John Gapper
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Chief UK Business Columnist of the Financial Times. London, ex-New York, with a bit of Tokyo
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@SamCoatesSky
Good thing they didn't fire the permanent secretary to the Treasury, with his valuable experience of handling financial crises
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Professional news: I'm now (as of today) the FT's Chief UK Business Columnist. I'll be writing a couple of columns a week on everything from big business to start-ups, entrepreneurship and government policy. It should be a very interesting time: plenty to cover!
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"When I signed a letter saying I would boycott the Edinburgh book festival because it was sponsored by Baillie Gifford, I never expected it to drop Baillie Gifford as a sponsor."
“The goal was to get Baillie Gifford to divest; it was not to get the festivals to lose their sponsors.”
@NaomiAKlein
defends Fossil Free Books in an interview with City A.M., calling Baillie Gifford "thin-skinned" for putting festivals in jeopardy
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I asked City bankers about the chancellor. One replied: "It’s your choice whether you want to swim far out to sea, but if you do, the sea’s in charge."
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I wrote about why the EU is wrong to stop Apple making different cables and connectors, even though it's kind of a pain
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Thank the Lord that Jacob Rees-Mogg was booted for Penny Mordaunt
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tbh I just converted sterling to euros and sent them to a German account via the fast payments UK and EU systems. It took a few seconds.
At 12:40 am while doom scrolling I got slightly worried about Binance so I logged onto my account, converted some cash to USDC and sent it to
#Coinbase
. At 12:51 Coinbase verified it was in my account.
Try doing that with traditional finance.
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Imagine if a bank had done this and the CEO was on a media tour saying that things just got a bit out of control
FTX USED COMPUTER INFRASTRUCURE THAT GAVE SENIOR MANAGEMENT ACCESS TO SYSTEMS THAT STORED CUSTOMER ASSETS- RAY PREPARED TESTIMONY
FTX STORED CERTAIN PRIVATE KEYS TO CRYPTO ASSETS WITHOUT EFFECTIVE SECURITY CONTROLS- RAY TESTIMONY
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My piece on the shallow logic of the movement that is attacking book festivals
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UK government u-turns on letting AI platforms mine copyrighted work work of artists without licence
1/ The Government's 'text and data mining' exception to UK copyright law would have left those in creative industries without legal control over their work, should it have been used by an AI platform.
I therefore held a debate today to highlight the importance of this issue.
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With Allister Heath, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard and Jeremy, the Telegraph has carried an admirably wide range of in-house opinions on Trussonomics lately
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I went to Catalonia to taste an extraordinary fruit and this is what I found
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@henrymance
I didn't realise that collective cabinet responsibility stretched to staying in the cabinet, calling for the prime minister to resign and launching a leadership bid on television
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@schooltruth
I find the right wing anti immigration and anti ID cards position particularly strange. I think they'd be a good thing and make our often chaotic public administration easier
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@henrymance
They need to bring the Tory party conference to a swift close before fist fights break out in the hall
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The FT on a January night feels like there's still a print plant in there somewhere
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@MichaelPDeacon
@GBNEWS
@Telegraph
This is a critical issue. Is the Telegraph's line on the new royal yacht going to change??
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@PickardJE
starting to think that a party that only has one strategy — blocking everything — might be starting to reach the limits of said strategy
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The New York Times is now worth 100 times BuzzFeed (market cap of $7bn vs $70m) There's a lesson there somewhere . . .
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An interesting test of financial regulation in the Bahamas, assuming FTX did not DeFi its way out of any legal oversight
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@DAaronovitch
Not a political expert, but maybe the Conservative Party needs to hone its London pitch of “I never liked this place or the people who live there, anyway”
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@helenlewis
In a minor way, the "Sunak tells homeless man to get a job in finance" story is in the same camp. It was patently twisted (the man raised the idea first and he just responded etc) but it felt too good to miss
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@s8mb
The whole point of the Single Market is to remove red tape. That’s why Thatcher wanted it!
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My long read for the FT Magazine on a unique work of art and the fight to raise £50m to save it
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I think you're comparing crypto to the US banking system, not "traditional finance"
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@iainmartin1
@Nigel_Farage
@maggiepagano
@reactionlife
And it came from the EU charter of fundamental rights straight into the
2015 payment regulations. Nigel will be very grateful to Brussels. See here:
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@benedictevans
I had to buy some ether through MetaMask last week to subscribe to something. It was very slow, the transaction fee was very high and the whole thing failed for mysterious reasons. Fiat currency through Wise or suchlike would have been instant and cheap and have worked …
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My FT review of
@EdConwaySky
’s fascinating book about the minerals and metals inside all the things we depend on
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@lionelbarber
@DanielJHannan
first said that UK should stay in single market, then later (when called on it by me on Twitter) claimed there was no need because it would get a better deal outside. Now he says it should have, but it is too late . . . I have learnt not to take him seriously
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I suggested Mahalanabis for an FT obituary after reading about him in
@stevenbjohnson
's newsletter. What a life!
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Here's my long read about apples, climate change and why we buy red, crisp, branded fruit, whatever the season
Sneak peek of this weekend's cover
Look out for the story on Thursday at
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My new hero is the Wigtown Book Festival
@GerryHassan
@BaillieGifford
Well perhaps you should have said something while you were on our board Gerry.
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@katie_martin_fx
@stephenkb
It's so frustrating for the Tories. They've been the government for more than a decade, and got Brexit done, yet the economy has been ruined by the FT. They just can't catch a break.
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@lionelbarber
@danielhannan
I’m sure he has many strong points, but intellectual honesty is not among them
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@ChrisGiles_
@trussliz
@FinancialTimes
You expect us to believe you, a cadre of the deep state, Chris? A luta continua!
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@felixsalmon
A boring opinion: maybe it just shows that firewalls in banks, exchanges etc really matter and the problem is not that SBX lost track of flows but that he thought it even vaguely acceptable to "manage the conflicts" in the first place
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@henrymance
Next Frost column: We must sweep away the woke orthodoxy that a peer cannot be prime minister
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It is worth reading, yes
If you want to know what
@RishiSunak
believes, the Mais lecture is probably the best and most thoughtful summary of his thinking on business/the economy
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My piece on why a viral meme gets halfway around the world before the King has put his crown on
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My column about how lawyers followed financial incentives...
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The FT's House and Home piece on Manchester this weekend has a suitably moody photo of the Hulme council estate where I once lived cc
@Jderbyshire
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This is a fundamental truth about the way social media platforms work. A lot of bad stuff results from it
Trashing accounts that you hate will cause our algorithm to show you more of those accounts, as it is keying off of your interactions.
Basically saying if you love trashing *that* account, then you will probably also love trashing *this* account. Not actually wrong lol.
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Great column from
@stephenkb
. Applies more widely to professional and financial services, at which we're rather good
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Since we've disagreed on quite a bit over the years, I welcome Alan as an ally! He's right.
Are there any companies pure enough to sponsor the Hay and Edinburgh literary festivals? My column
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I was on the Radio 4 Media Show, talking about
@elonmusk
and Twitter with
@karaswisher
and others. Kara disagreed with me twice, and got warned by
@BBCRosAtkins
for using bad words twice. It was fun!
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Jacob Rees-Mogg seems pretty likely to lose his seat soon with Labour on say 38 percent and a modest degree of tactical voting
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@rcolvile
The pound is down 1 percent against the euro today and has detached downwards against the euro from the broader dollar rally since Truss
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@JenWilliamsMEN
Gosh, I spent days on Saddleworth Moor in the 1980s reporting for the Daily Mail on the police search for Keith Bennett's body. RIP.
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@DAaronovitch
@thetimes
@SebastianEPayne
Hard agree on the game of politics — my theory is the more exciting the
@ShippersUnbound
piece on a Sunday, the worse the country is being run
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This Pushkin/FT podcast by
@patricianilsson
and
@alexebarker
is fascinating on the secret history and economics of porn — highly recommended (even for those uninterested in porn itself)
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My Lunch with the FT with the extremely versatile Katherine Rundell
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This is awful for literary festivals and the book world
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I've been working on this for a while: my piece on the mystery of Hauser & Wirth
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My piece on what went on behind the scenes at the museum
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@natashaloder
@elonmusk
@disclosetv
Anyone who goes to Davos laughs at the idea that it's a sinister global government vs a talking shop/giant press conference. But those who don't might imagine it.
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The Economist measures the length of song intros
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@GeorgeWParker
Interesting example of the chancellor having to fly *back* from the IMF to plead his case amid a UK financial crisis
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@jamesrbuk
Yes, so you can give someone on £45k an 11.1 percent pay rise, and then fire them at will the following week. Brilliant Mogg innovation.
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Last year, home insurer A doubled my price, saying flood risk etc had risen, so I changed to Insurer B. Insurer B just quoted a rise of 30 percent to renew, so I checked with Insurer A. It offered a third of the price it did last year, when I was an existing customer.
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@GeorgeWParker
I will say they are a tourist nuisance blocking the bike lane around Westminster ....
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My contribution to the wealth management debate of the week
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@robhastings
@estherbintliff
@BoF
I’m over 35 and male, and I wrote about Shein a year and a half ago
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@jfkirkegaard
Not clear that the appointee would be getting the minimum wage, which is another concern
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My piece on how to pull off the latest workplace trend
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My FT Weekend piece on the speculative craze for paintings by some young women artists and the old question it raises
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Happy birthday to Sydney Kentridge, 100 today. Here's the Lunch with the FT I did with him 10 years ago . . .
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Would be interesting if Andrew Bailey turned out to have judged his Friday gilts deadline correctly . . .
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My column on why ChatGPT reminds me of some people I know
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