The The White House quashes an entire document of propaganda slogans designed to frighten the scientifically literate, one tracked change at a time int.nyt.com/data/documenth…

This was THE hardest, most harrowing story I've ever done. 1 MILLION Uighurs have been locked up. Their children may now be living in state-run institutions - as if they are orphans. It's the greatest human rights atrocity I've ever encountered. WATCH IT. Nicole Bozorgmir HBO

Uplifting Friday reading c/o Miami Herald. "When the piece became the most-read article on the paper’s website, surpassing a story about a woman who had passed gas in a convenience store, her colleagues broke into applause." nytimes.com/2019/07/09/bus…

A notice has been posted in the secluded corridor of the FT frequently used for gossiping about colleagues/making personal phone calls

FT verdict on Boris Johnson’s suspension of parliament: MPs should back a No confidence motion and head for an election.This manoeuvre sets a dangerous precedent and is an affront to constitutional democracy. (Also quotes JS Mill) ft.com/content/9dbc78… via @financialtimes

Eleven years of work that appears to entirely invalidate the economic case for fracking in the UK. What other case is there? theconversation.com/how-we-discove… Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146…

Dearest Keifer Nyron Taylor has finally released the silent short about his grandad Lloydie: vimeo.com/298428684/desc…

“I’m not just the first woman... but one with a foreign name and an accent” Roula Khalaf appointed the #FT’s first female editor, inspiring women in journalism everywhere. A proud day.

The best of the Long Read in 2019 theguardian.com/news/2019/dec/…

As my 2020 Davos journey unfolds before me I’m thinking less about blockchain and more about blockchange. We need to iterate on populism. Can microfinance drive passive income to make the impoverished stakeholders? This is what I am passionate about. #wef2020

Rare and precious self-reflexivity: "At the centre of the transaction was Pagurian Corporation, which...shared its name with a species of crab that, having no shell of its own, steals the exteriors of dead snails." ft.com/content/595a77… via @financialtimes

The UK’s first official “food waste tsar”, an old Etonian buddy of Boris Johnson, on paying his tax bill: “We can’t give the fucking thing to the government.”

NEW on coronavirus: many western countries may soon face Italy’s situation Case numbers since outbreaks began in several countries have tracked a ~33% daily rise. This is as true for UK, France, Germany as Italy; the latter is simply further down the path ft.com/content/a26fbf…

The Financial Times newsroom in pandemic mode. The entire newspaper is now reliant on tiny laptops and, of all technologies, Gchat

NEW: Saturday 21 March update of our coronavirus mortality trajectories tracker • Today we add annotations showing when each country locked down • UK & US already have more deaths than when China, Spain, France & others locked down Live version here: ft.com/content/a26fbf…

There is something within British sensibility that quietly relishes social distancing. Once crossing the road to avoid an acquaintance was a vaguely cowardly, if commonplace, act. Now it’s a civic duty

A reporter out reporting, a thing of rare beauty even if about pyrolisis. Featuring Charlotte Middlehurst ft.com/video/809482bb… via Financial Times

Picturing the reporter’s puzzlement when they jotted this down @ft

From the audio archive The Anthropocene epoch: have we entered a new phase of planetary history? with a new introduction by the author Nicola Davison theguardian.com/environment/au…