Michael Steen

@davidfirn @TBraithwaite @stephenfoley @OlafStorbeck Sad to see that line is missing in the job ad.

@TBraithwaite @stephenfoley @OlafStorbeck "Frankfurt life often surprises on the upside"

The fantastic scoopmeister @OlafStorbeck is moving to a new exciting role at the FT. Please apply to replace him covering finance in Frankfurt. boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtimes…

Re-upping @grimes_ce’s excellent lunch with Christopher Nolan. The last half-decade has been a value-destroying folly on an epic scale: ft.com/content/e47df8…

Today we say goodbye to this great blue bird This logo was designed in 2012 by a team of three. @toddwaterbury, @angyche and myself, The logo was designed to be simple, balanced, and legible at very small sizes, almost like a lowercase "e", a 🧵

Ok, this isn’t blocked yet on here: @michaelsteen_" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">threads.net/@michaelsteen_

@ChrisGiles_ Congratulations, Chris!

I'm a huge fan of collaborative research across the social sciences, which is relevant outside academia If we want to improve the world, the best ideas need to be heard in the right places and the wonderful team at the UCL Policy Lab is on it 3/3 ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/new…

🚨 Some personal news 🚨 This autumn I'm excited to become economics commentator @FinancialTimes writing a weekly newsletter on central banks and my regular economics column There's more Delighted to have been appointed an honorary professor of practice @UCLPolicyLab 1/

@SamuelMarcLowe I fear I googled Safety Tutor (average speed checks on motorway) a bit late on a trip in March. Tho on other hand nothing arrived yet…

Pretty confident the new plan is for Italy to fund the state exclusively through speeding fines. Since we last came there are tiny little orange speed cameras everywhere and it’s all 90km limit, turn a corner, hidden 30km sign, bang, speed camera.

The hypocrisy of these entitled people who campaigned against the "unelected bureaucrats" and "elites" even as they jostled to get their ermine and a place on the red benches

On April 13th I got an email from a stranger, @FayadMulla He was on Lesbos & had footage from 2 days prior showing migrants getting rounded up on land & ditched in the Aegean by the coast guard Did I want to see it? If you think the answer was an easy "yes," you're wrong.

This is a lot of fun, ECB blog on ECB sources stories ecb.europa.eu/press/blog/dat…

If Starmer is to be a true change-maker, he needs to stand up to Braverman and her populist lies about immigration. My @TheNewEuropean column theneweuropean.co.uk/whats-the-poin…

"We stand united in demanding Evan’s release and we won’t rest until he is safely brought back home." The publishers and top editors of @WSJ, @NYTimes and @WashingtonPost released a joint letter on Evan Gershkovich in today's edition of their respective papers. #IStandWithEvan

301 ehemalige Moskau-Korrespondenten aus 22 Ländern fordern die russische Regierung auf, die Anklage gegen den Journalisten Evan Gershkovich fallenzulassen und ihn freizugeben. Der „Wall Street Journal“-Reporter sei kein Spion. faz.net/aktuell/feuill…

Link to the letter and signatories freegershkovich.com/letter-to-lavr…

Journalism is not a crime. As one of more than 300 former Moscow correspondents from 22 countries, I signed this letter to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov calling for the immediate release of Evan Gershkovich of the WSJ. #istandwithevan

Journalists who have worked in Moscow call for release of Evan Gershkovich #Echobox=1682320141" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">theguardian.com/world/2023/apr…

Your Grandad on what it was like being verified back in the day

Lost my “legacy” blue tick. But ran a personal best on my local jogging route yesterday. Coincidence?

Fab read on Bloomberg, the company and the man. Also, the aquariums are finally explained. ft.com/content/b99830… By @RobinWigg

@catherine_mayer @TheEconomist Lexis Nexis (or Factiva?). Never actually used Lexis Nexis...we had Factiva at Reuters.

Another of my questions for, um, mature Twitter users, especially journalists. What was the name of the database that first offered searchable digitised back copies of newspapers? It was expensive; I think charged per search. They used to keep a tight rein on use at @TheEconomist