Tom Braithwaite
@TBraithwaite
News editor of the Financial Times. Views are mine, not the FT's. @tombraithwaite.bsky.social
🚨Personal news: From the Currant Bun to The Pink ‘Un. I’m excited to say I’m joining The Financial Times as Chief UK Business Correspondent on 2 June. I’ve had the most brilliant time being Business Editor at The Sun and will miss the excellent headlines, puns and people.
SCOOP - #XiJinping purges #2 PLA general #HeWeidong, Central Military Commission vice-chair & Politburo member #USChinaScoop on.ft.com/3R9VTl5
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…
One scenario estimated more than 500,000 Gazans would leave the enclave with “relocation packages” worth $9,000 per person, or around $5bn in total. Scoop @stephenfoley BCG modelled plan to ‘relocate’ Palestinians from Gaza via @FT on.ft.com/4lCT7C0
“Gilt investors wanted to see spending cuts. Now the government’s only exit is tax rises, risking a death spiral of growth destruction.” ft.com/content/e4ffe4…
Nigel Farage pledges to install business chiefs in government if he wins power on.ft.com/4nq29nE
on.ft.com/3Zk3d1U Triumphing under Trump: the corporate winners and losers
British security officials are investigating whether Russia may be involved in three arson attacks on properties connected to Sir Keir Starmer, according to senior Whitehall figures. on.ft.com/4kyMEaL
“The NHS is failing but sacred and its holy status is more important than the question of whether it works or not. Tax hikes are unpopular and spending cuts are even less attractive. Voters demand the government spends more with less money.”
Everyone agrees: Scotland would be much better if it were more like places that aren’t Scotland. thetimes.com/article/421c0c…
In the Mail, of all places, Peter Hitchens says “it’s time Britain stopped living in the past…” What is clear to the world, especially to Europe, is there in black and white…
British troops training for drone warfare vs red tape. By @charles_clover “Guidelines prevent drones weighing more than 250g — about the weight of a cucumber — from being flown over the heads of people during training, even if they are sitting in a tank.” on.ft.com/3YYpimo
My report from inside “the black hole” of Jena, LA, the excruciating ICE detention center in which Mahmoud Khalil is being kept, and the story of one woman’s attempt to provide a brief respite, by bringing him photos of his newborn son, whose birth ICE refused to let him see.
In today’s @FT, Commissioner Slaughter and I wrote about the broader implications of the president’s attempt to remove us from office.
SCOOP: Internal Palantir Slack messages obtained by @josephfcox show the company did a recent sprint to build a tool that helps ICE find the physical locations of people who have been marked for deportation. 404media.co/leaked-palanti…
This tariff pause is going to be very bad for the factory I started building last week
Oh Tim Apple. “Microsoft overtakes Apple as world’s most valuable company” ft.com/content/50a3e1…
China vows ‘fight to the end’ after Trump threatens extra 50% tariff on.ft.com/4j2ZopI
"I don't understand the goddamn formula" -- Ken Langone ft.com/content/56b9c7…
How far we've come, or not ft.com/content/ce97b5…
@TBraithwaite I'm very sorry for your Monkey's Paw wishes from 2017.
The BBC explains what the UK sells to the US: “Often highly qualified jobs like lawyers, designers, PR consultants”