Josh Spero
@joshspero.ft.com
Wealth editor, Financial Times. I like swimming, classical music and cryptic crosswords. he/him 🏳️🌈 [email protected]
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Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!
November 26, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!
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Elliott Erwitt, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. New York City, USA. 1988.
November 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Elliott Erwitt, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. New York City, USA. 1988.
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Net migration is a dreadful measure.
Voter: "Hey, I'm concerned about the level of immigration."
UK state: "Ok, I hear your concerns. Let's sort that out. How about if loads of young British people left the country? Would that make it better?"
Voter: "No?"
Voter: "Hey, I'm concerned about the level of immigration."
UK state: "Ok, I hear your concerns. Let's sort that out. How about if loads of young British people left the country? Would that make it better?"
Voter: "No?"
November 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Net migration is a dreadful measure.
Voter: "Hey, I'm concerned about the level of immigration."
UK state: "Ok, I hear your concerns. Let's sort that out. How about if loads of young British people left the country? Would that make it better?"
Voter: "No?"
Voter: "Hey, I'm concerned about the level of immigration."
UK state: "Ok, I hear your concerns. Let's sort that out. How about if loads of young British people left the country? Would that make it better?"
Voter: "No?"
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CDC website altered at Robert F. Kennedy's behest to reflect his belief that "all events depicted in the film Ghostbusters really happened."
November 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
CDC website altered at Robert F. Kennedy's behest to reflect his belief that "all events depicted in the film Ghostbusters really happened."
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Remembering the time I was in Türkiye and the hotel welcomed me with an effusive press release and one of the all time great pull quotes
November 27, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Remembering the time I was in Türkiye and the hotel welcomed me with an effusive press release and one of the all time great pull quotes
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Any deets as to how the Valuation Office will be implementing their "targeted valuation exercise"? Buying Zoopla guesstimates and then driving around? Something else?
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
November 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Any deets as to how the Valuation Office will be implementing their "targeted valuation exercise"? Buying Zoopla guesstimates and then driving around? Something else?
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
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A Ukrainian woman is saying goodbye to her home as the front line approaches.
"The front is getting closer, and today my Mom said goodbye to our home and asked for forgiveness that she won’t be able to go there again until victory," Viktoriia wrote.
📷: asiya666
"The front is getting closer, and today my Mom said goodbye to our home and asked for forgiveness that she won’t be able to go there again until victory," Viktoriia wrote.
📷: asiya666
November 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
A Ukrainian woman is saying goodbye to her home as the front line approaches.
"The front is getting closer, and today my Mom said goodbye to our home and asked for forgiveness that she won’t be able to go there again until victory," Viktoriia wrote.
📷: asiya666
"The front is getting closer, and today my Mom said goodbye to our home and asked for forgiveness that she won’t be able to go there again until victory," Viktoriia wrote.
📷: asiya666
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Teenage Mutant Renaissance Defence Industrial Complex
November 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Teenage Mutant Renaissance Defence Industrial Complex
Followed by a Donatello Rocket Launcher and a Raphael Bazooka
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Followed by a Donatello Rocket Launcher and a Raphael Bazooka
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
November 27, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
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November 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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UK expected to scale back proposals to limit jury trials on.ft.com/3M2jLaW
UK expected to scale back proposals to limit jury trials
Justice minister David Lammy’s push for more judge-only hearings for less serious crimes angers senior legal figures
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November 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
UK expected to scale back proposals to limit jury trials on.ft.com/3M2jLaW
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This was our original Only Connect team name, before the producers said they wanted The Beekeepers instead.
Life on Rome’s northern frontier: a 1,900-year-old military memo in which a Roman soldier records the combat tactics of the Britons, who he refers to as ‘Brittunculi’ — ‘wretched Brits’! 😳
From Vindolanda, Northumberland, 📷 by me
#RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology
From Vindolanda, Northumberland, 📷 by me
#RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology
![My photo shows a thin, rectangular, dark brown leaf of wood, which is broken in places. Across the surface are six lines of cursive Latin handwriting. The text is written in black ink which appears faded and faint. The Latin reads:
nenụ ...[.]n. Brittoneṣ
nimium multi ‣ equites
gladis ‣ non ụtụṇtur equi-
tes ‣ nec residunt
Brittunculi ‣ ụt ‣ iaculos
mittant
Translated as:
… the Britons are unprotected by armour (?). There are very many cavalry. The cavalry do not use swords nor do the wretched Britons mount in order to throw javelins.
On display at the British Museum.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j56ydp325adovobhwpkzc6sp/bafkreiepntyce43pmmptw3xewwjw46tha2u4sqm7mptegttx5u2mqj527a@jpeg)
November 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
This was our original Only Connect team name, before the producers said they wanted The Beekeepers instead.
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YOU WANTED NET IMMIGRATION TO COME DOWN! THIS IS WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE!
November 27, 2025 at 1:13 PM
YOU WANTED NET IMMIGRATION TO COME DOWN! THIS IS WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE!
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November 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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What an incredible story! 😍
From ninth tier to World Cup? Richard Kone's incredible rise
Richard Kone was homeless at 16, playing non-league football fewer than two years ago and now he could be going to the 2026 World Cup.
www.bbc.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
What an incredible story! 😍
Captttcha would have been baller
November 27, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Captttcha would have been baller
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“Steve Witkoff is going over maybe with Jared. I’m not sure about Jared going, but he’s involved in the process, smart guy, and they’re going to be meeting with President Putin.”
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Donald Trump’s fixer-in-law: Jared Kushner returns to push Russia-Ukraine deal
[FREE TO READ] The US president has put a trusted family man at the centre of his mission to end the Kremlin’s war
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November 27, 2025 at 10:39 AM
“Steve Witkoff is going over maybe with Jared. I’m not sure about Jared going, but he’s involved in the process, smart guy, and they’re going to be meeting with President Putin.”
on.ft.com/3XlONwP
on.ft.com/3XlONwP
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The OBR’s careless leak has damaged us all on.ft.com/48DvyFi
The OBR’s careless leak has damaged us all
The fiscal watchdog’s error is worse than other Budget leaks because it exists solely to improve the process
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November 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
The OBR’s careless leak has damaged us all on.ft.com/48DvyFi
For £1,000, you can support a young person from a disadvantaged background in breaking into the arts
🌟 This winter, we have a chance to make something extraordinary happen - and we’re looking for 27 people to help us do it. 🌟
Join our Bursar Club 👉 bit.ly/4p6Xqrw
Join our Bursar Club 👉 bit.ly/4p6Xqrw
November 27, 2025 at 11:59 AM
For £1,000, you can support a young person from a disadvantaged background in breaking into the arts
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New Absolute Units is live! Listen to part 2 of our conversation with @georgemonbiot.bsky.social.
We discuss the history of land access and capitalism, the ramifications of enclosure on Britain's former colonies, and the necessary work of de-enclosure today.
merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
We discuss the history of land access and capitalism, the ramifications of enclosure on Britain's former colonies, and the necessary work of de-enclosure today.
merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
Absolute Units podcast - The Museum of English Rural Life
Come for the big sheep. Stay for the history of rural England and its people.
merl.reading.ac.uk
November 27, 2025 at 9:19 AM
New Absolute Units is live! Listen to part 2 of our conversation with @georgemonbiot.bsky.social.
We discuss the history of land access and capitalism, the ramifications of enclosure on Britain's former colonies, and the necessary work of de-enclosure today.
merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
We discuss the history of land access and capitalism, the ramifications of enclosure on Britain's former colonies, and the necessary work of de-enclosure today.
merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
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Every version of this story is some version of ‘well you couldn’t expect me to be able to afford to buy the house I currently own’ and yes that is the point welcome to the housing crisis.
‘I don’t live in a mansion. It’s a 1930s house’: Richmond residents react to council tax rise
‘I don’t live in a mansion. It’s a 1930s house’: Richmond residents react to council tax rise
Rachel Reeves’s new council tax surcharge on homes worth £2m or more earns mixed reception in well-heeled London borough
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Every version of this story is some version of ‘well you couldn’t expect me to be able to afford to buy the house I currently own’ and yes that is the point welcome to the housing crisis.
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Somehow found myself on the Simple English Wikipedia entry for Tchaikovsky's first piano concerto, and more program notes should be like this tbh
November 27, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Somehow found myself on the Simple English Wikipedia entry for Tchaikovsky's first piano concerto, and more program notes should be like this tbh
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Deloitte is at it again.
To write one report with made-up references may be regarded as misfortune. To write two looks like carelessness.
To write one report with made-up references may be regarded as misfortune. To write two looks like carelessness.
"A Canadian government-commissioned Deloitte health care report that cost one province nearly $1.6 million contains potentially AI-generated errors, marking the second country this year to allege the consulting firm’s fact-checking shortcomings."
Deloitte allegedly cited AI-generated research in a million-dollar report for a Canadian provincial government | Fortune
In a healthcare report aimed to address a nurse and doctor shortage, Deloitte cited several fake studies with real researchers’ names attached.
fortune.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Deloitte is at it again.
To write one report with made-up references may be regarded as misfortune. To write two looks like carelessness.
To write one report with made-up references may be regarded as misfortune. To write two looks like carelessness.
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JPMorgan to build new Canary Wharf office tower on.ft.com/4ogdaHf
JPMorgan to build new Canary Wharf office tower
Decision is boost for district and comes as boss Jamie Dimon praises UK chancellor Rachel Reeves
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November 27, 2025 at 8:16 AM
JPMorgan to build new Canary Wharf office tower on.ft.com/4ogdaHf