Thrilled to win a Sigma award for our investigation exposing the scale of China’s suppression of Islamic culture. A huge team effort w/ Yuan Yang Lucy Rodgers Irene de la Torre Arenas Peter Andringa Eva Xiao Max Harlow Joe Leahy Sun Yu and many others in FT Data

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zero dimensions, one ladder, four hunters, more lawyers, and millions of wild acres — the story of a geometric battle in the american west: ft.com/content/63b1c7…

Scooplet from me and Rafe Uddin: the Labour Party quietly launched an official account on TikTok today, despite UK gov concerns about security on the app. (The Tories currently don't have an account, but the right-wing Reform UK has been successful there.)

New: Labour is beating the Conservatives on TikTok Labour has achieved over 2x as many plays of its reels since both parties launched accounts less than a fortnight ago... but has also had to remove content Story w/ Peter Andringa & @danielthomasldn ft.com/content/320945…

EXC: Labour massively outspent the Tories on Facebook & Instagram ads during a crucial early window in election campaign (before some spending caps came in) It’s the latest sign that Starmer’s party was more prepared for snap election than Sunak’s, despite timing being in PM’s

I think this chart says it all: Labour made great use of the crucial first week before spending limits applied, while the Tories… did not.

NEW: Ukrainian children who were abducted in the early months of the war are listed on Russian adoption websites. Here’s how we found them By me ⁦Christopher Miller⁩ ⁦Peter Andringa⁩ ⁦Chris Campbell⁩ ⁦Sam Joiner⁩ ⁦Sam Learner⁩ on.ft.com/4cge7tI

White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan released this statement on and linking to our Financial Times investigation: “This is despicable and appalling. These Ukrainian children belong with their families inside Ukraine. Russia is waging a war not just against the Ukrainian

I will really miss hearing the @LongformPodcast every week. 10+ years of listening incubated my earliest interest in journalism and taught me at least as much as J-school ever did. Feels like the end of an era.

NEW: How the Taliban opened Afghanistan’s mines We checked over 200 mining contracts issued since the takeover in 2021 and of the 128 that included information on contract areas, 88 show signs of activity on satellite imagery ig.ft.com/afghan-mining/

NEW: Tories have massively ramped up spending on social media ads since weekend, in eleventh-hour boost to their online campaign. Conservatives appear to have held back money in order to flood Facebook and Instagram in days leading up to election. Tory spending on Meta

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NEW: The “shocking” security failings that allowed a would-be assassin to climb onto a roof and fire at former president Donald Trump We analysed images and videos from the rally and spoke to former Secret Service agents to piece together what happened 👉ft.com/content/9acf8e…

NEW from the FT VI team: How a series of security faiings let a would-be assassin shoot Donald Trump by Chris Campbell Lucy Rodgers Peter Andringa and Toru Tsunashima ft.com/content/9acf8e…

NEW: Global sea surface temperatures set new daily records for 469 consecutive days in 2023-24 with the North Atlantic particularly affected. Read Attracta Mooney's deep dive on ocean temperatures with excellent #dataviz from Jana Tauschinski ft.com/content/76c374…

Excellent spot by the brilliant Peter Andringa - Harris has spent 10 times as much as Trump on digital ads since becoming the Dem’s candidate, a sign the campaigns are diverging in tactics. Story w/ @arogdc and Sam Learner ft.com/content/691eda…

Ten days that turned the tables on Russia How Ukraine pulled off a spectacular counterpunch against Moscow by invading its invader. My weekend long-read on Kyiv’s Kursk operation, with Anastasia Stognei and Financial Times’s excellent Visual Storytelling Team. ig.ft.com/ukraine-incurs…