🙌 Delighted at the arrival of the complimentary copies of my new book, Monsters, Cyborgs and Berliners!! For a preview of my chapters on Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz and 1920s science fiction and ecocatastrophe, see bamberg.academia.edu/RobertCraig 😉

Having done it myself, I would 100% recommend being part of this pretty unique group!

'Yuan Yang’s Private Revolutions interweaves the stories of a quartet of women...The prose is as powerfully intimate as it is politically incendiary, tackling the censorship and economic voraciousness plaguing China today head on.'

You can now pre-order: linktr.ee/yuanfenyang

Join journalists Yuan Yang and Gideon Rachman as they pull back the curtain on contemporary China.

Drawing from Yuan’s new book Private Revolutions to paint a richer portrait of modern China.

📅 Tue 28 May
🕖 19:00 - 20:30
📍 The Tabernacle

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Some personal news: I'm becoming a reporter again. Today is my first day covering the energy sector for the FT. Please get in touch with any contacts, tips and ideas.

'The prose is as powerfully intimate as it is politically incendiary' – British Vogue's review in its April edition of my forthcoming book, Private Revolutions (linktr.ee/yuanfenyang) 📖❤️‍🔥

One of the nuggets from the excellent New Yorker piece on 14 years of Tory government newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

In my Bloomsbury Books UK interview earlier last week, I was asked which my favourite bookshops around the world were. My sad but true answer: most of them have closed down.

This is one of the very best essays on the sorry state of Britain after 14 years of Conservative government. Among many insights, the most revealing is Osborne’s gleeful declaration that austerity worked brilliantly in political terms - ignoring the damage to public services

the water industry has paid out more than £72bn in dividends while running up £60bn of debts since it was privatised by Margaret Thatcher with zero debts

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Happy Easter Sunday from Reading Quakers 🐣

A year ago today, Evan was thrown into a Russian jail.

Putin had taken our colleague hostage, but as a newsroom we made a determination: to investigate the opaque structures and individuals responsible, who now hold his fate in their hands.

This is some of what we found:

#HongKong : Six UN special rapporteurs have written to the government about the new national security law #Article23 , calling for a 'full review' and repeal of its extraterritorial provisions. CPJ reiterates our call to scrap the law that could further stifle press freedom

RIP, Daniel Kahneman. Thank you for introducing challenging ideas to economics and psychology, and for being so willing to share your time with us students. (Photo from Rethinking Economics annual conference, 2015)

Book cover reveal! Very pleased to share both the US and UK editions for my book Private Revolutions – out May 9th in the UK & July 2nd in the US. Pre-order wherever you are from linktr.ee/yuanfenyang Bloomsbury Books UK Penguin Random House 🐧🏠📚 Viking Books

Some hopeful news: Reading FC's negligent owner is in exclusive talks to sell the club. What stands out to me in this saga is how close a good club has come to ruin through lack of regulatory oversight of football governance and ownership. We should never have been this close.

Very proud of the Financial Times team I was part of, led by Sam Joiner, that turned a seed of an idea into a stunning data investigation - tracking the number of demolitions and defacements of mosques in China, over thousands of sites, over seven years

Thrilled to win a Sigma award for our investigation exposing the scale of China’s suppression of Islamic culture. A huge team effort w/ Yuan Yang Lucy Rodgers Irene de la Torre Arenas Peter Andringa Eva Xiao Max Harlow Joe Leahy Sun Yu and many others in FT Data