Alistair MacDonald
Senior Reporter at The Wall Street Journal
Senior reporter at The Wall Street Journal currently writing about Ukraine and the European defence industry. Views expressed are my own.
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3 days ago |
wsj.com | Alistair MacDonald
June 24, 2025 11:00 pm ETWhen Ron McNaughton was asked to investigate an entrepreneur claiming to sell Scottish tea, he had one thought. “You can’t grow tea in Scotland,” the former police detective remembers thinking of a plant normally grown in notably hotter and sunnier climes of China and India. Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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3 days ago |
fnlondon.com | Alistair MacDonald
WorldEuropeThe Great Scottish Tea SwindleHow a band of brew-swilling detectives brought down Scotland’s ‘Mr. Tea’ Published June 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM ET When Ron McNaughton was asked to investigate an entrepreneur claiming to sell Scottish tea, he had one thought. “You can’t grow tea in Scotland,” the former police detective remembers thinking of a plant normally grown in notably hotter and sunnier climes of China and India.
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1 month ago |
tovima.com | Alistair MacDonald
The U.S. dominates arms exports but the F-35, already dubbed the world’s priciest weapon, shows how some are reliant on foreign parts that may now be subject to tariffsThe F-35 is a symbol of U.S. military and technological might. It is also reliant for more than 80 parts on a little-known company based in a quiet Danish suburb.
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1 month ago |
cn.wsj.com | Alistair MacDonald
F-35战机是美国军事和科技实力的象征。而这架战机却依赖于一家总部位于丹麦宁静市郊、鲜为人知的公司所提供的80多种零部件。总的来看，由洛克希德-马丁公司(Lockheed Martin)生产的这款喷气式战斗机有1,900多家供应商，分布在大约十几个国家，提供从微小芯片板到弹射座椅等各种组件。Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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1 month ago |
wsj.com | Alistair MacDonald
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