Europe slashed carbon emissions faster than any region in the world. The cost is higher than anyone expected. Really smart deep-dive by @TomFairless and @MaximColch. https://t.co/AAlymho802 via @WSJ

Europe slashed carbon emissions faster than any region in the world. The Price was a damaged economy. By ⁦@TomFairless⁩ & ⁦⁦@MaximColch⁩

The way I met Tom Stoppard was unforgettable – over twenty years ago: a producer wanted to make a movie of one of my earlier books, Stalin: the Court of the Red Tsar and he said he wanted me to meet the script writer. I was already wildly overexcited because the producer was Mick

scoop w/@LaurenSHirsch and @nicsperling -- Warner Bros. boss David Zaslav held a dinner party at Woodland, his French Regency-style home on Wednesday, where he was enthusiastic about a bid from Netflix. The latest on the race for Hollywood's big prize: https://t.co/Rayf9JBIa9

The BBC has a young, progressive, workforce and an older management that has tried, often in vain of late, to maintain old standards of impartiality. Not only *can* these two things be true at the same time but this divide is central to the current crisis

Moussa Abu Marzouk says Hamas might be willing to relinquish weapons "with ranges beyond the buffer zone" Tracks w/what Arab diplomats predicted during ceasefire talks: Hamas would bargain with its rocket arsenal (which is badly depleted anyway) but try to keep its light arms

Jordan Bardella is the overwhelming favourite at first-round voting for France’s presidential election, due in 2027. The populist has a radical plan that would challenge the principles that underpin the EU https://t.co/JVx5mN3NnP

Döpfner also said media companies should be like music labels for journalists, treating journalists like artists to be supported and grown individually. He also alluded to Substack, saying he considers creator platforms to be competitors to Axel’s media brands.

A preview of our interview with Disney CEO Bob Iger on the legacy of Walt Disney: features Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Mary Poppins and the Pirates of the Caribbean. Plus the present and future of Disney itself. Out this Friday on ⁦@TheRestHistory⁩

Signs NYC is definancializing: • Share of workers in finance went from 12% in 1990 to 7.7% now • NYC only got 19k finance jobs out of 233k created in last five years • JPMorgan employs more in TX than NY • national share of college educated and millionaires has fallen

The loading-the-dishwasher struggle is real. Even—or especially—for the $20,000 1X Neo humanoid home robot. 🔗: https://t.co/i42DtTMeB3

Eurostar’s 31-year monopoly on international trains from the UK is set to end after Virgin Trains was cleared to operate rail services through the Channel Tunnel

.@brendanruberry & @maxwelltani have solved a minor transatlantic media mystery and located Bill DeBlasio, who stresses that he is not an imposter, but rather a Long Island man named Bill DeBlasio

US Senator Lindsey Graham: “It’s time for Maduro to go. I hope Maduro would leave peacefully, but I don't think he's going to stay around much longer.”

BBC presses Harris on backing Biden’s ability to be POTUS while wary about his ability to campaign “isn’t it a strange message to the public to say ‘you need to be tougher and more able to run a political campaign than actually to be the person behind the desk in the Oval Office”

Red sprite lightning over the Himalayan region

Steve Bannon insists that Donald Trump will be president again for a third term in 2028—and that America needs him to. Mr Bannon, one of the chief architects of the MAGA movement, spoke to Zanny Minton Beddoes, our editor-in-chief, and Ed Carr, our deputy editor, in Washington,

The Louvre has been evacuated after thieves broke in in broad daylight and stolen jewellery which once belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte’s family, according to reports

This Sunday on 60 Minutes, Lesley Stahl interviews President Trump’s envoys and the leading brokers of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire and hostage deal: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff. They discuss their unconventional, deal-driven approach, including an in-person meeting with Hamas

A proposal for a triumphal arch in DC for #America250, in the traffic circle in front of Arlington National Cemetery. America needs a triumphal arch!