Sam Gad Jones
@samgadjones.bsky.social
European Security Correspondent for the Financial Times.
Writer and host of Hot Money Season 3: Agent of Chaos.
Formerly FT investigations, UCLSSEES, FT defence & security editor & way back the LSE
Also 🎿🚴♂️📚🏔️
Writer and host of Hot Money Season 3: Agent of Chaos.
Formerly FT investigations, UCLSSEES, FT defence & security editor & way back the LSE
Also 🎿🚴♂️📚🏔️
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Exclusive: Russia’s spy agencies and Western security services are engaged in a secret struggle to gain custody of a Russian operative suspected of coordinating attacks last year that caused air cargo packages to burst into flames in Europe.
Russia, Europe fight for custody of operative linked to DHL bomb plot
A Russian national, now in Azerbaijan, is suspected of coordinating a 2024 parcel plot targeting air cargo planes in Europe.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Exclusive: Russia’s spy agencies and Western security services are engaged in a secret struggle to gain custody of a Russian operative suspected of coordinating attacks last year that caused air cargo packages to burst into flames in Europe.
“I fundamentally assess that Putin is not interested in negotiations. There are no negotiations, not real negotiations. He’s attempting to play us… [But] this is a very, very winnable contest… It’s particularly important that we don’t snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.”
Former MI6 chief Richard Moore: Britain must regain the ‘power of example’
[FREE TO READ] The outgoing head of the Secret Intelligence Service on the rise of China, why Putin is not interested in talks — and how screen spies aren’t always far from the truth
on.ft.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
“I fundamentally assess that Putin is not interested in negotiations. There are no negotiations, not real negotiations. He’s attempting to play us… [But] this is a very, very winnable contest… It’s particularly important that we don’t snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.”
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The Freedom of Russia resistance movement set fire to dozens of locomotives on the territory of Russia - Ukrainian Defense Intelligence
Russian locomotives are used to transport weapons, ammunition, and equipment during combat operations against Ukraine.
Russian locomotives are used to transport weapons, ammunition, and equipment during combat operations against Ukraine.
November 6, 2025 at 10:21 AM
The Freedom of Russia resistance movement set fire to dozens of locomotives on the territory of Russia - Ukrainian Defense Intelligence
Russian locomotives are used to transport weapons, ammunition, and equipment during combat operations against Ukraine.
Russian locomotives are used to transport weapons, ammunition, and equipment during combat operations against Ukraine.
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Take a look at this extraordinary story by the @financialtimes.com investigations star Alison Killing:
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 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 ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
November 6, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Take a look at this extraordinary story by the @financialtimes.com investigations star Alison Killing:
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 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 ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
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Let’s take a look at the whole “there are too many black people on TV” thing, shall we?
After Pochin claimed Black people in TV adverts “made her mad”, all her supporters tried to use 👇🏼 as their excuse for why she was somehow justified in her overt racism.
Spoiler - she isn’t! 🤨
🧵
1/22
After Pochin claimed Black people in TV adverts “made her mad”, all her supporters tried to use 👇🏼 as their excuse for why she was somehow justified in her overt racism.
Spoiler - she isn’t! 🤨
🧵
1/22
November 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Let’s take a look at the whole “there are too many black people on TV” thing, shall we?
After Pochin claimed Black people in TV adverts “made her mad”, all her supporters tried to use 👇🏼 as their excuse for why she was somehow justified in her overt racism.
Spoiler - she isn’t! 🤨
🧵
1/22
After Pochin claimed Black people in TV adverts “made her mad”, all her supporters tried to use 👇🏼 as their excuse for why she was somehow justified in her overt racism.
Spoiler - she isn’t! 🤨
🧵
1/22
Interesting thread. Another nuance that gets lost in the narrative about Ukraine “losing”: I guarantee you Ukraine’s injured are looked after a lot better than those in Russia.
1/ Russian hospitals are overflowing with badly injured soldiers, who are lying for days in the hallways without even being treated, due to the doctors being so overworked. The men are not being compensated for their wounds, says one hospitalised soldier. ⬇️
November 1, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Interesting thread. Another nuance that gets lost in the narrative about Ukraine “losing”: I guarantee you Ukraine’s injured are looked after a lot better than those in Russia.
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Servus Österreich 🇦🇹 Als #BalkonMuppet bezeichnet die Wiener politmediale Blase Ex-Politiker, die frei von Amt & Verantwortung Schelte und Besserwisserei betreiben.
Nur: Warum nennt keiner Ex-Kanzler Sebastian Kurz einen „Balkon Muppet“?
Mein Text aus Wien.
www.spiegel.de/ausland/die-...
Nur: Warum nennt keiner Ex-Kanzler Sebastian Kurz einen „Balkon Muppet“?
Mein Text aus Wien.
www.spiegel.de/ausland/die-...
November 1, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Servus Österreich 🇦🇹 Als #BalkonMuppet bezeichnet die Wiener politmediale Blase Ex-Politiker, die frei von Amt & Verantwortung Schelte und Besserwisserei betreiben.
Nur: Warum nennt keiner Ex-Kanzler Sebastian Kurz einen „Balkon Muppet“?
Mein Text aus Wien.
www.spiegel.de/ausland/die-...
Nur: Warum nennt keiner Ex-Kanzler Sebastian Kurz einen „Balkon Muppet“?
Mein Text aus Wien.
www.spiegel.de/ausland/die-...
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Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, argues that technological revolutions are driven by new ways of paying for them. Here are unusual financial agreements helping to drive the ambitions of the poster child of the A.I. revolution.
How OpenAI Uses Complex and Circular Deals to Fuel Its Multibillion-Dollar Rise
Here are seven unusual financial agreements helping to drive the ambitions of the poster child of the A.I. revolution.
nyti.ms
October 31, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, argues that technological revolutions are driven by new ways of paying for them. Here are unusual financial agreements helping to drive the ambitions of the poster child of the A.I. revolution.
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"the FBI director used taxpayer funds in a government shutdown to fly his country singer GF to sing at a Hulk Hogan-founded wrestling event aired on Fox Nation" is not the flashiest Trump-era headline but pound for pound it can compete with any contender
Patel's girlfriend performed at Penn State last weekend. A government jet arrived at State College Regional Airport, according to its FAA registration, with an address listing the FBI HQ. The plane then flew to Nashville, where his girlfriend lives.
All on the taxpayer’s dime.
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All on the taxpayer’s dime.
trib.al/TBvPo7A
October 30, 2025 at 12:31 PM
"the FBI director used taxpayer funds in a government shutdown to fly his country singer GF to sing at a Hulk Hogan-founded wrestling event aired on Fox Nation" is not the flashiest Trump-era headline but pound for pound it can compete with any contender
AI fatigue is becoming more than an ignorable irritation.
Setting aside the disastrous but abstract way it is addling the minds of people… On a day to day basis it has made searching for anything specific on the internet hell.
Google struggles with anything more precise than a sponge recipe.
Setting aside the disastrous but abstract way it is addling the minds of people… On a day to day basis it has made searching for anything specific on the internet hell.
Google struggles with anything more precise than a sponge recipe.
October 30, 2025 at 7:28 AM
AI fatigue is becoming more than an ignorable irritation.
Setting aside the disastrous but abstract way it is addling the minds of people… On a day to day basis it has made searching for anything specific on the internet hell.
Google struggles with anything more precise than a sponge recipe.
Setting aside the disastrous but abstract way it is addling the minds of people… On a day to day basis it has made searching for anything specific on the internet hell.
Google struggles with anything more precise than a sponge recipe.
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Nelson's Victory crew included a Brazilian and a Russian, 2 Indians, 2 Swiss, 2 Portuguese, 3 Danes and 3 Norwegian sailors. There were 3 Germans, 4 Italians, 6 Swedes, 7 Dutchmen, 9 West Indians and an African, as well as 21 Americans, 63 Irish, 64 Scots, 441 English.... oh, and 3 French men, too.
October 22, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Nelson's Victory crew included a Brazilian and a Russian, 2 Indians, 2 Swiss, 2 Portuguese, 3 Danes and 3 Norwegian sailors. There were 3 Germans, 4 Italians, 6 Swedes, 7 Dutchmen, 9 West Indians and an African, as well as 21 Americans, 63 Irish, 64 Scots, 441 English.... oh, and 3 French men, too.
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"Whatever lies behind Trump’s cupidity towards Putin, we should be long past caring why. The reality is settled fact. Putin has fewer cards in his hand than Trump supposes. One of those cards is Trump." My column. www.ft.com/content/7deb...
Putin’s mesmeric sway on Trump
Russia bets it can gain in US negotiations what it cannot win on the battlefield
www.ft.com
October 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
"Whatever lies behind Trump’s cupidity towards Putin, we should be long past caring why. The reality is settled fact. Putin has fewer cards in his hand than Trump supposes. One of those cards is Trump." My column. www.ft.com/content/7deb...
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Anyone familiar with the political culture of the Trumpian GOP will not be surprised by this reporting on today's Young Republicans, but all decent human beings will be appalled by it.
POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.
@politico.com
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@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
October 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Anyone familiar with the political culture of the Trumpian GOP will not be surprised by this reporting on today's Young Republicans, but all decent human beings will be appalled by it.
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"What they propose is in effect a mass surveillance free-for-all, opening up everyone’s intimate and confidential communications, whether government officials, military, investigative journalists, or activists. For all of Europe’s talk of sovereignty, this is a bizarre cybersecurity decision"
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
signal.org
October 4, 2025 at 7:54 AM
"What they propose is in effect a mass surveillance free-for-all, opening up everyone’s intimate and confidential communications, whether government officials, military, investigative journalists, or activists. For all of Europe’s talk of sovereignty, this is a bizarre cybersecurity decision"
This has got to be one of the dumbest, crassest and least impressive articulations of military power in history.
Hegseth: "A few months ago I was at the White House when President Trump announced his liberation day for America's trade policy. It was a landmark day. Well, today is another liberation day. The liberation of America's warriors ... you kill people and break things for a living."
September 30, 2025 at 1:43 PM
This has got to be one of the dumbest, crassest and least impressive articulations of military power in history.
It turns out… James Delingpole CAN go lower.
September 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM
It turns out… James Delingpole CAN go lower.
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Mark the moment - an American president has ordered troops on to the streets of a normal American city where crime rates have fallen sharply.
And in talking of using “full force” he is clearly trying to provoke tension between those troops and anyone who contests this abuse of power.
And in talking of using “full force” he is clearly trying to provoke tension between those troops and anyone who contests this abuse of power.
September 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Mark the moment - an American president has ordered troops on to the streets of a normal American city where crime rates have fallen sharply.
And in talking of using “full force” he is clearly trying to provoke tension between those troops and anyone who contests this abuse of power.
And in talking of using “full force” he is clearly trying to provoke tension between those troops and anyone who contests this abuse of power.
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Somewhere in Hell Qaddafi smiles knowing his will never again be seen as the most demented speech in UN General Assembly history.
September 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Somewhere in Hell Qaddafi smiles knowing his will never again be seen as the most demented speech in UN General Assembly history.
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this exists it is called thinking
September 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
this exists it is called thinking
Honestly wtf is going on
This very much reads like the kind of article that a few currently poor but soon-to-be masters of the universe will frame above their desks.
This very much reads like the kind of article that a few currently poor but soon-to-be masters of the universe will frame above their desks.
September 19, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Honestly wtf is going on
This very much reads like the kind of article that a few currently poor but soon-to-be masters of the universe will frame above their desks.
This very much reads like the kind of article that a few currently poor but soon-to-be masters of the universe will frame above their desks.
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“No happening is too solemn, in this world, for a heaping portion of unabashed self-promotion.”
Kash Patel Plays a G-Man on TV www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...
Kash Patel Plays a G-Man on TV www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...
Kash Patel Plays a G-Man on TV
In his press conference announcing the capture of Charlie Kirk’s killer, the F.B.I. director revealed himself.
www.newyorker.com
September 15, 2025 at 8:17 PM
“No happening is too solemn, in this world, for a heaping portion of unabashed self-promotion.”
Kash Patel Plays a G-Man on TV www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...
Kash Patel Plays a G-Man on TV www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...
The estate of of the incredible Hedy Lamarr is up for sale. Hopefully **this time** a suitable public custodian will buy it. Perhaps the state of Austria should consider stepping in, to protect the reputation of one of its most fascinating citizens?
Hedy Lamarr war nicht nur Hollywood-Star, sondern auch bedeutende Wissenschaftlerin. Der Nachlass findet hoffentlich einen würdigen Käufer.
Insolvente Signa Holding verkauft den Nachlass von Hedy Lamarr
Das Verwertungsverfahren läuft etwas holprig an. Das Jüdische Museum sieht von einem Ankauf ab, und das Wien-Museum stellt ein Interesse in Abrede
www.derstandard.at
September 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The estate of of the incredible Hedy Lamarr is up for sale. Hopefully **this time** a suitable public custodian will buy it. Perhaps the state of Austria should consider stepping in, to protect the reputation of one of its most fascinating citizens?
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There seems to be no business reason to justify Telsa stock's sudden 10% jump in the last 2 days. Sales down, market share down, brand trashed. If I was a conspiratorially-minded cynic I'd say the price rose solely to stop Larry Ellison from remaining the richest man in the world
September 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
There seems to be no business reason to justify Telsa stock's sudden 10% jump in the last 2 days. Sales down, market share down, brand trashed. If I was a conspiratorially-minded cynic I'd say the price rose solely to stop Larry Ellison from remaining the richest man in the world