In Montreal snow is a waste problem – a stubborn accumulation of dust and water that gets scooped up with trash and city grime and dumped into a massive quarry. Climate change is making it worse. Also the mob is involved. I wrote about it for the FT.

Was at the Kafka museum last week in Prague and can't stop thinking about this quote about a world overflowing with endless, goofy, workplaces accidents.

RT @sindap: joyous Syrian liberation headed to its natural end point: Brookfield Global Infrastructure Opportunities Fund IX https://t.co/…

Presented the FT News Briefing podcast today with updates on Trump policy announcements, Toyota's hydrogen car troubles, Davos, and fresh accusations that Apple is benefiting from 'blood minerals' in eastern Congo. w/ @davidpilling and @harrydemps

Wrote about Synnovis, an outsourcer that provides blood testing for NHS hospitals/GP surgeries and was the source of a major ransomware hack in June. The cost of that attack was nearly 8x its annual profits last year, according to new filings.

Wrote about the rise of private equity in high street consumer law – family/divorce, personal injury and conveyancing. PE firms say they're helping bring AI to the sector. Former employees say the fixation on growth is unsustainable and bad for clients.

RT @mka_ultra: it just keeps getting worse. gary indiana’s library arrived in altadena earlier this week. it’s gone.

RT @rafeuddin_: EXC: The UK’s City Minister Tulip Siddiq was gifted an apartment in central London by a person with links to the party of h…

RT @martinpmurray: Late-night dancing falls into global decline. Will 2025 be the year of 'clubsterben' (club deat…

RT @VivekJKotecha: Happy to have been able to contribute my suggestion for fellow accountants!

Spoke to a bunch of ppl about the books that are considered go-to classics for different professions. Choice picks: "Duveen: The Story of the Most Spectacular Art Dealer of All Time", Dickens' "Bleak House" (lawyers) & ‘The Art of Eating’ by MFK Fisher.

RT @ftchina: The geopolitics of chips: Nvidia and the AI boom

New Tech Tonic doc on the future of AI chips, and the companies challenging NVIDIA's dominance, is out this week. w/ @JKynge

Hosted the FT News Briefing podcast today, featuring interviews with @jude_webber on the Irish election and @iankmsmith on French bonds.

RT @JKynge: Podcast: Is Taiwan's "Silicon Shield" against invasion from China fraying with the shift of chip manufacturing to the US, Japan…

RT @JKynge: Kicking off our latest podcast series for Tech Tonic - the geopolitics of chips. With big thanks to @ManuelaSaragosa @EdwinLane…

Wrote an obit of Gary Indiana, one of my favourite writers.

"Economic theory suggests that these inefficiencies should be competed away. Real life does not always work that way." Good column on the central paradox of the cyber security industry by @johnthornhillft

*Scoop* After more than a year of negotiations European gas companies spiked a deal that would have provided a safety net to hundreds of thousands of workers who are at risk of losing their jobs in the move away from fossil fuels. w/ @alicemhancock

RT @alicemhancock: Europe’s gas industry has walked away from an agreement to retrain thousands of workers for the green transition. And…