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Breen Turner
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Award-winning Senior Audio Engineer & Sound Designer for Financial Times Audio // Political Fix, Life & Art, Tech Tonic and more // aspiring Gaeilgeoir, long-suffering Leeds fan
Really getting me in the holiday mood
December 16, 2024 at 5:12 PM
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The Arctic Ocean could see its first ice-free day by 2030, new research shows

"The fact that the Arctic sea ice cover has changed so significantly that [its loss in] 2030 is even a remote possibility shows how much change there has already been in the Arctic environment”

on.ft.com/3DgyKJK
December 7, 2024 at 4:13 PM
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"Marsalek and Roussev...discussed options relating to Christo Grozev...lead Russia investigator with Bellingcat"

"such as carrying out surveillance of him, kidnapping him and taking him to Moscow, killing him and infiltrating Bellingcat"

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
‘Sophisticated’ spy ring passed secrets to Russia for three years, UK court told
Court told Bulgarian nationals surveilled targets including a journalist linked to Russian dissident Alexei Navalny
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2024 at 11:04 AM
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Bulgarians plead guilty to involvement in Jan Marsalek spy ring

Court hears that former Wirecard executive “was acting as the intermediary for the Russian Intelligence Services”.

Directed them to spy on US air base, among other plots.
Bulgarians plead guilty to involvement in Jan Marsalek spy ring
[FREE TO READ] Two admit conspiracy to spy while three others deny the charge
on.ft.com
November 29, 2024 at 9:02 AM
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The biggest shock of the Haigh resignation is discovering that once upon a time the police actually investigated a stolen phone.
November 29, 2024 at 7:39 AM
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Good man yourself Oedipus, how’re ye keeping these days, tell me now, do y’still have the
November 28, 2024 at 9:55 PM
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A terrific theory that pairs well with the Economist's terrific and terrifying chart of Musk's tweeting.
November 29, 2024 at 9:37 AM
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FT can reveal that the big spending review has been pushed back from the spring to June

(but Treasury still pretending that June is in the spring lol)

www.ft.com/content/edc2...
Rachel Reeves pushes back multiyear UK spending review until June
Delay from planned spring 2025 Treasury announcement will extend period of uncertainty for government departments
www.ft.com
November 28, 2024 at 7:05 PM
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Seasta
November 27, 2024 at 11:27 AM
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"The fact that the ICC has also indicted Putin, Hamas and numerous African leaders will be brushed aside as the court and its European backers are tarred as Jew-haters." Excellent column by my colleague @gideonrachman.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/896d...
Israel will split the western alliance
Destroying the International Criminal Court is not in America’s interests
www.ft.com
November 25, 2024 at 2:32 PM
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Financial Times having quite a sexy time at the moment aren't they, lot of fun appointments, fun stories, just seem to be generally thriving
November 21, 2024 at 3:55 PM
This is a real shame - odd decision imo and we're all worse off for it
After 12 years on the radio, @josielong.bsky.social's Short Cuts will have its last series on BBC Radio 4 this winter.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
November 21, 2024 at 1:08 PM
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one of the points I made in here (I'm on from c 51:30) is all this talk of Bluesky being an echo chamber is silly.
We all choose newspapers, TV channels, podcasts etc etc that broadly align with our world view, all the time. Always have. All media is an echo chamber www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The Media Show - Investigating abuse in the Church of England, Tyson vs Paul, NYT Games, Leaving X for Bluesky - BBC Sounds
Cathy Newman on how her journalism brought down the archbishop of Canterbury.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2024 at 12:36 PM