Edward Luce
@edwardluce.bsky.social
FT's US columnist/commentator. Author of several books including NYT best selling biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski (Simon & Schuster 2025). People lacking a sense of humour might get muted.
February 10, 2026 at 12:37 PM
“The myth of London as a third-world sinkhole is now central to Maga politics. Restoring Britain’s allegedly vanishing character is also an official goal of Donald Trump’s foreign policy.” My column. as.ft.com/r/5d92d208-8...
Why Maga loathes London
[FREE TO READ] Trump and his supporters see the UK capital as the symbol of a Europe facing ‘civilisational erasure’
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February 10, 2026 at 11:55 AM
“The myth of London as a third-world sinkhole is now central to Maga politics. Restoring Britain’s allegedly vanishing character is also an official goal of Donald Trump’s foreign policy.” My column. as.ft.com/r/5d92d208-8...
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@edwardluce.bsky.social is a Brit, @garrykasparov.bsky.social is Russian, but both have a lot to say about America’s role in the world. Join them for a conversation on Wednesday, March 4 at 5pm ET:
How To Fight Outrage Fatigue
What to do when the bad guys flood the zone.
www.thenextmove.org
February 9, 2026 at 8:35 PM
@edwardluce.bsky.social is a Brit, @garrykasparov.bsky.social is Russian, but both have a lot to say about America’s role in the world. Join them for a conversation on Wednesday, March 4 at 5pm ET:
"The Post proudly adopted the motto “democracy dies in darkness” after Trump was first elected. Now the paper is an exhibit of his attempts to smother democracy in broad daylight." My Swamp Notes with @grimeslikedimes.bsky.social on oligarch destruction of US media. as.ft.com/r/f2dcdea9-a...
Bezos’s calculated vandalism of the Washington Post
[FREE TO READ] He is just one of several pro-Trump oligarchs who now control key sections of the US media
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February 6, 2026 at 2:12 PM
"The Post proudly adopted the motto “democracy dies in darkness” after Trump was first elected. Now the paper is an exhibit of his attempts to smother democracy in broad daylight." My Swamp Notes with @grimeslikedimes.bsky.social on oligarch destruction of US media. as.ft.com/r/f2dcdea9-a...
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“Epstein was at the center of all of this, which is how the elites operate… They're all hypocrites.”
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social asks Financial Times editor and columnist @edwardluce.bsky.social how many other governments were involved with Jeffrey Epstein.
Watch: zeteo.com/p/epstein-fi...
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social asks Financial Times editor and columnist @edwardluce.bsky.social how many other governments were involved with Jeffrey Epstein.
Watch: zeteo.com/p/epstein-fi...
February 5, 2026 at 11:41 PM
“Epstein was at the center of all of this, which is how the elites operate… They're all hypocrites.”
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social asks Financial Times editor and columnist @edwardluce.bsky.social how many other governments were involved with Jeffrey Epstein.
Watch: zeteo.com/p/epstein-fi...
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social asks Financial Times editor and columnist @edwardluce.bsky.social how many other governments were involved with Jeffrey Epstein.
Watch: zeteo.com/p/epstein-fi...
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This is the type of letter you write and make public when you’ve discovered that the CIA is up to no good and can’t be trusted—and you have no confidence the people in charge care.
February 4, 2026 at 10:12 PM
This is the type of letter you write and make public when you’ve discovered that the CIA is up to no good and can’t be trusted—and you have no confidence the people in charge care.
can we all agree on robber bros?
February 4, 2026 at 8:22 PM
can we all agree on robber bros?
February 3, 2026 at 4:49 PM
"In a self-valuing democracy, the only defensible stance is to call for release of all remaining files." My column on why the latest Epstein dump gives America the opposite of closure. as.ft.com/r/9553eceb-2...
The Epstein rot goes deep
[FREE TO READ] America must now ask itself if it can restore a culture of shame
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February 3, 2026 at 12:36 PM
"In a self-valuing democracy, the only defensible stance is to call for release of all remaining files." My column on why the latest Epstein dump gives America the opposite of closure. as.ft.com/r/9553eceb-2...
Palm Springs is officially now my favourite airport. This is after TSA
January 30, 2026 at 12:52 AM
Palm Springs is officially now my favourite airport. This is after TSA
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Is this an inflection point for Trump? @preetbharara.bsky.social is joined by @edwardluce.bsky.social to discuss the the aftermath of the deadly shooting of Alex Pretti by border patrol agents and what comes next.
Listen to a new episode of Stay Tuned with Preet:
Listen to a new episode of Stay Tuned with Preet:
Is Minnesota Trump’s Waterloo? (with Ed Luce)
Listen to the latest episode of the Stay Tuned with Preet podcast
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January 29, 2026 at 7:49 PM
Is this an inflection point for Trump? @preetbharara.bsky.social is joined by @edwardluce.bsky.social to discuss the the aftermath of the deadly shooting of Alex Pretti by border patrol agents and what comes next.
Listen to a new episode of Stay Tuned with Preet:
Listen to a new episode of Stay Tuned with Preet:
Kinetic subject matter.
listening to today's @cafedotcom.bsky.social (Stay Tuned w @preetbharara.bsky.social , w guest @edwardluce.bsky.social )...one of the most insightful, no-holds-barred conversations I've heard lately. It's not optimistic by any means, but it's what you need to hear. Listen.
January 29, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Kinetic subject matter.
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listening to today's @cafedotcom.bsky.social (Stay Tuned w @preetbharara.bsky.social , w guest @edwardluce.bsky.social )...one of the most insightful, no-holds-barred conversations I've heard lately. It's not optimistic by any means, but it's what you need to hear. Listen.
January 29, 2026 at 6:17 PM
listening to today's @cafedotcom.bsky.social (Stay Tuned w @preetbharara.bsky.social , w guest @edwardluce.bsky.social )...one of the most insightful, no-holds-barred conversations I've heard lately. It's not optimistic by any means, but it's what you need to hear. Listen.
"Anyone who thinks this administration is going to run out of assholes any time soon better think again,” Stephen Miller told reporters. “We have a very deep bench.” As they say, personnel is policy. @borowitzreport.bsky.social
www.borowitzreport.com/p/trump-repl...
www.borowitzreport.com/p/trump-repl...
Trump Replaces Asshole with Alternate Asshole
Tom Homan said he would assume Greg Bovino's post but not his helmet.
www.borowitzreport.com
January 27, 2026 at 5:07 PM
"Anyone who thinks this administration is going to run out of assholes any time soon better think again,” Stephen Miller told reporters. “We have a very deep bench.” As they say, personnel is policy. @borowitzreport.bsky.social
www.borowitzreport.com/p/trump-repl...
www.borowitzreport.com/p/trump-repl...
I just can't..
Now I want to know which CNN reporter or producer doesn't know the word "sycophant."
January 27, 2026 at 3:19 AM
I just can't..
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BREAKING via Star-Tribune: GOP gubernatorial candidate ends bid, says he can’t support "stated retribution on the citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so.”
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Chris Madel ends GOP bid for governor, says he can’t support federal ‘retribution’ against Minnesota
His exit comes as some other Republicans have started to distance themselves from the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the state.
www.startribune.com
January 26, 2026 at 2:43 PM
BREAKING via Star-Tribune: GOP gubernatorial candidate ends bid, says he can’t support "stated retribution on the citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so.”
Read more www.startribune.com/chris-madel-...
Read more www.startribune.com/chris-madel-...
UK's Reform party is making me think twice about using the word "reform", which is a shame. Reform should not mean 'vandalise your country's national interest while pretending to be patriotic'.
January 26, 2026 at 5:22 PM
UK's Reform party is making me think twice about using the word "reform", which is a shame. Reform should not mean 'vandalise your country's national interest while pretending to be patriotic'.
new gift link as.ft.com/r/db42e7fb-2...
January 26, 2026 at 5:17 PM
new gift link as.ft.com/r/db42e7fb-2...
Old gift link expired already. Here's another. as.ft.com/r/4a2581e2-3...
January 26, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Old gift link expired already. Here's another. as.ft.com/r/4a2581e2-3...
"A competent autocrat selects his enemies with skill. Trump’s Achilles Heel is that he gets worse at this with experience." Me on his administration's darkly comical and profoundly inept depiction of Pretti and Good as terrorists. Free to read. as.ft.com/r/60a0a558-2...
ICE and America’s flailing autocrat
[FREE TO READ] Easily discredited propaganda is undermining Trump’s assault on the constitution
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January 26, 2026 at 3:49 PM
"A competent autocrat selects his enemies with skill. Trump’s Achilles Heel is that he gets worse at this with experience." Me on his administration's darkly comical and profoundly inept depiction of Pretti and Good as terrorists. Free to read. as.ft.com/r/60a0a558-2...
The hope was that public video would make law enforcement think twice, resting on the naive idea that we're dealing with generally law-abiding officers. ICE beats people up and kills in full knowledge they're being filmed. They have lethal impunity.
January 25, 2026 at 1:39 AM
The hope was that public video would make law enforcement think twice, resting on the naive idea that we're dealing with generally law-abiding officers. ICE beats people up and kills in full knowledge they're being filmed. They have lethal impunity.
Feel that Maga's gargantuan 2nd amendment hypocrisy is being underplayed. Dems should defund ICE and call GOP's bluff by going for gun control.
January 25, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Feel that Maga's gargantuan 2nd amendment hypocrisy is being underplayed. Dems should defund ICE and call GOP's bluff by going for gun control.
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Minnesota is the best of us.
January 23, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Minnesota is the best of us.
Trump's cold-blooded belittling of British and other non-US Nato sacrifices in Afghanistan apparently leading all British broadcast bulletins. Trump lied to avoid military service. Hopefully his diatribe will boomerang onto Nigel Farage.
January 23, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Trump's cold-blooded belittling of British and other non-US Nato sacrifices in Afghanistan apparently leading all British broadcast bulletins. Trump lied to avoid military service. Hopefully his diatribe will boomerang onto Nigel Farage.