Matthew Brooker
Columnist for Bloomberg Opinion in London. CFA holder, from Slough, 25 years in Hong Kong, 5 in Shanghai. Opinions are my own.
- What is the point of Keir Starmer staying as prime minister?
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- Vive la France!
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- France’s Foreign Ministry owns Elon Musk in this response:
- Larry Summers complaining to Epstein that his kids admire Bernie Sanders too much
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- Slovak PM Fico, one of the few EU leaders to frequently support Trump, told fellow EU leaders he was concerned about the president’s “psychological state" Fico used the word “dangerous” to describe how Trump came across during their Jan 17 meeting
- Bring him home: RSF calls for Sir Keir Starmer to demand release of British publisher Jimmy Lai during visit to China newsbeep.com/uk/391872/ Lai has been found guilty of offences under Hong Kong’s National Security Law, which has widely been condemned by…
- I still remember vividly reading this NYT headline in October 2024, sitting in a coffee shop in Boston, a fortnight before the presidential election #Minneapolis
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- This is ok tho
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- AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.
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- before Metropolis (1927) there was ✨“Metro-land”✨ (1910) I think we need to fundamentally rethink our megacities, but that requires thinking about our history, economics, infrastructure, colonial power, cultural pressures — while still retaining some creative imagination and hope for the future 😭
- A 1930s horror of urban sprawl shouldn’t be dictating Britain’s housing policy in the 2020s www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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- What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
- If ever there were a time you might want a separate but equal branch of the United States government to run a check on the president, it would be now ….
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- It's New Year, so time to look back and forward. These are 10 things I think we need to recognise in 2026. It’s a response to what I think are profoundly damaging mistaken assumptions I’ve heard and read from practitioners, journalists, and analysts in 2025. Warning: very long🧵
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