Yep one of many reasons this would be basically impossible to actually do

Making sense of a CEO:worker wage ratio with basic sums Pay rises for the many, hair shirts for the few, or some combination thereof

For my first post for @alphaville.ft.com, I ran the (hypothetical) numbers on the Green Party's new policy of a 10:1 pay ratio at UK companies. Including house style massive clickable scatter charts 📈

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Love this

Choose wisely.

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Honestly more surprised at how much golf Obama squeezed in

What's the point of hardbacks? Error: consider reformatting

My friend who runs an award-winning bookshop has probed the question: readers prefer paperback novels. So why are there so many goddamn hardback releases?

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Anthropic closes in on OpenAI as US business use surges

New: US business adoption of Anthropic’s products is closing in on OpenAI even after the Pentagon branded it a supply chain risk in Feb, Ramp data shows

More people died in Israel's latest bombing of Lebanon than died in the 2020 Beirut port blast

Brilliant reporting by @rayajalabi.ft.com

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Our colleague needs your help keeping a 1,200-year dataset alive!

If you have botanical expertise or are based near Arashiyama, Kyoto — DM her or email tuna@ourworldindata.org.

Boston Globe mock front page from April 9, 2016. Date says April 9, 2017, with giant headline “DEPORTATIONS TO BEGIN” and “Markets sink as trade war looms.”

Ten years ago today, in April 2016, the Boston Globe printed a satirical front page imagining a future Trump administration. The page was called "alarmist," "hyperbolic," "dystopian." But we’ve put up with so much since then it now looks like . . . a slow Thursday?

This was an interesting breakdown of Claude Code’s leak, and I’m still loling at the “sentiment analysis“ code.

If you want Claude to know you’re mad, you better say “wtf,“ “shit,“ “fuck,” “horrible,“ “awful,“ or “terrible.” Don‘t try to get fancy with “atrocious“ or “balls.”

UK gender pay gap widens at Clifford Chance and McKinsey Elite law firm and consultancy among those where disparity rose last year

*Data as of Thursday afternoon because of the very odd decision to make the reporting deadline Easter Saturday this year !

Full story here

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New 📈👩‍💼The gender pay gap at large UK firms has narrowed for the sixth consecutive year to a record low of 8.2%* — but remains stubbornly high in the professional, finance and insurance sectors

Ouch. Jet fuel.

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Bar chart of the number of countries that have introduced emergency measures in response to the 2026 energy crisis showing many governments have introduced energy conservation measures

Column chart of oil shipments by destination relative to the 2025 average showing most of the oil lost due to the Iran war was headed to east Asia and the Pacific

🔋⚡ spiralling fuel prices and looming energy shortages are forcing governments to take drastic measures to conserve supplies. Lots of charts in this @financialtimes.com piece about the global wave of energy rationing as.ft.com/r/a26a41a9-6...

Small swings, high drama: why UK polls are less volatile than they seem – in charts In what is beginning to look like a fragmented five-party system, small swings carry outsized political consequences

Small swings, high drama: why UK polls are less volatile than they seem – in charts - www.theguardian.com/politics/202... "we might see is that people still identify with being on the right or left, but being more willing to switch within those sides.” #greens

The Bank of England was a real outlier with its comms this week, far more hawkish than peers

Language analysis shows a sharp shift in tone from the UK central bank this week

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Niche user experience complaint but I cannot understand why Vinted decided to ruin their search by only allowing size ranges (8-10, 12-14) rather than specific sizes. On the plus side I am saving a lot of money 🥲

Newly unearthed Nigel Farage videos reveal support for rioter, neo-Nazi event and far-right slogans Exclusive: Analysis of more than 4,000 of Reform UK leader’s paid-for Cameo videos also shows they contain misogynistic remarks and antisemitic conspiracies

exclusive: Nigel Farage has recorded Cameo videos in which he endorsed a neo-Nazi event, repeated extremist slogans and supported a man convicted over his involvement in a far-right riot.

w/ @michaelgoodier.bsky.social

Graph of average annual fees for BA/BSc or equivalent courses in the OECD showing England as the most expensive and Nordics the least

Anglosphere agony vs Nordic nirvana.

(PS Can't believe I'd never seen this graph before, so grateful to @stephenkb.bsky.social for sharing in his fab morning newsletter (www.ft.com/inside-polit...)

After years of pay gap reporting, what do we know? An EU directive requiring new data highlights mixed outcomes

New 📝📈: From next year, large employers in the EU will have to report on their gender pay gap.

But will this help to close it? I looked at the evidence from countries -- including the UK -- that have already tried it.

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Europe confronts threat of another energy crisis Rerouting of LNG tanker bound for France to Asia signals escalating competition for gas supplies due to Iran war

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The EU has diversified supplies away from Russia and only gets around 10% of its gas from Qatar ... but a wider price crunch could still drive up European inflation, especially on LNG-dependent Germany and Italy

A grid of charts showing EU gas storage is only30% full with some other large countries at even lower levels

New 📊: Should we be worried about another gas crisis in Europe?

Prices are up 70% to their highest level since 2023 this week while a particularly cold winter has depleted reserves.

thanks Andy!

Natgas...
"In sheer volume, this could be worse than 2022"

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But... zoom out

In charts: How serious is the Middle East gas price shock? [FREE TO READ] Qatar LNG shutdown threatens bigger supply hit than the Ukraine war

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New 🏭: The price of natural gas in Europe has surged almost 80% since Friday after Iranian strikes on the world's second-largest exporter Qatar and the effective closure of key shipping routes... But zooming out, we're still a long way from the 2022 price crisis

Time for something different, radar for wind farms… 📡

I've been working on a prototype that you can use on your phone to discover more about the wind farms around you.