Abbie Fielding-Smith

Deputy editor of @theeconomist’s features section, 1843. Previously international investigations at @tbij & Beirut for @ft. Mostly here for puns.

[Borzou Daragahi 🖊🗒 @borzou]

What an opening paragraph

[Alex @alexfrco]

When your child is born vs when Arsenal win their first league title in 22 years

[Abbie Fielding-Smith @AbbieFS]

All Day Permanent Red also captures the mood of all the Arsenal fans I know right now

[David Wingrave @davewingrave]

It's so great. Begun in 1959, I believe still working on it at the time of his death in 2011. Published adapted sections of the Iliad, didn't know Greek, worked from other translations. And the titles! "All Day Permanent Red" so great.

[David Wingrave @davewingrave]

It's so great. Begun in 1959, I believe still working on it at the time of his death in 2011. Published adapted sections of the Iliad, didn't know Greek, worked from other translations. And the titles! "All Day Permanent Red" so great.

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

I didn't know Helen of Troy could generate so much conflict.

[Mark Galeotti @MarkGaleotti]

I can't make it, alas, but Sophie Pinkham's book is lovely and clever, and well worth reading (and it's just a very smart idea, to tell the history of Russia through its forests)

[Steve Hou @stevehou]

They had the People’s Liberation Army military band play the YMCA at the end of the State Banquet 🤣

[Kathie McInnes @Kathie_McInnes]

This is also illuminating on Reform's twin strategy of courting both the working class and the super-rich. Its 'pub crawl to power'.
https://t.co/c0IuNrtBDQ

[Abbie Fielding-Smith @AbbieFS]

Part of a brilliant piece by @hackneylad
https://t.co/idKzEc75Vz
from The Economist

[Dr Iain Overton @iainoverton]

Brilliant summary from @TheEconomist

[Dr Iain Overton @iainoverton]

Brilliant summary from @TheEconomist

[Bovril-Gesellschaft @BovrilG]

BBC Pidgin sticks the knife in

[Alexandra Prokopenko @amenka]

Four years of war have created an institutional vacuum inside Russia, and the demand for rules is stronger than ever. The Kremlin has lost its monopoly on setting them. The elite, deprived of agency and unable to generate its own vision of the future, is now effectively signaling openness — the best external vision of the future will prevail. Including, notably, Putin's own. The monopoly on the future is up for grabs. A remarkable column by an anonymous senior Russian official

[Ali Vaez @AliVaez]

Filing this under "reverberations of the Iran war I had not anticipated"

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

Three first responders from Lebanon’s Civil Defence were killed in an Israeli double-tap attack last night after racing to a bombed building in Tyre District. Two Leb army soldiers were wounded and the two civilian bulldozers sent to help at same time were also hit. Targeted during a so-called ‘ceasefire’. Hussein Ghadbouni, Hussein Al-Sati and Hadi Daher are among more than 300 healthworkers killed in Israeli attacks since Oct, 2023 while involv in relief operations

[Awni Hannun @awnihannun]

Adopting Claude speak in my regular life, episode 1:

Partner: Did you do the dishes tonight?
Me: Yes they're done.
Partner: Why are they still dirty?
Me: You're right to push back. I didn't actually do them.

[Natasha Bertrand @NatashaBertrand]

"Khalil was trapped alive under rubble for hours, having made a phone call to her family and the Lebanese military for help, Qudah told CNN on Thursday.

'The Red Cross was blocked for seven hours and when they reached her after seven hours, she was already dead,” she said. 'This kind of obstruction of rescue efforts may really amount to war crime.'"

[Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused]

Envious of bees

[Lindsey Hilsum @lindseyhilsum]

Horrendous to read of the terrible conditions in which #MarwanBarghouti is being held by Israel. No-one should be subjected to this.

[weird medieval guys @WeirdMedieval]

virgin mary punching the devil, england, 13th century