“Many of the persons commonly considered wealthy, are in reality no more wealthy than the locks of their own strong boxes” - John Ruskin, born OTD 1819, had plenty to say about the very rich, creating ILLTH, the opposite of wealth, and “causing various devastation and trouble”

“When companies abandon [DEI] programmes to address historical imbalances, they’re not correcting past excesses. They’re reverting to comfortable norms that have served only a select few.” @johnamaechi.apsintel.com on why the problem is not the words we use on.ft.com/4aYgeD2

Me neither!

What’s the point of the FT/Schroders Business Book of the Year Award? + other questions, including “why on earth have you stayed at the FT as long as you have?”. I chat to Chris Roush about #businessbooks and business #journalism in the 20th year of the award #BBYA24 www.linkedin.com/posts/qwoted...

Last month, I put my fraying shorthand to the test in the Olympics of speed-writing. Here’s my FT Magazine account of how I fared on.ft.com/4cCie2T