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Reuben J. Brown

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○ MA Investigative Journalism at Cronkite School of Journalism ○ Steele Fellow at Reynolds Center for Business Journalism ○ Prev. Digital Editor at The Architectural Review

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 10/11/2025
A scientific report released last month announced the start of a “a grim new chapter for life on Earth.” Why aren’t our government officials and corporate leaders more alarmed?https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/C2S7qr
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Reuben J. Brown @reubenjbrown.com · 10/11/2025
old T May drops some real facts here. we should've voted for her Brexit deal, too. you don't know what you've got until it's gone I guess www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czun...
youtube.com
Net Zero: The inside story of the UK’s climate target
YouTube video by Grantham Institute, Imperial College London
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Reuben J. Brown @reubenjbrown.com · 01/11/2025
Said as if smartphone videos are having more of a watchdog effect than traditional photojournalism did in the beforetimes of common trust in the press — the decline of which is causally related to social media
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Reuben J. Brown @reubenjbrown.com · 30/10/2025
really really interesting y'all www.adweek.com/media/publis...
adweek.com
Why So Many Publishers Are Launching Brand Campaigns Right Now
Publishers are flooding billboards, subways, and screens with ads for themselves—many for the first time in history.
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Reuben J. Brown @reubenjbrown.com · 28/10/2025
This would genuinely be win-win — if it can be enforced. China knows it's feeding the fentanyl crisis and it needs to be reigned in www.wsj.com/world/china/...
wsj.com
Exclusive | Trump, Xi to Discuss Lowering China Tariffs for Fentanyl Crackdown
The U.S. would cut in half the 20% levies on Chinese goods imposed in retaliation for the export of chemicals that make deadly synthetic opioids.
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Reuben J. Brown @reubenjbrown.com · 19/10/2025
The fear of seeing this guy's face in a news article
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Reuben J. Brown @reubenjbrown.com · 19/10/2025
Great piece. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
newyorker.com
Would Zohran Mamdani’s Rent Freeze Keep Rent-Stabilized Apartments Empty?
Thousands of apartments in New York are run-down and vacant. Some landlords argue that a rent freeze, paired with preëxisting housing laws, would keep them that way.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
All very amusing, but especially this: "The most popular was an “Australian-style points-based immigration system,” with a net 46 percent support. The least popular was “Britain’s current immigration policy,” with -39 percent support." www.politico.eu/article/labo...
politico.eu
Brits are pining for the pre-Brexit migration system
The idea was that leaving the bloc would give the U.K. back “control” of its borders and create a fairer system. But the widespread perception is it didn’t turn out that way.
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Reuben J. Brown @reubenjbrown.com · 16/10/2025
"Because corporate tax (cut by Macron) is lower than income tax, they pay an effective tax rate of just 25 per cent, about half that of the average French person."
ft.com
Time to guillotine France’s super-rich tax breaks
Does the country need a wealth tax?
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Reuben J. Brown @reubenjbrown.com · 13/10/2025
I think this is the non-grammatical third or fourth guardian headline I've seen this week 😒
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Reuben J. Brown @reubenjbrown.com · 13/10/2025
First long-form interview with Mamdani I've seen. Remnick naturally asks deep, penetrating questions of great import, and keeps pressing Mamdani. Surprisingly — to me — he holds up, really quite well. Well worth a listen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbq7...
youtube.com
Zohran Mamdani Says He's Ready for Donald Trump | The New Yorker Interview
YouTube video by The New Yorker
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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 11/08/2025
‘Thoravej 29’s ‘off-the-shelf’ raw structure was still replete with idiosyncrasies and challenges to overcome to enable its full reuse; the architects’ deft navigation forms the essential dexterity of the new architecture’ writes @reubenjbrown.com on NGO Bikubenfonden’s new HQ by Pihlmann Architects
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
The more things change, the more they stay the same?
Early on, Blair’s main objective had hern to win power and his objective having won power was to win power again at the next election.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
1,553 days until the next UK general election. Perhaps Labour MPs should spend at least some of them (the next 1000, say?) arguing and thinking about things other than electoral strategy?
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Mohamed A. El-Erian @elerianm.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
This is so incredibly kind and thoughtful of you, Lord Woolley. Thank you so very much. (Please see my previous post for information on how to register for the election of the next chancellor of Cambridge University.) #cambridge #cambridgechancellor @cambridgeup.bsky.social
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Fascinated by the use of the word 'Eurosceptic' here.
This is a big moment for Reform - and a serious defeat for Labour
published at 06:05
06:05

Professor Sir John Curtice
Polling expert

Reform's success in the Runcorn by-election is a big moment for the party.

In winning 38.7% of the vote, the party has matched the highest share of the vote for any Eurosceptic party in a by-election ever (Heywood and Middleton 2014), other than in the two occasions in 2014 when a defecting Tory MP won in UKIP colours.

Meanwhile, there are only 17 previous by-elections in which a majority as big as the 35% majority Labour enjoyed has been overturned.

It will be difficult for Labour to argue that this was anything other than a serious defeat for the party.
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Reuben J. Brown @reubenjbrown.com · 01/05/2025
www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
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Reuben J. Brown @reubenjbrown.com · 29/04/2025
Missed opportunity for Reform to not go with "Make England Great Again" hats and take the acronym MEGA ... MGBA hardly rolls of the tongue
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
If I didn’t want the UK to succeed, I would find all the ways the government is hobbling its growth strategy so funny. Pro the Oxford/Cambridge arc, provided we don’t make it easier for researchers to come here, and not so pro as not to pass a *one-line bill* for metro-mayors.
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Brianna @briannaje.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Watching a recorded church service from a local Progressive Christian church. Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson is mentioned. I am laughing. I can’t escape this.
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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
The main reason UK electricity prices are so high isn’t net zero but the fact that gas sets the price 98% of the time.
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Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Some belting quotes in here
A punishment for affluence Second home owners who don’t feel rich
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Reuben J. Brown @reubenjbrown.com · 12/04/2025
Tim Cook once again proving himself as the greatest political operator of our times. I reckon he could set up a supply chain in Hades www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...
nytimes.com
Trump Adds Tariff Exemptions for Smartphones, Computers and Other Electronics
A long list of electronic products got a reprieve for now from at least some of the levies on China, which had been expected to take a toll on tech giants like Apple.
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Reuben J. Brown @reubenjbrown.com · 11/04/2025
Huge and mental scoop from @willdunn.bsky.social. ‘Australian media advertises the fact that a UK state pension worth “thousands of dollars” can be bought cheaply by Australians who live in Australia: “It almost sounds like a scam – too good to be true,” it observes.’
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The king has spoken
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos
photo of a red shopping basket filled with turnips, under the headline: 
If you’re worried about food tariffs, adopt a frugal mindset and cook smarter
Learn to shop for groceries like a thrifter and work on eliminating waste
By Sheryl Julian Globe Correspondent,Updated April 7, 2025, 7:21 a.m.

caption: The big question is, writes Sheryl Julian, are we expected to remove all the pleasures from the table and turn the nightly dinner into a feast of locally grown turnips (above) and leafy greens?Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/04/2025
my offer to america: we bring woke back
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 29/03/2025
In other news, I just bought a bottle of scotch from myself for one quadrillion dollars. By the end of the night I’ll probably only be a billionaire though. on.ft.com/41OQ2rw
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Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence group buys X for $45bn
[FREE TO READ] Billionaire entrepreneur says social media platform and AI group will share data and computational power
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Reuben J. Brown @reubenjbrown.com · 30/03/2025
Intently trying to work through a theory of how Covid punctured the Climate Movement. I'm not sure *how* yet, I've just got a sense that it did; and it turns out the data backs me up. Big levellings-off for a range of climate terms on Google Ngram post-2019: (CC @climatewords.bsky.social)
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Reuben J. Brown @reubenjbrown.com · 29/03/2025
A yes, my favourite part of the 1940s: the 1950s
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Reuben J. Brown @reubenjbrown.com · 27/03/2025
the left wing in Britain basically thinks debt doesn't exist and isn't a problem. It's not like Clive Lewis is saying 'we should do a land tax rather than welfare cuts to curtail our huge debt payments'. he's saying 'just forget the huge debt payments don't exist'. but they do
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
A government so preoccupied with why it won that it hasn't thought at all about why Sunak lost:
ft.com
Reeves will not raise taxes in Spring Statement, say officials
Chancellor will rely on a spending squeeze to try to ensure she complies with her fiscal rules
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Think this piece on hippy punching from last year still stands up www.economist.com/britain/2024...
economist.com
Why Britain’s Labour government enjoys hippy-punching
And why that risks being more of a fetish than a strategy
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
There has never been a better time for Rage Against The Machine to come back with a new album that seems tepid compared to their original work and gets a 5.6 from Pitchfork
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 16/03/2025
When UBS bought its rival Credit Suisse in 2023, it got roughly a half of a trillion dollars in assets as well as customers and offices around the world. It also took on a fleet of model ships and more than 13,500 artworks.
wsj.com
UBS Doesn’t Know What to Do With All the Art It Inherited From Credit Suisse
UBS is integrating thousands of Credit Suisse paintings, sculptures, posters and model ships. ‘There’s still art that will be found somewhere, in a closet in Shanghai or something.’
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Reuben J. Brown @reubenjbrown.com · 16/03/2025
I've asked ChatGPT to cite its sources and it's just given me blank bullet points and said it *has* cited specific sources but can't tell me what they are??? This some childish-ass withholding of information man
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Philip Stafford @staffordphilip.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
This is great and the photos really make it. Hat tip to photographer Alberto Bernasconi. Follow a gold bar as it makes its way from London to NY via Switzerland. www.ft.com/content/2289...
ft.com
Gold’s triangular trade booms under threat of Trump tariffs
Swiss refineries are working 24 hours a day to resize gold bars headed from London to New York
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 12/03/2025
Another @louisashworth.bsky.social classic: www.ft.com/content/d6c3...
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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Tired: everything is romantic Wired: everything is computer
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Reuben J. Brown @reubenjbrown.com · 12/03/2025
little land grab here little land grab there this is not normal www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m... / www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
theguardian.com
Israel to occupy Syrian southern territory for ‘unlimited time’, says minister
Israel Katz reaffirms IDF will continue holding Mount Hermon area beyond contested northern Israeli borders
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Reuben J. Brown @reubenjbrown.com · 06/03/2025
My saga continues – I've been put on hold by my case handler for 20 minutes because he's so desperately useless ... it's a little bit adorable
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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/03/2025
*sigh* time to break this one out again, huh
Onion article 

De Blasio: ‘Well, Well, Well, Not So Easy To Find A Mayor That Doesn’t Suck Shit, Huh?’
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
If you missed today's newsletter, in which I said 'look, come on, we really do need to be increasing spending back to 1966 to 1990 levels and it's mad to think you can get political consent for that without increasing spending elsewhere', don't worry: I will be saying it for most of the year I think
ft.com
Labour will have to ditch tax pledges sooner or later
Spending cuts to fund increased defence spending will not impress UK voters and something will have to give
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Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Why is this person who is usually so swift to reply not replying to me, I ask as I uncover my email in draft folder
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Maybe I wasn’t clear about this. I wanted more egg and no plane crash, not many plane crash and no egg.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
every day I think about the comms strategy of the korean opposition party in the wake of the coup and I get so burningly resentful that other countries have legislators who are awake
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Reuben J. Brown @reubenjbrown.com · 13/02/2025
the true crime of the HMRC helpline is that instead of bland but ignorable music they blast you with a series of spoken messages about how you need to pay more tax or take a survey or something
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Labour should be using the need to increase defence spending as a off-ramp for their promises on tax, not letting their defence policy (like everything else) be constrained by their promises on tax.
ft.com
Starmer summons UK defence chiefs in tussle over spending
Trump is pushing European governments to commit much higher funding to armed forces
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Reuben J. Brown @reubenjbrown.com · 10/02/2025
UK emissions from agriculture exceeded those from power generation last year. Quite insane ... need to stop eating meat www.businessgreen.com/news/4409707...
businessgreen.com
Government confirms UK emissions have fallen 53 per cent since 1990
Emissions from agriculture exceed those from power generation for the first time, as data shows emissions are now at lowest level since the 1870s
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