John Reed

From this report on Donald Trump Jr's Mongolian shooting trip with a Kremlin-linked oligarch. "Federal records show the US embassy in Ulaanbaatar paid $18,715 in hotel rooms for an unspecified Secret Service 'visit' from August 23 to September 6." as.ft.com/r/701b15e0-3...

On Budget Eve, check out this excellent, data-rich analysis of how Britain's economy is changing... and whether the jobs will stay or it's all a "house of sand". (Includes a fun tool analysing how deprived or posh your postcode is) www.ft.com/content/703b... @theboysmithy.ft.com

⚡️Update: Paramedics caught under fire, university campus struck as Russian ballistic missile attack kills 1, injures 10 in Kyiv.

Live blog - Anthropic S-1: Inside the 335-page IPO plan as.ft.com/r/36828d60-5...

www.ft.com/content/f6ec... Anthropic begins countdown to IPO with prospectus filing

“She gave me her Nobel Prize, so how can I say anything else?” Trump said. “And I hope she’s safe, she’s a very nice woman, but we’re doing really well in Venezuela.” www.ft.com/content/f691...

'About 69% of registered voters, and almost 50% of those who voted for the president in 2024, said they were “very” or “somewhat” concerned about “corruption, self-dealing or conflicts of interest” in the Trump administration.' www.ft.com/content/2770...

Supporters of Serbia's student-backed protest movement celebrate in the streets of Belgrade as veteran leader Aleksandar Vucic concedes defeat for his ruling party in snap elections. The vote is the culmination of nearly two years of student-led protests

Oil hits $115 a barrel for the first time since May, adding to the economic strain just 11 days before critical midterm elections that may turn in part on affordability. @iankmsmith.ft.com @urbandirt.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/8948...

Good morning! Oil hits $114 for first time since May as global stocks knocked by AI fears www.ft.com/content/8948...

Interview - Rahm Emmanuel: “Once the American dream and middle-class life became unaffordable is exactly when democracy became unstable. You want to fix America? Fix the contract. It’s broken.” as.ft.com/r/3eb5292e-1...

“Exactly a year after the oil sanctions, Mr. Putin has never been so close to his goal of normalizing relations with Washington without having to make any compromises on Ukraine.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/w...

Russian missiles bombard Kyiv after Witkoff-Putin talks as.ft.com/r/56beca44-8... @fabricedeprez.bsky.social @poreznasobake.bsky.social

The battle for Israel’s future as.ft.com/r/b89719e8-4... @jamesshotter.bsky.social

Meta agrees deal to keep Mark Zuckerberg in California despite wealth tax proposal as.ft.com/r/ba28cc68-4...

Calling Putin a ‘Humanitarian,’ Witkoff Thanks Him for Releasing an American www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/u...

Who are the Black Bloc? www.ft.com/content/f977...

LOL www.ft.com/content/6d34... Oh OK, we’ll write something about the new Truss book

“Benjamin Netanyahu is pushing to resume large-scale strikes against Iran and had instructed his military to plan for a major new offensive earlier this month, moves that risk plunging the region back into full-scale war.” @nerizilber.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/eb4d...

This is a masterpiece of a chart. Well done @theboysmithy.ft.com and @amyborrett.ft.com. Take some time to understand it. Jealous

Chat is it good when CDS stories are on the homepage? www.ft.com/content/6dd3...

Alberta voters reject separation from Canada, early results show as.ft.com/r/74e0cd48-8...

UN to cut food aid to 500,000 Gazans over funding shortfall www.ft.com/content/74f1...

More fun from that Freshfields email leak: "[Klingberg suggested]the firm would approach “sophisticated investors that are respected by the rest of the investor community for their leadership”, adding that this “probably” ruled out “Middle Eastern sovereign wealth money”. as.ft.com/r/471c9a71-c...

An FT_moderated focus group in Pennsylvania voiced "significant pessimism about the direction of the nation": "Concerns about inflation and the cost of living dominated the exchanges. The Iran war was seen both as a strategic blunder and a source of economic pain." as.ft.com/r/1bd4fd87-c...

Anthropic commits 5% of shares to ‘public benefit’ fund as.ft.com/r/9b7e7638-5... @rafeuddin.ft.com

Hollywood recasts tech tycoons as bad billionaires: "Americans are long on these tech billionaires — deeply invested in their stocks through their 401ks and rapidly adopting their products and services — yet increasingly hostile to them." as.ft.com/r/5271c002-6... Ruchir Sharma

St Petersburg endures biggest Ukrainian drone attack as.ft.com/r/5ad4c8d0-f... @fabricedeprez.bsky.social @maxseddon.bsky.social

as.ft.com/r/15aa23a6-2... Donald Trump exempts Russia from further sanctions mandated by new law

Shorter even than a Scaramucci share.google/9PXBvb9icVJw...

The president of Brazil has won a court case against Meta, after accusing them of restricting his posts and algorithmically favoring his opponent, Flavio Bolsonaro www.nbcnews.com/world/south-...

Awful, happens every single year: Israeli settlers attack Palestinians in West Bank during olive harvest www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/... @lucywilliamson.bsky.social

"A midterm shellacking could embolden more business leaders to openly disagree with the president. Many have privately admitted to being uncomfortable with the Maga approach to America’s historical friends from the outset." @chrystia-freeland.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/94cf6e0e-0...

as.ft.com/r/96cbabf7-8... Investors dump data centre bonds as AI borrowers face ‘Darwin moment’

The aesthetics of quantum computing as.ft.com/r/8d8c88d5-c... @edwinheathcote.bsky.social

omg, doesn't it seem quite likely that he intended to send it to a smaller internal distribution list called "Freshfields AI"?

Ukraine to resume strikes on Russian refineries, Zelenskyy says as.ft.com/r/7ae4fc20-4...

"Mason accidentally forwarded the email exchange to a large internal distribution list named “Freshfields All” over the weekend. Although the email was swiftly recalled, some recipients took screenshots." as.ft.com/r/26b6da95-b... via @financialtimes

Global stocks sell-off deepens as chipmakers tumble as.ft.com/r/041f0bf0-7...

Much more interesting than the papacy: An inside report on the looming, byzantine CEO selection process at McKinsey, with a profile of the apparent frontrunner. Report by @stephenfoleyft.bsky.social and Elisheva Kissin. as.ft.com/r/4e5678cd-f...

Janan Ganesh: "In the last century, it was shocking when not one but two empires succumbed to ostensibly weaker Vietnamese forces. In this century, which has brought the Iraq and Afghanistan debacles, such giant-killings are almost banal." as.ft.com/r/a1c69737-0...

Speaking of good fiscal housekeeping, check out this #FTExplains video from @johnreedwrites.ft.com on the world's giant "debt monster".

"Current US policymaking is not just reckless and immoral. It is also one of the causes of the world’s unpredictability." as.ft.com/r/a3687070-7...

"Le Pen sees her potential victory in next year’s contest, together with possible gains for her nationalist counterparts in elections in Spain, Italy and Poland, as ushering in radical change in the EU, including a weaker European Commission." @roulak.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/0a16fa57-c...

as.ft.com/r/70b96490-4... Ukraine blindsided by Starlink restrictions and intelligence gaps during Russian attack @christopherjm.ft.com

Saudi Aramco HQ attacked in suspected Houthi strike as.ft.com/r/78c8f928-7...