John Gapper
@johngapper.bsky.social
Chief UK Business Columnist of the Financial Times. London, ex-New York, with a bit of Tokyo
A columnist occasionally stumbles across a story, and feels the need to follow it up www.ft.com/content/b403...
Blackstone’s Schwarzman stirs London art market with record purchases
Private equity chief spends millions on 18th century society portraits by Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough
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January 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
A columnist occasionally stumbles across a story, and feels the need to follow it up www.ft.com/content/b403...
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The level of nominative determinism in this line is off the charts on.ft.com/4hlUItK by @johngapper.bsky.social
January 22, 2025 at 10:12 AM
The level of nominative determinism in this line is off the charts on.ft.com/4hlUItK by @johngapper.bsky.social
I wrote about how AI promised to revolutionise law firms but is having more impact on other companies. There is an amazing cluster of UK start-ups, including Luminance, Robin AI and Genie AI www.ft.com/content/bdc2...
Legal AI is reaching deep into the workplace
Technology allows companies to automate drafting of many contracts rather than relying on lawyers
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January 21, 2025 at 11:43 AM
I wrote about how AI promised to revolutionise law firms but is having more impact on other companies. There is an amazing cluster of UK start-ups, including Luminance, Robin AI and Genie AI www.ft.com/content/bdc2...
Reposted by John Gapper
Would also highlight the work Nudge is doing on Union Street, very much an example of the patient and imaginative the piece highlights as being needed. Takes social enterprises like this, as well as traditional developers, in places like this ahfund.org.uk/projects/gau.... @archhfund.org.uk
The Gaumont Palace | The Architectural Heritage Fund
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January 15, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Would also highlight the work Nudge is doing on Union Street, very much an example of the patient and imaginative the piece highlights as being needed. Takes social enterprises like this, as well as traditional developers, in places like this ahfund.org.uk/projects/gau.... @archhfund.org.uk
Universities are losing funding from international students so they have to get wilier about financing research with private projects www.ft.com/content/a824...
Universities need new ways to make their research pay
Public and private funding are both vital for institutions such as the University of York as international student fees fall
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January 8, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Universities are losing funding from international students so they have to get wilier about financing research with private projects www.ft.com/content/a824...
My piece on a David and Goliath fight in the global berry market: Dyson vs Driscoll's . . . on.ft.com/3DcLZva
James Dyson is right to fight for British strawberries
[FREE TO READ] The UK’s largest commercial farmer is trying to create a berry brand against intense global competition
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December 12, 2024 at 9:05 AM
My piece on a David and Goliath fight in the global berry market: Dyson vs Driscoll's . . . on.ft.com/3DcLZva
Reposted by John Gapper
Seen on the other place, but Muriel Spark here showing the talent of laying it on thin.
December 12, 2024 at 8:36 AM
Seen on the other place, but Muriel Spark here showing the talent of laying it on thin.
My piece on how three dinosaurs from Wyoming roamed the earth and ended up in London on.ft.com/41v9Q3h
Christie’s has brought the dinosaur auction show to London
[FREE TO READ] Scientists have been priced out by billionaires in the global market for prehistoric fossils
on.ft.com
December 10, 2024 at 10:12 AM
My piece on how three dinosaurs from Wyoming roamed the earth and ended up in London on.ft.com/41v9Q3h
The train announcer says "Skegness" in a loving tone of voice
November 26, 2024 at 5:24 PM
The train announcer says "Skegness" in a loving tone of voice
Excellent piece on the work of Greater Change, an innovative charity for the homeless (I'm a trustee)
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
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Homeless people to be given cash in first major UK trial to reduce poverty
Led by King’s College London, study will recruit 360 people in England and Wales to explore benefits of scheme
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2024 at 10:24 AM
Excellent piece on the work of Greater Change, an innovative charity for the homeless (I'm a trustee)
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
Union Street in Plymouth has seen a lot better days but, if you're passing, the engravings on the Millfields Trust Genesis building are wonderful
November 23, 2024 at 11:57 AM
Union Street in Plymouth has seen a lot better days but, if you're passing, the engravings on the Millfields Trust Genesis building are wonderful
Labour needs to help the UK car industry to an EV transition, not crash it by speeding www.ft.com/content/ce35...
Britain should not gamble with its car industry again
Labour is courting hubris by trying to beat the EU’s 2035 deadline for EV transition
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November 22, 2024 at 12:44 PM
Labour needs to help the UK car industry to an EV transition, not crash it by speeding www.ft.com/content/ce35...
I took a boat trip on the River Tees and this is what I found about local politics and national regeneration www.ft.com/content/2306...
Teesside should not risk its clean energy future by fighting
The net zero transition gives the region’s port a historic chance to grow if territorial tensions ease
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November 19, 2024 at 9:27 AM
I took a boat trip on the River Tees and this is what I found about local politics and national regeneration www.ft.com/content/2306...
What's the Matter with New York? This is a brilliantly reported piece on what the Democrats didn't want to see nymag.com/intelligence...
The End of Denial
How Trump’s rising popularity in New York (and everywhere else) exposed the Democratic Party’s break with reality.
nymag.com
November 19, 2024 at 9:00 AM
What's the Matter with New York? This is a brilliantly reported piece on what the Democrats didn't want to see nymag.com/intelligence...
Howard Lutnick’s claim that Ford or GM cannot sell cars in Europe is a bit strange youtu.be/hnjo7H7xipc?...
Howard Lutnick Explains How President Trump Will Use Tariffs to Protect the American Worker
YouTube video by Donald J Trump
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November 17, 2024 at 10:25 AM
Howard Lutnick’s claim that Ford or GM cannot sell cars in Europe is a bit strange youtu.be/hnjo7H7xipc?...
I visited Astonish, a Yorkshire success that says a lot about the rise of discount retailers such as Home Bargains and B&M www.ft.com/content/1dc7...
Astonish cut-price soaps clean up in supermarkets
A family manufacturer in Bradford has been propelled by the growth of discount retailers
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November 12, 2024 at 10:31 AM
I visited Astonish, a Yorkshire success that says a lot about the rise of discount retailers such as Home Bargains and B&M www.ft.com/content/1dc7...
My first UK business column, on the surprising recovery of Rolls-Royce www.ft.com/content/b8d5...
Rolls-Royce is on a smoother flight path at last
The UK aircraft engine manufacturer is starting to live up to its distinguished name
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September 13, 2024 at 3:34 PM
My first UK business column, on the surprising recovery of Rolls-Royce www.ft.com/content/b8d5...
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!
September 9, 2024 at 12:35 PM
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!
My chat with Evgeny Lebedev at Stud House for HTSI magazine www.ft.com/content/c287...
‘I was collateral damage’ – an interview with Evgeny Lebedev
For nearly two decades, the enigmatic Russian-born media baron charmed the British establishment. The pandemic, Ukraine war and change in government now find him in social Siberia
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August 30, 2024 at 11:50 AM
My chat with Evgeny Lebedev at Stud House for HTSI magazine www.ft.com/content/c287...
At the Henry Moore house and gardens
August 9, 2024 at 2:26 PM
At the Henry Moore house and gardens
Given the direction in which Elon Musk has been driving X recently, I think I'll be spending more time here (and on Threads)
August 8, 2024 at 12:48 PM
Given the direction in which Elon Musk has been driving X recently, I think I'll be spending more time here (and on Threads)