Tom Brown
@twbrown.bsky.social
It began in Balham, Gateway to the South
Brazil offers lesson in winning the ‘Taco’ trade - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
Brazil offers lesson in winning the ‘Taco’ trade
Global politicians need to understand that White House policy is driven by melodrama and instinct
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December 8, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Brazil offers lesson in winning the ‘Taco’ trade - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
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“Farage and others had marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night shouting Hitler Youth songs”.
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‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations
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November 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM
“Farage and others had marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night shouting Hitler Youth songs”.
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It's one part of the nationalist/Putin fanboy Brexitland that England has become that it's easier to imagine English politicians agreeing to a 'military Schengen' than a Schengen for human beings - on.ft.com/49Zjxew via @FT
The surreal 45-day trek at the heart of Nato’s defence
Europe wrestles with crumbling bridges, narrow tunnels and red tape as it plans how to move an army eastward
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November 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
It's one part of the nationalist/Putin fanboy Brexitland that England has become that it's easier to imagine English politicians agreeing to a 'military Schengen' than a Schengen for human beings - on.ft.com/49Zjxew via @FT
How Meta profits hugely from scams - We have to be able to hold tech platforms accountable for fraud - on.ft.com/43AXiaS via @FT
We have to be able to hold tech platforms accountable for fraud
Algorithms ensure that people who click on scams are likely to see more of them
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November 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
How Meta profits hugely from scams - We have to be able to hold tech platforms accountable for fraud - on.ft.com/43AXiaS via @FT
Scottish kilts set to enter the bond market - on.ft.com/4p0v6qe via @FT
Scottish kilts set to enter the bond market
Scotland handed same credit rating as UK ahead of debut ‘kilts’ sale
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November 13, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Scottish kilts set to enter the bond market - on.ft.com/4p0v6qe via @FT
BBC News - Firefighter rescues children on fourth day in job
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London firefighter rescues three children on fourth day in job
Zekel Johnson rescues three children from a second-floor window on his first week in the job.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
BBC News - Firefighter rescues children on fourth day in job
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The headline sounds almost surreal today...centrists? Shock victory? What? Are they sure? BBC News - Dutch centrist liberals under Jetten head for shock election win, exit poll says - BBC News
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Dutch centrist liberals under Jetten head for shock election win, exit poll says
Rob Jetten's D66 party celebrates, two years after his party languished in fifth place in the last vote.
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October 29, 2025 at 10:21 PM
The headline sounds almost surreal today...centrists? Shock victory? What? Are they sure? BBC News - Dutch centrist liberals under Jetten head for shock election win, exit poll says - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Johnny Carson by Philippe Halsman, 1966
"I hear that whenever someone in the White House tells a lie, Nixon gets a royalty."
#HeresJohnny100
"I hear that whenever someone in the White House tells a lie, Nixon gets a royalty."
#HeresJohnny100
October 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Johnny Carson by Philippe Halsman, 1966
"I hear that whenever someone in the White House tells a lie, Nixon gets a royalty."
#HeresJohnny100
"I hear that whenever someone in the White House tells a lie, Nixon gets a royalty."
#HeresJohnny100
Don't cry for him, Argentina: Investors bet on Argentine peso devaluation after weekend elections - on.ft.com/4oxZfwO via @FT
Investors bet on Argentine peso devaluation after weekend elections
Forward contracts indicate a 12% decline for currency despite $40bn US support package
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October 22, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Don't cry for him, Argentina: Investors bet on Argentine peso devaluation after weekend elections - on.ft.com/4oxZfwO via @FT
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No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.
Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.
Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.
That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.
Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.
That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.
October 8, 2025 at 11:15 AM
No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.
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Princess Anne visited Kyiv to support children and war veterans. She met President Zelenskyy to discuss UK aid and toured the Children’s Memorial and Child Rights Protection Center, which helps youth affected by the war.
October 1, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Princess Anne visited Kyiv to support children and war veterans. She met President Zelenskyy to discuss UK aid and toured the Children’s Memorial and Child Rights Protection Center, which helps youth affected by the war.
Euro’s rally has further to run, Wall Street banks predict - on.ft.com/4nrmubP via @FT
Euro’s rally has further to run, Wall Street banks predict
Hedging against the US dollar will soon drive the single currency through $1.20, analysts say
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September 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Euro’s rally has further to run, Wall Street banks predict - on.ft.com/4nrmubP via @FT
If he wants it, I think Sadiq Khan has just been reelected London Mayor by an even bigger majority thanks to some free promotion at the UN in New York today..
September 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
If he wants it, I think Sadiq Khan has just been reelected London Mayor by an even bigger majority thanks to some free promotion at the UN in New York today..
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Keir Starmer’s spokesperson asked for the PM's response to Nigel Farage’s plan to deport hundreds of thousands of people living and working completely legally in the UK, replies that he thinks it is “unworkable” and “unfunded”.
So his objection is that they’ve got their sums wrong
So his objection is that they’ve got their sums wrong
September 22, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Keir Starmer’s spokesperson asked for the PM's response to Nigel Farage’s plan to deport hundreds of thousands of people living and working completely legally in the UK, replies that he thinks it is “unworkable” and “unfunded”.
So his objection is that they’ve got their sums wrong
So his objection is that they’ve got their sums wrong
If you're dumb enough to put your life savings into 'crypto assets' (sic)... - on.ft.com/4mkOvjL via @FT
Your phone gets stolen. Your crypto may be next
London is seeing a spike in crypto robberies — and it is the gold mine of information on our mobiles that makes it possible
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September 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
If you're dumb enough to put your life savings into 'crypto assets' (sic)... - on.ft.com/4mkOvjL via @FT
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The Society is saddened to hear of the death of Sir Nicholas Grimshaw (1939-2025). An inspirational architect and always a gentlemen, his buildings are beautiful, original and inventive solutions to elegantly analysed briefs. We can think of no finer tribute than listing his Waterloo Int. Terminal.
September 16, 2025 at 10:26 AM
The Society is saddened to hear of the death of Sir Nicholas Grimshaw (1939-2025). An inspirational architect and always a gentlemen, his buildings are beautiful, original and inventive solutions to elegantly analysed briefs. We can think of no finer tribute than listing his Waterloo Int. Terminal.
Starmer and Badenoch are handling the far-right march all wrong - on.ft.com/42gM9eT via @FT
Starmer and Badenoch are handling the far-right march all wrong
A look back to the days of Enoch Powell suggests a better model
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September 15, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Starmer and Badenoch are handling the far-right march all wrong - on.ft.com/42gM9eT via @FT
If calling for violence to overthrow a lawfully elected government is considered terrorist speech, why doesn't the new UK Home Secretary designate Elon Musk and his companies terrorist organisations?
September 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
If calling for violence to overthrow a lawfully elected government is considered terrorist speech, why doesn't the new UK Home Secretary designate Elon Musk and his companies terrorist organisations?
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Starmer as it happens hasn't made a public speech outside chamber since mid-July. Hard to think of a PM who has made so little use of the normative power of his office. Unlike eg Cameron who really did think No 10 had the capacity and obligation to attempt to frame debate on all manner of issues
When Ted Heath sacked Enoch Powell he was acting in the face of a majority in favour. Harold Wilson backed him up and called the speech “evil”. Long past time for Keir and Kemi to do the same.
September 13, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Starmer as it happens hasn't made a public speech outside chamber since mid-July. Hard to think of a PM who has made so little use of the normative power of his office. Unlike eg Cameron who really did think No 10 had the capacity and obligation to attempt to frame debate on all manner of issues
So Nadine Dorries, author of the Online Safety Act, leaves the Tories for the Reform Party just as its Dictator declares to the US Congress that its effect on free speech makes England like North Korea? And thus she was always known as Mad Nad..
September 4, 2025 at 9:05 PM
So Nadine Dorries, author of the Online Safety Act, leaves the Tories for the Reform Party just as its Dictator declares to the US Congress that its effect on free speech makes England like North Korea? And thus she was always known as Mad Nad..
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Scientists have studied mRNA for decades. The vaccine has proven to be safe & effective-saving millions of lives. Researchers are working on mRNA vaccine for HIV.
RFK Jr is an ignorant nut.
In 2019 he visited Samoa & told ppl measles vaccine is dangerous. Tragically he was believed. 83 kids died
RFK Jr is an ignorant nut.
In 2019 he visited Samoa & told ppl measles vaccine is dangerous. Tragically he was believed. 83 kids died
August 29, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Scientists have studied mRNA for decades. The vaccine has proven to be safe & effective-saving millions of lives. Researchers are working on mRNA vaccine for HIV.
RFK Jr is an ignorant nut.
In 2019 he visited Samoa & told ppl measles vaccine is dangerous. Tragically he was believed. 83 kids died
RFK Jr is an ignorant nut.
In 2019 he visited Samoa & told ppl measles vaccine is dangerous. Tragically he was believed. 83 kids died