Tom Braithwaite
@tombraithwaite.bsky.social
News editor of the Financial Times
Iranian nuclear experts made a covert trip to Russia, visiting US-sanctioned scientific institutes that specialise in nuclear technology with civilian and weapons application.
investigation by
@miles-johnson.bsky.social and @maxseddon.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/00f6...
investigation by
@miles-johnson.bsky.social and @maxseddon.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/00f6...
The covert trip by Iranian nuclear experts to Russia
An Iranian delegation visited Russian scientific institutes that produce dual-use technologies — components with potential applications in nuclear weapons research
www.ft.com
August 5, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Iranian nuclear experts made a covert trip to Russia, visiting US-sanctioned scientific institutes that specialise in nuclear technology with civilian and weapons application.
investigation by
@miles-johnson.bsky.social and @maxseddon.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/00f6...
investigation by
@miles-johnson.bsky.social and @maxseddon.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/00f6...
Tony Blair Institute staff worked alongside BCG on a project for postwar Gaza that ended up proposing a 'Trump Riviera', 'MBS ring' road and 'Elon Musk smart manufacturing zone'. Latest scoop from @stephenfoley and @PickardJE www.ft.com/content/0b1b...
July 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Tony Blair Institute staff worked alongside BCG on a project for postwar Gaza that ended up proposing a 'Trump Riviera', 'MBS ring' road and 'Elon Musk smart manufacturing zone'. Latest scoop from @stephenfoley and @PickardJE www.ft.com/content/0b1b...
on.ft.com/4mS2orf Triumphing under Trump: the corporate winners and losers
Triumphing under Trump: the corporate winners and losers
[FREE TO READ] How global companies have fared since the US president’s inauguration
on.ft.com
June 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
on.ft.com/4mS2orf Triumphing under Trump: the corporate winners and losers
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Goodbye to Gwen Robinson, Asia correspondent extraordinaire, doyenne of FT oped editors, a one-person nuclear power plant, and a true & beloved friend to so many people all over the world. FT's obituary free to read here. enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/3de26...
Gwen Robinson, FT foreign correspondent and editor, 1960-2025
[FREE TO READ] The Asia expert was known for her network of contacts, intrepid reporting and ability to handle big egos
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March 31, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Goodbye to Gwen Robinson, Asia correspondent extraordinaire, doyenne of FT oped editors, a one-person nuclear power plant, and a true & beloved friend to so many people all over the world. FT's obituary free to read here. enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/3de26...
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FT Alphaville is hiring
The best job in journalism is open for applications
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March 27, 2025 at 6:27 AM
The infuriatingly stupid UK tax trap that is dissuading people from working and taking pay rises. www.ft.com/content/8fc5...
The madness of the £100,000 childcare tax trap
With some parents requiring a 50 per cent pay rise to mitigate the effects of the threshold, the trap is zapping productivity
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March 21, 2025 at 9:47 AM
The infuriatingly stupid UK tax trap that is dissuading people from working and taking pay rises. www.ft.com/content/8fc5...
Hong Kong hedge funds, Blackpool football, 70 sources, 5 uses of the c-word. Something for everyone in @kayewiggins epic tale of Simon Sadler www.ft.com/content/4420...
Inside the downfall of trading titan and Blackpool FC owner Simon Sadler
He was a heavyweight in Hong Kong finance and a hometown hero. Now he faces the possibility of jail
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March 14, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Hong Kong hedge funds, Blackpool football, 70 sources, 5 uses of the c-word. Something for everyone in @kayewiggins epic tale of Simon Sadler www.ft.com/content/4420...
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Who is Jan Marsalek, the absconded fraudster and Russian spymaster to 3 Bulgarians convicted in the UK today?
Well, let me tell you a story about a high school drop-out who masterminded a $30bn financial fraud in the heart of Europe while trying to build a North African militia as a side hustle.
Well, let me tell you a story about a high school drop-out who masterminded a $30bn financial fraud in the heart of Europe while trying to build a North African militia as a side hustle.
March 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Who is Jan Marsalek, the absconded fraudster and Russian spymaster to 3 Bulgarians convicted in the UK today?
Well, let me tell you a story about a high school drop-out who masterminded a $30bn financial fraud in the heart of Europe while trying to build a North African militia as a side hustle.
Well, let me tell you a story about a high school drop-out who masterminded a $30bn financial fraud in the heart of Europe while trying to build a North African militia as a side hustle.
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"One doctor at a public hospital in Hubei province in central China said the institution’s leadership had issued a directive that DeepSeek should be used as a third-party arbiter if two doctors have differing views on a patient’s treatment"
on.ft.com/4bis0bm
on.ft.com/4bis0bm
DeepSeek spreads across China with Beijing’s backing
The AI start-up’s models are being rapidly adopted by state-owned enterprises, hospitals and local governments
on.ft.com
February 27, 2025 at 6:43 AM
"One doctor at a public hospital in Hubei province in central China said the institution’s leadership had issued a directive that DeepSeek should be used as a third-party arbiter if two doctors have differing views on a patient’s treatment"
on.ft.com/4bis0bm
on.ft.com/4bis0bm
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I wrote about my brother Charlie’s final 48 hours, and his increasingly desperate attempts to track down an emergency supply of medication from the NHS. It’s an upsetting read but one I’m proud of. He’d be delighted to have made the @financialtimes.com magazine front cover: on.ft.com/434zZqn
February 23, 2025 at 9:10 AM
I wrote about my brother Charlie’s final 48 hours, and his increasingly desperate attempts to track down an emergency supply of medication from the NHS. It’s an upsetting read but one I’m proud of. He’d be delighted to have made the @financialtimes.com magazine front cover: on.ft.com/434zZqn
What does Politico’s owner think of Trump after he falsely accused it of taking $8m of US aid money and ended government subscriptions to the “left wing rag”? Interview by Laura Pitel and @gideonrachman.bsky.social on.ft.com/41l2Aqj
Politico’s owner praises JD Vance for ‘inspiring message’
Mathias Döpfner says many Europeans had ‘intentionally misunderstood’ the US vice-president’s speech that caused widespread horror
on.ft.com
February 20, 2025 at 8:09 AM
What does Politico’s owner think of Trump after he falsely accused it of taking $8m of US aid money and ended government subscriptions to the “left wing rag”? Interview by Laura Pitel and @gideonrachman.bsky.social on.ft.com/41l2Aqj
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📣 If you work at any of the DOGE-targeted US govt agencies and want to talk to the Financial Times in CONFIDENCE about recent developments, my details are below. 📣
✉️ joe.miller@ft.com
🔐 Signal: @joemillerjr.48
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✉️ joe.miller@ft.com
🔐 Signal: @joemillerjr.48
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February 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM
📣 If you work at any of the DOGE-targeted US govt agencies and want to talk to the Financial Times in CONFIDENCE about recent developments, my details are below. 📣
✉️ joe.miller@ft.com
🔐 Signal: @joemillerjr.48
LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/joemiller...
✉️ joe.miller@ft.com
🔐 Signal: @joemillerjr.48
LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/joemiller...
Two useful sentences in this latest Guardian puff piece on ex-Citi trader Gary Stevenson.
1. "Stevenson’s is an incredible story."
2. "There are fundamentals here that I’m embarrassed to admit I don’t really get."
Anyway, this other piece is good www.ft.com/content/7e8b...
1. "Stevenson’s is an incredible story."
2. "There are fundamentals here that I’m embarrassed to admit I don’t really get."
Anyway, this other piece is good www.ft.com/content/7e8b...
Gary Stevenson claims to have been the best trader in the world. His old colleagues disagree
What is the truth behind the inequality campaigner’s Citigroup memoir?
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January 24, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Two useful sentences in this latest Guardian puff piece on ex-Citi trader Gary Stevenson.
1. "Stevenson’s is an incredible story."
2. "There are fundamentals here that I’m embarrassed to admit I don’t really get."
Anyway, this other piece is good www.ft.com/content/7e8b...
1. "Stevenson’s is an incredible story."
2. "There are fundamentals here that I’m embarrassed to admit I don’t really get."
Anyway, this other piece is good www.ft.com/content/7e8b...
Reposted by Tom Braithwaite
Thursday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
January 8, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Thursday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
Our reiterated $1.1tn sum-of-the-parts value for Greenland is a significant premium to its government’s end-2023 NAV of DKr1bn ($138bn). America Corp's last formal offer for the territory ($100mn in gold bullion, 1946,
rejected)… on.ft.com/3DIGKno
rejected)… on.ft.com/3DIGKno
Alphaville LLC issues new research report on Greenland
A sell-side icebreaker
on.ft.com
January 8, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Our reiterated $1.1tn sum-of-the-parts value for Greenland is a significant premium to its government’s end-2023 NAV of DKr1bn ($138bn). America Corp's last formal offer for the territory ($100mn in gold bullion, 1946,
rejected)… on.ft.com/3DIGKno
rejected)… on.ft.com/3DIGKno
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The trend lines are bad for the free press.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/its-not-lo...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/its-not-lo...
It's Not Looking Great
The slow assassination of the free press.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
January 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The trend lines are bad for the free press.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/its-not-lo...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/its-not-lo...
Syria's Doge is already quizzing bureaucrats on what they do all day. Great piece from Raya Jalabi and Sarah Dadouch
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December 11, 2024 at 4:28 PM
Syria's Doge is already quizzing bureaucrats on what they do all day. Great piece from Raya Jalabi and Sarah Dadouch
ft.com/content/7efc...
ft.com/content/7efc...
“And of course, the Assads may yet plunge further – for all the overly impressed reports of apartments in glittering Moscow skyscrapers, I must say I’d have picked something on the ground floor myself.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Memo to the Assads: Putin may welcome you in Moscow, but I wouldn't drink his tea | Marina Hyde
The Russian leader may be a warm and attentive host: he may also be cross that Assad is now his problem. But then life’s full of uncertainty, isn’t it, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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December 11, 2024 at 7:04 AM
“And of course, the Assads may yet plunge further – for all the overly impressed reports of apartments in glittering Moscow skyscrapers, I must say I’d have picked something on the ground floor myself.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Russia is holding on to the main naval and air bases it uses as staging points for the Mediterranean and Africa, even as it pulls its forces back from smaller outposts in Syria following the overthrow of its ally Bashar al-Assad. www.ft.com/content/1922...
Russian forces stay put at key military bases in Syria
Satellite imagery shows no signs of withdrawal from air and naval facilities
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December 10, 2024 at 7:10 PM
Russia is holding on to the main naval and air bases it uses as staging points for the Mediterranean and Africa, even as it pulls its forces back from smaller outposts in Syria following the overthrow of its ally Bashar al-Assad. www.ft.com/content/1922...
One of the FT’s biggest UK reporting jobs was posted this week
Chief UK Business Correspondent
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Chief UK Business Correspondent
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Job Application for Chief UK Business Correspondent at Financial Times
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December 6, 2024 at 8:00 AM
One of the FT’s biggest UK reporting jobs was posted this week
Chief UK Business Correspondent
job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtim...
Chief UK Business Correspondent
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Nato chief Mark Rutte toDonald Trump: “We cannot have a situation where we have Kim Jong Un and the Russian leader and Xi Jinping and Iran high-fiving…” www.ft.com/content/8a80... . Interview by Henry Foy
December 2, 2024 at 5:42 PM
Nato chief Mark Rutte toDonald Trump: “We cannot have a situation where we have Kim Jong Un and the Russian leader and Xi Jinping and Iran high-fiving…” www.ft.com/content/8a80... . Interview by Henry Foy
This is where we’re at:
BlackRock held a board meeting in London “in what the government described as a ‘vote of confidence’ in the UK.” on.ft.com/3OhBitH
BlackRock held a board meeting in London “in what the government described as a ‘vote of confidence’ in the UK.” on.ft.com/3OhBitH
Keir Starmer meets BlackRock boss Larry Fink in Downing Street
Discussions between ministers and asset manager’s board covered regulatory delays and boosting UK growth
on.ft.com
November 21, 2024 at 8:18 PM
This is where we’re at:
BlackRock held a board meeting in London “in what the government described as a ‘vote of confidence’ in the UK.” on.ft.com/3OhBitH
BlackRock held a board meeting in London “in what the government described as a ‘vote of confidence’ in the UK.” on.ft.com/3OhBitH