Senior Writer, FT Weekend / will.lloyd@ft.com
London, England
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I’ve spent a few weeks asking people if Britain is prepared for war, among other doom scenarios. The short answer is no and the condensed reason for why that happened is that we spent the last forty years stripping off and selling the most resilient systems in the country for parts.
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Last month, I went up to Maine to have dinner with Tucker Carlson. Carlson had turned on Trump several months prior over Trump’s decision to launch a war with Iran, which Carlson saw as a betrayal of everything Trump stood for, and he believed it was the result of Trump succumbing to Israeli pressure. Criticism of the war and of the U.S. relationship with Israel has become a theme of Carlson’s popular podcasts this year, and I had watched it get under the skin of the president and the GOP, as they head nervously into a midterm election that they could lose because of the ripple effects of this war. I wanted to hear more about Carlson’s evolution—as he has criticized Israel and Trump, the controversial right wing commentator has also increasingly become a de facto defender of the Palestinians—and I wanted to know how he fits into America’s dynamic political landscape. Read the full piece here in FT’s weekend magazine:
ft.com/content/98417e57-fe7e…
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France is in revolt. But the real storm is yet to come ft.trib.al/h7GPI3K
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Author Hanif Kureishi: ‘The urge to write came back strongly’ ft.trib.al/20o2tds
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More people say they have heard of Rupert Lowe than John Healey – @YouGov yougov.com/en-gb/ratings/pol…
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I went to Cloth Cornhill, formerly Simpson’s Tavern, and... wish I liked it more. Oh well!
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Interesting finding from this focus group of Labour swing voters in Sheffield.
Britain was variously described as chaotic, crumbling, overcrowded, terrible, a mess, struggling, leaderless and broken by voters at two FT focus groups in Sheffield ft.trib.al/PmWHJKP
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FT Exclusive: A new agreement could allow Kyiv to obtain weapons, ammunition and military equipment faster and more cheaply via Nato’s centralised procurement agency ft.trib.al/kq8M9Fc
ALT Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a media conference at the EU summit in Brussels. Text on image reads: (FT Exclusive) Ukraine to buy military supplies via Nato agency (Credit: Omar Havana/AP)
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China’s nightmare: becoming the next Japan ft.trib.al/mz08Lw5
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President Mohamed Irfaan Ali says King Charles has recognised slavery as the darkest days in human history - but moving to the apology is “the next step”.
“You [Britain] who benefitted tremendously… materially and financially… you exploited the region, you destroyed lives, you created underdevelopment”.
King will travel to The Bahamas, Guyana and Antigua from next week.
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The Prince Charles Cinema Secures its Future
The Prince Charles Cinema is thrilled to announce that we have signed a new 25-year lease with no break clause, ensuring our projectors will keep rolling for years to come.
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In a defiant interview with the FT, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Donald Trump had an instinctive affinity for autocrats and the super-wealthy. The Ukrainian president explained his views on the relationship between the US and Russian heads of state ft.trib.al/u7fXLMI
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Marine Le Pen: ‘All the warning signs are flashing red’ ft.trib.al/nwtsW78
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A mid week piece from me, on the @FT newspages. In an act of extraordinary generosity the owner of the building which houses Rules, London’s oldest restaurant, has donated it to the @nationaltrust
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Important content from the FT. Disappointed this hasn't been made into today's Big Read. ft.com/content/f01b8a11-559f…
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Great story in "Mail Men" about the relations between the powerful and the press. Ahead of every Budget, Sir David English, the editor of the Mail, would call up Bernard Ingham, find out what was going to be in it, start a big Mail campaign to call for XYZ, then declare "VICTORY FOR MAIL READERS" after it was announced.
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Video: A Haruki Marukami mega fan reacts with sadness to the announcement that his favorite novelist did not win this year's Nobel Prize for Literature. In their haste to create an announcement sign, someone misspelled the name of the winner, Anne Carson.
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Here’s my long-gestating magnum opus: @The_Fence_Mag misery-memoir about the period in the early-to-mid 2020s that I spent living with two Taylor Swift fanatics, one of them eight, the other seventy-eight
the-fence.com/article/end-of…
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Saudi Aramco chief warns world’s oil stockpiles are ‘scarily thin’ ft.trib.al/pzlCdWV
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