Matthew Garrahan
@mattgarrahan.bsky.social
Operating partner, RedBird Capital Partners. Former FT journalist
The trophy presentation is going to be interesting
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w agoTrump: "Spain is a wasted cause. We don't want to do any trade business with Spain anymore, by the way. I'd like to cut it off. Spain is a terrible partner in NATO. Cut off all trade with Spain, please. Including visits. We don't want anything to do. They're hopeless. Bad people."
Wrote this five years ago...just change the name of the tournament and it still applies giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Life stuck in the endless loop of English football fandom
Sunday’s loss to Italy brought back a familiar despair laced with memories of generations of family support
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Whatever your view of the police officers’ response in Golders Green, if your tweets show you think this was the most important aspect of what happened yesterday you are showing everyone else what some of us already knew about you
Extremely pleased to hear this from Mark Rowley, much needed clarity when a community which has been repeatedly gaslit by senior figures about its own safety
If you feel the need to do something in the wake of the Manchester attack why not donate to the Community Security Trust, the organisation that works to keep jews in Britain safe cst.org.uk/donate-now
Donate Online Now – CST – Protecting Our Jewish Community
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Sadiq Khan at New Statesman event at Labour conference. "I love coming to Liverpool. I love the people, I love the food, I love the football. And it gives me a break from Sharia Law in London"
“.. He told POLITICO his experts are “able to reveal a face using AI, if they have 35 percent or more of the face visible.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
NEW: Tony Blair's staff took part in a BCG project for the redevelopment of Gaza along the lines of the 'Trump Riviera' plan www.ft.com/content/0b1b...
Tony Blair’s staff took part in ‘Gaza Riviera’ project with BCG
Former UK prime minister’s institute participated in meetings on plan to turn shattered enclave into trading hub
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Scott Galloway on Mark Zuckerberg ("a c***"), the UK ("a butler economy") and the plight of young men ("no group has fallen further, faster") on.ft.com/4k23zlu
Scott Galloway: ‘This is the time to fight for America’
[FREE TO READ] The podcaster, professor and investor pulls no punches on Trump, wealth and the plight of young men
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Paul Caruana Galizia, Daphne’s son (and our wonderful colleague), has written a piece today on where Malta stands now, following these convictions. on.ft.com/3HEoj5b
What Malta owes my murdered mother
Those in power seem more focused on moving on than making changes to protect those who speak the truth
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The nuclear mountain that haunts Israel - a look at Iran’s Fordow enrichment facility buried deep underground near the ancient religious city of Qom. www.ft.com/content/46c6...
The nuclear mountain that haunts Israel
Buried half a kilometre underground, Iran’s Fordow enrichment facility is the ultimate test of Israeli air power
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Blunt advice from Michael Moritz for fellow Silicon Valley techies following the Musk-Trump fallout: on.ft.com/4kEErlW Musk vs Trump is a cautionary tale for Silicon Valley
I went to San Francisco to interview Laurene Powell Jobs and Jony Ive. Friends for 28 years, they are both worried about the direction tech has taken on.ft.com/4ksEktA
‘Humanity deserves better’: Jony Ive and Laurene Powell Jobs on tech’s next chapter
[FREE TO READ] After Apple, the Silicon Valley visionaries are looking to artificial intelligence to shape the future again
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So my mum decided to try using Uber. Long story short, she downloaded the wrong app and has accidentally signed up as a driver
This is such a powerful piece from Alf Dubs and Jacob Rees-Mogg, political opponents united in their belief that British citizens are equal under the law and deserve the right to trial by jury, whoever they are on.ft.com/3FdrOi4
Alf Dubs and Jacob Rees-Mogg: citizenship stripping is fundamentally unBritish
[FREE TO READ] Shamima Begum made grave mistakes. But she is our responsibility and no one else’s
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In the spirit of timeline cleanses (thanks @katie0martin.ft.com) here are the Brockwell Park cygnets, two weeks old and counting
Jan Marsalek selfie sent five months after the Ukraine invasion. Nose looks different?
Dan McCrum@mccrum.bsky.social · last yr.Wild new Jan Marsalek update from UK court. The fugitive Wirecard fraudster and Russian spy aspired to build a Chinese rival to Musk’s Starlink, was trading diamonds in Africa, and had plastic surgeries to change his appearance. Oh, and then there’s the Afghanistan airlift claims…
Bill Gates doesn't hide his fury at Elon Musk and his cuts to US Aid - and what they mean for the fight against HIV on.ft.com/4589fGq
This is some v good reporting in today's FT: Chinese exporters are dodging Trump's tariffs by first shipping goods to nearby countries and getting clean export licences before they go to the US on.ft.com/43hIrCg
Chinese exporters ‘wash’ products in third countries to avoid Donald Trump’s tariffs
[FREE TO READ] Asian neighbours wary of becoming staging posts for trade actually destined for US
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There is a deepfake Martin Wolf doing the rounds on social media. The fake account purports to offer investment advice and has been seen by almost a million people. Meta seems unable, or unwilling, to anything about it. Martin Wolf (the real one) takes them to task here on.ft.com/4cPEMiu
Playing ‘whack-a-mole’ with Meta over my fraudulent avatars
[FREE TO READ] How is it possible that a company with such huge resources, including artificial intelligence tools, cannot deal with this?
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There is a deepfake Martin Wolf doing the rounds on social media. The fake account purports to offer investment advice and has been seen by almost a million people. Meta seems unable, or unwilling, to anything about it. Martin Wolf (the real one) takes them to task here on.ft.com/4cPEMiu
Playing ‘whack-a-mole’ with Meta over my fraudulent avatars
[FREE TO READ] How is it possible that a company with such huge resources, including artificial intelligence tools, cannot deal with this?
on.ft.com