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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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Five years since they introduced entry fees at the Museum of Ancient History, you’d think they would have scraped together the cash to change the references in the Primates exhibit to “Man” by now. (a word I can only read in the voice of Shere Khan in the Jungle Book, which gives me the giggles.)

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A Conservative criticism that I didn’t give enough headroom to is: almost none of these guys have ever created a SINGLE job, and boy does it show.

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Absolutely delightful lunch by @georgewparker.bsky.social with a famously difficult interview subject:

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Lunch with the FT with Theresa May: holding hands with Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, coughing fits, Tories under Badenoch, geography - the former PM opens up in a rare personal interview. Washed down with a dry Gavi www.ft.com/content/f2ba...

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Rather lovely review by @jayrayner1.bsky.social in this weekend’s FT:

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Oh my god: the reason for this parliamentary recall is to make plans for British Steel, in order to ward off the threat from Nigel

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Shower thought: just realised how much His Dark Materials has the same structure as a classic JRPG. First level: you and your cute animal companion sneak into a study! A childhood friend joins your party. Final level: you, your love interest and a motley crew kill God.

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One thing I miss about my old job is blogging all the time*, in that there will always be a bigger story than “Mel Stride is a shit shadow chancellor” for the newsletter. But Mel Stride IS a shit shadow chancellor! *paradoxically this is also the thing that was gradually killing me.

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For reasons unknown, Americans asking if a seat in a bar is free turns me into a character from a Richard Curtis romcom. Even I could barely parse what I said just then other than “I’m terribly sorry”, and I was the one speaking.

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It’s not the biggest problem we face, but: why are this couple so whiny? You’ve (by your own account) fled to Guatemala to escape a tax bill! Why are you so prissy and irritable in your statements about it?

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oh so you like Martin Amis? guess that makes us Martin Ennemis

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