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
🇺🇸 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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🇺🇸 How Trump and his "princess of darkness" are persuading corporate America to donate hundreds of millions to fund his projects WSJ www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
🇬🇧 If you wanna watch live action of the Commonwealth Games in the UK, you'll have to pay For the first time since 1954, the BBC isn't the main broadcaster. You'd think a Games fighting for eyeballs would want more people watching That said, you can catch some in Gaelic or Welsh (BBC ALBA, S4C) 🏃♀️ 🏊
🇺🇸 Tesla sold more cars than ever last quarter... and made less money doing it Discounts to shift EVs and the loss of regulatory-credit income sent profits down 17% to $1.2bn FT www.ft.com/content/dc5e...
🇬🇧 That didn't take long. #NeverBurnham is trending on X less than 24 hours after he became PM Blink and you would've missed the honeymoon period
‘The Bloomberg momentum index is on track for one of its worst-ever monthly performances — while June was the best month for the index since its inception in 2007.’ www.ft.com/content/79a1...
New: the highly controversial AI music generator Suno was hacked. The hacker sent us Suno source code; it shows the company scraped YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius. In all, Suno scraped *decades* worth of music from the internet. Obviously didn't pay artists www.404media.co/hack-reveals...
Nice hit on small caps by @emilydherbert.bsky.social with this chart by @raydouglas.bsky.social on a very strong 2026 so far www.ft.com/content/05ab...
⚽️ How do we feel about this? 🤔 England captain plays golf with Trump ⛳️ BBC www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba... (When I first saw the headline, I thought it was fake) #ENG #WorldCup
