Joe Miller
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Correspondent @FT. Formerly in NY, Germany and at the BBC. Find me on Signal @joemillerjr.48 Tweets may contain cricket 🏏.
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Joined January 2009
No one told Bangladesh that test cricket is dead, thankfully.
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This nasty video mocking Annalena Baerbock’s perfectly passable English is trending, and I feel obliged to point out that my German is far worse than her English and no one in this country has been anything but generous to me as I go about improving it.
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Coffee shops that don’t open until 10am have misunderstood the assignment.
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That video is why many Germans who speak English well are so reluctant to use it in public. Horrible bully.
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🗞️ JOB NEWS 🗞️. I'm delighted to have started as the FT's Washington Correspondent this week. I’ll be writing about Trump 2.0's relationship with business & private capital, and the reshaping of the economy, + other matters. I’m a DC newbie - all story/restaurant tips welcome!.
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With the notable exception of a taxi driver in Dresden. But that was the only incident in more than four years of mauling the language in front of native speakers.
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Germany doing its best to be deserving of Winston Churchill's apocryphal verdict on the Americans, who "do the right thing, but only after they have exhausted all other options".
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Joe’s lessons from living in 🇩🇪 , a thread. 1. Never judge a German city by the area immediately surrounding its train station 🚉.
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God bless these people, and God love them for the incredibly German way in which this is being organised.
Was sich hier gerade am Berliner Hauptbahnhof abspielt, ist tief bewegend. Hunderte Menschen bieten ukrainischen Flüchtlingen kostenlose Schlafplätze an. Helfer vermitteln per Megafon Übernachtungen im Minutentakt.
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I went to find out why the Bronx - THE BRONX - saw a significant shift to Trump.
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A gift too good not to use.
Quite the ending to this FT article on Trump voters in the Bronx.
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This newish memorial to the Kindertransport in Frankfurt hits me every time I pass it. Called “The Orphan Carousel”. Sides read: “See you soon, my child” and “See you again, mother”.
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‼️ Delays to Tesla's Brandenburg plant cost it €1.1bn+. Company forced to forgo EU funding due to clause mandating batteries be made at subsidised site first, and the construction/approval is taking too long. Monster scoop from @Petercampbell1.
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The former East Germany has quietly turned into Europe’s electric vehicle heartland, attracting tens of billions of euros in investment from the US, China and the country’s own auto stalwarts, as well as a host of startups. @GuyChazan and I investigate.
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🚨Musk says he “would reverse the permaban [permanent ban]” of Donald Trump on Twitter. Says it was a “morally bad decision and foolish in the extreme” to remove Trump in the first place.🚨.
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@RihamKousa @ErikaSolomon You shouldn’t need to. There is no such thing as a “proper” English accent.
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A British businessman who allegedly helped Deripaska avoid sanctions actually put the following in writing, per US prosecutors. “It[’]s all good apart from banks keep shutting me down because of my affiliation to my boss Oleg Deripaska . 1/2.
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I love this man more each time I revisit the clip. A London stockbroker who had no reason to particularly care about a far off genocide beyond the shared humanity with its victims.
Nicholas Winton helped 669 Jewish children escape the Nazis. His efforts went unrecognized for 50 years. Then in 1988, while sitting as a member of a TV audience, he suddenly found himself surrounded by the kids he’d rescued, now adults. I like to remember this every Jan 27th.
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🎄That time of year when you get two types of OOO:. 🇪🇺 "I will be out of office until January 10 with no access to emails." [Doesn't provide alternative contact]. 🇺🇸 "I will be away from my desk for a few hours, but will reply as soon as I can. [PS. Please don't fire me].".
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In eigener Sache // some personal news:. After three very enjoyable years in Frankfurt, I'll be moving to New York in the autumn to take up the post of US legal correspondent at the FT. It's a wrench to leave Germany, but in the words of Chuck Rhoades.
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Scoop, w/@FTJFranklin:. The stakes are getting higher for Jamie Dimon, who will now be interviewed under oath over @jpmorgan's decision to retain Jeffrey Epstein as a client even after the disgraced financier was arrested over sex crimes.
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6:23am, and your correspondent is 106th in line to be in court with the Donald. Bring coffee.
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Seven years ago today, I (accidentally) photobombed Beyonce and Jay Z.
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While Tesla can do what it likes, this event was attended by the chancellor and economics minister Robert Habeck. A government ministry sent out the invitations. Then Tesla effectively decided who would have access to elected officials. Not okay, in my book.
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On a brisk May morning, 60+ journalists packed into a Manhattan courtroom to hear an hour-long argument over whether a billionaire should be fined $4,000.
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My farewell to Frankfurt, which forces one to reassess the meaning of the good life; mostly for the better.
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There is a whole political scandal brewing in Germany because someone took a 4-week holiday during a crisis, and honestly based on my dealings with the German state, I would have thought this is the norm.
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Good thread. The FT, along with (as far as I can tell) most other national and international media, was also barred from attending the Tesla event. So what, I hear you say. Who cares? Certainly Tesla’s share price hasn’t suffered as a result of its obsessive secrecy. BUT.
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Look what arrived! . Available December 9 at bookshops near you in 🇬🇧, 🇮🇪 and (much of) the Commonwealth. Pre order on Amazon, but preferably here:
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Today I learnt that the side you prefer to be photographed from is known as your Schokoladenseite (lit: chocolate side) in German.
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It’s finally happened. Sales of ⚡️ electric vehicles in Europe have overtaken scandal-ridden diesel models, per @auto_schmidt’s calculations. The legacy of #Dieselgate, six years on.
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Wonderful to chat to @AnshelPfeffer today @JewishBookWeek, but even more lovely to be reunited with my wonderful English Lit teacher, Jan Grant, ~15 years on. I owe her so much.
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3. Something other countries could learn from: 🎭 and concert tickets in Germany often include free public transport to and from the venue. Civilised, innit?.
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It’s publication day for #TheVaccine in the 🇺🇸 and 🇨🇦! . My own copy has just arrived. Order at your local bookshop, or here:
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What a thing to find on this weekend of all weekends. Original 1942 pamphlet by Victor Gollancz - who published Orwell and Kafka - in which he pleads with the British to take more Jewish refugees.
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The letter my mother and her sister got from Buckingham Palace after writing to congratulate the Queen on her Coronation.
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How Chinese money laundering organisations are fuelling the fentanyl crisis - the fruits of a months-long investigation with @JKynge and a large FT team.
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Please welcome Suzi, who joins the FT with the rarest of commodities. actual beat expertise.
🚨Personal News!🚨. Very happy to have joined the @FT this week as the new Legal Correspondent. Back to my old hunting ground. Covering all things industry, corporate crime and antitrust. Let’s get scooping!
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Last week, 🇩🇪's unloved defence contractors couldn't get financing from the country's own banks. This week, they are at the centre of Germany's urgent rearmament. “It’s a totally different world now,” says @RheinmetallAG boss. Story w/ @ErikaSolomon.
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Vielen Dank an die @faznet für die Wahl von #ProjektLightspeed zu einem der Bücher des Jahres! 📚 . Honoured to be in such prestigious company too.
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A huge loss to the FT. I learned a lot from eavesdropping on Ethan's conversations and now I am gonna have to pay for the Economist, what the hell.
Today is my last day at the @FT. Later this year I'm starting as Asia correspondent at @TheEconomist, based in Singapore. Writing Unhedged with the great @rbrtrmstrng has been a privilege. Rob brings the wit, wisdom and substance day in & day out. (1/4).
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My Saturday analysis of the turmoil at Volkswagen, Germany’s largest exporter of boardroom drama.👇🏼.
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Over 🎄 I learned that for almost 50 years, Germany’s public savings banks have been producing an Asterix-style comic book for children, which encourages them to save. It is published six times a year and prints almost 1m copies - more than any other German comic!
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Whoever wins, you have to admire two men who can easily afford hair transplants but insist on going bald in HD. #AusOpen.
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Frightening as it may be to contemplate, the next cohort of lawyers to enter through Big Law’s revolving doors will belong to the Gen Z generation. They appear - by a large majority - not to be fans of leading global firms' work culture or ethics.
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For non-German speakers, the people gathered behind the tape have volunteered to house refugees, and the organisers call out via megaphone “three adults and three children”, to match a group that has just arrived with hosts.
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Judge Hellerstein interrupts Hwang trial to call his family because he has just become a grandfather. "Mazal Tov Ruthy, I love you, talk later".
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Buongiorno 🇮🇹!. “Il Vaccino” is available as of today in your finest bookshops, I’m reliably informed. More details:
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I love how German radio/TV will tell the audience how many pages a book has following an author interview.
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Reminded of Christopher Hitchens' wise words tonight. "The people who must never have power are the humourless". #JeSuisCharlie.
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No 2. is a worthy guest contribution from @PatrickMcGee_. Basically all German coffee orders are a lottery. Which is why I always ask for “Schwarzer Kaffee”, because at least I know I’m not getting some awful condensed milk thing. ☕️.
@JoeMillerJr My own, tho I think you’ve heard this: ordering EisKaffee isn’t the same as ordered iced coffee; the Germans don’t really drink those. Instead you get a hot coffee with a scoop of ice cream on top.
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5. The reception at doctors’ or dentists’ surgeries (even private ones!) are not staffed for eight hours a day. Typically you can call them during specific time slots in the morning and/or afternoons, and the hours often DIFFER depending on the day of the week.👨⚕️.
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🧵Why, I hear you ask, am I about to bombard you with facts about Volkswagen and China, when there’s a war on in Ukraine?. Well, the topics are closely related, and here’s why. All of Germany’s carmakers have pulled out of Russia in the wake of Putin’s invasion. But…
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4. You are given precisely ONE time slot for the gas company to come and read your meter, and if you’re not in, you have to pay for them to come again. No amount of protest (in less than perfect German) at this unworkable system will help.⚡️.
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In case you wondered how quickly German rearmament could happen, this is the paperwork involved in the (conditional) approval of Tesla’s new factory near Berlin.
Meanwhile, in Brandenburg… .
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My review of @davidthejong's book, a timely reminder that the story many German corporations tell, or decline to tell, about their origins is worthy of re-examination.
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“During the pandemic, Mainz became the world’s pharmacy,” says mayor. Not quite, as most of BioNTech’s vaccine production is in Marburg. But capital of Rheinland-Pfalz has coined it nonetheless. My🎄dispatch from a medieval Christmas market, which @ChassNews forced me to visit.
German city reaps tax windfall from BioNTech’s Covid vaccine success
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Number 6 is another contribution from @PatrickMcGee_ (who is fast becoming co-curator). The other option is to pay the previous tenant for their kitchen. Honestly.
@JoeMillerJr Also: apartments generally don’t have kitchens. When people move out, they take their kitchen with them, and you have to install a new one.
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🚨Huge row brewing between German industry and 🇨🇳, after companies like Continental become the latest casualties in the tensions between Lithuania and Beijing. Story w/ @GuyChazan and @AndyBounds.
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Delighted to report that my Target trousers tirade attracted almost as many FT readers as the opening of a supposedly historic trial in New York.
The wrong trousers? Retail has a new solution to the returns problem | opinion.
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Now we know what really caused SBF to voluntarily surrender to extradition - New York bagels.
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Roughly 90% of casual conversation in Britain is an attempt to ascertain, directly or indirectly, where people went to school.
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For @ftweekend, I visited Augsburg’s Fuggerei, where rent is just 88 cents per year (plus three prayers per day). Now policymakers are looking at how they can replicate the project’s 500-year-old “Erfolgsrezept”, or successful formula.
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Fair play. Germany is changing before our very eyes. I confess I never thought it possible.
Scholz just announced special funds of €100bn to beef up German army and promises to spend more that 2% of GDP on defense from now on. Blimey. Geht doch!
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How to find 12 citizens who can set aside their prejudices against Fox or Trump or the liberal elites in an increasingly polarised 🇺🇸?. That’s the first task facing the judge in a landmark defamation trial. My dispatch from Delaware this morning:
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2/2. I have even been advised not to go to the USA where Oleg still has personal sanctions as the authorities will undoubtedly pull me to one side and the questioning could be hours or even days!!”.
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How Sam Bankman-Fried talked himself into a 25-year prison sentence. Instant analysis now on @FT.
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Ehre wem Ehre gebührt. Ugur Sahin, Özlem Türeci and oncologist Christoph Huber are made honorary citizens of Mainz.
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Say hi to Kris, the BBC's #Davos2015 dog, complete with security badge. #WEF15
http://t.co/HbxLgQMCap.
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This prescient quote, from 2009, is also being tweeted:. "The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology.".
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Love the cover for the Brazilian version of The Vaccine by @intrinseca, which I believe is out Tuesday, if my rusty Portuguese can be relied upon.
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7. Trains can split in half mid-way through your journey, and the two parts will then head off in completely different directions. Sometimes this is announced. Sometimes you just have to be in the know, or play close attention to carriage configurations. 🚃.
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Huge breaking news: JPMorgan is suing Jes Staley over his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, claiming the former executive did not disclose the fact that he allegedly saw Epstein commit sex crimes. w / @FTJFranklin .
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Breaking: French building materials manufacturer Lafarge has agreed to pay almost $780mn in fines and forfeitures to the US government, after pleading guilty to conspiring to provide material support to ISIS and the Al-Nusrah front.
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Me: “What do you mean there’s no one in shot, the camera is pointing right at him.”.
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Because the FT won't let me just publish memes, I wrote up VW boss' bullish comments about leaving a "weakening" Tesla in the rear view mirror. But the image would have sufficed, to be honest. With @Petercampbell1 .
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Four weeks from today. If you’re in London, come along! 📚.
On 6 March @JoeMillerJr shares the extraordinary story behind the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine with @AnshelPfeffer .#JBW2022
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All these live reports from New Scotland Yard remind me of being dispatched there during my first few weeks at the BBC to produce a correspondent, and *almost* putting the ITV reporter on air instead.
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Last night, on the anniversary of “Kristallnacht”, reconstructions of destroyed synagogues in Germany and Austria were projected on to walls near where they once stood. Passers-by could walk through the virtual buildings using 3D glasses. This is Frankfurt’s Friedberger Anlage.
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