Robert Wright
@reporterrwright.ft.com
Newsroom reporter at the Financial Times, clergy spouse, rider of bicycles.
"I just wanted to see something new every day and tell a story with it": Gus Haynes.
"I just wanted to see something new every day and tell a story with it": Gus Haynes.
“What one rule in football would you change?” #bbcr4today asks. For me, it has to be the whole not handling the ball thing. It completely takes the hands out of the game.
November 11, 2025 at 7:43 AM
“What one rule in football would you change?” #bbcr4today asks. For me, it has to be the whole not handling the ball thing. It completely takes the hands out of the game.
It's surely one of the great tragedies of contemporary Britain that it enjoys enormous soft power through the worldwide respect for the BBC's journalism and for British universities and that the media eco-system demands governments be constantly at war with both.
November 10, 2025 at 9:54 AM
It's surely one of the great tragedies of contemporary Britain that it enjoys enormous soft power through the worldwide respect for the BBC's journalism and for British universities and that the media eco-system demands governments be constantly at war with both.
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I’m starting to get the impression that a lot of people don’t know how obituaries work - having them written, or partly written, by someone who predeceased the person is not unusual. Papers have them on file and ready to go. Lewis wrote most of Tolkien’s obituary for the Times.
November 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I’m starting to get the impression that a lot of people don’t know how obituaries work - having them written, or partly written, by someone who predeceased the person is not unusual. Papers have them on file and ready to go. Lewis wrote most of Tolkien’s obituary for the Times.
As someone who’s currently covering home affairs, I’m a bit disorientated to find there’s a big scandal on another beat. Surely they must have let out of prison someone they shouldn’t have or outsourced running the whole system to Denmark by mistake.
Our stuff is meant to be the centre of attention.
Our stuff is meant to be the centre of attention.
November 9, 2025 at 7:49 PM
As someone who’s currently covering home affairs, I’m a bit disorientated to find there’s a big scandal on another beat. Surely they must have let out of prison someone they shouldn’t have or outsourced running the whole system to Denmark by mistake.
Our stuff is meant to be the centre of attention.
Our stuff is meant to be the centre of attention.
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Glad that someone has finally taken responsibility for the appalling assault on democracy that was the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
November 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Glad that someone has finally taken responsibility for the appalling assault on democracy that was the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
This lost item hanging by the Roehampton Gate of Richmond Park suggests that somewhere is starting its employees unhealthily young.
November 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
This lost item hanging by the Roehampton Gate of Richmond Park suggests that somewhere is starting its employees unhealthily young.
I see that Alan Milburn has been charged with leading a government review into the growing number of Neets. So now I’m worrying if Louise Casey is somehow unwell.
November 9, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I see that Alan Milburn has been charged with leading a government review into the growing number of Neets. So now I’m worrying if Louise Casey is somehow unwell.
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some sad news: turns out my barber calls ALL of us 'boss'
August 15, 2025 at 1:47 AM
some sad news: turns out my barber calls ALL of us 'boss'
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November 7, 2025 at 7:49 PM
It’s funny, isn’t it, the casual lies we grow used to accepting:
November 7, 2025 at 11:40 AM
It’s funny, isn’t it, the casual lies we grow used to accepting:
We'd been trying to make sense of why today's PMQs' questioning of David Lammy seemed a bit strange. Thank you, @roberthutton.co.uk for elucidating why.
It's great to find out more about the calibre of people we have in the upper echelons of public service - very heartening.
It's great to find out more about the calibre of people we have in the upper echelons of public service - very heartening.
Out for the Count: my SKETCH of James Cartlidge failing at DPMQs so spectacularly that he managed to overshadow David Lammy's TREASONOUS lack of a poppy.
Out for the count | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine
The most important thing in politics, according to Lyndon Johnson, is knowing how to count. He was talking about votes, but the rule also applies, as we shall see, to questions. And friends.
thecritic.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
We'd been trying to make sense of why today's PMQs' questioning of David Lammy seemed a bit strange. Thank you, @roberthutton.co.uk for elucidating why.
It's great to find out more about the calibre of people we have in the upper echelons of public service - very heartening.
It's great to find out more about the calibre of people we have in the upper echelons of public service - very heartening.
Live footage of HMP Wandsworth's pre-release checks:
a man in a green and blue jacket is talking to another man
ALT: a man in a green and blue jacket is talking to another man
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November 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Live footage of HMP Wandsworth's pre-release checks:
Anyone listening to Chris Philp’s Today interview, predicated on the premise knife crime is rising, might like to read my piece from yesterday setting out the more nuanced reality: on.ft.com/47Aw3hT
Train stabbing fuels UK public’s feeling of insecurity
Cambridgeshire attack is second mass knife crime incident in less than a week
on.ft.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Anyone listening to Chris Philp’s Today interview, predicated on the premise knife crime is rising, might like to read my piece from yesterday setting out the more nuanced reality: on.ft.com/47Aw3hT
Reckoned knife crime was out of control in the U.K.?
Reckoned there was nothing to worry about?
Probably neither position is quite right: on.ft.com/47Aw3hT
Reckoned there was nothing to worry about?
Probably neither position is quite right: on.ft.com/47Aw3hT
Train stabbing fuels UK public’s feeling of insecurity
Cambridgeshire attack is second mass knife crime incident in less than a week
on.ft.com
November 2, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Reckoned knife crime was out of control in the U.K.?
Reckoned there was nothing to worry about?
Probably neither position is quite right: on.ft.com/47Aw3hT
Reckoned there was nothing to worry about?
Probably neither position is quite right: on.ft.com/47Aw3hT
It’s my birthday and my son has elected to illustrate my age transition in model railway locomotives.
November 1, 2025 at 9:16 PM
It’s my birthday and my son has elected to illustrate my age transition in model railway locomotives.
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20 minutes before Trick or Treating starts...
October 31, 2025 at 9:42 PM
20 minutes before Trick or Treating starts...
"He gives me a smile that makes me sad that I’m not his dentist and a handshake that makes me glad I’m not his guitar": @henrymance.ft.com is on absolutely top form in his Lunch with the FT with Jon Bon Jovi: www.ft.com/content/25f2...
Jon Bon Jovi: ‘Fame is a liar and a thief’
The rock legend on making peace with the critics, the business of running a band — and his history with Donald Trump
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October 31, 2025 at 6:41 PM
"He gives me a smile that makes me sad that I’m not his dentist and a handshake that makes me glad I’m not his guitar": @henrymance.ft.com is on absolutely top form in his Lunch with the FT with Jon Bon Jovi: www.ft.com/content/25f2...
"Until we get proper transparency of all the revenues that fund the monarchy, things will be constantly emerging": my analysis of the king's surprisingly decisive action over his brother:
www.ft.com/content/d1c1...
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Andrew scandal sparks calls for greater royal transparency
Stripping of titles and home from king’s brother may not calm controversy over future of monarchy, experts say
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October 31, 2025 at 5:52 PM
"Until we get proper transparency of all the revenues that fund the monarchy, things will be constantly emerging": my analysis of the king's surprisingly decisive action over his brother:
www.ft.com/content/d1c1...
www.ft.com/content/d1c1...
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Ah yes, Hallowe’en. Where the doors of the underworld open and all sorts of eldritch creatures spill out
October 31, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Ah yes, Hallowe’en. Where the doors of the underworld open and all sorts of eldritch creatures spill out
A strange thing: the theme song to Dad's Army just popped into my head and I was annoyed anew that it's not "Whom do you think that you're kidding, Mr Hitler?"
There's been a long retreat from standards.
There's been a long retreat from standards.
October 31, 2025 at 10:28 AM
A strange thing: the theme song to Dad's Army just popped into my head and I was annoyed anew that it's not "Whom do you think that you're kidding, Mr Hitler?"
There's been a long retreat from standards.
There's been a long retreat from standards.
Happy reformation day to all who celebrate, albeit they probably celebrate fairly soberly and seriously.
October 31, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Happy reformation day to all who celebrate, albeit they probably celebrate fairly soberly and seriously.
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as.ft.com/r/f4ca1e8a-b... King Charles strips Andrew of prince title and ejects him from mansion @reporterrwright.ft.com
King Charles strips Andrew of prince title and ejects him from mansion
[FREE TO READ] Royal subject to ‘censures deemed necessary’ in sharp change of tone by Buckingham Palace
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October 31, 2025 at 7:11 AM
as.ft.com/r/f4ca1e8a-b... King Charles strips Andrew of prince title and ejects him from mansion @reporterrwright.ft.com
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The [redacted for legal reasons] formerly known as Prince
October 30, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The [redacted for legal reasons] formerly known as Prince
Andrew formerly known as Prince, am I right?
October 30, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Andrew formerly known as Prince, am I right?