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Matthew Campbell joins us to discuss Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy. Listen here!

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Loved talking to Jordan Harbinger, a stone-cold pro, about DEAD IN THE WATER. Have a listen here: jordanharbinger.com/matthew-campbe…

BREAKING: Fugitive Jho Low controls $333 million via a British Virgin Islands company that has offices in the iconic Shanghai World Financial Center! Is this where he goes to work? Listen here:
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This is so good bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-…

Just gonna translate this headline from Russian paper Moskovsky Komsomolets straight:

'A Russian soldier with the call sign 'Cannibal' appeals to those mobilized. 'Cannibal' complained that since [Sept.] 19, only 7 out of his 23 people remain, and that's why he needs people.'

Any sane housing reform in big, desirable cities should include zoning to allow micro-units like these: nytimes.com/2022/10/03/bus…

I’ve always found it wild how one man in north London controlled Pakistan’s largest city some 4,000 miles away.

Six years ago I visited a tatty office in Edgware to learn more. What follows is the story of #Karachi ’s most feared power broker. bloomberg.com/news/features/…

ridiculous mod interiors in this 70's French missile submarine. waiting around to blow up the world in your conversation pit listening to Serge Gainsbourg '45's

Sorry, what? ft.com/content/9f85f4…

I had great fun guest-editing this week's The Sunday Long Read. Thanks to Don Van Natta Jr. Étienne Lajoie ✏️Jacob Feldman et al for loaning me the keys. Here it is: mailchi.mp/sundaylongread…

Quadra Pounder with Cheese

DEAD IN THE WATER by Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel is a finalist for the Financial Times Book of the Year!! on.ft.com/3SoZvOF

Congratulations to all of our authors who made the shortlist for the 18th Annual Financial Times Business Book of the Year 2022 Award!

See you for the #BBYA22 winner announcement on Monday 5 December.

Find out more: bit.ly/3fbOlyg

DEAD IN THE WATER comes to YouTube! Big thanks to the brilliant crew Bloomberg Quicktake for producing this mini-doc about the book (which you should all buy!) youtube.com/watch?v=rZuvXW…

Performative mask-wearing should really, really be over by now.

This story is the real deal.

Janan exquisitely on target yet again. Give me American hegemony over the alternatives any day.

“Everybody knows the fight was fixed. The poor stay poor, the rich get rich,” Leonard Cohen sang in 1988.

Today Blackstone, a private equity giant whose boss Stephen Schwarzman made more than $1 billion last year alone, owns rights to that song.