Matthew Brooker
@mbrooker.bsky.social
Columnist for Bloomberg Opinion in London. CFA holder, from Slough, 25 years in Hong Kong, 5 in Shanghai. Opinions are my own.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Why FIFA doesn’t change www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
What's Wrong With FIFA? Look Beyond Infantino
Gianni Infantino’s recent capitulation looks like a textbook case of overreach by a leader unaccustomed to restraints on their power. The FIFA president’s plan to sell a stake in a $20 billion commerc...
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🍿🍿🍿 www.ft.com/content/613c... Fifa insiders turn on Infantino over controversial $20bn investment plan
Fifa insiders turn on Infantino over controversial $20bn investment plan
Interventions by two senior officials deepen crisis over president’s plan to create new commercial venture and sell 20% stake
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Brilliant piece that hits the nail on the head www.ft.com/content/6a35... We’ve moved from income world to wealth world
We’ve moved from income world to wealth world
Passive wealth gains increasingly matter more than earnings for one’s standing in society
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Never in the field of conflict has a country been hit so hard for so long with so little result… *TRUMP TO FOX: WE'LL BE HITTING IRAN HARD
Britain made Hongkongers a promise of humanitarian assistance. This promise should not be compromised because the current government seeks a warmer bilateral relationship with China, writes Nathan Law www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Britain promised to protect Hongkongers from China. Why does it now seem ready to sacrifice us? | Nathan Law
Activists under threat from Beijing are facing strange difficulties with UK immigration. Our safety must not be traded for warmer relations with China, says pro-democracy activist Nathan Law
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I’m watching Silo, which is about the US bombing Iran, after which Americans have to live in holes in the ground for hundreds of years
Via @franceshui.bsky.social on Twitter, Wu Chi-wai has successfully entered the country, according to multiple media sources
Joel Chan@kjoules.org · 2w agoWu is applying for asylum in the UK under the BNO scheme. • The Home Office says it is aware of the incident, and it is understood to be a paperwork issue which the Border Force is working to resolve www.thetimes.com/world/asia/a...
The land-value tax is an enigma - the perfect tax that almost no one uses www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
London Homeowners Will Sweat on Burnham's Land-Tax Plans
Once more with feeling. Andy Burnham’s arrival in Downing Street has brought to power a long-time advocate of a tax on the value of land, stirring speculation and alarmist headlines about the likely i...
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Criminals are criminals by virtue of who they are, not what they do. We only have to work out how to catch them. Telling people what the law is so they can avoid breaking it is just making things easy for them.
Sense Hofstede@sensehofstede.nl · 3w agoHKFP: Booksellers must ensure books are lawful, says security chief Chris Tang after arrests – but won’t give list of banned titles – ‘Tang said on Thursday that the government would not make a list of banned books, as offenders could avoid detection by changing the wording of titles.’
Symptoms of a failed state in the Waitrose ice cream section
Kemi Badenoch has widened her head-to-head lead over Nigel Farage to 21 points yougov.com/en-gb/articl...
If you want to know what Manchesterism can do for London, look at Peckham www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Burnham’s Manchester Has Some Housing Lessons for London
The Manchester model is coming south, with Andy Burnham returning to Westminster — and possibly winning the office in No. 10 Downing Street — after nine years leading a city that’s been a hotspot in a...
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How privileged we are to have seen him. Greatest player of all time
Companies are planning to extract helium-3 from the moon. No word on a limitless supply of Sam Rockwell clones www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
What is Helium-3 and could we get it from the moon?
Helium-3 is expensive and demand is forecast to soar, so some are planning to mine it on the moon.
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The UK’s recent decision to deny entry to two American media figures, Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur, is the latest retreat from free speech by a country that should know better. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Free Speech, However Vile, Is Vital to Democracy
“If liberty means anything at all,” wrote George Orwell, in a preface to Animal Farm, “it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” Generations of students have been taught that l...
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No one dares risk the wrath of Britain’s pensioners - including Andy Burnham www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
No One Is Willing to Risk the Wrath of British Pensioners
The clamor for Britain to scrap its unaffordable state-pension escalator is growing louder. Voices including the head of the Iceland supermarket chain, former Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer ...
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It will be four years since I returned to Britain in September. By then there will have been five prime ministers
Not today, Mr Musk He warned there was a risk of British politics “ending up somewhere like the United States of America, where people don’t talk to each other in the street”, he said. “We will not let that happen here.”
If you want to want to know who’s going to win the World Cup, then consult a mystic octopus. And don’t take economic forecasts too seriously www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
What the World Cup Can Tell Us About Finance
There’s a memorial to Paul the octopus at the Sea Life Centre in Oberhausen after the cephalopod seer earned worldwide fame by correctly predicting the outcome of all Germany’s seven games at the 2010...
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Excellent, entertaining read on predictions and luck. From @mbrooker.bsky.social >> www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
What the World Cup Can Tell Us About Finance
There’s a memorial to Paul the octopus at the Sea Life Centre in Oberhausen after the cephalopod seer earned worldwide fame by correctly predicting the outcome of all Germany’s seven games at the 2010...
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Look at this. Where poor kids wind up, based on where they came from. 香港加油 www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Historian Simon Schama on US defense secretary Pete Hegseth’s D-Day remarks. Schama described the remarks as a “special kind of loathsomeness: a blend of historical deafness, grotesque stupidity and comically ludicrous self-importance.”
Pete Hegseth’s D-day speech on immigration condemned as ‘grotesque stupidity’
Historians and campaigners accuse US defence secretary of desecrating memory of soldiers who fell in Normandy
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The author of a Home Office-sponsored report on the Chinese state and organised crime in the UK was the target of failed honey traps and a suspected attempt to compromise him by a former British police officer, it is claimed www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Author of Home Office report on China reveals attempts to compromise him
Exclusive: Dr David Wilson says former British police officer approached him as part of efforts to influence his work
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To be lectured by fascists on D-Day. This is where we are
