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Tom Braithwaite

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News editor of the Financial Times

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Tom Braithwaite @tombraithwaite.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
The FT found the perfect hypeman for its new game, @bryce.lol "No one in their right mind should want to win a stock picking competition. Stock picking already offers a built-in prize called money." www.ft.com/content/f46e...
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Why you should enter the FT’s new stock picking game
Aside from the £1,000 cash prize, of course
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Tom Braithwaite @tombraithwaite.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
The prime minister may be forced out any moment. The UK's national broadcaster is showing this instead of the main news bulletin. In another country you'd assume it was distraction ordered by the government.
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Robert Smith @bondhack.ft.com · 10/05/2026
One of my fav FT interviews in ages. www.ft.com/content/614b...
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‘I’m not Mary Poppins’: Mike Ashley admits to orchestrating downfall of Peter Cowgill
In a rare interview the Sports Direct founder confirms he was behind the car park video that led to his rival’s demise
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Tom Braithwaite @tombraithwaite.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
15 women were willing to come to testify in court on behalf of the FT. That included 3 whose allegations had not previously been reported.
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Tom Braithwaite @tombraithwaite.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran. www.ft.com/content/744e...
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Pete Hegseth’s broker looked to buy defence fund before Iran attack
Morgan Stanley wealth manager approached BlackRock about multimillion-dollar investment on behalf of US defence secretary
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Tom Braithwaite @tombraithwaite.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Donald Trump has said he wants to “take the oil in Iran” and could seize the export hub of Kharg Island, as the US sends thousands of troops to the Middle East. The US president told the FT in an interview on Sunday that his “preference would be to take the oil” www.ft.com/content/3bd9...
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Donald Trump says US could ‘take the oil in Iran’
US president tells the FT he is considering seizing strategic Kharg Island even as negotiations continue
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Tom Braithwaite @tombraithwaite.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Fantastic deep dive into Deutsche Bank’s impressive fidelity to Jeffrey Epstein as.ft.com/r/b8e5215d-c...
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How Deutsche Bank rolled out the red carpet for Jeffrey Epstein
[FREE TO READ] German lender waved through convicted sex offender’s millions despite compliance concerns
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Tom Braithwaite @tombraithwaite.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Goldman’s top lawyer Kathy Ruemmler was talking to Citadel about a job. Epstein speculates that the hedge fund’s boss Ken Griffin “might just be interested in a woman” as.ft.com/r/8e7b8651-1...
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Tom Braithwaite @tombraithwaite.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Iranian nuclear experts made a covert trip to Russia, visiting US-sanctioned scientific institutes that specialise in nuclear technology with civilian and weapons application. investigation by @miles-johnson.bsky.social and @maxseddon.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/00f6...
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The covert trip by Iranian nuclear experts to Russia
An Iranian delegation visited Russian scientific institutes that produce dual-use technologies — components with potential applications in nuclear weapons research
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Tom Braithwaite @tombraithwaite.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Tony Blair Institute staff worked alongside BCG on a project for postwar Gaza that ended up proposing a 'Trump Riviera', 'MBS ring' road and 'Elon Musk smart manufacturing zone'. Latest scoop from @stephenfoley and @PickardJE www.ft.com/content/0b1b...
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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 06/07/2025
It’s amazing what people get away with observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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The real Salt Path: how the couple behind a bestseller le...
Penniless and homeless, the Winns found fame and fortune with the story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. We can reveal it was far from the truth
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Tom Braithwaite @tombraithwaite.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
on.ft.com/4mS2orf Triumphing under Trump: the corporate winners and losers
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Triumphing under Trump: the corporate winners and losers
[FREE TO READ] How global companies have fared since the US president’s inauguration
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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Goodbye to Gwen Robinson, Asia correspondent extraordinaire, doyenne of FT oped editors, a one-person nuclear power plant, and a true & beloved friend to so many people all over the world. FT's obituary free to read here. enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/3de26...
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Gwen Robinson, FT foreign correspondent and editor, 1960-2025
[FREE TO READ] The Asia expert was known for her network of contacts, intrepid reporting and ability to handle big egos
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 27/03/2025
Do you write good? Are you keen on wonky stuff? Then come work for us. on.ft.com/41Nc11W
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FT Alphaville is hiring
The best job in journalism is open for applications
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Tom Braithwaite @tombraithwaite.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The infuriatingly stupid UK tax trap that is dissuading people from working and taking pay rises. www.ft.com/content/8fc5...
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The madness of the £100,000 childcare tax trap
With some parents requiring a 50 per cent pay rise to mitigate the effects of the threshold, the trap is zapping productivity
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Tom Braithwaite @tombraithwaite.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Hong Kong hedge funds, Blackpool football, 70 sources, 5 uses of the c-word. Something for everyone in @kayewiggins epic tale of Simon Sadler www.ft.com/content/4420...
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Inside the downfall of trading titan and Blackpool FC owner Simon Sadler
He was a heavyweight in Hong Kong finance and a hometown hero. Now he faces the possibility of jail
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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Who is Jan Marsalek, the absconded fraudster and Russian spymaster to 3 Bulgarians convicted in the UK today? Well, let me tell you a story about a high school drop-out who masterminded a $30bn financial fraud in the heart of Europe while trying to build a North African militia as a side hustle.
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
"One doctor at a public hospital in Hubei province in central China said the institution’s leadership had issued a directive that DeepSeek should be used as a third-party arbiter if two doctors have differing views on a patient’s treatment" on.ft.com/4bis0bm
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DeepSeek spreads across China with Beijing’s backing
The AI start-up’s models are being rapidly adopted by state-owned enterprises, hospitals and local governments
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Madison Marriage @madisonmarriage.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
I wrote about my brother Charlie’s final 48 hours, and his increasingly desperate attempts to track down an emergency supply of medication from the NHS. It’s an upsetting read but one I’m proud of. He’d be delighted to have made the @financialtimes.com magazine front cover: on.ft.com/434zZqn
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Tom Braithwaite @tombraithwaite.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
What does Politico’s owner think of Trump after he falsely accused it of taking $8m of US aid money and ended government subscriptions to the “left wing rag”? Interview by Laura Pitel and @gideonrachman.bsky.social on.ft.com/41l2Aqj
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Politico’s owner praises JD Vance for ‘inspiring message’
Mathias Döpfner says many Europeans had ‘intentionally misunderstood’ the US vice-president’s speech that caused widespread horror
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Tom Braithwaite @tombraithwaite.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Two useful sentences in this latest Guardian puff piece on ex-Citi trader Gary Stevenson. 1. "Stevenson’s is an incredible story." 2. "There are fundamentals here that I’m embarrassed to admit I don’t really get." Anyway, this other piece is good www.ft.com/content/7e8b...
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Gary Stevenson claims to have been the best trader in the world. His old colleagues disagree
What is the truth behind the inequality campaigner’s Citigroup memoir?
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Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Thursday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
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Tom Braithwaite @tombraithwaite.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Our reiterated $1.1tn sum-of-the-parts value for Greenland is a significant premium to its government’s end-2023 NAV of DKr1bn ($138bn). America Corp's last formal offer for the territory ($100mn in gold bullion, 1946, rejected)… on.ft.com/3DIGKno
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Alphaville LLC issues new research report on Greenland
A sell-side icebreaker
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
The trend lines are bad for the free press. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/its-not-lo...
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It's Not Looking Great
The slow assassination of the free press.
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Tom Braithwaite @tombraithwaite.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Syria's Doge is already quizzing bureaucrats on what they do all day. Great piece from Raya Jalabi and Sarah Dadouch ft.com/content/7efc...
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Tom Braithwaite @tombraithwaite.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
“And of course, the Assads may yet plunge further – for all the overly impressed reports of apartments in glittering Moscow skyscrapers, I must say I’d have picked something on the ground floor myself.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Memo to the Assads: Putin may welcome you in Moscow, but I wouldn't drink his tea | Marina Hyde
The Russian leader may be a warm and attentive host: he may also be cross that Assad is now his problem. But then life’s full of uncertainty, isn’t it, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com · 10/12/2024
Russia is holding on to the main naval and air bases it uses as staging points for the Mediterranean and Africa, even as it pulls its forces back from smaller outposts in Syria following the overthrow of its ally Bashar al-Assad. www.ft.com/content/1922...
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Russian forces stay put at key military bases in Syria
Satellite imagery shows no signs of withdrawal from air and naval facilities
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Tom Braithwaite @tombraithwaite.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
One of the FT’s biggest UK reporting jobs was posted this week Chief UK Business Correspondent job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtim...
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Job Application for Chief UK Business Correspondent at Financial Times
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Tom Braithwaite @tombraithwaite.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Nato chief Mark Rutte toDonald Trump: “We cannot have a situation where we have Kim Jong Un and the Russian leader and Xi Jinping and Iran high-fiving…” www.ft.com/content/8a80... . Interview by Henry Foy
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Tom Braithwaite @tombraithwaite.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
This is where we’re at: BlackRock held a board meeting in London “in what the government described as a ‘vote of confidence’ in the UK.” on.ft.com/3OhBitH
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Keir Starmer meets BlackRock boss Larry Fink in Downing Street
Discussions between ministers and asset manager’s board covered regulatory delays and boosting UK growth
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