 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Send @financialtimes.com your questions on the global economy and I will answer them, alongside Martin E. Sandbu, in a live Q&A from 1pm to 2pm (BST) on Thursday October 9.
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One of the Conservative party's contributions to our country has been keeping people who think you can measure integration through skin colour out of office - what next, are they only going to be lukewarm on the property-owning democracy?
Thank the Tories for keeping Robert Jenrick out of high office
Shadow justice secretary’s comment about not seeing a ‘white face’ shows he does not understand integration
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October 8, 2025 at 10:23 AM
One of the Conservative party's contributions to our country has been keeping people who think you can measure integration through skin colour out of office - what next, are they only going to be lukewarm on the property-owning democracy?
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Nobody has campaigned for a Nobel Peace Prize quite like Donald Trump. But experts are sceptical about the unprecedented lobbying campaign bearing fruit when the Norwegian Nobel Committee awards it on Friday. on.ft.com/48RW5PM
October 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Nobody has campaigned for a Nobel Peace Prize quite like Donald Trump. But experts are sceptical about the unprecedented lobbying campaign bearing fruit when the Norwegian Nobel Committee awards it on Friday. on.ft.com/48RW5PM
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FT Investigation: Using radar data collected by European Space Agency satellites, the FT was able to locate the spy ship hovering over critical cables in the middle of the Irish Sea in November, at a point in the voyage when the ship was seeking to hide its activities. on.ft.com/46JjsIJ
September 26, 2025 at 10:30 AM
FT Investigation: Using radar data collected by European Space Agency satellites, the FT was able to locate the spy ship hovering over critical cables in the middle of the Irish Sea in November, at a point in the voyage when the ship was seeking to hide its activities. on.ft.com/46JjsIJ
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The never-ending Trump show on.ft.com/3VCuf2h
The never-ending Trump show
The US president is dialling up his radical agenda and escalating personal vendettas in a bid to dominate America’s attention
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September 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The never-ending Trump show on.ft.com/3VCuf2h
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How New York became a political laboratory on.ft.com/4nDOMPR | opinion
How New York became a political laboratory
Trump, AOC and Mamdani: the New Yorkers shaping America’s future
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September 22, 2025 at 4:10 AM
How New York became a political laboratory on.ft.com/4nDOMPR | opinion
In the Financial Times’ new drama about artificial intelligence, memory and truth, written by David Baddiel, we lay out a scenario exploring the future of our relationship with new technologies.
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AI: what will become of the truth?
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September 22, 2025 at 8:58 AM
In the Financial Times’ new drama about artificial intelligence, memory and truth, written by David Baddiel, we lay out a scenario exploring the future of our relationship with new technologies.
www.ft.com/content/b417...
www.ft.com/content/b417...
