👀

Biden taking the lead in the betting markets for the first time in more than six months

(via RealClearPolitics)

What a terrible look from Innovate Finance

quick #FeelingsTrumpFacts reminder on what many (also 'experts') still fail 2understand on 21st cent assessment criteria (& #MediaLiteracy too)
Jemima Kelly 'The more an asset price is disconnected from its fundamentals the more potential it has to go to the moon'
via Victor Mallet

Watched this last night and it's still with me - absolutely incredible, heartbreaking, a must watch:

bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

7 per cent

Liz Truss: “I’m not saying I’m perfect, nobody is perfect”

'Things are both more trivial than they ever were and more important than they ever were, and the difference between the trivial and the important doesn't seem to matter. But the *nowness* of everything is absolutely wondrous.'

I really love this

For anyone needing a break from the doom and gloom today, a column from me on cherry blossom and slowness and being alive

Sakura season and the art of savouring via Financial Times
on.ft.com/3vTyFZj

'Writing online tends to make people slightly worse writers because you always have the voice of the most pedantic reader in your head...you dilute the impact of a strong sentence by adding a bunch of disclaimers to head off commenters.' thewhippet.org/150-heartsmitt…

Jemima Kelly There was a quote from the Iliad that has stayed with me

“The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.”

For anyone needing a break from the doom and gloom today, a column from me on cherry blossom and slowness and being alive

Sakura season and the art of savouring via Financial Times
on.ft.com/3vTyFZj

OJ Simpson Dead At 76: TMZ

On vibes-based stock markets and the absurd valuation of Trump’s recently-listed Truth Social, currently priced at 1,400 times its (non-existent) revenues.

Great piece by Jemima Kelly

ft.com/content/1dad2f…

Sensational thread

“There’s a lot of things to like about him,” says Liz Uihlein. “But nobody can control the bad part of him, where he just says terrible things about people.”

Some choice quotes from Trump donors here in this Big Read by Alex Rogers

ft.com/content/b1c551… via @ft

NEW Financial Times Sketchy Politics video! 🎥 robert shrimsley joins me to discuss whether Sunak/Hunt are being too bold and Labour not bold enough. Featuring a Ming vase, my battered New Labour mug, a badly drawn Hunt 👀 and a better map! youtube.com/watch?v=Ro7A8D…

“[H]aving exemplars whose characters we can aspire to emulate is a crucial component in our own moral development, and in our path towards living a life of virtue and what Aristotle called ‘eudaimonic’ contentment,” writes Jemima Kelly⁩ in Financial Times⁩.🇬🇧🇺🇸 on.ft.com/3PHSSIr

An Easter column on virtue (by me!)

on.ft.com/3PHSSIr via ⁦Financial Times⁩