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Josh Gabert-Doyon
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Writer, audio producer for the Financial Times 'Tech Tonic' podcast.
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Interesting piece by @joshgd100.bsky.social on disputes over Birmingham’s available reserves and whether it has cut back harder than it needed to
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UK’s second city urged to justify ‘avalanche’ of cuts after bankruptcy
Birmingham city council under growing pressure to explain whether severe cost savings and asset sales were necessary
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October 30, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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The manosphere is going into business
Online influencers are targeting young men with tips on how to walk, talk and breathe
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October 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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In the paper today with a piece about how male influencers have grown up and rebranded as business gurus, employing a particular mix of grooming, dating and professional advice.

Part monetisation strategy, part Victorian etiquette guide.
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The manosphere is going into business
[FREE TO READ] Online influencers are targeting young men with tips on how to walk, talk and breathe
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October 21, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Spoke to @henryjfoy.ft.com for the FT News Briefing last night to talk about a suspected Russia GPS jamming on the European Commission president's plane. And to the FT's Gloria Li about Xiaomi's move into high-tech EV manufacturing.
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Russia suspected of GPS interference on EU official's flight
Flight of European Commission president was forced to land in Bulgaria using paper maps
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September 2, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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The Labour government is betting that AI public sector contracts can drive efficiency in the civil service and carve out the UK's place as an AI leader.

It's also been extremely profitable for tech and consulting companies.
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Whitehall hands out AI contracts worth £573mn in efficiency push
[FREE TO READ] Ministers hope technology can help streamline the civil service, reduce government waste and save billions
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August 27, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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London councils seek to repurpose closed-down schools for SEND pupils.
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London councils seek to repurpose closed-down schools for Send pupils
Shift comes as cash-strapped local authorities seek to curb costs
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August 26, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Higher poultry prices and an increase in national insurance contribution hit Carnival food sellers over the weekend, who were forced to raise prices, cut down on menu offerings, and resort to agency workers. www.ft.com/content/189f...

(Poultry prices are up by more than 45% year-on-year)
Notting Hill Carnival food sellers grapple with rising costs
Traders plan to use cheaper cuts of chicken as they warn of hit from rise in employer national insurance contributions
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August 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Nice detail from today's court case about Epping asylum hotel: the Home Office made a last-ditch effort to stop the injunction going forward, emailing the judge midway through the hearing on Friday and only sending their full submission at 5:33pm last night...
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Government fails to stop closure of Essex hotel at centre of UK asylum debate
[FREE TO READ] Local authority injunction ruling may lead to more councils seeking to shut down hotels that house immigrants
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August 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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They weren't stolen, just... misplaiced...
joshgd100.bsky.social Josh Gabert-Doyon @joshgd100.bsky.social · Aug 19
Today in adventures in Met police statistics: did anyone have 1,013 fish stolen in 2022? Absolutely off-the-charts fish-related incident.
August 19, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Today in adventures in Met police statistics: did anyone have 1,013 fish stolen in 2022? Absolutely off-the-charts fish-related incident.
August 19, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Interesting read on how pension costs are squeezing post-92 universities from @marymcd.bsky.social on.ft.com/4oTBmAW
How much must pre-92 and post-92 universities contribute to pensions? The schemes have different accrual rates and different levels of security, but this is what VCs see when looking at payroll: it now costs way more to hire an academic (on the same salary) at a post-92 university.
August 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Had fun talking to @katie0martin.ft.com for today's FT News Briefing podcast, where we get into her column on investors as boiling frogs www.ft.com/content/4a80...
The markets are shrugging off chaos
People are looking at becalmed market conditions and writing them off as the result of a quiet summer
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August 15, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Serco and Mears, two of the largest asylum hotel outsourcers, are looking for new business following the government's move away from the use of hotel. Serco is focusing on the defence sector, while Mears is working on housing association maintenance on.ft.com/41qCMbQ
Serco and Mears see declining asylum hotel businesses
[FREE TO READ] Outsourcers refocus operations as UK government winds down controversial system
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August 7, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Did some reporting on asylum hotel protests in London, which have kicked off again this weekend. NIMBYism, public safety debates, and estate agents fielding calls from nervous buyers in Canary Wharf.
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Asylum hotel protests spread to prestige London postcodes
[FREE TO READ] Canary Wharf and Islington residents mobilise as unrest moves south from more deprived parts of northern England
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August 3, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Great piece by @joshgd100.bsky.social on life of a forensic botanist, and the wider perils to forensic science in the UK
www.ft.com/content/b821...
How to read a landscape and capture a killer
Meet the former horticulturist who specialises in the ‘botany of doom’
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July 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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NEW: Why Wall Street fears a 33-year-old political outsider

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A chart titled "Smaller donors have powered Mamdani's mayoral campaign" with the subtitle "Total unique donors to New York City mayoral campaigns by total contribution size". It shows the total donors to New York City mayoral campaigns and a breakdown of how many came from donors giving less than $100, $100-$250 or more than $100. Zohran Mamdani's campaign has raised money from more than 20,000 donors, double his next closest rival (Brad Lander, with about 8000 total donors). A much higher percentage of his donors have also given less than $100 A chart titled 'Pro-Cuomo super pacs have flooded the mayoral fundraising race', with the subtitle 'Fundraising by New York City mayoral campaigns'. It shows the total fundraising for mayoral candidates for New York City. It shows that Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams have raised the most money in private funds, but opponents Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander have qualified for much higher public matching fund totals, resulting in fairly even totals between the Cuomo, Mamdani and Lander campaigns around $7mn-$9mn. Andrew Cuomo's allied super pacs, however, have raised more than $27mn, while a super pac aligned with Zohran Mamdani has raised just a few hundred thousand dollars and the other candidates do not have aligned super pacs.
June 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Hosted today's FT News Briefing podcast and interviewed UNICEF's James Elder, who's just returned from Gaza, about the new aid distribution sites.

He told me extreme water scarcity was becoming an issue, on top of daily violence at the aid sites.

www.ft.com/content/1331...
EU pushes a UK-style trade deal with the US
Higher US tariffs on the EU will snap back into place on 9 July
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June 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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The AI Slop Fight Between Iran and Israel

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June 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Went on Australia's ABC Late Night Live to talk about the ideology behind the Enhanced Games. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
The money behind the Enhanced Games - an "Olympics on steroids" - ABC listen
In May 2026, a resort in Las Vegas will host the inaugural Enhanced Games, where athletes will be free to use performance enhancing drugs. The controversial event is the brainchild of Australian busin...
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May 28, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Really happy with this one – did some reporting on the increase in London festival days and the balance between council budgets, local resident complaints, arts and culture benefits and the interests of festival operators.

Fantastic graphic viz by @claradoodle.bsky.social
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London festivals become flashpoint for local politics
[FREE TO READ] Residents and promoters fight over the soul of the capital’s public green spaces
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May 23, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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OK good news for the UK latest - London's west end might be about to get a big nightlife revival - theatre sales UP, bar closures DOWN (we hope) - lends itself to an awful PMQs call and response a la Boris Johnson. By Josh Gabert Doyon @joshgd100.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/6bdf...
May 8, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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There were noticeable difference between the effects of the Birmingham bin workers strike on deprived areas vs more affluent ones. Council finances are struggling and workers are kicking off about large-scale reforms of the waste collection service. Bad situation.
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UK’s second city drowns in rubbish as bin strikes continue
Businesses fear that refuse piles will damage Birmingham’s reputation, as industrial action continues
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March 20, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Wrote about the rise of AI-enabled CCTV cameras in London. on.ft.com/3FOffcP
London expands CCTV network in ‘tech race against crime’
[FREE TO READ] Councils rush to tool up with AI cameras as police grapple with surge in street crime
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March 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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For the FT Magazine I spent the past year following Aron D'Souza, the man behind the Enhanced Games, a Peter Thiel-backed "steroid Olympics", and his attempt to turn performance enhancing drugs into a culture war issue.
www.ft.com/content/8a14...
The Enhanced Games wants to be the Olympics on steroids — literally
The man who helped Peter Thiel destroy Gawker has a new, even bolder project
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February 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Wrote about private equity investment in the UK's consumer law sector (divorce, family, personal injury etc) and discontent among employees at the firms that have been bought up by PE. on.ft.com/3PzQsLe
Private equity money flows into UK’s consumer law firms
[FREE TO READ] Dealmaking picks up in sector offering legal services from divorce to conveyancing
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January 13, 2025 at 12:45 PM