Tony Tassell
@tonytassell.bsky.social
Financial Opinion Editor at the FT. I have views. A spotter of things in markets, companies, world affairs. Also interested in food and climbing.
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January 5, 2026 at 10:55 AM
Just a few more days left to apply for the Paul McLean graduate trainee programme at the FT. This is an amazing opportunity for any aspiring journalist job-boards.greenhouse.io/financialtim...
Michael Contopoulos of Richard Bernstein Advisors points out the risks of very long term debt for Big Tech's AI investments here in this column www.ft.com/content/d36f...
January 5, 2026 at 8:06 AM
Michael Contopoulos of Richard Bernstein Advisors points out the risks of very long term debt for Big Tech's AI investments here in this column www.ft.com/content/d36f...
Denmark hits back at US over Greenland with its PM saying US rhetoric was “entirely unacceptable”. “Enough is enough. No more pressure. No more insinuations. No more fantasies of annexation.” - rpt by @richardmilne.ft.com www.ft.com/content/daae...
Denmark tells Donald Trump to stop threatening to seize Greenland
Danish prime minister says US has no right to annex Arctic island
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January 5, 2026 at 7:52 AM
Denmark hits back at US over Greenland with its PM saying US rhetoric was “entirely unacceptable”. “Enough is enough. No more pressure. No more insinuations. No more fantasies of annexation.” - rpt by @richardmilne.ft.com www.ft.com/content/daae...
This is fascinating.,Two Silicon Valley veterans behind Twitter and Pinterest - Biz Stone and Evan Sharp - have launched a new app that is designed to be an antidote to the “terrible devastation” they say has been caused by social media - rpt by @tim.fo www.ft.com/content/6a33...
Twitter and Pinterest founders launch app as antidote to social media
Biz Stone and Evan Sharp raise new funds for ‘Tangle’ as they assess the ‘devastation’ caused by online excess
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January 4, 2026 at 9:55 AM
This is fascinating.,Two Silicon Valley veterans behind Twitter and Pinterest - Biz Stone and Evan Sharp - have launched a new app that is designed to be an antidote to the “terrible devastation” they say has been caused by social media - rpt by @tim.fo www.ft.com/content/6a33...
What a Soros theory can tell us about the AI boom - a Philip Coggan column here www.ft.com/content/2ae4...
What a Soros theory can tell us about the AI boom
So much of bubble activity is driven by feedback loops, dubbed reflexivity by the well-known investor
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January 2, 2026 at 6:02 PM
What a Soros theory can tell us about the AI boom - a Philip Coggan column here www.ft.com/content/2ae4...
Still the best way of selling multiculturalism - food www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/n...
Mamdani Pays Tribute to the Foods That Define and Sustain New York
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January 2, 2026 at 10:05 AM
Still the best way of selling multiculturalism - food www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/n...
The Gaza bookshop that refuses to shut www.ft.com/content/7572...
The Gaza bookshop that refuses to shut
As bombs fell and famine took hold, Samir Mansour kept delivering books
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January 1, 2026 at 1:00 PM
The Gaza bookshop that refuses to shut www.ft.com/content/7572...
Ella Risbridger here on the UK's "proud history of politicians moonlighting as erotic novelists" www.ft.com/content/e5bc...
Politicians and the romance novel: a love affair
The world of romantic fiction is a strange one — that of political erotica even more so
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December 31, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Ella Risbridger here on the UK's "proud history of politicians moonlighting as erotic novelists" www.ft.com/content/e5bc...
Zipcar’s business model is an evolutionary dead end - Lex note why the car club strategy is so challenged www.ft.com/content/71b3...
Zipcar’s business model is an evolutionary dead end
The problem for car clubs is that most of the costs are fixed
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December 31, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Zipcar’s business model is an evolutionary dead end - Lex note why the car club strategy is so challenged www.ft.com/content/71b3...
European investors must brace for a year of geopolitical instability - @nixonsimon.bsky.social column here www.ft.com/content/e243...
European investors must brace for a year of geopolitical instability
Menaced by Russia and bullied by America, a potential Ukraine peace deal is not guaranteed to usher in prosperity
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December 31, 2025 at 10:06 AM
European investors must brace for a year of geopolitical instability - @nixonsimon.bsky.social column here www.ft.com/content/e243...
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over 400 new bookstores opened in the USA in 2025, which is 100 more than opened in 2024. bookstores are thriving:
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Dragons, Sex and the Bible: What Drove the Book Business This Year
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December 30, 2025 at 6:15 PM
over 400 new bookstores opened in the USA in 2025, which is 100 more than opened in 2024. bookstores are thriving:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/b...
Has the rise of the side hustle made it harder to assess the state of the economy - @pdonovan-econ.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/799f...
The rise of the side hustle
Economists and tax collectors might be underestimating its impact
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December 29, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Has the rise of the side hustle made it harder to assess the state of the economy - @pdonovan-econ.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/799f...
A reading of the runes of where we are in the Ukraine talks by Ben Hall here... "There is no end in sight for this struggle. Nor sadly to Russia’s killing machine." www.ft.com/content/8c23...
December 29, 2025 at 10:25 AM
A reading of the runes of where we are in the Ukraine talks by Ben Hall here... "There is no end in sight for this struggle. Nor sadly to Russia’s killing machine." www.ft.com/content/8c23...
Sex symbol is such a weird loaded term
December 28, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Sex symbol is such a weird loaded term
ICYMI a read here on one of Europe’s top business leaders John Elkann and his year to forget from problems from family legal battle to Ferrari www.ft.com/content/81c4...
John Elkann’s year to forget: a pile-up of problems from family to Ferrari
Tax fraud charges escalate schism within Agnelli dynasty as troubles mount across billionaire’s business empire
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December 24, 2025 at 9:12 AM
ICYMI a read here on one of Europe’s top business leaders John Elkann and his year to forget from problems from family legal battle to Ferrari www.ft.com/content/81c4...
how did i know this existed - Prince on the Muppets
CD6: Cosmic Day, I Need A Man, Promise To Be True
CD7/CD8: live in Utrecht, Sign O' The Times, I Could Never Take..., It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Night
Anyway, there's a lot of interest but he chose all the best songs for the released album. Including this one:
youtu.be/X59sbJK3Cxg?...
CD7/CD8: live in Utrecht, Sign O' The Times, I Could Never Take..., It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Night
Anyway, there's a lot of interest but he chose all the best songs for the released album. Including this one:
youtu.be/X59sbJK3Cxg?...
Starfish and Coffee (Muppets Tonight) - Prince
YouTube video by Paisley Perk
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December 23, 2025 at 3:41 PM
how did i know this existed - Prince on the Muppets
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The Christmas story of the year 😀Spanish villagers devastated by forest fire win €468m in lottery prizes
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Spanish villagers devastated by forest fire win €468m in lottery prizes
Mayor says Christmas windfall created ‘a cascade of emotions after such a terrible year’
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December 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The Christmas story of the year 😀Spanish villagers devastated by forest fire win €468m in lottery prizes
www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
As in other areas, China is scaling up the production of luxury food goods like caviar and truffles. As Eleanor Olcott, Tom Hale and Haohsiang Ko report, you can get a 1kg of truffles for $56 or a tin of caviar for $14 www.ft.com/content/e020...
Caviar and foie gras? China is becoming a luxury food powerhouse
Low-cost domestic producers of prized delicacies are replacing imports and breaking into global markets
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December 23, 2025 at 8:07 AM
As in other areas, China is scaling up the production of luxury food goods like caviar and truffles. As Eleanor Olcott, Tom Hale and Haohsiang Ko report, you can get a 1kg of truffles for $56 or a tin of caviar for $14 www.ft.com/content/e020...
sad chart of the day showing fewer Britons are giving to charity - from a column by @johngapper.bsky.social on how venture philanthropy can transform small charities www.ft.com/content/3c24...
December 23, 2025 at 7:53 AM
sad chart of the day showing fewer Britons are giving to charity - from a column by @johngapper.bsky.social on how venture philanthropy can transform small charities www.ft.com/content/3c24...
America’s risky bet on hydrocarbons might hurt it in the AI race - column here from @ianrharnett.bsky.social. As China looks to renewables for its huge AI power needs, the US is doubling down on fossil fuels. That has a knock-on impact to electricity prices, food and water www.ft.com/content/73e0...
December 23, 2025 at 7:50 AM
America’s risky bet on hydrocarbons might hurt it in the AI race - column here from @ianrharnett.bsky.social. As China looks to renewables for its huge AI power needs, the US is doubling down on fossil fuels. That has a knock-on impact to electricity prices, food and water www.ft.com/content/73e0...
Donald Trump has named a special envoy for Greenland, underscoring his determination to take control of the vast Arctic island from Denmark - rpts @richardmilne.ft.com www.ft.com/content/8c0e...
December 22, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Donald Trump has named a special envoy for Greenland, underscoring his determination to take control of the vast Arctic island from Denmark - rpts @richardmilne.ft.com www.ft.com/content/8c0e...
Big FT Investigation - Binance allowed suspicious accounts to operate even after 2023 US plea agreement. Details of the transactions come after Trump pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao in Oct. The Trump family has since expanded business ties with Zhao’s exchange www.ft.com/content/5d8a...
Binance allowed suspicious accounts to operate even after 2023 US plea agreement
Leaked files show continued activity despite links to terror networks, failed ID checks and other red flags
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December 22, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Big FT Investigation - Binance allowed suspicious accounts to operate even after 2023 US plea agreement. Details of the transactions come after Trump pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao in Oct. The Trump family has since expanded business ties with Zhao’s exchange www.ft.com/content/5d8a...
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www.ft.com/content/f6ef... Israel to build 19 more settlements in occupied West Bank
Israel to build 19 more settlements in occupied West Bank
Approvals hit record pace as government seeks to thwart any prospect of a Palestinian state
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December 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
www.ft.com/content/f6ef... Israel to build 19 more settlements in occupied West Bank
A remarkable act in these times from Rick Steves
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
A remarkable act in these times from Rick Steves