John Reed
@johnreedwrites
Explainers editor at the Financial Times. Usual caveats apply. Clips: Explainers:
Yikes! From this analysis of the sobering fiscal realities facing John Healey, Britain's new Chancellor as.ft.com/r/8d8a1713-a...
Insane stuff: America's ruling family are selling faster, preferential access to Trump's market-moving posts to trading houses, positioning them to profit from them. as.ft.com/r/e763fb76-3...
Will SpaceX's IPO be an investment supernova? Or more like the Death Star? Great visualisations and insights in this piece by @samjoiner.bsky.social andmy other @FT colleagues on how index investing and looser rules on inclusion will pull many of us into the IPO's orbit as.ft.com/r/5c6c2d8d-a...
It’s one of those weeks when I’m reminded the always globally minded title I work for is actually a UK newspaper too
Waking up this morning to Britain’s new political rainbow… (do rainbows have this much blue in them?)
Why aren't Iranians rising up to challenge their regime, as they did in January? Many answers here in this insightful report by the FT's Teheran correspondent Najmeh Bozorgmehr as.ft.com/r/6e31d260-f...
Statesman House (aka the Death Star): my favourite Delhi Brutalist building.
as.ft.com/r/ac373a6e-3... The country at the heart of the global scam industry: report by the @financialtimes.com ‘s V Anantha Lakshmi on Cambodia’s cancerous and exploitative scam compounds
Desperately uncool look for a leftist oracle. From our @financialtimes.com coverage as.ft.com/r/bc403842-4...
The @FT’s architecture critic @edwinheathcote.bsky.social on Trump’s White House extension (it’s twice the size of the actual building). on.ft.com/4oIYaCB
on.ft.com/4m3FT1L India’s IT services giants race to reinvent themselves for the AI age
A bad review of a Greek salad (as only @jayrayner1.bsky.social could write it) on.ft.com/4maOj7C
Mapping America’s ICE gulag: strong analysis by the @financialtimes.com visual team (paywall) ig.ft.com/us-immigrati...
on.ft.com/4eKg6cc Tony Blair’s staff took part in ‘Gaza Riviera’ project with BCG
Ethnic cleansing, inc: Important investigation from my FT colleague @stephenfoleyft.bsky.social on corporate involvement in some of the horrors unfolding in Gaza on.ft.com/45V89P0
Probably not going to happen, for multiple reasons (though never say never)