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US managing editor of @FinancialTimes and long-suffering Orioles fan. Ex- @FT news editor. I’m on Threads @spiegelpeter_
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I have finally made the big leagues: a
@ratemyskyperoom
10/10! I’d like to thank my producer, my agent, my co-stars, my childhood acting coach... 🏅
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For journalism junkies: the great Neil Sheehan, who just passed away, agreed 5 yrs ago to tell the tale of how he got the Pentagon Papers — on the condition it not be published until his death.
@nytimes
has now published the tale. And what a tale it is!
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Having now read Michael Cohen's plea deal, I doff my hat to
@BuzzFeedNews
: everything revealed by Mueller in his charge sheet was revealed by them in this piece 6 months ago.
This
@BuzzFeedNews
story from May appears to be the issue that Michael Cohen is admitting to today: that he worked for
@realDonaldTrump
on a Trump Tower Moscow into May-June...just before Republican Nat'l Convention.
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@Novartis
has put out an updated statement on Michael Cohen acknowledging the contract was for $100,000 EVERY MONTH for a year. So $1.2m!?!?!
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How is this the first time I’m seeing this?
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French presidential candidate invites American scientists to France. In English. The world is truly upside-down.
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@WhiteHouse
press office just sent out a “photos of the week” email including (wait for it) new pics of Amy Coney Barrett event in Rose Garden, where several attendees may have contracted Covid. Good for contact tracing I guess.
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If you've read horrible accounts of
@PSMcClean
's death, please read
@FT
story on his great journalism and humanity
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This weekend has been so crazy that at first I thought this brownie was
#Gulen
free.
#TurkeyCoupAttempt
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We’ve taken
@miss_marriage
’s groundbreaking investigation into sexual harassment at an elite Mayfair charity fundraiser out from behind
@FT
paywall this morning.
Free to read: FT's inside story on the exclusive London charity dinner where hostesses were groped and sexually harassed
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The only thing that could make this story more wild is if there was a Julian Assange angle. Oh wait...
Contacted Trump Jr this morning on why he should publish his emails (i.e with us). Two hours later, does it himself:
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Look who's back in
@BBCNews
talking North Korea! Assuming child-proof lock on door now....
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This
@BuzzFeedNews
story from May appears to be the issue that Michael Cohen is admitting to today: that he worked for
@realDonaldTrump
on a Trump Tower Moscow into May-June...just before Republican Nat'l Convention.
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Best. Trump. Tweet. Ever.
If anyone is looking for a good lawyer, I would strongly suggest that you don’t retain the services of Michael Cohen!
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The
@FT
has obtained two separate sets of voting data from
#Congo
that show election commission declared the wrong winner in December presidential election. In the public interest, we've published story free of our paywall.
#FreeToRead
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Who is running this twitter account, and what have you done with Alexis Tsipras?
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"There are no pension cuts in this package," says
@JunckerEU
. Sorry, that's just not true.
#Greece
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Overheard in the newsroom: "Is there a German word for Schadenfreude?"
@OHnewsroom
#WorldCup
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"If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them....maybe you can hire The A-Team."
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Suddenly, old
@theresa_may
tweets are like old
@realDonaldTrump
tweets.
If I lose just six seats I will lose this election and Jeremy Corbyn will be sitting down to negotiate with Europe:
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The much-touted Melenchon-to-Le Pen voter appears not to have shown up much. Most went Macron:
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Pretty much everything you need to know about
#Greece
today in one footnote.
#eurogroup
http://t.co/04SUMe0ZyY
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A very Dutch scandal. Prime minister rides his bike to meet the king to resign...forcing snap elections, which will be held exactly the same date the regular general elections were scheduled to be held. And the Dutch PM's party is almost certain to win.
#NothingToSeeHere
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@SamCoatesSky
All four from congressional districts with significant Irish-American electorates, it should be noted.
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I'm old enough to remember when (November 2012)
#eurogroup
vowed sufficient debt relief to get
#Greece
to "substantially lower than 110%" debt/GDP by 2022. Worth remembering with all the self-congratulation in
#Athens
and
#Brussels
going on this morning.
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Needless to say, a currency union where capital controls have been imposed twice in 2 years is not a properly functioning currency union
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Note to
@FT
staff: our policy on reporters setting up pol parties overnight on
@Twitter
slightly diff than
@TheEconomist
. See me for details
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After the first round of the
#KissTheChancellor
contest, we have
#Canada
in 1st,
#France
2nd, and
#Netherlands
eliminated.
#G20Summit
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Well, this is rather chilling from a major police force in a western democracy. What are you going to do,
@metpoliceuk
, arrest us?
😱As part of the Met Police investigation into Kim Darroch leak, Scotland Yard tell editors not to publish leak gvt documents.
I wonder what editors and other journalists think of this😱
👇👇👇👇👇
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@infnitywar
@LahavHarkov
Never understood the need to invent a press-bashing narrative when one doesn't exist.
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The
@FT
has joined with
@AP
,
@Reuters
,
@Time
,
@Forbes
,
@SZ
,
@Wired
and other international news orgs in new
#OneFreePress
Coalition to highlight journalists attacked or arrested for doing their jobs. We're all publishing list of 10 urgent cases today. Here's ours.
@OneFreePress
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@jaketapper
Someone did Frederick Douglass, which I thought was pretty good:
These animated photographs are deeply unsettling and profoundly moving at the same time. The way Douglass’s eyes look around, his brief smile, the unmistakable feeling of being seen in the final moment of eye contact. Overwhelming.
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So
@Mov5Stelle
has claimed
@ECB
was punishing
#Italy
last month to ensure no populist govt took power. Seemed nuts. But then ECB released QE data today. Interesting graph, no?
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The UK pulls a Full Tsipras.
#Brexit
#Kolotoumba
Breaking News: Britain has bowed to EU demands on its Brexit bill, removing a key obstacle to a divorce deal.
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@jaketapper
I did this one of John Quincy Adams over the weekend. Totally addictive. I believe Adams is the earliest president to have been photographed, though this was taken well after he left office.
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Every once in a while, I wonder if PR people pitching us have ever actually read the
@FT
.
#WeDontDoWeddings
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Judge who is sentencing Michael Cohen essentially argues
@realDonaldTrump
is guilty of the same crime.
Pauley notes that Cohen admitted that he made the illicit hush-money payments "at the coordination with and the direction of Individual-1."
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Eurogroup chief
@mariofcenteno
warns
@kmitsotakis
to live up to previous
#Greece
govt commitments. Funny. Remember Portuguese guy named Mario Centeno whose 1st act as finmin was to break predecessor's budget commitments? Weird they have the same name.
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Got my hands on new
@atsipras
letter conceding on almost all points. QUick story here:
http://t.co/VsdKLnWw8M
http://t.co/kHIVrvpOBi
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Tory MEP
@SyedKamall
caught on camera doing...well, I'll let you decide what he's doing to
@GuyVerhofstadt
...
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Hmm. The new legally-binding joint instrument described by
@theresa_may
sure sounds like the existing legally-binding withdrawal agreement.
#Brexit
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Does it really take 3 hours to count the votes of 315 people? What is this, Broward County?
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Article III, section 1 of US Constitution: "Judicial power of the US shall be vested in the Courts." Separation of powers is a pain, huh?
The opinion of this so-called judge, which essentially takes law-enforcement away from our country, is ridiculous and will be overturned!
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Sorry,
@realDonaldTrump
, birthright citizenship is in the US Constitution. Can't change that with an executive order.
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So is the art of diplomacy, apparently.
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In wake of
#ParisAttack
lots of tweets abt countering
#ISIS
financing. Worth re-reading "Inside ISIS Inc"
@FT
series
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I'm very proud to report that the
@FT
's
@Wirecard
team has won the
@NYFWA
's Impact Award for "years of persistent in-depth reporting that uncovered a huge financial fraud." Congrats,
@FD
@stef_palma
@JohnReedwrites
&
@olafcramme
!
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Having covered many of these
#EU
crises before, clearly the next step for Britain is appointing a technocratic govt headed by
@SenatoreMonti
, who I believe is currently available.
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What does it say about the state of American democracy that I didn't realise this was a parody for about 2 hours?
Wow. Trump's answer on Cheez-Its is... something.
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@ClueHeywood
Chris Paul has disappeared for 3 straight games. This is not what stars are supposed to do in big time games
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After 3 years in
#London
, I have finally figured out the one advantage of having an American accent in Britain: yelling “hey buddy...watch it!” when someone pushes you in the tube during morning commute. Spooked the whole car.
#ExpatLessons
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A wise man (
@alanbeattie
) once told me you know a county's in trouble when avg people discuss currency flux. Lot of that in London tonite.
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Day 1 as
@FT
’s new US managing editor, complete with new business cards, cow bell and small cutout of me ringing the subs bell in London. Everything I need, apparently.
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I'm going to play contrarian on this one. Why assume messy politics is necessarily bad? This happens all the time in national politics. Upsides of the
#EU
jobs standoff:
1. People think these jobs matter, a lot. They wouldn't be fighting this hard if the consequences were low.
This EU summit was the pure, uncut shit: an all-nighter devoted solely to internal matters, infused with incomprehensible multi-dimensional bargaining, that resolved nothing and left everyone pissed off, tired and confused. I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss it a teeny bit.
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Tweeps telling me Greek document submitted to parliament has section on debt relief. I have version sent to creditors. Not in there.
#Greece
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In which fellow
@FT
editors present me with a new tool to assert my authority over unruly reporters
#RespectMyAthoritay
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President of the United States takes sides with Vladimir Putin over the FBI.
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Yeah, sorry. There’s nothing in here. It just restates the existing withdrawal agreement. It even references specific paragraphs when discussing “unilateral” withdrawal from backstop.
#Brexit
Here’s the new legally-binding instrument just agreed by
@theresa_may
&
@JunckerEU
. Let the analysis begin.
#Brexit
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Say what you want about
@BorisJohnson
, but I have to give him credit for this: he resigned well before 1st edition deadlines.
#Brexit
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Ex-Tory leader declares war on Spain. Second Battle of Trafalgar imminent.
#ImperialDreaming
Well that escalated quickly..Lord Howard tells Sophy: PM wd show "same resolve" re Gibraltar as Mrs T in Falklands:
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From the "things I should have known but just learned" dept: The fabulous
@sarahcpr
(she of the viral
@realDonaldTrump
lip syncs) was an occasional columnist for the
@FT
until very recently. A recent sample:
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Number of British PMs in last 10 years: 4. Number of Belgian PMs in last 10 years: 4.
“We have very stable governments as a general rule... the Italians have had 40 Governments in the past 60-70 years... We are certainly not like Belgium...” says Minister Michael Ellis asked by Adam why his party is making the country look like a shambles.
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Following US sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson's suspension,
@WhiteHouse
(
@ondcp
) to ask World Anti-Doping Agency (
@wada_ama
) to change its policy on cannabis use. A
@germanotes
SCOOP:
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2017: Extending its lead as the most ludicrous year ever.
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Wearing tie I bought in Brussels at
#Belgium
national day celebrations 4yrs ago. Said my wife: “You think people will realise it? Otherwise, it’s pretty ugly.”
#BELFRA
#WorldCup2018
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Seems like a writer for the
@Netflix
series "Baby Reindeer" has impeccable taste in news sources.
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@lrozen
@Martin_Dempsey
Gen. Mark Miley was there, too. Did he get roped into this knowingly?
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All hail the new leader!
@khalafroula
arrives for her first morning news conference as editor of the
@FT
.
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Creditors' bailout offer includes phasing out EKAS "solidarity grant" by Dec 2019. That's a pension cut, regardless of what
@JunckerEU
says
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Yikes! Max Hastings (formerly
@BorisJohnson
's boss as editor of The
@Telegraph
) just brutal about is former Brussels correspondent in today's
@TheTimes
.
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"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." - Albert Einstein
Unless the Republican Senators are total quitters, Repeal & Replace is not dead! Demand another vote before voting on any other bill!
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The youngest candidate in the field (including
@realDonaldTrump
) is now Elizabeth Warren. She's 70.
Breaking News: Amy Klobuchar, who pitched herself as a moderate Midwesterner, will end her presidential campaign and endorse Joe Biden
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I have no idea what
@kmitsotakis
is saying in this video, but he seems to be getting more comfortable with pressing the flesh with average voters these days...
Περπάτησα στους δρόμους της Κυψέλης και μίλησα με πολίτες που ζουν και εργάζονται σε μια γειτονιά με προβλήματα αλλά και πολλές προοπτικές. Παρά τις δυσκολίες, δεν χάνουν την ελπίδα τους για το αύριο. Δεν θα διαψεύσουμε τις προσδοκίες τους.
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I'm guessing about 3,000 people here outside Bourse in central
#Brussels
for
#OXI
rally.
#Greece
http://t.co/4qEdE73WbF
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Just got leaked version of final
#Greece
agreement. Here's the language on then new €50bn fund.
http://t.co/H0g4ib1G5W
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"I think a better use of our time would be to drive down to Philadelphia and count the votes ourselves." - overheard in the newsroom
@OHnewsroom
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@POLITICO_Steve
Four score and seven minutes ago, our White House reporters brought forth on Twitter a new press conference, conceived by Giuliani and dedicated to the proposition that all Philadelphia vote counts are not created equal.
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Surprised €7bn
#Greece
bridge loan goes to creditors? Except for deficit fin & bank recap, all bailouts go to creditors. That's their point
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Can everyone who will be in political oblivion in 2017 please raise their hands?
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