Ray Douglas
@raydouglas.bsky.social
Journalist at @financialtimes.com Formerly @thetimes.com and The Sunday Times | Editor, writer and occasional coder | Markets and tech | Views my own 🌐 http://raydouglas.co.uk
Totally normal... 🇺🇸 🇻🇪 Trump says US to take control of 65bn barrels of Venezuelan oil FT www.ft.com/content/2f88...
Trump says US to take control of 65bn barrels of Venezuelan oil
The president says the countries’ joint venture will lower petrol prices for Americans
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🇺🇸 🇨🇦 Trump signs order to rename Lake Ontario ‘Lake America’ amid Canada trade war ⬇️ CNBC www.cnbc.com/2026/08/27/t...
Trump signs order to rename Lake Ontario 'Lake America' amid Canada trade war
President Donald Trump signed an executive order that he said will "immediately" change the name of Lake Ontario to "Lake America."
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🇺🇸 Stephen Miran, ex-Fed Board governor, says inflation expectations and term premium are contained, so the rise in Treasury yields is almost entirely down to one thing — investors betting the US economy grows faster 🔥 FT www.ft.com/content/a919...
🇬🇧 It's only a matter of time before heat overtakes cold as Britain's biggest weather killer FT chart shows the gap narrowing, with 2026 on course to be the UK's hottest summer on record @amyborrett.ft.com & @kenzabryan.ft.com London is the worst-hit area for heat deaths www.ft.com/content/5675...
🇺🇸 Apple's new Macs are eye-wateringly expensive -- top-spec Studio will set you back £18,299.00. (And it's the same price in dollars $18,299 for reasons I can't fathom) One suspects that the AI-driven demand for chip shortage is behind all this...
“It’s pissing me off that I like him”, is the top-rated comment on Burnham’s TikTok page
Beefeater Fella@beefeaterfella.bsky.social · 5d ago🇬🇧🇺🇦 UK Prime Minister Burnham played a Smiths song on guitar with Ukrainian soldiers during his first overseas trip as PM. They performed an Oasis song for him in return.
🇨🇦 🇪🇺 Canada and Carney keenly wants what the UK discarded #Brexit
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoMark Carney: "This fall we will begin intense discussions with the European Union, the world's second-largest economy, to build a much stronger and deeper economic and security partnership"
🇺🇸 🇨🇦 "WE DON'T NEED CANADA, THEY NEED US," Trump posted, doubling down on his spat with PM Carney -- threatening to hike tariffs on Canadian cars and auto parts to 50% from January 1 Canada, by the way, is the US's third-largest source of imports FT www.ft.com/content/5297...
🇺🇸 And you wonder why Democrats are unpopular despite Trump tanking in the polls… Jeffries and Kushner meet privately as midterm attacks fly www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/u...
Jeffries and Kushner Meet Privately as Midterm Attacks Fly
President Trump’s son-in-law and the man in line to be speaker of a Democratic-led House discussed how Democrats and the administration could work together.
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🇨🇦🇺🇸 Mark Carney says Canada is now ‘at war’ with US over trade These are the “insights” you’re missing on X/Twitter… FT www.ft.com/content/e3b5...
And this is why you should have at least two or three corroborating sources before you break a news story 😸
Politics UK@politicsuk.com · last wk.Earlier tonight, we posted that Larry the Cat had died We can confirm this is not the case. Our post was based on false information from a reliable source that had been hacked Larry is still alive and well!
⚽️ I took The Athletic’s 10-question quiz on what Premier League team I should support @minkfossa.bsky.social
🇺🇸 A rare instance of corporate America growing a spine? Disney said the Trump administration “has waged a retaliatory campaign against ABC for a single reason: it disapproves of what ABC broadcasts” FT www.ft.com/content/c61e...
Disney sues Trump administration over ‘retaliatory’ ABC licence review
US media giant accuses Federal Communications Commission of cracking down because it ‘disapproves’ of its broadcasts
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🇬🇧 Betting markets now expect Farage to win 40–60% of the vote in the Clacton by-election Meanwhile, Count Binface is expected to get between 20-30%, according to Polymarket Farage took 46% last time round against a full field
The renminbi’s hardest mile is only now beginning - @aligarciaherrero.bsky.social here on how China is trying to encourage investors to hold the RMB but why there is still one big obstacle to that www.ft.com/content/5fbd...
🎽 Having endured TNT's car crash of a Commonwealth Games -- paywalled and disjointed -- it's a joyful relief to watch the BBC's broadcast of the European Championships 🏃🏃♀️🏃♂️
🇺🇸 Three billionaires -- Musk, Adelson, Mellon -- supplied more than a third of the roughly $1.5bn spent to elect Trump A reader under the FT's "America's new oligarchy" story asks on what basis the US calls itself the world's leading democracy FT www.ft.com/content/2472...
⚽️ Not sure this reflects well on Uefa or Mr Infantino Gianni Infantino’s ‘lover’ was paid off by Uefa Telegraph www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/2026/0...
🇺🇸 US economy undershoots forecasts to shed 23,000 jobs in July Hiring numbers for May and June were also revised down by a combined 103,000, to 63,000 and 20,000 respectively FT www.ft.com/content/54ad...
🇺🇸 If you, like me, have been occasionally dipping into Michigan's Democratic Senate primary, you might be surprised: despite being heavily outspent, Abdul El-Sayed is odds-on to beat four-term congresswoman Haley Stevens, according to Polymarket As a Brit, I find this astonishing #Michigan
I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.
Mexico now exports more hardware for data centres than it does cars - quite the reshaping of an economy... New, with Christine Murray www.ft.com/content/ac32...
⚽️ FIFA president Gianni Infantino scraps plans to sell stakes in the World Cup after widespread backlash 🎉 FT www.ft.com/content/5840...
⚽️ Carlos Cordeiro, senior adviser to Infantino, resigns following plans to sell a stake in World Cups “I had no involvement in this proposal, and I oppose it unequivocally. It is a bad deal for FIFA's Member Associations, a bad deal for football, and a bad deal for the long-term future of the game”
The Odyssey wins the casting debate - my oped here on why lessons from the visionary British director Peter Brook remain relevant for today’s cinema. as.ft.com/r/b87781b1-b...
The Odyssey wins the casting debate
Lessons from the visionary British director Peter Brook remain relevant for today’s cinema
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