John Gapper
@johngapper.bsky.social
Chief UK Business Columnist of the Financial Times. London, ex-New York, with a bit of Tokyo
How Prem Watsa - dubbed the Warren Buffett of Canada wants to expand the owner of Chutney Mary, Veeraswamy and Masala Zone global - column here from @johngapper.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/697c...
A billionaire is taking the UK’s Indian restaurants global
Prem Watsa of Fairfax Financial wants to expand the owner of Chutney Mary and Veeraswamy to the US, Canada and the Gulf
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A lovely piece about modern science and its enemies by Rosie Dastgir (my wife) as.ft.com/r/f94888a8-0...
A year on a cancer vaccine trial at London’s oldest hospital
[FREE TO READ] This 21st-century centre of cutting-edge science is also a medieval site of celestial auguries, of miracle cures performed and witnessed
as.ft.com
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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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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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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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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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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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
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...
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
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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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Given the direction in which Elon Musk has been driving X recently, I think I'll be spending more time here (and on Threads)
