A columnist occasionally stumbles across a story, and feels the need to follow it up www.ft.com/content/b403...

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...

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

Universities are losing funding from international students so they have to get wilier about financing research with private projects www.ft.com/content/a824...

My piece on a David and Goliath fight in the global berry market: Dyson vs Driscoll's . . . on.ft.com/3DcLZva

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Howard Lutnick’s claim that Ford or GM cannot sell cars in Europe is a bit strange youtu.be/hnjo7H7xipc?...

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...

My first UK business column, on the surprising recovery of Rolls-Royce www.ft.com/content/b8d5...

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...

At the Henry Moore house and gardens

Given the direction in which Elon Musk has been driving X recently, I think I'll be spending more time here (and on Threads)