Josh Gabert-Doyon
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Writer, audio producer for the Financial Times 'Tech Tonic' podcast.
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Interesting piece by
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on disputes over Birmingham’s available reserves and whether it has cut back harder than it needed to
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UK’s second city urged to justify ‘avalanche’ of cuts after bankruptcy
Birmingham city council under growing pressure to explain whether severe cost savings and asset sales were necessary
https://www.ft.com/content/9045a43e-d2e4-43cc-b353-75fa9bf56248?shareType=nongift
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23 days ago
The manosphere is going into business
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The manosphere is going into business
Online influencers are targeting young men with tips on how to walk, talk and breathe
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In the paper today with a piece about how male influencers have grown up and rebranded as business gurus, employing a particular mix of grooming, dating and professional advice. Part monetisation strategy, part Victorian etiquette guide.
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The manosphere is going into business
[FREE TO READ] Online influencers are targeting young men with tips on how to walk, talk and breathe
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22 days ago
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Spoke to
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for the FT News Briefing last night to talk about a suspected Russia GPS jamming on the European Commission president's plane. And to the FT's Gloria Li about Xiaomi's move into high-tech EV manufacturing.
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Russia suspected of GPS interference on EU official's flight
Flight of European Commission president was forced to land in Bulgaria using paper maps
https://www.ft.com/content/481b9f17-5234-418e-afa0-9116a3110675
2 months ago
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The Labour government is betting that AI public sector contracts can drive efficiency in the civil service and carve out the UK's place as an AI leader. It's also been extremely profitable for tech and consulting companies.
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Whitehall hands out AI contracts worth £573mn in efficiency push
[FREE TO READ] Ministers hope technology can help streamline the civil service, reduce government waste and save billions
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PLMR Education
3 months ago
London councils seek to repurpose closed-down schools for SEND pupils. More from
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London councils seek to repurpose closed-down schools for Send pupils
Shift comes as cash-strapped local authorities seek to curb costs
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Higher poultry prices and an increase in national insurance contribution hit Carnival food sellers over the weekend, who were forced to raise prices, cut down on menu offerings, and resort to agency workers.
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(Poultry prices are up by more than 45% year-on-year)
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Notting Hill Carnival food sellers grapple with rising costs
Traders plan to use cheaper cuts of chicken as they warn of hit from rise in employer national insurance contributions
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3 months ago
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Nice detail from today's court case about Epping asylum hotel: the Home Office made a last-ditch effort to stop the injunction going forward, emailing the judge midway through the hearing on Friday and only sending their full submission at 5:33pm last night...
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Government fails to stop closure of Essex hotel at centre of UK asylum debate
[FREE TO READ] Local authority injunction ruling may lead to more councils seeking to shut down hotels that house immigrants
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3 months ago
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3 months ago
They weren't stolen, just... misplaiced...
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Today in adventures in Met police statistics: did anyone have 1,013 fish stolen in 2022? Absolutely off-the-charts fish-related incident.
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Toby Nangle
3 months ago
Interesting read on how pension costs are squeezing post-92 universities from
@marymcd.bsky.social
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Had fun talking to
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for today's FT News Briefing podcast, where we get into her column on investors as boiling frogs
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The markets are shrugging off chaos
People are looking at becalmed market conditions and writing them off as the result of a quiet summer
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Serco and Mears, two of the largest asylum hotel outsourcers, are looking for new business following the government's move away from the use of hotel. Serco is focusing on the defence sector, while Mears is working on housing association maintenance
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Serco and Mears see declining asylum hotel businesses
[FREE TO READ] Outsourcers refocus operations as UK government winds down controversial system
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3 months ago
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Did some reporting on asylum hotel protests in London, which have kicked off again this weekend. NIMBYism, public safety debates, and estate agents fielding calls from nervous buyers in Canary Wharf.
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Asylum hotel protests spread to prestige London postcodes
[FREE TO READ] Canary Wharf and Islington residents mobilise as unrest moves south from more deprived parts of northern England
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3 months ago
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4 months ago
Great piece by
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on life of a forensic botanist, and the wider perils to forensic science in the UK
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How to read a landscape and capture a killer
Meet the former horticulturist who specialises in the ‘botany of doom’
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Sam Learner
5 months ago
NEW: Why Wall Street fears a 33-year-old political outsider
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Hosted today's FT News Briefing podcast and interviewed UNICEF's James Elder, who's just returned from Gaza, about the new aid distribution sites. He told me extreme water scarcity was becoming an issue, on top of daily violence at the aid sites.
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EU pushes a UK-style trade deal with the US
Higher US tariffs on the EU will snap back into place on 9 July
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404 Media
5 months ago
The AI Slop Fight Between Iran and Israel 🔗
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Went on Australia's ABC Late Night Live to talk about the ideology behind the Enhanced Games.
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The money behind the Enhanced Games - an "Olympics on steroids" - ABC listen
In May 2026, a resort in Las Vegas will host the inaugural Enhanced Games, where athletes will be free to use performance enhancing drugs. The controversial event is the brainchild of Australian busin...
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/latenightlive/enhanced-games-money-funding/105344806
6 months ago
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Really happy with this one – did some reporting on the increase in London festival days and the balance between council budgets, local resident complaints, arts and culture benefits and the interests of festival operators. Fantastic graphic viz by
@claradoodle.bsky.social
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London festivals become flashpoint for local politics
[FREE TO READ] Residents and promoters fight over the soul of the capital’s public green spaces
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6 months ago
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6 months ago
OK good news for the UK latest - London's west end might be about to get a big nightlife revival - theatre sales UP, bar closures DOWN (we hope) - lends itself to an awful PMQs call and response a la Boris Johnson. By Josh Gabert Doyon
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There were noticeable difference between the effects of the Birmingham bin workers strike on deprived areas vs more affluent ones. Council finances are struggling and workers are kicking off about large-scale reforms of the waste collection service. Bad situation.
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UK’s second city drowns in rubbish as bin strikes continue
Businesses fear that refuse piles will damage Birmingham’s reputation, as industrial action continues
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8 months ago
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Wrote about the rise of AI-enabled CCTV cameras in London.
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London expands CCTV network in ‘tech race against crime’
[FREE TO READ] Councils rush to tool up with AI cameras as police grapple with surge in street crime
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For the FT Magazine I spent the past year following Aron D'Souza, the man behind the Enhanced Games, a Peter Thiel-backed "steroid Olympics", and his attempt to turn performance enhancing drugs into a culture war issue.
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The Enhanced Games wants to be the Olympics on steroids — literally
The man who helped Peter Thiel destroy Gawker has a new, even bolder project
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9 months ago
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Wrote about private equity investment in the UK's consumer law sector (divorce, family, personal injury etc) and discontent among employees at the firms that have been bought up by PE.
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Private equity money flows into UK’s consumer law firms
[FREE TO READ] Dealmaking picks up in sector offering legal services from divorce to conveyancing
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10 months ago
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10 months ago
So you inject your face with puffy stuff to smoothe out the wrinkles from injecting yourself with skinny stuff to fix bloating your body with fatty stuff. What stage of capitalism is this?
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Baby boomers and ‘Ozempic face’ drive injectables craze
[FREE TO READ] People ‘want to look what they feel like, not what they may look like’ says dermatology giant Galderma
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LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia
10 months ago
Changes to departments' operational budget, FY24-25:
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Daniela Gabor
10 months ago
fascinating how Indonesia is flexing its large consumer market muscle to coerce foreign capital into strategic partnerships with local business - developmentalism is back!
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Went home to Montreal and wrote about the massive logistical challenge that comes with clearing up masses and masses of snow. Climate change is making it even trickier (and the making the potholes worse). And any attempt to clear up that snow just causes more problems.
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Montreal vs snow: a feat of choreographed chaos
Climate change has made efforts at ‘deneigement’ more challenging than ever
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Daniela Gabor
10 months ago
Canadian public pension funds privatise critical infrastructure abroad because Canadian politics prefers to keep infrastructure publicly owned
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Clara Murray
11 months ago
How this breaks down in different cities is also interesting. I love that you can see the little bumps at 10/11pm representing the millennial love for day raves
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A fun one for NYE - I looked at club listings going back a decade in 15 cities to show that the trend for dance events to end earlier is global - with UK cities seeing some of the biggest shifts 📉🪩 Who killed the rave? (Gift link)
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Dance music and club events are finishing earlier in cities as disparate as Berlin, Barcelona, Sydney and New York. Looked into some of the causes w/
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@nicfildes.bsky.social
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Who killed the rave? Late-night dancing falls into global decline
From Berlin to New York, clubbers in the world’s party capitals are heading home earlier
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11 months ago
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Got really interested in what books are considered go-to classics for different professions. Some choice picks from people I spoke to included "Duveen: The Story of the Most Spectacular Art Dealer of All Time", Dickens' "Bleak House" and ‘The Art of Eating’ by MFK Fisher.
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The one book to read to understand your industry
Professionals pick the titles that reveal aspects to their work outsiders rarely see
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11 months ago
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This is interesting - Lilium, a SPAC darling of the air taxi sector, announced it was going into administration and laying off 1000 workers but is now being yanked out of bankruptcy by investors (who are working under the name 'Mobile Uplift Corporation' lol)
techcrunch.com/2024/12/24/s...
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Shuttered electric air taxi startup Lilium may be saved after all | TechCrunch
A consortium of investors has resurrected Lilium just days after the electric air taxi startup ceased operations and laid off about 1,000 employees.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/24/shuttered-electric-air-taxi-startup-lilium-may-be-saved-after-all/
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