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@johnreedwrites.ft.com
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Explainers editor at the Financial Times. Usual caveats apply. My videos: linktr.ee/JohnReedexplains?utm_sour… My bio: www.ft.com/john-reed

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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 16/09/2026
Today's Janan Ganesh is 💯 as.ft.com/r/fcc14c9d-b...
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 15/09/2026
Yikes... killer graphic in this story about crypto-billionaire Ben Delo, the source of one of Reform UK's twin mega-donations as.ft.com/r/e6b89b0a-5... @nikasgari.bsky.social
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 05/09/2026
All news is local: Wonderful @londoncentric.media piece this week about British pro-Russia influencer Graham Phillips, who’s holed up in occupied Mariupol… and trying to get his unpaid Islington council tax bill waived. @jim.londoncentric.media
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 21/08/2026
Ukraine seeks Musk’s help to hit Russian missile launchers as.ft.com/r/19432ded-6... @christopherjm.ft.com
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 19/08/2026
Trigger warning: self-promotion 😧 I’m now sharing all my FT Explains reels on Insta as they publish. Please scan and follow me if you want to watch them - and thanks if so! 🙏
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 16/08/2026
Most US voters say they are worse off under Trump — FT poll www.ft.com/content/fd40...
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 03/08/2026
Labour overtakes Reform UK in opinion polls for first time in more than a year as.ft.com/r/e139987e-9...
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 21/07/2026
Yikes! From this analysis of the sobering fiscal realities facing John Healey, Britain's new Chancellor as.ft.com/r/8d8a1713-a...
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 17/07/2026
Insane stuff: America's ruling family are selling faster, preferential access to Trump's market-moving posts to trading houses, positioning them to profit from them. as.ft.com/r/e763fb76-3...
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 30/06/2026
To be fair, I sometimes share your suspicions @nytimes.com
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 26/06/2026
The @FT style guide is a thing of beauty... Just two of the updates added to it today:
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 11/06/2026
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 11/06/2026
Will SpaceX's IPO be an investment supernova? Or more like the Death Star? Great visualisations and insights in this piece by @samjoiner.bsky.social andmy other @FT colleagues on how index investing and looser rules on inclusion will pull many of us into the IPO's orbit as.ft.com/r/5c6c2d8d-a...
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 14/05/2026
It’s one of those weeks when I’m reminded the always globally minded title I work for is actually a UK newspaper too
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 08/05/2026
Waking up this morning to Britain’s new political rainbow… (do rainbows have this much blue in them?)
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 11/03/2026
Why aren't Iranians rising up to challenge their regime, as they did in January? Many answers here in this insightful report by the FT's Teheran correspondent Najmeh Bozorgmehr as.ft.com/r/6e31d260-f...
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 09/02/2026
Statesman House (aka the Death Star): my favourite Delhi Brutalist building.
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 18/01/2026
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 14/01/2026
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 13/01/2026
as.ft.com/r/ac373a6e-3... The country at the heart of the global scam industry: report by the @financialtimes.com ‘s V Anantha Lakshmi on Cambodia’s cancerous and exploitative scam compounds
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 12/01/2026
Nadim Zahawi defects to Reform UK as.ft.com/r/fe5af1e2-2...
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 19/12/2025
Desperately uncool look for a leftist oracle. From our @financialtimes.com coverage as.ft.com/r/bc403842-4...
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 15/12/2025
Spot-on headline writing about the mass atrocity in Sydney.
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 26/10/2025
The @FT’s architecture critic @edwinheathcote.bsky.social on Trump’s White House extension (it’s twice the size of the actual building). on.ft.com/4oIYaCB
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 10/08/2025
on.ft.com/4m3FT1L India’s IT services giants race to reinvent themselves for the AI age
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 09/08/2025
A bad review of a Greek salad (as only @jayrayner1.bsky.social could write it) on.ft.com/4maOj7C
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 16/07/2025
Mapping America’s ICE gulag: strong analysis by the @financialtimes.com visual team (paywall) ig.ft.com/us-immigrati...
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 09/07/2025
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 07/07/2025
on.ft.com/4eKg6cc Tony Blair’s staff took part in ‘Gaza Riviera’ project with BCG
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 05/07/2025
Ethnic cleansing, inc: Important investigation from my FT colleague @stephenfoleyft.bsky.social on corporate involvement in some of the horrors unfolding in Gaza on.ft.com/45V89P0
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 15/05/2025
Eww, careful out there today Delhi ppl 😷 😷
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 25/04/2025
Good morning
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 10/04/2025
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 09/04/2025
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 22/03/2025
What you’re missing over at X
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 13/02/2025
Good morning, Delhi
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 05/02/2025
Probably not going to happen, for multiple reasons (though never say never)
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 10/01/2025
Normal Delhi winter air = 3x worse than LA wildfire catastrophe air 😷 🔥 HT @gillesverniers.bsky.social
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 10/01/2025
My colleague Veena Venugopal cuts through some of the hype around Microsoft boss Nadella’s visit (and AI hype here generally) in the FT’s new India Business Briefing newsletter. Read: on.ft.com/4adjppY
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 16/12/2024
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 04/12/2024
Al fresco lunch in Delhi. The air today has a pleasant „unhealthy” AQI of just 123
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 01/12/2024
This could also totally work as the opening sentence of a Garcia Marquez novel
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 30/11/2024
The lede sentence of this story in today’s edition of The Hindu is insane, but I’m totally here for it #journalism
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 25/11/2024
Yay, we won again! 🏆 🇮🇳 👍 😷
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 24/11/2024
Today’s Delhi pollution news, meh 😷 🇮🇳
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 17/11/2024
The air in Delhi today is the worst I remember it in two years here. You can’t spend more than a few minutes outdoors without gasping and feeling ill. 😷 ☠️
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 16/11/2024
All good, then. Thanks, Hindustan Times!
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 15/11/2024
Winter pollution in Delhi: laboured breathing, coughing, and (for some) headaches. It’s a collective action problem from hell for #India’s decentralised democracy and its neighbouring enemy state #Pakistan, which breathes the same foul air.
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 13/11/2024
Good (?) morning from Delhi, where the air pollution is off the charts
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 24/06/2023
#Journalism thoughts for Saturday (courtesy Press Club of India)
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