Joe Miller
@JoeMillerJr
Correspondent @FT. In Washington, with eyes on the 🌎. Formerly in NY, Germany and @ the BBC. Find me on Signal @joemillerjr.48 Posts may contain cricket 🏏.
Flitwick has 4 trains per hour that connect to London in 50 minutes. It should have 1,700 new homes.
🏡 How Labour is destroying the British village Plans to build 170 homes on fields between the town of Flitwick and Steppingley were vehemently rejected by more than 5,000 locals 👇 Read more: telegraph.co.uk/money/property…
A 2015 press cutting on Larkin’s rejection of nomination for the Oxford Professorship of Poetry. ‘My idea of hell on earth…is a literary party, and I have an uneasy feeling that the post carries with it a lot of sherry-drill with important people.’
The former KKR director running the Trump admin's aggressive review of government contracts is doubling down, vowing to go after some of the US' largest companies even as CEOs complain to the White House. Story w/ @sjhmorris and @stephenfoley on.ft.com/45hXsVG
NEW: even on secured lending, traditional banks show little flexibility and that conservatism is costing them business: US contractors cut off by Doge given lifeline by private credit on.ft.com/4nCpORG
Tony Blair Institute staff worked alongside BCG on a project for postwar Gaza that ended up proposing a 'Trump Riviera', 'MBS ring' road and 'Elon Musk smart manufacturing zone'. Latest scoop from @stephenfoley and @PickardJE ft.com/content/0b1bc7…
NEW: American financier Don Wilson invested $100mn in the Trump family’s flagship bitcoin project just nine weeks after a probe into his crypto business was dropped by the Trump administration. With @AntoineGara and @HarrietAgnew. ft.com/content/548161…
Showing deep concern for the downtrodden.
Pope Leo XIV, a Chicago native, stuns in a White Sox cap.
If this works, it is a profound technological leap. Could change so much.
Strong words from Michael Moritz for his Silicon Valley brethren. on.ft.com/4ktUz9r
Just published: front page of the Financial Times, international edition, June 7 on.ft.com/3YFQkia
As outlined in FT last week ft.com/content/a16388…
NEW: Elon Musk had discussed trying to stay in his "special government employee" role beyond the 130-day time limit. But ultimately, White House officials said he couldn't keep serving in that capacity. axios.com/2025/06/03/elo…
Great writeup on DOGE by @FT's @JoeMillerJr and @xtophercook. With Elon's exit, it's up to Congress to enact the major spending reductions needed to put the US on the right fiscal track.
While Doge’s website claims $170bn in savings, an FT investigation shows that only a sliver of that figure can actually be verified on.ft.com/42YLtvl
Great piece from @Claire_Bushey on how Pope Leo is really on the side of the downtrodden (the Chicago White Sox). on.ft.com/4j52MQe
Thanks @Jack_Blanchard_ for the shout out. (For non-Brits, “decent” is not an insult. At least I think it isn’t)
While Doge’s website claims $170bn in savings, an FT investigation shows that only a sliver of that figure can actually be verified on.ft.com/42YLtvl
What has Elon Musk’s Doge actually achieved? ft.com/content/085430… via @ft Excellent deep dive from @JoeMillerJr on the Doge flop
When your editor lets your crawl down a historical rabbit hole for an insect no one has ever heard of and then @business shorturl.at/mlZsl
Just in: @aboehler is headed to Israel with Edan Alexander's family, after the US convinced Hamas to finally release him.
