Ghostly Farsi-speaking broadcasts “have been sent out regularly over long-distance short wave radio from a transmitter somewhere in western Europe since the hours after the first US and Israeli strikes on Iran on February 28...” www.ft.com/content/86c4...
🇺🇸 🇮🇷 The US pulled the trigger, but emerging markets absorbed the shock
Middle East war pushed investors to the dollar -- strongest week since July 2025. A surging greenback means weaker EM currencies, higher debt costs & capital flight
EM stocks down 6.9%, the sector's worst week in almost 6 years
Map of Tehran showing location of strikes by Israel adn the US since Feb 28
Satellite image showing building damage to Valiasr Barracks in Tehran
Satellite image showing building damage to the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Tehran
NEW: Maps and satellite image analysis and videos reveal extent of the damage US and Israel's airstrikes have had on Tehran. Great team effort with @theboysmithy.ft.com and Dan Clark
Read @jacobjudah.bsky.social's report
www.ft.com/content/59cf...
How AI fakes are turning satellite images into war misinformation ft.trib.al/gemBmLZ
Sankey diagram of crude oil transported through the Strait of Hormuz. Saudi Arabia is top source of 5.3mn barrels per day, China is top destination with 5.4mn barrels per day
Indeed - but we have now updated the Sankey...
Great illustrations here by @financialtimes.com on how much more willing to use military force Trump has become in his second term - and that most of these military interventions are actually outside of the 'western Hemisphere':
www.ft.com/content/e990...
Tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has all but stopped since yesterday.
Read the @financialtimes.com Economics editor, Sam Fleming's analysis of what the impact the war in Iran will have on the global economy
www.ft.com/content/31bf...
🇮🇷 Srikes on Iran by the US and Israel could send oil towards $80-$100 a barrel, analysts say
The military action may send global oil prices towards $100 a barrel “if the conflict is prolonged”, said William Jackson, chief EM economist at Capital Economics
FT www.ft.com/content/2fb3...
@derekbrower.bsky.social explains why the @financialtimes.com is delving into the economy and politics of Bethlehem PA www.wfmz.com/news/area/le...
That 1879 Sheffield by-election, incidentally, was the triumph of my old friend Samuel Danks Waddy, the MP with the most carefully-enunciated name of the late Victorian period and possibly of any era.
What an incredibly cool FT article and WWI story!
The FT contest that challenged readers to redraw Europe’s borders (🎁🔗)
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I wrote about the proliferation of AI tools promising to finally sort out our inboxes — will they give us back hours a week or accelerate a broken system? 🤖📧
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A terrifying glimpse into our dystopian future.
This is such a fascinating piece about a deeply surreal bit of history: the competition the FT ran *in 1914* inviting readers to speculate about what the map of Europe would look like after the First World War was over:
Similar vibes to the reader in California who inadvertently stuck an XR version of the Phillips machine to the ceiling of his condo and couldn't get it down
As reader support tasks go, explaining how a word from the latin quote in your article has been audio-typo'ed as "Eastern Standard Time" feels peak FT...
This piece is terrific, combining the best of narrative and visual storytelling
Hopefully nothing quite as deadly! 🤞
A photo of an elegant grade-II listed tomb in West Norwood cemetery
A 1914 competition map: Changing the map of Europe
8 years ago, at the British Library, I first saw this map: an FT reader competition to predict the boundaries of Europe after WW1. I made a note to find out more one day - which ultimately led me last month to this tomb in West Norwood cemetery. You can read more here: www.ft.com/content/79a4...
Unhedged chart of the week: the very vertical Beveridge curve -- can it last? @hakyungkim.bsky.social
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A special FT magazine issue all about maps is out today, w great pieces by @okr.bsky.social and @theboysmithy.ft.com, plus maps by me on how glacial melt is redrawing Alpine borders, the battle to redraw America and more
Read it online here (though best enjoyed in print!) www.ft.com/content/efab...
Beautiful piece on the original FT dataviz quiz from @theboysmithy.ft.com
www.ft.com/content/79a4...
That time when, two months into World War 1, the FT asked its readers to predict the impact the conflict would have on the map of Europe. As a game. With cash prizes: great @ftweekend.com piece by @theboysmithy.ft.com www.ft.com/content/79a4...
it's all great but this is, i swear, true as.ft.com/r/cc9aae3a-b...
You should definitely consider picking up a Weekend FT today, because it's the magazine MAPS special. Radical cartography, maps that changed the world, an FT reader competition that almost started a war, they don't love you like i love you, MAPS! www.ft.com/content/efab...
The Russian army is bogged down in the steppes of Ukraine under the cold weather of -20C. Great news if you ask me.
Russia faces an increasing problem of replenishing casualties,
Great article in @financialtimes.com at www.ft.com/content/ce74...
🚨 Bitcoin dips below $70,000, wiping out its post-election gains
After surging following Trump’s victory in November, the rally has fully unwound
#BTC #Bitcoin #Crypto
Looks like me and @eadehemingway.bsky.social are going to be running a workshop on data analysis with @pola.rs at NICAR in March. Maybe see some of you there!
