I’ve never understood this stuff.

Ain’t even a food snob thing. Like most things I’d eat it.

But to make it is literally one small step less than making a basic cheese sauce.

The convenience factor is practically non existent.

Lebanon declared one day of national mourning when it blew up its own capital in 2020, while an almost universally hated Iranian president gets three

Why we support ICC prosecutions for crimes in Israel and Gaza  ft.com/content/aa2089… via @ft

Background to the ICC's decision to apply for arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu alongside Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar and Mohammed Deif

The battlegrounds that could decide a US-China war over Taiwan ig.ft.com/taiwan-battleg…

The essay is excellent (if long). Western leaders & citizens suffer from a failure of imagination, in being unable to imagine that war could come and affect them, too, directly; and being unable to imagine revisionist leaders seeking 'national greatness', even at great cost.

Raiffeisen has been a rogue operator in Russia for too long ft.com/content/1d1252… via @ft

From me + colleagues: how Russia is getting around export controls and sanctions to keep its airliners in the air. They once bought from Honeywell and Boeing. These days, they’re getting what they can, often carted with a heft markup to Moscow in suitcases on.ft.com/4bAKyCR

look away now if you have zero interest in employment law, because this thread is going to compare and contrast - in minute detail - the 2021 Labour New Deal For Working People and the new, rewritten version which I got hold of yesterday.....

I generally enjoy Ed's analysis but on this one I'm afraid I'm going to have to break out this Tweet again

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Garrick Club votes to allow women members for the first time ft.com/content/3f144d… via @ft with Cynthia O’Murchú and photos by Charlie Bibby

Some intros to articles you have to read twice 🐗

ft.com/content/a997a8… Amy Kazmin

This strikes me as a remarkably stingy pension for the highest political office in Scotland

SANCTIONS WATCH: The US has designated Red Box Energy, the shipping company whose brazen voyage to supply Russia’s sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 project was documented in an FT investigation in February

Full story (and amazing visuals): ig.ft.com/russia-sanctio…