economist.com/britain/2024/0… Bootlicking: a guide to pre-election British politics. Labour is not yet in power—but the honey moon has already begun!

Great opportunity findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk/apprenticeship…

Go watch 'OJ Simpson: Made in America'

Sad to say I've been laid off by openDemocracy, along with several of my incredible colleagues in the UK. It's one dark day of many for British journalism, but I'm immensely proud of everything we achieved together. Here's some of the best. 🧵

In the context of Labour’s spending plans and ambition, isn’t Robinson right to ask this?

Labour’s main (detailed) tax plans so far are to close loopholes, which have a questionable success rate, and as yet unrevealed detailed plans on business rates and oil and gas/tech taxes.

Tomorrow’s City A.M.

I wrote about the debated, often ideologically divided terrain of British YIMBYism for The New Statesman:

newstatesman.com/comment/2024/0…

🚨EXCITING JOB NEWS🚨 i newspaper is looking for a money reporter to work with Callum Mason and myself! This is such a great opportunity to work with a [if I say so myself] wonderful team. Details and application below! Get in touch with any questions.

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Remarkable line in BBC interview with David Cameron

EXC

UK should stop arms sales to Israel, Tony Blair's ex-foreign secretary Jack Straw says

inews.co.uk/news/uk-should…

WHAT theguardian.com/business/2024/…

A blank space on today’s WSJ A1 where Evan Gershkovich’s reporting should be, one year after his arrest on patently false charges. Russia should free him now

The cryptocurrency firm chaired by former UK chancellor Philip Hammond hosted a party where guests were served sushi off scantily clad models.
Scoop by Nikou Asgari on.ft.com/4a833OE

On Halloween 2018, a London detective investigating a Chinese takeaway worker stumbled on billions of pounds worth of bitcoin in a Hampstead mansion ft.com/content/0bc35b…

My and Eri Sugiura's long read on an extraordinary tale of crime, crypto and a woman in way over her head

🚨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⚽️EXCLUSIVE: This is the statue of Harry Kane which has been sat in storage for years

Big Issue has obtained pictures of the statue, commissioned in 2019, and as-yet-unseen

Waltham Forest Council spent £7,200 on it, at the request of residents. But it hasn't found a home...

Christ. The Australian company housing the UK's asylum seekers on a massive floating barge said its profit margins on the secret contract would be 'low'. Analysis by AFR suggests the company's margins are at least 50 per cent.

afr.com/companies/tour…

there are surely some brands with tickets for England at the euros who could spare some for my pal Alex who's spent the past year battling cancer

Response to the budget? 📧 in bio