Visual stories and investigations editor @FT | Formerly @thetimes @guardian @microsoft
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🚨 EXC: Thousands of mosques in China have been altered or destroyed as Beijing’s suppression of Islam spreads to almost every region of the country.
W/ @YuanfenYang @upyorkshire @peterjandringa @evawxiao @inari_ta @maxharlow @leahyjoseph @sunyu1117
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So proud of @khoureld for this week's @FT cover story on Colombian mercenaries in Sudan and the DRC.
Democracy doesn't just die in darkness. It dies in indifference, incompetence, and self-censorship. It isn't only tech billionaires and their minions who are guilty. UN investigators and governments claim to defend human rights in Sudan while acting the opposite.
When Katharine started reporting this, I'd just left a UN body that self-censored its Sudan reporting to protect its own staff's jobs. I felt hopeless.
Then Katharine, facing layoffs, funded this investigation herself. Some people are still relentless about documenting human rights crimes.
Look for the helpers. Look for the doers. And buy the FT this weekend.
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My piece on the Colombian mercenaries - and their paymasters in the Emirates - is out as the cover story of the Financial Times magazine today. It's the culmination of months of interviews and data tracking with @just1nlynch ft.com/content/32592ab6-4385…
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Despite so much ink being spilled about this there's been shockingly few genuinely great infographics on the data center buildout. This piece has a lot, especially this one. The scale is pretty wild
New: This is the inside story of how The Line — the 500-metre-tall, mirror-glass centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream — unravelled.
@alisonkilling spoke to 20+ insiders to reveal how MBS’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance.
ft.com/saudi-neom-line
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The "lightbulb of the 21st century": battery costs are down 50% v. 18 months ago, and 95%+ v. 2010
It's a drastic drop of unimaginable proportions, looking back just 3 years: The BESS revolution is driving the clean energy transformation worldwide
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New: How mega batteries are unlocking an energy revolution ☀️🔋
A global boom in grid-scale storage is solving renewables’ reliability problem and extending the use of clean power.
Latest visual story w/ @nassos_ @sam_learner @inari_ta
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Do you think you have what it takes to be the CEO of a Premier League football club?
This is your chance to show what you would do if you ran Manchester United, Spurs or Liverpool. Play the FT's free game here: on.ft.com/3HsqOIc
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We made a football game ⚽️ ig.ft.com/football-game/ @FT
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The FT has a Football Finance Game! This app is full of people pretending they could handle PSR.
Now prove it! @FT
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We now have a football finance game thanks to @FT
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FREE TO PLAY: ⚽ Can you run a Premier League club?
Step into the boardroom, navigate financial regulations and guide your team to glory in our new game.
👉 ft.com/football-game
Had way too much fun building this with @Dan_Clark5, @nassos_, @JoshTANoble, @chescakirkland and @carolinenevitt. Gorgeous illustrations by Samar Haddad 🎨
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You can read why we decided to turn Premier League finances into a news game — and what it reveals about the challenges clubs face today — here:
ft.com/content/c4e6e640-8220…
Exclusive: Saudi Arabia is struggling to deliver its desert-defying ski resort for the 2029 Asian Winter Games and has held internal discussions about finding alternative countries to host the event.
By @alisonkilling, @cornishft, @ahmed, @leahyjoseph
👉 on.ft.com/47DBZbm
New: Inside the relentless race for AI capacity.
The quest for superintelligence is spurring a data centre boom, but critics question the environmental impact, soaring costs and whether it’s all needed...
Latest visual story 👉 ig.ft.com/ai-data-centres/
New: The US guns turning Haiti’s gangs into an army
Caches of weapons — including sniper and military-style rifles — are being smuggled from Florida, enabling militias to challenge Haiti’s fragile government. The UN says gangs now outgun the police.
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NEW: Even before Donald Trump began his mass deportation plans, the US had the world's largest immigration detention system - 85% run privately.
Record numbers are now being held and detainees, lawyers and relatives have spoken of poor conditions.
🔗 ig.ft.com/us-immigration-det…
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NEW: Inside Gaza’s ‘death traps’ via @FT
GHF’s plan forces hungry Palestinians to trek miles to aid sites, often through the IDF’s active military areas. Hundreds have been killed and thousands injured. This is how… on.ft.com/40S6LsR
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Always a pleasure working with this super-talented team. This time we look at whether Europe is prepared for war.
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