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Sam Gad Jones

@samgadjones.bsky.social
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European Security Correspondent for the Financial Times. Writer and host of Hot Money Season 3: Agent of Chaos. www.ft.com/content/d5f80bc5-a204-47… Formerly doing various things in Mitteleuropa. Also 🎿🚴‍♂️📚🏔️

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Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The absolute hatred I have for Deutsche Bahn.
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Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
In return for what though?
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CIA chief asked Russia not to share intelligence with Iran, sources say
John Ratcliffe raised the U.S. concerns with Sergey Naryshkin, the chief of Russia’s foreign intelligence service, during a meeting in Moscow that also covered other topics.
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Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Russia has been threatening attacks on European military facilities involved in supplying Ukraine since November 2024. I don’t think Zakharova is saying anything that new today.
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Harry Rose @harryrose.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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...
pressgazette.co.uk
Which UK national newsbrands reach the most under-35s?
New research based on Ipsos iris data reveals proportion of young amongst audience of major online newsbrands.
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Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The ludicrous incompetence of Russia’s intelligence services and their proxies once again comes to the rescue. The risk, sadly, is not so much that one time they will get lucky, but that one time their incompetence will lead to an even greater loss of life than they intend.
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Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
A drone fitted with an IED would be a new development in (presumed) Russian sabotage in that it is unequivocally intended to cause the loss of anonymous, innocent life, (as opposed to just, “might do” or a targeted assassination) which does make it feel like some small rubicon has been crossed.
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Drone carrying explosives found at Leipzig airport, say German police
Incident appears to mark an escalation after two years of drone incursions at European airports
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Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Quite apart from the fact that he looks like the subject of a story by The Onion, I continue to be baffled by how anyone gave this charlatan so much money. When this bubble goes it is going to incinerate so much capital.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 31/07/2026
A World Cup with no participants – it could be Gianni Infantino’s boldest move yet | Marina Hyde
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A World Cup with no participants – it could be Gianni Infantino’s boldest move yet | Marina Hyde
You’ve got to admire the Fifa president’s chutzpah in trying to flog off football’s greatest prize. If only Uefa wasn’t being so pesky about it all, says Marina Hyde
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Robert Smith @bondhack.ft.com · 31/07/2026
“Leopold Aschenbrenner’s Situational Awareness might sound like a show to miss at the Edinburgh Fringe, but what it’s staging is much more entertaining.” @bryce.lol on blistering form as ever in the Alphaville substack open.substack.com/pub/ftav/p/l...
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Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone
Also: rent controls, gold hoarding, junk bonds, memory chips, baseball debt, enriched uranium, dead bacteria, and an ETF spaghetti cannon
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Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This is insane. I really hope moderate European politicians don’t leave it up to the far-right to respond credibly to this. The system is not working and needs a decisive response.
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Spain says 49,000 migrants entered Ceuta enclave in one day
Record influx into North African territory is nearly five times higher than at peak of Europe’s 2015 migration crisis
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Konflikte & Sicherheit @konflikt-sicher.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Russlands Luftwaffe ist laut RUSI für die NATO heute klar gefährlicher als 2022: mehr moderne Kampfflugzeuge, erfahrenere Piloten, größere Abstandswaffen, besser vernetzte Luftverteidigung & koordinierte Angriffe mit Hunderten Drohnen und Flugkörpern. www.hartpunkt.de/rusi-paper-r...
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RUSI-Paper: Russlands Luftstreitkräfte stellen heute eine größere Bedrohung für NATO als 2022 dar
Ein kürzlich veröffentlichtes Paper des britischen „Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies“ (RUSI) kommt zu dem Schluss, dass die russische Luftwaffe aktuell eine höhere Bedr...
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
35 years ago today, seven Lithuanian officers left for work and never came home. In the early hours of 31 July 1991, Soviet OMON forces carried out the Medininkai massacre, killing seven unarmed border and police officers.
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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I kid you not: for the connecting rail tracks in Bavaria, Germany hasn’t even decided on the route yet, let alone started building them.
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Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Happy Wednesday everyone.
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Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
This is a choice by Russia.
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I’m just a simple Internet user, but it seems to me that the UK government shouldn’t use this man’s website for official communications, I dunno.
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Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Casualties much higher than earlier reported in Berlin from the terror attack on last night’s pride celebration. 1 dead and 29 now known to be injured, some very seriously. The suspect also used a blade to attack victims, after running people down with a car. Appalling Islamist violence.
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Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This is a very elegant way of describing someone who has zero touch with reality.
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Philip Stephens @philipstephens.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Excellent piece from somehow who knows Japan www.ft.com/content/397c...
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Japan awakes
Why 1 per cent interest rates could shake everything up after a generation of deflation
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auonsson @auonsson.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Russian shadow tanker CAROLINE BEZENGI is breaking up in a nature reserve of the Omani coast. All the beneficiaries whose coasts she passed last year thanks their lucky stars. Odds are against them though, there are about another 1000-1500 running around the world. Tick, tock.
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Larry laid his mouse in front of the press to be photographed. Lest you ask, this is a real photograph via the Press Association.
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Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
In your 40s you need a hobby. I collect Jan Marsalek memojis.
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Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Every Marsalek story contains multitudes but my favourite part of this one is that he claimed to own the cloth used by US special forces to wipe Osama bin Laden’s brow (and the prayer beads he clutched) as he expired. A prized relic in Marsalek’s military snuff collection at his Münich palace.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 22/07/2026
The head of an ethical fintech backed by Standard Chartered and marketed as ‘people and planet first’ previously sought to set up a $2.75bn weapons fund with the Wirecard executive later exposed as a fraudster and spy. ft.trib.al/X6S3eSj
Image description: Zeiad Idris. Credit: Algbra. Overlaid text reads: UK ethical fintech boss tried to set up arms deals with Wirecard’s Jan Marsalek
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Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
One particularly crazy thing about this story - which I think says a lot - is that everyone in AI, including the people at the company which was hacked, are just kind of like ‘oops… this is cool!’
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Bartelds @bartelds.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
OpenAI Says Its A.I. Models Went Rogue and Attacked a Digital Library The incident, which targeted the computer systems of another company called Hugging Face, happened while OpenAI was testing the systems www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/t...
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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
🇭🇺♟️Chess legend Judit Polgár, featured in Netflix’s Queen of Chess, is the ruling Tisza party’s pick for President of Hungary. If she accepts, she'd become Hungary’s first Jewish president, succeeding ousted Orbán loyalist Tamás Sulyok—whose father was actually a Nazi. Quite a symbolic change.
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Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The ̷F̷i̷r̷s̷t̷ ̷A̷g̷a̷i̷n̷s̷t̷ ̷T̷h̷e̷ ̷W̷a̷l̷l̷ ̷ Axel Springer Award winner for 2026 everybody! And what a selection of honourees he joins.
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The Economist @economist.com · 16/07/2026
Blame passengers, lobbying, history and geography
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Why Berlin’s airport is still completely hopeless
Blame passengers, lobbying, history and geography
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Naught Followers @naughtfollowers.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Agree with all of this — The Piano is obviously and without question a feminist masterpiece — and I think part of that is Sam Neil’s superb portrayal of a man unable to even recognize his own emotions; tortured by his own inadequacies. It’s not central, but it’s an important part of the narrative.
Screenshot of Sam Neil from The Piano
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Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
So many gems in this insightful and meticulously researched piece. I love the line about the French ambo in Kyiv, telling fellow diplomats he intends to wait for the Russians to arrive (the French having refused to believe until the last an invasion was likely):
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Atlas Shvitzed @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with
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Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
What do Germans have against ironing starch?
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
"If he wants to spend the summer arguing with a bin, I wont stop him." <stop stop he's dead gif>
Rachel Reeves
@RachelReevesMP
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I will accept Nigel Farage's request to be appointed Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead.
It is a farce and a desperate distraction, and the people of Clacton deserve better.
But if he wants to spend the summer arguing with a bin, I won't stop him.
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Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
🔥 🔥 🔥
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Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
New joy unlocked: reading about Count Binface - Graf Mülltonnengesicht, comte Face de Poubelle, il conte Binface etc etc - in European papers.
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Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Can’t really work out whether this stuff is comic or vile or some weird blend of the two.
as.ft.com
Meta tests ‘super sensing’ AI glasses that can capture every moment
Mark Zuckerberg’s hardware ambitions are edging into a new privacy fight over who gets recorded
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Yet again, the Telegraph ran a spoiler of this public interest story - based entirely on a briefing from Reform. The same as they did when Anna Isaac broke the original story. We all know whose scoop this was @annaisaac.bsky.social
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Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I do feel sorry for Mrs Binface
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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The prospect of Nigel Farage fighting a people vs the establishment by-election in which the only other candidate is Count Binface - is too hilarious for words.
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Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
We need Greenland in order to be able to project force beyond our borders and deter our adversaries. To get Greenland we will withdraw our 80,000 troops from our most important beyond-border force-projecting military bases in the western hemisphere.
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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Well done FIFA, you're back to being only the second worst international sporting authority.
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Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
And here to discuss the study with us now is its lead author…
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Smiling Cat Wearing Glasses
ALT: Smiling Cat Wearing Glasses
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
It might happen!


Following Nigel Farage’s decision to resign and trigger a by-election in Clacton, Liberal Democrat Leader, Ed Davey, said:

"If this by-election does go ahead now, we are calling on all parties to stand aside and refuse to give oxygen to Farage’s vanity project.

"But the Government should just say no to Farage’s ego-trip and block his resignation until the Standards Commissioner has finished investigating him. 

"The people of Clacton should have all the facts before they cast their votes."
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Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I see Polanski has already said the Greens will field a candidate in Clacton. They’d be thrilled if Farage won so long as they doubled their share of the vote to 8 per cent.
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Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Well this story got even darker. The cross-dressing would-be assassin was paid by a Ukrainian military intelligence officer and…
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Leftback @leftback.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Statement part 1
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Father Ted Speech: Moving On To Liars
Alt: Father Ted Speech: And now we move On To Liars
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Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
This kind of stuff from a bank to its clients/the market should honestly be criminal
ft.com
The space bit of SpaceX is worth $8 a share, says Morgan Stanley
You miss all the moonshots you don’t take
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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
What the hell is this? They should have lost by 30.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
“After it ended, the Belgian team’s social media account had a message to the U.S. on Twitter: “Overturn this.” Perfect. #WellPlayed #Belgium
nbcsports.com
Belgium beats, then trolls, U.S. team on Monday night
Even though it was tied, 1-1, after Malik Tillman scored another goal on a free kick just outside the penalty area, it never felt close.
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