HeyJaredLionel Barber
Informed commentary on media and politics in an upside-down age, from the former editor of the Financial Times (2005–2020).
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All the wrong moves (opens the original)
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Note to readers; The Mooch would like to make clear he has no plans to run for president At best, it would be divorce; at worst castration See below for why For Anthony Scaramucci, life in the first Trump administration was nasty, brutal and mercifully short.The man known affectionately as “The Mooch” lasted barely 11 days as White House communications director. His big mouth brought him down but his bigger mistake was to assume that what he had to say actually mattered.“I bombed so cataclysmica
Burnham’s New York date (opens the original)
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Late breaking news: One the eve of his speed-date with Donald Trump, Andy Burnham has announced the RAF will be providing air-to-air refueling for Saudi fighter jets to help defend oil installations against attacks by Iran-backed Houthi rebels. It’s a modest, but useful reminder to Trump that the UK is not just a bit player in the Iran war. Indeed, giv… Read more
Carney is the new leader of the old west (opens the original)
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Mark Carney today called for a new alliance between Canada and the European Union as a beacon to other democracies under threat from the geopolitical rupture of the post-world war II liberal order.This was a bold speech to the European Parliament which built on Carney’s ground-breaking address at Davos earlier this year where he warned: “If we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu”.Apart from a miscue on Goethe, which I will come to, the Canadian prime minister s
Farage and the Daily Telegraph (opens the original)
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If you are a reporter, as I was for many years, there’s almost nothing worse than being beaten on a story. The humiliation of being called, well after midnight in Brussels, and asked by the Financial Times foreign desk to follow up a Boris Johnson “scoop” in the Daily Telegraph remains acute; even 34 years on.But there is, in fact, something infinitely more painful, more professionally frustrating for reporters and editors alike. This when you are the victim of a “spoiler”, when the subject of a
Rubio the tortoise beats Bessent the hare (opens the original)
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President Donald Trump pointed a fat finger at the painting in the Roosevelt Room next to the Oval Office.“Do you know who that is?””Yes, Mr President,” I replied, “that’s Teddy Roosevelt”Then, I added, cheekily: “You know what they said about TR, Mr President? He spoke very softly but he carried a BIG stick.”The exchange took place in May 2017, early on in Trump’s first term at the end of a nothing-burger interview in the Oval Office in which Trump had drunk Diet Coke, denied he had a problem w
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