Kate Allen

I’m becoming increasingly convinced that everything can be explained by either accounting policy or regulatory failure.

Big news in NY law tonight … www.ft.com/content/0ce8...

Big news: Aleksandar Vučić has conceded defeat in Serbia’s snap parliamentary election, saying the student-backed Student List had won.

Both stories on the @financialtimes.com front page tonight have French datelines. A sign of the times …

Great chart showing who’s sending and who’s receiving in my story about 1mn antiquities being returned to their countries of origin since 1950 www.ft.com/content/82f2...

Anyone voting for Sharon on the basis of her actions during that task has clearly never been a sole woman in a room with several very assertive men. #celebritytraitors

So much is written about American politics but it’s rare to find something genuinely insightful. This piece is, though. newrepublic.com/article/2163...

I think we’ve found the headline of the year.

The Barbican Centre faces an uncertain future as the City of London Corporation has a looming £70mn budget deficit because Keir Starmer changed the way local government funding is calculated. “Huge cuts are required,” one councillor told the FT. www.ft.com/content/873e...

Very important point about how expensive it is to report facts rather than sit on your ass chatting shit on a podcast ….

Super excited to see this article in print in the APSR: 📚 “Public Service Decline and Support for the Populist Right: Evidence from England’s National Health Service” - with the brilliant @zachdickson.bsky.social @catherinedevries.bsky.social @simonecremaschi.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S000...

New reply for next time someone asks me if I have a partner

"The movie is Jaws if the shark just ate everyone, and then swam on." as.ft.com/r/fa6c71af-b...

I'm sorry but our Bayeux Travesty was better so there and we had Healey's Comet and everything #SketchyPoliticsRuleth @financialtimes.com

As night falls on both sides camped out at the Garvaghy Road, Northern Ireland faces a critical moment. www.ft.com/content/c995...

Burnham has just confirmed our scoop

FT exclusive: Andy Burnham has decided to press ahead with a revived Help to Buy scheme (although it won't be called that) www.ft.com/content/e23b...

Someone should do a long read on the politics of migrant boats in Italy because a lot of what we’re seeing in the UK echoes what‘s gone on there for years. This was over twenty years ago (and the successors of this guy are still in government): www.aljazeera.com/news/2003/6/...

I would not like an AI summary, I would not like it on a boat, I would not like the email bloat, I do not like it on a chair, I would not like it anywhere! I do not like them on a phone, I do not like them in my home, I do not want them on a search, I do not like them in a church

"the public needs to have a stake" taxpayer dollars are so clearly the direction of travel here

“We’ve got a massive majority by mistake!” “Does anyone know any centre left crypto billionaires?”

There have been many essential pieces written about 9/11 in the past 25 years but this is the one that I keep coming back to since it was first published 5 years ago. It’s hard to explain to younger people what it was like to experience at the time. Worth a read. www.esquire.com/news-politic...

It's hard to think of anything less British than the morons doing this to the heroic RNLI

Terrible idea. As an international financial centre London already is top level. www.ft.com/content/32aa...

Britain’s state-owned electricity system operator has awarded Palantir a £21mn contract without inviting rival bids, arguing critical processes are too reliant on its tech to run a competitive procurement process Latest for @financialtimes.com: as.ft.com/r/7fe6c0b7-2...

A suggested statement for Andy Burnham.

A thread on the national security implications of this weekend’s far right displays of strength. Much for Westminster to reflect on here, if it wants to.

Tonight: defence and intelligence officials warn that Europe is failing to stop Russia from waging hybrid war. Russian proxies and intelligence agencies have for the past two years been prosecuting a covert war of aggression on European soil. (Gift link, 300 free clicks) as.ft.com/r/077657b5-6...

Tonight: defence and intelligence officials warn that Europe is failing to stop Russia from waging hybrid war. Russian proxies and intelligence agencies have for the past two years been prosecuting a covert war of aggression on European soil. (Gift link, 300 free clicks) as.ft.com/r/077657b5-6...

A common pattern among European governments with handling these kinds of security threats is to only start taking them seriously after the initial period of relative impunity escalates into direct violence

Sure, seems totally fine for a bunch of masked men to stop traffic around a port

Masked protesters block Dover port roads. Labour MP for Dover & Deal Mike Tapp: “I bet if you asked any one of those ‘protesters’ they wouldn’t know small boat crossings are down by 40% and we are working hard to fix the mess. Go home, enjoy your weekend/get a job.” www.ft.com/content/5375...

As honoured as I am to see that The Times has picked up my Chagos article practically *word for word*, including my hard-gotten quotes, I’d prefer some credit — or for everyone to read my original FT piece! free link to read the evidently enviable article below (cheaper than a Times sub!) 🌴

Reform goes Robinson Crusoe: Chagos islanders who were helped by key party figures to land on the archipelago six months ago are struggling with limited food, rats, threadbare tents and a small boat. The U.K. government has sent three months’ supplies. (Free to read) as.ft.com/r/ce8396be-5...