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Henry Mance
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Chief features writer, Financial Times. https://www.ft.com/henry-mance
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 15d
I sat down with perhaps the most level-headed man in rock music, Jon Bon Jovi, to talk about Trump, tennis and his return to touring after an atrophying vocal chord put his career at risk.

this week's Lunch with the FT: www.ft.com/content/25f2...
Jon Bon Jovi: ‘Fame is a liar and a thief’
The rock legend on making peace with the critics, the business of running a band — and his history with Donald Trump
www.ft.com
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ihavethatonvinyl.com
here's something i never thought i'd say:

hell. yeah, bon jovi
November 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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A lot of the anti-BBC commentary this week has omitted to mention that:
a) Trump himself lost a defamation suit (against E. Jean Carroll)
b) Trump was fined in 2023 for bringing a frivolous claim against his political enemies on.ft.com/3XA1qnW
November 15, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Why is it so hard to run the BBC? Is impartiality possible? Is it even what polarised viewers even want?

An essay for the Weekend FT: www.ft.com/content/7124...
November 15, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Telegraph sale to RedBird collapses www.ft.com/content/c48e...
Telegraph sale to RedBird collapses
US private equity group walked away due to regulatory uncertainty and negative commentary from newspaper
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November 14, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Of all the British traditions I think the one I love most is that every couple of years we physically torture a Radio 2 DJ in order to raise funds for children in need. www.bbc.co.uk/live/cy7exkn...
Live Updates - Follow Sara Cox's Great Northern Marathon Challenge for Radio 2 in aid of Children in Need
Can BBC Radio 2's Sara Cox get Pudsey Bear to Pudsey in Yorkshire - on foot - by this afternoon, while raising money for Children in Need?
www.bbc.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 AM
henrymance.ft.com
So what was the point of that weird Rachel Reeves speech last week? Or did the reaction to the speech prove that the government didn't have the political skill to break the manifesto pledge? www.ft.com/content/6cbb...
Starmer and Reeves drop proposal to increase income tax rates in the Budget
U-turn on measures to raise revenue to fill fiscal hole sparks sell-off in gilt market
www.ft.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
henrymance.ft.com
congratulations to Microsoft on inventing something more annoying than Clippy
November 13, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Reversing radical ideas championed by Daniel Hannan, you say?
dannyshaw.bsky.social Danny Shaw @dannyshaw.bsky.social · 2d
BREAKING Home Office is about to announce that police and crime commissioners are to be scrapped..
Established in 2012 by Theresa May, Labour has never been a fan of the PCC system…they’ll be replaced in 2028 by policing mayors & local policing boards ..
November 13, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
Whoaaaaaaaaa
oversightdemocrats.house.gov Oversight Dems @oversightdemocrats.house.gov · 3d
🚨BREAKING: Oversight Dems have received new emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate that raise serious questions about Donald Trump and his knowledge of Epstein’s horrific crimes.

Read them for yourself. It’s time to end this cover-up and RELEASE THE FILES.
November 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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if Keir Starmer could talk on the radio like Wes Streeting, his aides wouldn't need to brief against Wes Streeting
November 12, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
when you wear a size 9.5 shoe but the 8.5 was on sale
November 11, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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sambiddle.com
I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here
November 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
henrymance.ft.com
I stayed in a converted underground toilet in Oxford - and you can too!

(if you pay approximately £200) on.ft.com/3XllOZU
The Netty: Oxford’s new micro-hotel — in a former public toilet
[FREE TO READ] Key Notes | Hidden down a flight of steps on a traffic island, two underground suites offer only a ‘few subtle nods’ to the past
on.ft.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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November 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Donald Trump's threat of legal action could really damage the BBC's hopes of gaining federal approval for expanding its US cable business.
November 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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caller to Radio 5 Live:

"The CEO and the head of news are describing this as a mistake. A mistake? I once put petrol in my diesel car years ago. That was a mistake."
November 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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penny for Tim Davie's thoughts
November 10, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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I do like how, in the bit of Prescott's memo where he criticises the BBC for editing together different parts of Trump's speech, his own quote of "what Trump actually said" is... edited together from different parts of his speech.
Two paragraphs from Michael Prescott's BBC memo: In reality, the first part of Trump’s speech: “We’re gonna walk down to the Capitol and I’ll be with you,” came 15 minutes into the speech. The second half of the sentence that was aired by Panorama, “and we fight. We fight like hell....” came 54 minutes later. Fifteen minutes into the speech, what Trump actually said: “We are gonna walk down to the Capitol and I’ll be with you. I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.” It was completely misleading to edit the clip in the way Panorama aired it. The fact that he did not explicitly exhort supporters to go down and fight at Capitol Hill was one of the reasons there were no federal charges for incitement to riot. Four paragraphs from NPR's transcript of Trump's January 6th speech: Now, it is up to Congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. And after this, we're going to walk down, and I'll be there with you, we're going to walk down, we're going to walk down. Anyone you want, but I think right here, we're going to walk down to the Capitol, and we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we're probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them. Because you'll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength and you have to be strong. We have come to demand that Congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated, lawfully slated. I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.
November 10, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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“The Media Is Complicit in the Climate Confusion: The vast majority of people want their governments to take climate action—but most wrongly think they’re in the minority. The media is partly to blame.”

Via @amywestervelt.bsky.social in @thenation.com
The Media Is Complicit in the Climate Confusion
The vast majority of people want their governments to take climate action—but most wrongly think they’re in the minority. The media is partly to blame.
www.thenation.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
henrymance.ft.com
"They're looking for someone with a thick skin and recent experience of flagship BBC news programming."
November 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Heart-warming story of the day on.ft.com/47Kk7dz
How this 31-year-old made $250mn in 30 months
[FREE TO READ] Christopher Eppinger kept trading Russian oil when sanctions meant others stopped
on.ft.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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I feel like I could live with the brass neck - it is the seemingly successful way that he and others have brainwashed themselves into thinking “our crumbling justice system” has an explanation beyond “we didn’t spend enough money on it” that I can’t stand.
sturdyalex.bsky.social Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 8d
The brass neck is pretty incredible.
'Tip of the iceberg': Jenrick says answers needed on accidental releases published at 13:08 13:08 Shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick says "Cherif is just the tip of the iceberg". Reacting to Brahim Kaddour-Cherif's arrest, he says: "David Lammy won’t say how many prisoners have been mistakenly released this year or how many of the 262 accidentally released last year are still at large. "We need answers and immediate action - because the British people are being put at risk.”
November 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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next time probably quickest if we look for escaped prisoners in Finsbury Park first?
November 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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The world's biggest meatpacker, JBS, claimed in its adverts: "Bacon, chicken wings and steak with net-zero emissions. It’s possible."

But it never seemed to have a plan to make this happen. So now it's paying $1.1 million to settle a false advertising case
newrepublic.com/article/2028...
The Meat Advertising Case That Should Be Talked About at COP30
JBS’s false advertising settlement comes as Big Ag prepares to spread propaganda at the U.N. climate conference.
newrepublic.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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“Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg" by Rei Takver for @desmog.com:

www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg
Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.
www.desmog.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:35 PM