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How the mafia got to our food | Financial Times
ft.com - Hannah Roberts
Giuseppe Antoci had been warned more than once. “You will end with your throat cut,” read one note, composed entirely of individual letters clipped …
Fake News
Meeting Kosovo's clickbait merchants
bbc.co.uk - By Carl Miller
Two weeks ago, I was sitting in a dark bar in a small town an hour's drive from Kosovo's capital, Pristina. In front of me, a man was nervously hunched over, his face turned away from the camera. He was
Hyde Park
What Britain forgets about remembrance | Financial Times
ft.com - Neil MacGregor
As visitors enter the historic centre of Munich from the north, they are greeted by a triumphal arch. For any European it is a familiar sight. Based …
Jigsaw Puzzles
Messy desks and benign neglect allow new ideas to grow | Financial Times
ft.com - Tim Harford
My daughter is about to receive a new desk, so in order to clear space for it we were obliged to hack our way through the undergrowth of a …
World News
Mid-terms 2018: When voting goes wrong
bbc.co.uk
After celebration of historic wins by diverse candidates, the other big online trend for the US mid-term election was claims of massive and deliberate vote suppression. Reddit's top post was an unverified
A forgotten soldier on a forgotten front
bbc.co.uk
By Allan Little Sgt Sandes, an infantry soldier in the Serbian Army, lay semi-conscious on the snowy hillside after taking the full blast of a Bulgarian grenade, and would later recall being wrapped up
North Sea
'Peace made' over Grimsby WW1 Zeppelin crash deaths
bbc.co.uk
The great-grandson of a trawler captain who left 16 Germans to die on a crashed Zeppelin in 1916 has met a relative of one of those who perished. Pat Thompson wanted to meet Emile Specht, whose uncle drowned
Crash, Crisis, Crypto: a short history of investment banking
irishtimes.com
Short story by Aifric Campbell marking the 10th anniversary of the Lehman Brothers collapse
China
China's hidden camps
bbc.co.uk
What's happened to the vanished Uighurs of Xinjiang? By John Sudworth China is accused of locking up hundreds of thousands of Muslims without trial in its western region of Xinjiang. The government denies
UK readies flotilla plan for supplies in no-deal Brexit | Financial Times
ft.com - George Parker
Britain is drawing up plans to charter ships to bring in food and medicines in the event of a “no-deal” Brexit next March, in a move greeted with …
UK Economy
Brexit threatens international scientists in the UK like me | Financial Times
ft.com - Deborah Caswell
Science is my passion. Most weeks I spend more time in the laboratory than anywhere else, and at weekends I am either feverishly working on data …
Gun Control
US mid-term elections: The Republican who changed his mind over guns
bbc.co.uk - Anthony Zurcher
Not long ago Republican Phil Scott was one of the most popular governors in America, poised for a comfortable re-election in November. Then, after a possible school shooting was discovered by police in
Jony Ive
Jony Ive on the Apple Watch and Big Tech’s responsibilities | Financial Times
ft.com - Nicholas Foulkes
It is one of those October days that thinks it is still early September, so I choose an outside table at London’s River Café with a view of …
Middlesex
We need to have a very serious chat about Pepper's pointless parliamentary pantomime
Wired UK - Gian Volpicelli
The Commons’ Education Select Committee thought it would be nice to have a robot give evidence. What it got was an MP3 player with a face. Pepper the …
Medicine
Should we mourn the death of American cheese? 8 experts weigh in.
Vox - Rachel Sugar
Everyone grieves in their own way. American cheese as we know it is dead, at least according to Bloomberg. The culprit, as always, is millennials. “One by one,” the story reads, “America’s food outlets
U.S. Politics
‘Davos in the Desert,’ a Saudi Prince’s Glittering Showcase, Is Stained by a Grisly Accusation
The New York Times - By MARK LANDLER and KATE KELLY
WASHINGTON — The participants nicknamed it “Davos in the Desert,” which captures the lofty ambitions of the annual investor conference scheduled to convene in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, this month. Initially
Long-form Journalism
The people who moved to Chernobyl
bbc.co.uk
By Zhanna Bezpiatchuk The Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 left a ring of ghost villages as residents fled, fearing radiation poisoning. But now people are choosing to live in the crumbling houses on
Meet Britain’s real Brexit broker | Financial Times
ft.com - Alex Barker
On the night of Britain’s last general election, Olly Robbins was with friends amid the green Chesterfield sofas in the Blue Boar pub, a Westminster …
The king of Pyongyang
bbc.co.uk
By Rupert Wingfield-Hayes The funeral Kim Jong-un with his uncle, Chang Song-thaek, at Kim Jong-il's funeral, December 2011. Two years later Chang would be executed. Tea on the bridge It’s a warm April
The cost of Kavanaugh's victory? The legitimacy of the US supreme court
The Guardian - Andrew Gawthorpe
The court may soon face cases on matters such as whether a sitting president can be charged with obstruction of justice The saga of judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the supreme court is over, and
Uzbekistan
Inside Uzbekistan’s beautiful, rarely-seen metro
National Geographic - Lucia De Stefani
TravelPhoto Gallery After a 40-year photo ban, images finally reveal Tashkent’s symbolic underground. The unexpected gleam of these never-before-seen images of Tashkent’s metro might be a good enough for
How Chefs Have Reinvented the Dishes They Envy Most
Bloomberg
Some dishes are so essential to a country’s cuisine that most diners don’t remember that they were revolutionary to begin with. Nobu Matsuhisa …
Latino News
The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies
Bloomberg
In 2015, Amazon.com Inc. began quietly evaluating a startup called Elemental Technologies, a potential acquisition to help with a major expansion of …
The Tories are in an even worse state than thought
newstatesman.com - By George Eaton
The party is politically and intellectually exhausted - and it doesn’t know what to do about it. The Conservatives have not won a comfortable majority …
Inside Casio’s G-Shock torture chamber | Financial Times
ft.com - Leo Lewis
On the third floor of the Hamura R&D centre, an hour’s drive from central Tokyo, a regiment of Casio’s top designers and engineers devote themselves …
Now they've put someone in charge of stockpiling food, I'm more convinced than ever May's got Brexit under control
independent.co.uk - Mark Steel
It’s all going so well. This week, the government told us they’ve appointed a minister for stockpiling food after Brexit. When you’re arranging …
In Britain, Even Children Are Feeling the Effects of Austerity
The New York Times - By PATRICK KINGSLEY
MORECAMBE, England — It was half past eight, and the school day was just starting at Morecambe Bay Primary, a state-run elementary school in northwest England. Siobhan Collingwood, the head teacher, pointed
Why Comcast wanted Sky so badly
bbc.co.uk - Amol Rajan
It ended with a blowout offer. After years of scrutiny from regulators, bids and counter-bids, the winning offer for majority control of British broadcaster Sky came in above expectations. Comcast's winning
Gene editing wipes out mosquitoes in the lab
bbc.co.uk
Researchers have used gene editing to completely eliminate populations of mosquitoes in the lab. The team tested their technique on the mosquito Anopheles gambiae, which transmits malaria. They altered
The painstaking tricks Bodyguard uses to make its sets ultra-realistic
Wired UK - Matt Burgess
The BBC's Bodyguard went out with a bang last night, as millions of people tuned into the show's finale. Written by Jed Mercurio and created by World …

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How the mafia got to our food | Financial Times

Meeting Kosovo's clickbait merchants

What Britain forgets about remembrance | Financial Times

Messy desks and benign neglect allow new ideas to grow | Financial Times

Mid-terms 2018: When voting goes wrong

A forgotten soldier on a forgotten front

'Peace made' over Grimsby WW1 Zeppelin crash deaths

Crash, Crisis, Crypto: a short history of investment banking

China's hidden camps

UK readies flotilla plan for supplies in no-deal Brexit | Financial Times

Brexit threatens international scientists in the UK like me | Financial Times

US mid-term elections: The Republican who changed his mind over guns

Jony Ive on the Apple Watch and Big Tech’s responsibilities | Financial Times

We need to have a very serious chat about Pepper's pointless parliamentary pantomime

Should we mourn the death of American cheese? 8 experts weigh in.

‘Davos in the Desert,’ a Saudi Prince’s Glittering Showcase, Is Stained by a Grisly Accusation

The people who moved to Chernobyl

Meet Britain’s real Brexit broker | Financial Times

The king of Pyongyang

The cost of Kavanaugh's victory? The legitimacy of the US supreme court

Inside Uzbekistan’s beautiful, rarely-seen metro

How Chefs Have Reinvented the Dishes They Envy Most

The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies

The Tories are in an even worse state than thought

Inside Casio’s G-Shock torture chamber | Financial Times

Now they've put someone in charge of stockpiling food, I'm more convinced than ever May's got Brexit under control

In Britain, Even Children Are Feeling the Effects of Austerity

Why Comcast wanted Sky so badly

Gene editing wipes out mosquitoes in the lab

The painstaking tricks Bodyguard uses to make its sets ultra-realistic