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The FT launches its guide to Madrid this week, starting with ex-Madrid correspondent Daniel Dombey's tips on where to find the best seafood in the city, as part of the FT Globetrotter city series FT Weekend ft.com/content/0b38d5…

Read this & just try to resist the urge to jump on a plane for Madrid: Elcin Poyrazlar in the @ft on vermouth in the Spanish capital - including in a 1920s bar & a tavern that lists each drink’s strength & sweetness. Amazing photos by Annie Huix. ft.com/content/399510…

Qué gran despedida de Madrid, Daniel Dombey!

The churro - clinching proof that Madrid is the best place ever. By @pameladruck ft.com/content/7eb1f4…

Wasn’t sure about Carmen in English, but English National Opera production was great - wonderful voices, diverse cast, the right perspective on the libretto and fabulous conductor Kerem Hasan / highly recommend it.

“If you get the DUP and Tory MPs involved from the start, they demand things that can’t be negotiated. If you present them with a deal at the end, they claim they are being bounced.” Big Read on Sunak’s Big Gamble with ⁦Jude Webber⁩ enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/3d0abea…

Feels quite old school to do a #ff but my colleague and long-time fellow Merkez Bankası-watcher Adam Samson recently arrived in Ankara as the new Financial Times Turkey correspondent. A must-follow for news on the upcoming elections, earthquake fallout, Turkish economy + more.

Turkey: Empire of Erdoğan, BBC2 review — lucid survey of the president’s rise on.ft.com/42vlAA4

Five days before Turkey’s historic elections, I’m looking forward to watching this BBC documentary on the man at the centre of it all (I’m one of the talking heads) bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

Caught up last night with the first episode of this excellent documentary on Tayyip Erdogan. Some amazing 90s footage which brought back many memories. Highly recommended in advance of Sunday's crucial election 1/2 bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

Tune in for a fascinating discussion with Hümeyra Pamuk, Emre Peker, Elcin Poyrazlar, and Soner Cagaptay on #Turkey's runoff elections. 🗓️Thursday, May 25 ⏰12:30PM ET 📺youtube.com/watch?v=ke2rbb…

The last Brexit deal? Superb and atmospheric report by ⁦Barney Jopson⁩ from the Rock on.ft.com/3NQwSdB

The inimitable @georgewparker ft.com/content/656f0c…

Spain is Nato’s biggest laggard on defence spending. It spends less as a % of GDP than any other Nato country. A national aversion to muscular militarism explains why. ft.com/content/5803cc… via @ft

There's something populist about the backlash against tourism. It involves a turn inwards similar to reactions we've seen to immigration and deindustrialisation. And it unites people on the conservative right & the radical left. ft.com/content/de15a5… via @ft

"One Sunday morning in 2008, I woke up to learn I had supposedly plotted with then-U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney to overthrow the Turkish government," writes Elcin Poyrazlar politico.eu/article/turkey…