Sam Gad Jones
European Security Correspondent for the Financial Times.
Hanging around Central Europe.
(And currently working on an investigative podcast out this summer).
Formerly FT investigations, UCLSSEES, FT defence & security editor & way back the LSE
Also 🎿🚴♂️📚🏔️
- Two weeks ago: we need to be in Monaco for this event on the 14th. Shouldn’t be a problem squaring it with Expenses. The 14th. There has been a change of plans.
- Reposted by Sam Gad JonesThis chart from Immigration White Paper illustrates quality of government's underlying "analysis." 1. Numbers are completely wrong (in fact non-EU employment in health/care rose by over 100K). 2. Doesn't say what time period this is. 3. Footnote to source says data is from OECD (it's from HMRC)
- One does wonder about these GRU-sponsored attacks. Don’t they realise that with their nastiness, pettiness and immorality, they risk not unnerving and scaring Europeans, but convincing them of the need to stand up to Russia? They’re landing their evil right in the daily lives of Europeans.
- Let it be a lesson to all prospective Lunch With The FT interviewees. If you’re going to break with the format, and make it all about You At Home, then be prepared for @bryce.lol to go full Barthes on you.
- “You had one job” picture desk edition etc etc
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- Reposted by Sam Gad JonesTANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
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- The papacy being a rare example of a western institution Trump would not automatically rank as the indisputable worst ever leader of.
- Germany's federal prosecutor has just charged Chinese national "Jian G." - longtime assistant to top AfD politician Maximilian Krah - with espionage The prosecutor says he stole more than 500 documents, some "particularly sensitive" while working with Krah at the EU Parliament.
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- Washington OpSec own goal du jour, bespoke kitchen edition (Story www.ft.com/content/34d3...)
- Reposted by Sam Gad JonesThe final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach. Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM
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- WSJ: ".. One senior White House official said the China tariffs were likely to come down to between roughly 50% and 65%." @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
- Reposted by Sam Gad JonesCanada, Lewis Powell and China are all showing that standing up to Trump leads him to fold like a cheap chair--while praising him, "building bridges" and trying to be agreeable gets you nothing but humiliation and degradation. Europe has not learned this yet.
- Reposted by Sam Gad Jonesunfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy
- Imagine claiming, as, literally two days after the Pope's death, Roger Stone does (a man who says he's Catholic), that Francis is burning in hell. There is literally not a less Christian thing to say. I wish Americans would keep their poisonous, nasty politics to themselves.
- Even worse news than when they discontinued the après train from Disentis...
- Russia really leaning into the Europeans Are Nazis thing of late (had gone quiet as a theme in their messaging for a couple years) - someone in the Kremlin has obviously decided that there’s a real opening with MAGA for this kind of disinformation to begin to resonate.
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- Reposted by Sam Gad JonesIn case anyone had doubts abut the relationship Moscow thinks it’s building with Washington, this is from the website of Russia’s SVR (foreign intelligence service):
- Unsubscribed from various US national security press lists because they’re now just propaganda channels being used to amplify Fox News MAGA bullshit. This is what DHS is sending to correspondents these days.
- Reposted by Sam Gad JonesAlarming. 'Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in, according to Berulis' disclosure. The attempts were "near real-time," according to the disclosure.' www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
- Article 7… just sayin’
- Reposted by Sam Gad Jonesrepublicans are disappearing people under the guise of fighting antisemitism and can’t even pretend to give a fuck when a jewish governor’s house gets firebombed on passover
- Reposted by Sam Gad Jonesand yet they come to Europe and lecture everyone on free speech
- I’ve got a joke about Tiresias. It’s a blinder.
- Reposted by Sam Gad JonesI just want to tip my hat to the crack team of White House economists who were able to discover--in just a few short days--that the U.S. is dependent on China for smartphones, computers and semiconductors.
- It’s time to Make America’s… *checks notes* …Banana Planters Great Again!
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- What a week. Thank god the adults finally managed to take control of things in the White Hou..
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- “Let a thousand weeds bloom”
- Reposted by Sam Gad Jones“This is another country that militarily supports Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,” said Zelensky. “But there is a difference: the North Koreans fought against us on the front in Kursk, the Chinese are fighting on the territory of Ukraine.” www.ft.com/content/930c...
- Of course. And you can bet that any discussions around this in Washington will get wrapped up in the EU capitulating on trade. The US is not a partner. It is hostile to European interests. And Trump can only be negotiated with through strength, not compromise.
- U.S. officials are "considering a proposal to withdraw as many as 10,000 troops from Eastern Europe". This comes days after the U.S. gave public assurances about its commitment to NATO. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
- The abuse of the law and human rights that was happening under Trump well before this market rout took hold is appalling. As an aside, it's worth remembering that the current secretary of defence has actual fascist and white supremacist tattoos.
- Trump trade supremo Peter Navarro writes in the FT - an op-ed just published, after the worst three days of global market turmoil in decades. Everyone clear?
- Did we… prefer it when he was just playing golf?
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- 35-45 per cent. That could only be true, given what we know from history, if you believe Trump or Congress will end the tariffs soon. That's a possibility for sure. But a political one, of the kind Wall Street has already shown itself woefully inadequate at assessing. The analysts are clueless.
- My impression is that most Americans do not actually know how tariffs work (I think that’s true of the majority of people in any country tbf). All over the US in the next few weeks this kindof thing👇 is going to happen to small businesses. People are in for a rude awakening.
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- Actually deleted that last one because I don’t care about Farage and his idiocy. He doesn’t have any credibility left.
- Fine by me. Cya.
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- It’s not all bad news!
- Reposted by Sam Gad JonesWhile I see all your conspiracy theories I regret to inform you that the horrible truth is that an old man with a tariff obsession has been given almost unlimited power in the world's richest country.
- At one point does “since the pandemic” become “since the global financial crisis” in equities reports I wonder, and will that psychologically have an impact? Feels like a lot of people are still high on AI and silicon fantasies…
- The pleas of Ackman and other big business Trump donors would be delicious, were the economic damage not universal. They expose the limits of what Wall Street knows about the world. These guys are not masters of the universe. They are masters of one overblown money-making, tax minimising skillset.
