Henry Mance
Chief features writer, Financial Times. ft.com/henry-mance
- David Attenborough's new film has shocking footage of bottom trawling. I wrote about the clash of two national icons: Attenborough and the fishing industry www.ft.com/content/8726...
- Finally, a single company will be able to not deliver both your parcels
- Boris Johnson (2004): "Voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts" Zack Polanski: Hold my beer.
- "Trump’s message to Netanyahu is clear: get with the programme. And the programme does not include forever wars with unachievable goals — all tactics and no diplomatic gains." www.ft.com/content/ff83...
- foreign careworkers have done incalculable damage to this country (subs, pls check)
- The FT Weekend is now Bluesky! @ftweekend.com
- woah, is that Ian Paisley??
- obviously guilty people found guilty! www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ck...
- "just to confirm, you're pleading not guilty?" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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- That is lovely to hear - thank you! (And excellent emojis)
- "OK, which of you has smacked down JD Vance?"
- Sad to hear of the death of Professor Joseph Nye, who coined the term soft power. When I interviewed him last year, he was clear-eyed about why Biden shouldn't run www.ft.com/content/eab6...
- old but gold
- "Toby, if I'd done something so terrible that you coming to my aid might help, I'd deserve to be left for dead." 🤣🤣🤣🤣
- Bill Gates: "The picture of the world's richest man [ELON MUSK] killing the world's poorest children is not a pretty one." www.ft.com/content/bdd9...
- a few Wordle streaks about to come to a shuddering halt
- should be finished any minute now
- Interesting to hear Nick Robinson say that, in his interview with Biden, he was struck "by the fact that it would have been completely impossible for him to serve another full term" Impossible? Compared to what we have at the moment?!
- (It would have been a bad idea.)
- compare with what the Daily Mail said about a trade deal with India before the Brexit referendum
- Is it really worth reporting Trump's idea that Russia could play in the World Cup, when qualifying has already started without them in it?
- "Children born in August are 20% less likely to go to a Russell Group University than children born in September." - h/t @neildotobrien.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/almondtr...
- "no need to bring anything", diplomatic version
- * TRUMP: I LOOK FORWARD TO MEETING THE NEW PRIME MINISTER OF CANADA, MARK CARNEY * TRUMP: WE DON'T NEED THEIR CARS, ENERGY, LUMBER @reuters.com
- Put them on... Rebekah Vardy's account www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- I went to the world's oldest restaurant - Botín in Madrid, frequented by Ernest Hemingway - to see if it had avoided becoming a complete tourist trap www.ft.com/content/b5be...
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- Such a great book (and man)
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- This remains the best explanation of America www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYqf...
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- Hard to calculate the economic benefits of directors reading their board papers, instead of reading motivational LinkedIn posts
- Two Weddings and A Quick Cremation
- Notting Hill becomes Queen's Park bsky.app/profile/coop...
- Bend It Like Kieron Dyer bsky.app/profile/coop...
- will train WiFi ever work? tl;dr if we build some more mobile towers, yes! www.ft.com/content/99cc...
- as mentioned in the article, Eurostar's wifi still relies on 3G and 4G signal - because 5G isn't available on the route. in my experience, don't even bother!
- turns out this was not an election-winning stance www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
- In the Canadian and Australian elections, Trump-aligned leaders bombed so badly that they lost their seats. But in Britain, Trump-aligned Nigel Farage is on the rise again. How? www.ft.com/content/50eb...
- More on the Australian election here, including: "One voter said Dutton’s proposal to force thousands of public sector remote workers back to the office had triggered a “massive change” in voter sentiment in the area, where many residents work from home." 🤷♂️ www.ft.com/content/0bd1...
- a fantastic Lunch with the FT with France's far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon www.ft.com/content/c933...
- What if they choose Le Pen/ Bardella?
- In Gaza, meat, chicken and eggs have basically run out, due to Israel's blockade. What a horrific form of collective punishment. www.ft.com/content/89cc...
- no one has ever said this!
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View full threadI regret posting this - I just get bored by people simplifying arguments they disagree with, in order to win fights on the internet
- Thank you for all the replies, which are equally divided between people accusing me of pedantry and people dissecting my use of the term "no one". LET'S AGREE TO DISAGREE
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- chill out, this isn't life and death! my point is that Jamelle creates a straw man by setting the bar at *uniformly* (which allows him to say one bad meal can disprove the argument), whereas what people actually say in his replies is that European food is better generally / on average
- among other things, isn't Zuckerberg wrong about most Americans being very unsatisfied by their friendships? (of course, loneliness is also a real issue, arguably accentuated by social media companies) www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
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- Exactly, and you are meant to take his words literally - because his argument is that one bad meal in Europe disproves the claim that European food is uniformly better (which it would, if that were the claim!)
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- I think what many Europeans say is that *in general* European food is healthier/ better than American food. but no one would be silly enough to say that *uniformly* European food is better, because (as Jamelle points out) this could be disproved by one bad European meal
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- i dunno...
