Done with this incredible team: @upyorkshire.ft.com @nassosstylianou.bsky.social @alicemhancock.bsky.social @chriscook.news @samlearner.bsky.social Daniel Clark, Malcolm Moore, Jamie John, Verity Ratcliffe, Henry Foy, @janatausch.bsky.social and Polina Ivanova
NEW: Just weeks ago, the shadow fleet was on the run amid a crackdown on the illicit oil trade. But the Iran conflict has given these ghost vessels a lifeline. Our latest visual story takes a deep dive into their clandestine operations.
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A grid of dozens of oil tankers at sea, shown in small thumbnail images. The montage highlights the scale and variety of vessels, suggesting a large “shadow fleet” used to transport oil — often linked to sanctions evasion or opaque shipping networks.
Before the Iran war, the screws were turning on the world's shadow fleet – a covert network of old tankers used by the likes of Russia and Iran to bypass oil sanctions. But now, with markets upended by conflict, their trade is booming.
An #FTEdit 🧵 on how the shadow fleet is cashing in on chaos 👇
NEW: The net seemed to be tightening around the shadow fleet, but now these ships are ready to capitalise on the chaos of the Iran war and restricted supplies of oil.
ig.ft.com/shadow-fleet/
De nada!
PD. Encarni Hinojosa (Diario Sur)
Lina Smith + Sandra Vilches (El Español), Rocío Márquez (South China Morning Post), Emma Esser (ex Confidencial), Carmen Torrecillas (Civio), Marta Sierra García + Laura Castro + Eli Vivas + Beatriz Arbona + Beatriz Martínez (freelancers)
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Hola! Seguro que no están todas pero aquí van algunas:
Yolanda Clemente + Laura Navarro + Montse Hidalgo (el Pais), Isabel Gonzalez + Maite Vaquero + Gracia Pablos (El Mundo), Sonia Mochón (AS), Sara I Belled (Vocento), Amaya Verde (ex-WAPO), Blanca Rogel (Prodigioso Volcán)
New: Drones are redrawing the map of war in Ukraine.
Relentless surveillance has pushed the battlefield 20km beyond the front, in both directions. Supplies arrive by drone; the wounded leave by robot.
This is the “kill zone” — and the future of warfare.
👉 ft.com/kill-zone
Amid the hundreds of colleagues we’ve lost today, I wanted to highlight the BRILLIANT data/graphics folks who any newsroom should be fighting to hire right now—threading here:
an image quilt of epstein documents
Here's a quilt of Volume 4 of the Epstein document dump. Gives you a 10,000 foot view of the redactions. that's 2,704 docs.
New: Trump’s immigration data dragnet.
@peter.andringa.me investigates the brokers and tools behind the US administration’s deportation drive.
Former officials raised concerns about the volume of data, lack of oversight and shift from criminal to immigration work.
ig.ft.com/us-ice-surve...
A chart of the projected percentage point increase un share of income paid as income tax and national insurance from 2025/25 through to 2029/30. It whos that 'fiscal drag' is set to hit those at or near frozen personal tax thresholds
Screenshot of financial times fiscal drag calculator.
New: 'Shark's fin' chart reveals the uneven impact of 'fiscal drag', the stealth tax beloved of recent chancellors. Plus use our interactive calculator to see how fresh freezes announced by Rachel Reeves at todays Budget could affect you on.ft.com/3KqOYUL
New: Major UK retailers are selling tuna from fisheries where crews say they endure beatings, gruelling hours and inadequate food. Some spend years at sea without visiting port.
Our latest visual investigation by @upyorkshire.ft.com, Dan Clark and @inari-ta.bsky.social
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Major retailers are selling tuna from fisheries where crews are exploited and abused — and certification schemes fail to prevent it. on.ft.com/3KakoOZ
NEW: Our investigation finds a tuna supply chain riddled with exploitation and abuse - where fishermen spend months or even years at sea.
Some describe threats, beatings and deception over pay.
Yet the fish they catch is still ending up on our plates.
ig.ft.com/supermarket-...
Well, this is just delightful. It has everything: data, survey, charts, stories, videos, scrollytelling, animations, 3D modelling, interviews... 📊
New: How mega batteries are unlocking an energy revolution.
A boom in grid-scale storage is solving renewables’ reliability problem and extending the use of clean power.
Latest visual story w/ @nassosstylianou.bsky.social @samlearner.bsky.social @inari-ta.bsky.social
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"A century ago, design was the future. Good design, by which was meant modernist design, would create a world of fewer, better things (...) That social purpose which accompanied the birth of design as a profession quickly dissipated (...) Modernism became marketing."
How will the flower bloom in 2100?
We collaborated with artist Annelie Berner to create a generative web tool that visualizes how the Circaea Alpina flower might evolve in response to future climate conditions.
variable.io/plant-futures/
And it’s exciting to be a finalist in the @pressgazette.co.uk Future of Media prize for this robots work driven by the visual brilliance of @upyorkshire.ft.com, @inari-ta.bsky.social, @samlearner.bsky.social, @samjoiner.bsky.social et al.
ig.ft.com/ai-robots/
pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...
Done with this brilliant team: @peter.andringa.me, @okr.bsky.social, Stefania Palma, and Molly Taylor.
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NEW: The booming business of Trump’s deportation flights
ICE plans to 6x its budget for immigrant transportation and deportations, a potential windfall for a few contractors and airlines. The system is already under strain, with serious concerns about detainees’ safety
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ICE plans to 6x its current budget for immigrant transportation and deportations. The money offers a potential windfall for a few contractors and charter airlines — some with close ties to the Trump campaign. Yet the system is already under strain, with significant concerns for detainees' safety: 🧵
We've built a football game and it's free to play!
Can you run a Premier League club? Step into the boardroom, navigate financial regulations and guide your team to glory in our new game.
👉 ft.com/football-game ⚽️💸
I had to close my accounts a while ago and N26 was super easy (it was also in English). DBK was a much harder, I could contact them by email though
