Kate Allen
@kateallen.ft.com
Weekend news editor, the Financial Times. I did write the headline.
@darryl1974.bsky.social hey - sent u a msg on LinkedIn. When u have a mo, could u possibly drop me an email? Something I would like your expertise on. (I don’t have PMs enabled on here).
January 7, 2026 at 11:22 AM
@darryl1974.bsky.social hey - sent u a msg on LinkedIn. When u have a mo, could u possibly drop me an email? Something I would like your expertise on. (I don’t have PMs enabled on here).
I’m becoming increasingly convinced that everything can be explained by either accounting policy or regulatory failure.
January 2, 2026 at 1:08 PM
I’m becoming increasingly convinced that everything can be explained by either accounting policy or regulatory failure.
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It's New Year, so time to look back and forward. These are 10 things I think we need to recognise in 2026. It’s a response to what I think are profoundly damaging mistaken assumptions I’ve heard and read from practitioners, journalists, and analysts in 2025. Warning: very long🧵
January 1, 2026 at 4:55 PM
It's New Year, so time to look back and forward. These are 10 things I think we need to recognise in 2026. It’s a response to what I think are profoundly damaging mistaken assumptions I’ve heard and read from practitioners, journalists, and analysts in 2025. Warning: very long🧵
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A useful reminder for tired news editors of what we’ve done at work this year. Happy new year to all of you, you’re the unsung heroes of every newsroom.
Our @yougov.co.uk data journalism extraordinaire Matt Smith has compiled all news tracker results from 2025 into this stunning graphic
This tells us so much about what 'cuts through', how news cycles evolve, and what grabs attention re: flash moments vs ongoing stories
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
This tells us so much about what 'cuts through', how news cycles evolve, and what grabs attention re: flash moments vs ongoing stories
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
December 31, 2025 at 12:48 PM
A useful reminder for tired news editors of what we’ve done at work this year. Happy new year to all of you, you’re the unsung heroes of every newsroom.
A useful reminder for tired news editors of what we’ve done at work this year. Happy new year to all of you, you’re the unsung heroes of every newsroom.
Our @yougov.co.uk data journalism extraordinaire Matt Smith has compiled all news tracker results from 2025 into this stunning graphic
This tells us so much about what 'cuts through', how news cycles evolve, and what grabs attention re: flash moments vs ongoing stories
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
This tells us so much about what 'cuts through', how news cycles evolve, and what grabs attention re: flash moments vs ongoing stories
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
December 31, 2025 at 12:48 PM
A useful reminder for tired news editors of what we’ve done at work this year. Happy new year to all of you, you’re the unsung heroes of every newsroom.
Tear it up / shred it and use it to mulch your garden.
Where does all the Christmas cardboard go? ft.trib.al/Jh7W7P5
Where does all the Christmas cardboard go?
Typical UK household receives delivery boxes the height of a skyscraper each year
ft.trib.al
December 28, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Tear it up / shred it and use it to mulch your garden.
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Why are female authors asked to bare their souls to promote their books?
In July, Caroline O'Donoghue discussed how if you don't get personal when promoting your book it seems you won't get coverage, sales or even the deals 👇
#TheBooksellerMostRead
In July, Caroline O'Donoghue discussed how if you don't get personal when promoting your book it seems you won't get coverage, sales or even the deals 👇
#TheBooksellerMostRead
Up close and personal
ebx.sh
December 28, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Why are female authors asked to bare their souls to promote their books?
In July, Caroline O'Donoghue discussed how if you don't get personal when promoting your book it seems you won't get coverage, sales or even the deals 👇
#TheBooksellerMostRead
In July, Caroline O'Donoghue discussed how if you don't get personal when promoting your book it seems you won't get coverage, sales or even the deals 👇
#TheBooksellerMostRead
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Controversial opinion of the day: you’ve all started Christmas too early this year and by the time you get to the 25th you’ll have burnt out.
December 21, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Controversial opinion of the day: you’ve all started Christmas too early this year and by the time you get to the 25th you’ll have burnt out.
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If a key part of your job is getting information right and ferreting out falsehoods and untrustworthy sources, and the tool that’s supposed to help you do that keeps throwing you obvious errors, than yeah, you’re probably not going to *trust* it and may end up deciding it’s not all that useful.
December 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
If a key part of your job is getting information right and ferreting out falsehoods and untrustworthy sources, and the tool that’s supposed to help you do that keeps throwing you obvious errors, than yeah, you’re probably not going to *trust* it and may end up deciding it’s not all that useful.
Controversial opinion of the day: you’ve all started Christmas too early this year and by the time you get to the 25th you’ll have burnt out.
December 21, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Controversial opinion of the day: you’ve all started Christmas too early this year and by the time you get to the 25th you’ll have burnt out.
Reposted by Kate Allen
If you’re shocked the president’s family would acquire a conglomerate spanning regime-adjacent media and a speculative energy project that needs a lot of state intervention to become viable (if it ever does), you don’t follow EM enough
December 18, 2025 at 12:35 PM
If you’re shocked the president’s family would acquire a conglomerate spanning regime-adjacent media and a speculative energy project that needs a lot of state intervention to become viable (if it ever does), you don’t follow EM enough
Just listening to a group of typical South London teenage boys on the train - discussing the history of lending regulations, with particular reference to usurious interest rates. The kids are alright.
December 10, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Just listening to a group of typical South London teenage boys on the train - discussing the history of lending regulations, with particular reference to usurious interest rates. The kids are alright.
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
No more Lambeth Country Show? The middle classes of Brixton and Herne Hill are going to revolt. To the barricades, comrades!
*Lambeth Country Show axed after 50 years
*The 81 year old running as the YIMBY mayor of London
*A £500 basement conversion in Lewisham
*WHY ARE LONDON’S BUSES GETTING SLOWER???
Completely chaotic mix of stories, what is the editor thinking, all here:
www.londoncentric.media/p/lambeth-co...
*The 81 year old running as the YIMBY mayor of London
*A £500 basement conversion in Lewisham
*WHY ARE LONDON’S BUSES GETTING SLOWER???
Completely chaotic mix of stories, what is the editor thinking, all here:
www.londoncentric.media/p/lambeth-co...
No more Lambeth Country Show: Battle for Brockwell Park returns
Plus: Why are London's buses getting slower, the 81-year-old running to be the YIMBY mayor of London, We R Blighty turn to body cams, and would you buy this basement for £500?
www.londoncentric.media
December 6, 2025 at 9:11 AM
No more Lambeth Country Show? The middle classes of Brixton and Herne Hill are going to revolt. To the barricades, comrades!
Latest in the ‘controversial London officer worker opinion of the day’ series:
Prices everywhere else have gone up so much in the past couple of years that Pret is beginning to look tolerable again.
Prices everywhere else have gone up so much in the past couple of years that Pret is beginning to look tolerable again.
Latest in what’s now going to be a series:
Gail’s.
Gail’s.
Controversial London office worker opinion of the day: Farmer J is wildly overrated.
December 4, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Latest in the ‘controversial London officer worker opinion of the day’ series:
Prices everywhere else have gone up so much in the past couple of years that Pret is beginning to look tolerable again.
Prices everywhere else have gone up so much in the past couple of years that Pret is beginning to look tolerable again.
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**FT GRAD SCHEME**
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December 3, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Tom Stoppard fans and mourners: the Hampstead Theatre run of Indian Ink starts this week; the Old Vic is doing Arcadia from late Jan.
(Gift link, 300 clicks)
on.ft.com/4rub2yn
(Gift link, 300 clicks)
on.ft.com/4rub2yn
British playwright Sir Tom Stoppard dies
[FREE TO READ] Czech-born author of witty, cerebral plays was also an award-winning screenwriter
on.ft.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Tom Stoppard fans and mourners: the Hampstead Theatre run of Indian Ink starts this week; the Old Vic is doing Arcadia from late Jan.
(Gift link, 300 clicks)
on.ft.com/4rub2yn
(Gift link, 300 clicks)
on.ft.com/4rub2yn
Tom Stoppard fans and mourners: the Hampstead Theatre run of Indian Ink starts this week; the Old Vic is doing Arcadia from late Jan.
(Gift link, 300 clicks)
on.ft.com/4rub2yn
(Gift link, 300 clicks)
on.ft.com/4rub2yn
British playwright Sir Tom Stoppard dies
[FREE TO READ] Czech-born author of witty, cerebral plays was also an award-winning screenwriter
on.ft.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Tom Stoppard fans and mourners: the Hampstead Theatre run of Indian Ink starts this week; the Old Vic is doing Arcadia from late Jan.
(Gift link, 300 clicks)
on.ft.com/4rub2yn
(Gift link, 300 clicks)
on.ft.com/4rub2yn
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One thing all but unknown to journalists, MPs and maybe ministers is that the MAC calculates annual inflows of net 110k are the level that has a stable population (and that net zero shrinks the population). So ought to be some limit on driving numbers down from net 205k given pressures & gains
November 27, 2025 at 8:56 PM
One thing all but unknown to journalists, MPs and maybe ministers is that the MAC calculates annual inflows of net 110k are the level that has a stable population (and that net zero shrinks the population). So ought to be some limit on driving numbers down from net 205k given pressures & gains
Latest in what’s now going to be a series:
Gail’s.
Gail’s.
Controversial London office worker opinion of the day: Farmer J is wildly overrated.
November 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Latest in what’s now going to be a series:
Gail’s.
Gail’s.
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Post-Budget briefing from economics editor Sam Fleming
November 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Post-Budget briefing from economics editor Sam Fleming
So it seems that the main winners in the Budget today are people who would like to own a £2mn+ house but only have ~£1.5-1.95mn to spend, right?
November 26, 2025 at 12:53 PM
So it seems that the main winners in the Budget today are people who would like to own a £2mn+ house but only have ~£1.5-1.95mn to spend, right?
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(‘Romans: A Novel’ at the Almeida is in 2nd place on my list of art that has something insightful to say about 2025, btw)
November 20, 2025 at 10:30 AM
(‘Romans: A Novel’ at the Almeida is in 2nd place on my list of art that has something insightful to say about 2025, btw)
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If the purpose of art is to hold a mirror up to nature then this story (including the artwork itself) has more to say about Britain in 2025 than anything else I’ve seen. Bravo all round, a marvellous festive farce.
It’s the exclusive everyone wanted, the story that will win next year’s Pulitzer…
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
London's giant AI artwork to be torn down
The bizarre story of why a much-talked-about creation is being torn down. Plus: Docklands Light Railway extension, giant laser stalks the night sky, and more tales of Android phone theft rejection.
www.londoncentric.media
November 20, 2025 at 10:26 AM
If the purpose of art is to hold a mirror up to nature then this story (including the artwork itself) has more to say about Britain in 2025 than anything else I’ve seen. Bravo all round, a marvellous festive farce.