Susan Owens
@susanowens.bsky.social
Writer | Reporter | Former correspondent London 🇬🇧Paris 🇫🇷 I follow people with full names. 🔹 Book in the works - modernist architect Roy Simpson (1914-1997) Profile illustration: Thierry Perez
You don’t need a #Dell for Christmas 🎄
Michael and Susan Dell donate $6.25bn to encourage families to claim ‘Trump Accounts’
Billionaires aim to provide incentive for families to claim new investment accounts for children created as part of Trump legislation
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:28 PM
You don’t need a #Dell for Christmas 🎄
New AI-generated ad campaign for Valentino’s DeVain clutch bag - is ‘inspired’ by 16th century art. Good thing dead artists don’t sue.
November 24, 2025 at 4:18 AM
New AI-generated ad campaign for Valentino’s DeVain clutch bag - is ‘inspired’ by 16th century art. Good thing dead artists don’t sue.
France: More than 80 MPs are calling for "a ban on Shein in French territory" to "protect workers, public health and the planet", in a text published in La Tribune Dimanche.
🇫🇷 France : plus de 80 députés réclament "l'interdiction de Shein sur le territoire français" pour "protéger les travailleurs, la santé publique et la planète", dans un texte publié dans La Tribune Dimanche.
November 23, 2025 at 12:25 PM
France: More than 80 MPs are calling for "a ban on Shein in French territory" to "protect workers, public health and the planet", in a text published in La Tribune Dimanche.
Tina Brown on:
Zuckerberg; “Meta’s slippery salamander”
Prince Harry; “the ginger whinger”
Lauren Sanchez; “proof landing the 4th riches man in the world requires the permanent display of breasts like genetically modified grapefruit”
Listen to Brown whose observations are in a class of their own
Zuckerberg; “Meta’s slippery salamander”
Prince Harry; “the ginger whinger”
Lauren Sanchez; “proof landing the 4th riches man in the world requires the permanent display of breasts like genetically modified grapefruit”
Listen to Brown whose observations are in a class of their own
The Daily
Daily News Podcast · Updated Daily · This is what the news should sound like. The biggest stories of our time, told by the best journalists in the world. Hosted by Michael Barbaro, Rachel Abrams and N...
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November 16, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Tina Brown on:
Zuckerberg; “Meta’s slippery salamander”
Prince Harry; “the ginger whinger”
Lauren Sanchez; “proof landing the 4th riches man in the world requires the permanent display of breasts like genetically modified grapefruit”
Listen to Brown whose observations are in a class of their own
Zuckerberg; “Meta’s slippery salamander”
Prince Harry; “the ginger whinger”
Lauren Sanchez; “proof landing the 4th riches man in the world requires the permanent display of breasts like genetically modified grapefruit”
Listen to Brown whose observations are in a class of their own
Who knew…your 🇮🇹 ‘Italian’ tomato paste may have its origins in 🇨🇳 China, the fruit routinely harvested by Uyghur people in the Xinjiang region.
Via @ftweekend.com #paywall
Via @ftweekend.com #paywall
China left with tomato paste mountain as sales to Italy collapse
Dramatic slump in imports this year hailed by champion of Italian ingredients as an ‘important victory’
on.ft.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Who knew…your 🇮🇹 ‘Italian’ tomato paste may have its origins in 🇨🇳 China, the fruit routinely harvested by Uyghur people in the Xinjiang region.
Via @ftweekend.com #paywall
Via @ftweekend.com #paywall
… @nytimes.com offers up a poem as an anti-dote to doomscrolling. Someone tell them there’s good news to report…
This Poem About Monet’s “Water Lilies” Reflects on the Powers and Limits of Art
“Monet’s ‘Waterlilies,’” by Robert Hayden, reflects on what art can (and can’t) do in tumultuous times. Our critic A.O. Scott shows you why he loves it.
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
… @nytimes.com offers up a poem as an anti-dote to doomscrolling. Someone tell them there’s good news to report…
One for all, all for one. Billionaires aside. Illustration by Edel Rodriguez. @newyorker.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:27 AM
One for all, all for one. Billionaires aside. Illustration by Edel Rodriguez. @newyorker.com
Efforts by Chinese fast fashion retailer #Shein to open in-store across France are met with a giant dose of French froideur. Staff at BHV Paris strike, while French brands pull out of the fabled dept store. French retail revolution 🇫🇷
Outrage in Paris as Shein prepares to open its first permanent store
Fast-fashion retailer faces political anger, fury from workers and warnings it will damage city’s progressive image
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Efforts by Chinese fast fashion retailer #Shein to open in-store across France are met with a giant dose of French froideur. Staff at BHV Paris strike, while French brands pull out of the fabled dept store. French retail revolution 🇫🇷
Australia’s social media ban shows the way writes Rohan Silva in The Times UK. #paywall
Australia’s social media ban shows the way
Barring under-16s from TikTok et al is hugely popular — Keir Starmer should be taking notes
www.thetimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Australia’s social media ban shows the way writes Rohan Silva in The Times UK. #paywall
1500+ lobbyists in Canberra act - not for you - but corporate interests. If you care for transparency in Fed government sign up. 👇🏻
Let the light in.💡 #auspol
cleanuppoliticsact.com.au
Let the light in.💡 #auspol
cleanuppoliticsact.com.au
November 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM
1500+ lobbyists in Canberra act - not for you - but corporate interests. If you care for transparency in Fed government sign up. 👇🏻
Let the light in.💡 #auspol
cleanuppoliticsact.com.au
Let the light in.💡 #auspol
cleanuppoliticsact.com.au
You can’t choose your parents #Mountbatten-Windsor
October 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
You can’t choose your parents #Mountbatten-Windsor
If you love Melbourne you know the heartbeat is the top end of Bourke Street (Hill of Content- books; best shirtmaker - Charles Edward, plus fashion in Blonde Venus plus Florentino) …so here’s a film celebrating the legend at the heart of it all. Yay Pellegrini’s. Love you forever.
October 28, 2025 at 10:39 AM
If you love Melbourne you know the heartbeat is the top end of Bourke Street (Hill of Content- books; best shirtmaker - Charles Edward, plus fashion in Blonde Venus plus Florentino) …so here’s a film celebrating the legend at the heart of it all. Yay Pellegrini’s. Love you forever.
Cool! Bill Nighy #podcast …how sweet it is as Nighy embraces your questions on manners sartorial and all else you may pitch him. (PS Bill, add Blue Sky, 🦋over Insta 😉)
ill-advised by Bill Nighy
Arts Podcast · Updated Weekly · A podcast for people who don’t get out much and can’t handle it when they do.
A refuge for the clumsy and the awkward.
Join Bill Nighy to squander some time as he attem...
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October 21, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Cool! Bill Nighy #podcast …how sweet it is as Nighy embraces your questions on manners sartorial and all else you may pitch him. (PS Bill, add Blue Sky, 🦋over Insta 😉)
Built by King Philip II Augustus in the 12th century as a defensive fortress to protect Paris from invasion…#Louvre
October 20, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Built by King Philip II Augustus in the 12th century as a defensive fortress to protect Paris from invasion…#Louvre
Congrats 👏🏻👏🏻Getty @gettyimages.com #crocodilesmile
October 14, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Congrats 👏🏻👏🏻Getty @gettyimages.com #crocodilesmile
Paddy Manning, @paddymanning.bsky.social author of ‘The Successor’ (Lachlan…) illuminating on Media Confidential #podcast #Murdoch media future with @arusbridger.bsky.social @lionelbarber.bsky.social
The Successor: Who is Lachlan Murdoch?
Podcast Episode · Media Confidential · 06/10/2025 · 41m
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October 7, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Paddy Manning, @paddymanning.bsky.social author of ‘The Successor’ (Lachlan…) illuminating on Media Confidential #podcast #Murdoch media future with @arusbridger.bsky.social @lionelbarber.bsky.social
Cold shoulder from French fashion hierarchy reacting to China’s #Shein announcing plans to “revitalize city centers across France”. Yann Rivoallan says department store BHV; “is associating itself with the devil".
Ouch.
Since 2023 Shein sales are second only to #1, Zara.
Ouch.
Since 2023 Shein sales are second only to #1, Zara.
Yann Rivoallan (Fédération française du prêt-à-porter féminin) réagit après l’annonce de l’implantation de Shein dans des grands magasins en France : «Le BHV s’associe avec le diable»
Shein s’installe dans des grands magasins en France : «Le BHV s’associe avec le diable»
Yann Rivoallan, le président de la Fédération française du prêt-à-porter féminin, réagit après l’annonce de l’implantation du géant chinois de l’ultra-fast fashion dans les Galeries Lafayette et au BHV Marais. Il dénonce une concurrence dél
www.liberation.fr
October 2, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Cold shoulder from French fashion hierarchy reacting to China’s #Shein announcing plans to “revitalize city centers across France”. Yann Rivoallan says department store BHV; “is associating itself with the devil".
Ouch.
Since 2023 Shein sales are second only to #1, Zara.
Ouch.
Since 2023 Shein sales are second only to #1, Zara.
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Tech investor James Anderson, who runs the Agnelli family-backed Lingotto Investment, in the @financialtimes.com
Tech investor James Anderson, who runs the Agnelli family-backed Lingotto Investment, in the @financialtimes.com
October 1, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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Tech investor James Anderson, who runs the Agnelli family-backed Lingotto Investment, in the @financialtimes.com
Tech investor James Anderson, who runs the Agnelli family-backed Lingotto Investment, in the @financialtimes.com
Chanel opted to ban crocodile in 2018. Hermès, however, continues to invest in croc, with its secretive Northern Territory Lambells Lagoon Crocodile farm to grow 50,000 animals. The farm’s toxic waste is showing E-coli levels above prescribed safety limits, threatening nearby farmland #luxe
Major Australian croc farm irrigating with water high in E. coli
One of Australia's largest crocodile farms, owned by a subsidiary of luxury label Hermès, is consistently irrigating with water containing E. coli concentrations almost 500 times the national guidelin...
www.abc.net.au
September 25, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Chanel opted to ban crocodile in 2018. Hermès, however, continues to invest in croc, with its secretive Northern Territory Lambells Lagoon Crocodile farm to grow 50,000 animals. The farm’s toxic waste is showing E-coli levels above prescribed safety limits, threatening nearby farmland #luxe
Cute, from Bernard Arnault who sought Belgian citizenship in 2012, to avoid tax. He later withdrew his application…#LVMH
French entrepreneurs decry ‘communist’ wealth tax proposal
Tech start-ups and business leaders outraged by Socialist demands to impose levy on super-rich
on.ft.com
September 22, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Cute, from Bernard Arnault who sought Belgian citizenship in 2012, to avoid tax. He later withdrew his application…#LVMH
“An incredibly syrupy set of messages from Peter #Mandelson, 10 pages with photographs of Mandelson in his swimming trunks looking longingly out of a window apparently waiting for his beloved Jeffrey to parachute into his life…” - Stephen Sackur & the mooch on #podcast @restispoliticsus.bsky.social
Trump’s Big Secret: Inside Epstein’s Birthday Book
Podcast Episode · The Rest Is Politics: US · 10/09/2025 · 41m
podcasts.apple.com
September 11, 2025 at 10:33 AM
“An incredibly syrupy set of messages from Peter #Mandelson, 10 pages with photographs of Mandelson in his swimming trunks looking longingly out of a window apparently waiting for his beloved Jeffrey to parachute into his life…” - Stephen Sackur & the mooch on #podcast @restispoliticsus.bsky.social
Mandelson’s high praise for convicted sexual abuser and felon. Precedes Trump’s state visit to UK at invitation of #King Charles III, whose brother is on #Epstein list via @patrickwintour.bsky.social
Peter Mandelson lauds Trump as ‘risk-taker’ in call for US-UK tech alliance
British ambassador to Washington says US president has sounded ‘wake-up call to the international old guard’
www.theguardian.com
September 7, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Mandelson’s high praise for convicted sexual abuser and felon. Precedes Trump’s state visit to UK at invitation of #King Charles III, whose brother is on #Epstein list via @patrickwintour.bsky.social
Good luck with that one Rolex👇🏻
More news breaking at Bounces about Donald Trump's visit to the US Open men's final.
The US Open has sent an email to broadcasters, obtained by Bounces, ordering them to censor any reactions or protests from the crowd to Trump's appearance.
Read more here:
www.benrothenberg.com/p/us-open-do...
The US Open has sent an email to broadcasters, obtained by Bounces, ordering them to censor any reactions or protests from the crowd to Trump's appearance.
Read more here:
www.benrothenberg.com/p/us-open-do...
U.S. Open Orders Broadcasters to Censor Reactions to Trump
An email obtained by Bounces includes instructions from the U.S. Open on supporting Trump's planned stagecraft during the National Anthem.
www.benrothenberg.com
September 7, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Good luck with that one Rolex👇🏻
Horse racing world wide is on the nose. So why has Fox, owned by the Murdoch family (Lachlan CEO) decided the sport is under appreciated and boosted US broadcasts?
Fox has taken a 25% stake in the online betting platform NYRA Bets allowing it to tap the $150 billion US sports betting market.
Fox has taken a 25% stake in the online betting platform NYRA Bets allowing it to tap the $150 billion US sports betting market.
What Has 4 Hooves and More Viewers Than Hockey? Fox Sports’ Next Gamble.
www.nytimes.com
August 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Horse racing world wide is on the nose. So why has Fox, owned by the Murdoch family (Lachlan CEO) decided the sport is under appreciated and boosted US broadcasts?
Fox has taken a 25% stake in the online betting platform NYRA Bets allowing it to tap the $150 billion US sports betting market.
Fox has taken a 25% stake in the online betting platform NYRA Bets allowing it to tap the $150 billion US sports betting market.