Jonathan Derbyshire
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Jonathan Derbyshire
@Jderbyshire
US opinion editor @FT
- I think it’s fair to say that privatisation of the water companies hasn’t worked on.ft.com/3Hg4ITs
- Boris Johnson has been dismissed in the German press as a 'spätimperialistischer Oxfordschnösel' (late imperialist Oxford snotty-nosed brat)
- In 1956, the French government banned the serving of wine in school canteens
- That photograph of Houellebecq and Depardieu in bathrobes you’ve been searching fo
- Delighted to welcome @adam_tooze to the @FinancialTimes as a contributing editor. Here he is on the polycrisis
- “If the government had really wanted to improve the quality of jobs in the food and transport sectors, it could have done so regardless of Brexit.” Superb column by @sarahoconnor_ on.ft.com/3kLWVUK
- This from @zeithistoriker in @nybooks is the most persuasive account I’ve yet seen of the ideological forces at work inside the second Trump administration
- This account of the maevolence and incompetence of Trump's executive order is devastating lawfareblog.com/malevolence-te…
- If you thought Article 50 was bad, wait until you see what negotiating with the EU after a no-deal Brexit is like. Excellent from @CSBarnard24
- Martin Wolf: Britain’s game of Brexit chicken will end badly
