Stephanie Stacey
@stephistacey.ft.com
Financial Times Leisure Industries Correspondent // she/her // stephanie.stacey@ft.com 📩 Signal: stephaniestacey.12
🚀 Elon Musk has shifted focus from SpaceX to UK politics, amplifying far-right voices to his 240mn followers. We found a third of Musk's recent posts focused on the UK, a 10-year high, raising concern about his political influence ahead of a critical by-election. as.ft.com/r/b1cb096a-e...
Russia’s full-scale invasion began 4 years ago. It began in winter, and so this winter is the 5th. And, for civilians, the worst. Russia launches missiles and drones at energy infrastructure to force Ukrainians to endure the freezing cold. Here's how you can help snyder.substack.com/p/the-long-u...
The Long Ukrainian Winter
How You Can Help
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Move over US Treasuries. There are some new “bonds” in town. 😑 www.ft.com/content/3382...
How prediction market traders reinvented the bond
Betting against the Second Coming or buying US Treasuries?
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Alaska officials gave false info to American Samoans, telling them they can vote. (They can’t, due to a unique status.) Now, the state is threatening them with years in prison, part of GOP’s voting fraud panic. @burness.bsky.social spent months reporting the story; spend some of your w-e with it.
Americans by Name, Punished for Believing It - Bolts
In a small Alaska town, American Samoans face prosecution for voting in the only country they’ve ever known. They live in a limbo, created by colonial expansion, that now confuses even public official...
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If anyone else has previously tried and failed to quit X, I would really recommend the effectiveness of my method: getting hacked. I feel free!
The funny thing is animals actually can suffer and we slaughter them by the billions but sure let’s have an existential panic over whether a software program screams when we turn it off
The Guardian@theguardian.com · last yr.Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
A horrific dystopian reality: ‘If you secure any food and avoid being shot by the Israelis, you may not escape the gangs waiting outside,” said Abdallah, who has brought back supplies from only one of his seven trips. 🙏 @financialtimes.com colleagues for this reporting on.ft.com/4lzxFOQ
Inside Gaza’s ‘death traps’
A US-backed scheme forces hungry Palestinians to trek kilometres for food aid. Many never make it back
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This BBC investigation into how a lack of enforcement enabled fraud to be effectively legalised is brilliantly done and totally infuriating. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
How fake-will fraudsters steal millions from the dead
A trail of suspicious wills led to an organised gang committing fraud and stealing millions from dead people's estates.
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Israel kills 45 in latest shooting of Gazans seeking food, say local officials https://on.ft.com/4kMZ2EB
Israel kills 45 in latest shooting of Gazans seeking food, say local officials
Soldiers shot Gazans who were expecting aid trucks, according to the local health ministry
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Inside the battle to save patients in Gaza’s last hospitals https://www.ft.com/content/a0bebb6a-fc2e-40bb-bec9-18287b8cdaaf
Inside the battle to save patients in Gaza’s last hospitals
Bacteria ‘like monsters’ on overcrowded wards as doctors run out of basic supplies including antibiotics
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My father was a Nazi hunter, until he was killed in the Lockerbie bombing, when I was four. Now, a man will stand trial for the crime. What does it mean, after nearly forty years, to seek justice for the crimes of history? My new cover story for the Times Magazine: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/m...
My Father Prosecuted History’s Crimes. Then He Died in One.
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I know a lot is going on right now but I do think it's worth appreciating that someone created one of the all time great information visualizations to finally answer the question: What are your odds of ending up married vs. heartbroken on Love Is Blind? buff.ly/Ji3gDkc
This is a wonderful bit of visualisation from @stephistacey.ft.com + @marinovik.bsky.social on the dominance of US stock markets today and historically www.ft.com/content/80d0...
How big is the stock market’s America bubble?
US has grown to nearly two-thirds of global equity market value, but some analysts see danger in ‘huge bet on AI’
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Fantastic reporting from Kyiv by Alec Russell (registration required, or you can subscribe to read everything):
Ukraine’s double agony — Putin and now Trump
The country is torn over whether it could keep fighting without American support. Alec Russell reports from Kyiv on the stresses of a nation under siege
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I wrote about my brother Charlie’s final 48 hours, and his increasingly desperate attempts to track down an emergency supply of medication from the NHS. It’s an upsetting read but one I’m proud of. He’d be delighted to have made the @financialtimes.com magazine front cover: on.ft.com/434zZqn
NEW: Russian executions of Ukrainian POWs are not isolated incidents, but seem to be part of a broader pattern that suggests a systematic policy. By @christopherjm.ft.com @joesinft.ft.com @peter.andringa.me @digitalcampbell.ft.com @samjoiner.bsky.social and me. on.ft.com/4i6Yzve
Russia’s executions of Ukrainian prisoners point to systematic policy
[FREE TO READ] FT documentary investigates rise in cases of Russian soldiers executing Ukrainian POWs
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Not the first time but still shocking to hear comments from the US president that echo those from the Kremlin. Trump falsely blamed Ukraine for starting the war (Russia invaded) while also wrongly claiming Zelensky has just 4% approval rating (its 52%). www.ft.com/content/2506...
Donald Trump signals Ukraine to blame for war
US president suggests Ukrainian election is overdue in first remarks after talks with Moscow
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Do you like charts, churches, wine and the kind of people who non-ironically think that is a great date night? Then why not admire data visualizations in a lovely church with my very nerdiest colleagues www.ft.com/content/a970...
You’re invited to FT Alphaville’s Art of the Chart show on 27 February
Join us in London’s oldest parish church for marimekkos and merriment
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Waldo Tobler's first law of geography is alive and well on our new US trade and tariff tracker. Gift link: on.ft.com/3CAC7eT
