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Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff, Arsenal, wosoc. Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics
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Very enjoyable edition of 'ask @robertshrimsley.bsky.social' this. Recently heard a very glamorous couple in their 50s discussing this 'should we have separate bedrooms?' question on the train.

submitted 2 hours ago • 9 comments

I had heard of him and this song, but this is like learning that the incredibly paint by the numbers cover of “Simply the Best” in the Miele advert is number one in the charts. It’s montage music! And not a good montage!

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

This is such an important story.

submitted 18 hours ago • 8 comments

submitted 16 hours ago • 8 comments

I'm similarly obsessed, and have to actively fight the voice in my head going 'but, seriously...aren't you CURIOUS as to hiw bad the NYT gochujang cookie recipe would taste with two tins worth of tinned tomatoes in them?'

submitted 16 hours ago • 6 comments

It has been brought to my attention -- especially by my landlord -- that I have totally missed the point of Pride Month. My sincerest apologies to all who celebrate it. On an unrelated note, anybody interested in buying a lion or two? Meet me in my courtyard.

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

A lot of really interesting stuff in here:

submitted 17 hours ago • 9 comments

Contemplating my planned double-header this evening and thinking: is today I send the world's most deranged customer email?

submitted 18 hours ago • 6 comments

IMO the genuinely fun* game is to do this with 'historic counties as they stood in 1776'. The great state of Middlesex and its 155 electoral votes. *I have never claimed to be cool.

submitted 18 hours ago • 5 comments

Me for @ftweekend.com on the joys of cities less-travelled See ya in Denver, Belfast, Helsinki... on.ft.com/45HOMbR

submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments

I've no doubt they exist, but *WHO* is the person who wasn't going to buy something described as 'secondhand' but is won over by the label 'preloved', and can we make sure they don't vote?

submitted 19 hours ago • 19 comments

'St Pancras Station from Argyle Street' by Peter Brown peterbrownneac.com

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

Always worth listening to @katie0martin.ft.com on.ft.com/4kXL7eE Why we should worry about the rise of stablecoins

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

I have lived in a mid or high rise flat for most of my life, and yet, every summer I am surprised by the whole 'it is considerably warmer on the ground floor than it is 30 metres in the air'.

submitted 22 hours ago • 8 comments