Sehr stolz auf die deutsche Übersetzung meines neuen WM-Buches! Eine Reise durch meine neun WMs seit Italia '90. Das Buch können Sie hier bestellen: www.amazon.de/-/en/gr%C3%B...

Here is a more personal note that I wrote for Derk this week. I hope the Sauer family won't mind me posting it - it's a homage to a great man

For a quick taste of what life is like for Ukrainians right now, in a war that none of them sought and did nothing to deserve, here's Nathalie's latest post, from about 15 minutes ago

Nathalie Halbout, formerly of New Jersey, is now a volunteer nurse in her native Kyiv, taking care of soldiers, many of them wounded by drones. She writes fascinatingly about her experiences, and fundraises for medical supplies. Please follow her for more, and donate! ff//

Like so many Europeans, I grew up among people carrying private traumas from World War Two. Eighty years on, this private damage has outlasted the public impact of the war. Me @FinancialTimes. Read here: on.ft.com/4lX60aT

Big if true

MIT advises international students and scholars against travelling abroad, for fear they cannot get back in - see this letter from provost Cynthia Barnhart. How long can US universities hang onto the best international talent? But as I ask in my FT column, can any other university systems take it?

There is so much going on in the world that hardly anyone is thinking about Syria now. But after last week's ethnic violence that may have killed over 1000 people, I just got this WhatsApp from a Syrian friend

What's at stake for Ukraine and what's at stake for Trump - Ben Hall very good in @financialtimes.com on.ft.com/3EVp6NQ

Nice summary of my book Chums in this @economist.com piece on British political speechifying www.economist.com/britain/2025...

My rule for reader emails is that I always respect their anonymity unless they are abusive, Mark Goldstein

I wrote last year that the Israel-Hamas war was a contest between 2 competing fantasies of ethnic cleansing. Now, with Trump calling for Palestinians to be "cleaned out" from the "demolition site" of Gaza, it looks as if the Israeli fantasy may win on.ft.com/3CpAS1R

Writing this stuff is probably a pointless endeavour, as nobody is going to change their mind, and surely all these genocide scholars (including many Israelis, Jewish Holocaust specialists etc) are just antisemites anyway etc etc? I received some sensitive responses from readers but also this filth

Waterstones Piccadilly is such a good bookshop

Thirty years ago this week, I started work at the @FinancialTimes. For my anniversary, I went back to look at that first day's newspaper to see how much the FT had changed. I was surprised. Me on Russian invasions and accidentally choosing the right job on.ft.com/4gFBEXv

On the British sexual grooming story: I'm not here to advocate for Starmer or Labour, but this from @FT counters the nonsense that Bill Musk and Ackman are spreading about a country that they know nothing about. Source here: on.ft.com/421zL2S

I'm touched to see that Andrius Kubilius of Lithuania has become the EU's first 'defence chief'. I met him while writing my first book, Football Against the Enemy, in Vilnius in 1992