Thank you Unrestricted View FF for best micro short for our film HOT Neighbour!

This must be the first Pulitzer won by someone in IK-7 prison in Omsk, Siberia. Congrats to Vladimir Kara-Murza!

What would Nancy Pelosi advise women who are considering politics?

'Be yourself. Be ready. Know yourself. Know the power of you. Understand how needed you are. Nothing is more wholesome than the increased participation of women in politics and government.'

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'What voters respect is action, “what works”, a reputation for sorting things out, getting things done, an enthusiasm for results. More than anything, what they crave from political leadership is positivity.' thetimes.co.uk/article/future…

Battered in Blackpool, facing losses of half of their seats - a disastrous night for Rishi Sunak and the Conservatives. Tees Valley result can’t come soon enough for Sunak / but would a win there be enough to quell a possible mutiny? on.ft.com/4dpsdtT

Shocking good news? Cost of Birmingham council equal-pay claim probably far lower than £760mn via Financial Times on.ft.com/3WIi06f

Can you afford to retire early? Lots of practical tips from Financial Times readers for anybody looking to secure financial independence, but beware of getting bored, via ⁦Moira O'Neill⁩ on.ft.com/4bduc2U

Rather than serving as a constraint, Russia’s economy might become an additional incentive to prolong its war in Ukraine, writes Elina Ribakova 🇺🇦 ft.com/content/3fd6b6…

How on earth can this be fair? Surely ministers could have foreseen this?

Our @ft film series on democracy with Margaret E Atwood Elif Shafak Lọlá Shónẹ́yìn Aditi Mittal birthed a book!

Turkey's trade with Russia is down sharply this year following more US pressure on banks dealing with Moscow's war machine. A sign Biden's Dec 2023 executive order is having a noticeable effect on payments to and from Russia

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The Financial Times and OpenAI strike content licensing deal via Financial Times
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‘No country has acknowledged being behind the interference with signals in the Baltics, but officials in the region said there was little doubt that Russia was behind the jamming both from its mainland and its exclave of Kaliningrad’ ⁦Richard Milne⁩ on.ft.com/44m38vN

All you wanted to know about investing but were afraid to ask: Thank you ⁦Claer Barrett⁩, our money whisperer, and, for making this free to read, ⁦FT Financial Literacy & Inclusion Campaign⁩ the @FT’s financial literacy charity on.ft.com/49SiEks

Another brilliantly told Moscow story 🙏Polina Ivanova⁩ ⁦max seddon⁩:‘This guy was so flamboyant and so was his wife. Putin doesn’t care about corruption that much — you need a certain amount to allow things to happen. But there is still a limit’ on.ft.com/49ZaeYi

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It's hard to understand why an economics professor showing concern for a student would be thrown to the ground and arrested. This is not an obvious way to defuse a crisis.

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