Darren Dodd

Will no one think of the poor crisps companies? The winners and losers of the weight-loss economy www.ft.com/content/2f16... via financialtimes.com

Growth in every postcode? What the UK economy really looks like www.ft.com/content/703b... via financialtimes.com

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Essential pre Budget reading... ft.trib.al/arGacjF

Cabaret Voltaire were immense at the Roundhouse last night

Oh OK, we’ll write something about the new Truss book ft.trib.al/MCy9Xp6

What will the UK Budget mean for Britain? Join me and FT colleagues for an exclusive subscriber webinar on 29 October, the day after the Budget. To register, and send us your questions, go to ft.com/budget2026

Every time someone links to this film, I have to repost it. It's one of the most significant bits of British 20th century art. Everything about it is incredible. Groundbreaking music production by Daphne Oram. Amazing camera work by Wolfgang Suschitzky (who later filmed Get Carter).-

Bats' extraordinary adaptations to promote long life and stave off disease have long fascinated researchers who are attempting to harness those attributes for human health. Now a genetic trove promises new clues to bat biology - and to the creatures' mysterious origins. www.ft.com/content/7aa3...

A big new story from us: a big new leak means that we can put numbers on the scale of A7 -- the Kremlin's huge money-laundering machine. $6.9bn laundered through the international banking system via SWIFT, with $1.1bn sent to StanChart alone. www.ft.com/content/3848...

On the BBC News Katya Adler has just described Germany, where the far right AFD keep winning elections, as entering 'uncharted political territory'. Hmmm. Where Germany is concerned I think that territory is pretty well charted.

my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...

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If an Irish newspaper doesn’t run a “Senior Orangeman Calls For A United Ireland” headline, then the newspapers are dead.

‘Mini-livers’ offer a new spin on regenerative medicine www.ft.com/content/b8ed... via financialtimes.com

New AI health tools need ‘L-plates’, says UK review www.ft.com/content/25e3... via financialtimes.com

"I want your children's lungs to be smaller and less functional" is a bold electoral strategy.

Stem cells have extraordinary powers of regeneration - but some clinics offer treatments that may be ineffective or even unsafe. My @financialtimes.com colleague @antoniacundy.ft.com and I investigated a growing industry that critics say urgently needs better regulation. www.ft.com/content/007e...

Add up all the 10-minute hacks and where has your day/week/life gone? Spot on.... www.ft.com/content/226f... via financialtimes.com

RIP Yayoi Kusama. Some images from her recent retrospective at Museum Ludwig

FT Exclusive: The prime minister said his government is 'acutely conscious of how hard the operating environment is for businesses, big and small'. ft.trib.al/IPHp94k

London cabbies plot ‘skulduggery’ to take on robotaxis ft.trib.al/wrEGv8S

This is not misinformation. That's what I normally cover - something out of context, an opinion quoted as fact, or a deliberate misinterpretation... This is none of those. This is full-on disinformation. Because that is NOT from the Express. It is entirely fake😱 🧵 1/10

Why Gen Z is raising a glass to cask beer www.ft.com/content/9dc2... via financialtimes.com

This stopped me in my tracks. An independent study by @qmul.bsky.social has found that after ULEZ was introduced, children’s lungs grew faster in Central London and have now caught up with children outside of the capital. Incredible.

London’s clean air zone linked to improvement in children’s lung health ft.trib.al/kVUEoJC

BREAKING: We're stepping in with @richardparkerwm.bsky.social to protect 750 buses per day running for millions of people across the West Midlands, securing thousands of jobs while the bus network transitions back to public control. 🚌🚏 www.wmca.org.uk/news/mayor-a...

AI hasn’t gone rogue. It’s worse than that www.ft.com/content/a994... via financialtimes.com

British people should “enjoy” multiple heatwaves and shrug off warnings of dangerous climate change while enjoying more English fizzy wine, the deputy leader of Reform UK has said. www.ft.com/content/49ea...

After decades of campaigning about their health risks – at least one in two long-term smokers will die from their habit – cigarettes were mostly removed from screens and magazines in the early 2000s.⁠ But now cigarettes are circling back into style. ft.trib.al/Pz1FyvY

Seeing a bit of surprise that the FT comes top here. But it makes sense -- young professionals who need/want to be informed and can often get a corporate sub. (Plus free student access is smart, surprised others don't do it). pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...

The insurgent parties of left and right are united in opposing plans to develop more than 5,000 acres — or 10% of the marshland — for solar panels ft.trib.al/TOMuTVD

Not sure this is gonna' catch on.... www.ft.com/content/d98a... via financialtimes.com

The city has become the largest hub for AI power centres across Europe, competing with homes for energy, space and water. But its priorities are being called into question: ft.trib.al/fxkkxVA

Since 2025, America has had more cases of measles (4,500), than in the previous 25 years combined after the disease had been declared eradicated. Almost all the US measles outbreaks have been in unvaccinated communities. Most of its fatalities are children www.ft.com/content/570e...

A bit on something that’s worrying me as.ft.com/r/9fe0cfe2-f...

European nations to boycott World Cup in protest at Fifa’s plans www.ft.com/content/b12a... via financialtimes.com

And here is @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on a pre-holiday roll pointing out the right sound a bit delusional (also IMHO hoping for the country to fail is neither a strategy nor very attractive) www.ft.com/content/5fa1...

I maintain that if Burnham made it legal to confiscate phones from people who watch video or listen to music without headphones, then called a snap election, he could actually increase his majority.

Laura Loomer meets Zelenskyy after pro-Ukraine conversion ft.trib.al/CiuX887

The ChatGPT maker said the ‘agent’ escaped a testing environment, gained internet access, stole login credentials and hacked into the start-up Hugging Face by itself, in one of the first public examples of a cyber attack by an AI system acting outside human control. www.ft.com/content/9db7...?

We’re sourcing our reshuffle news from an alternate timeline of the 1980s…

AB, a 🧵

Canvassers out in force in Clacton.