I grew up in this community and I have a few thoughts I want to share. A short thread. www.jewishnews.co.uk/breaking-hat...

On antisemitism. Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

NEW BLOGPOST: Palestine Action: What just happened? A look at some of the legal principles at play following yesterday's verdicts. thesecretbarrister.com/2026/02/05/p...

Well-established companies should ask themselves a simple question: “Who in the company is in the business of looking after its future?”’ My FT Big Read on how giants from Boeing to Kodak to GE lost their way on.ft.com/4jLtLS8 #management #leadership

I used to be one of the people selecting the letters to the editor for FT publication. You live for moments like this.

FT readers will pretty much never have seen Andy Slade's name in print. But he was the kind of person who gets a newspaper out with minimal errors and maximum attention to the needs of the readers. We're all very sad at his death. But this is a beautiful obituary: www.ft.com/content/76e8...

Intelligent, nuanced email from @stephenkb.bsky.social today on dangers in Labour's schools bill. There's plenty wrong with England's schools, especially on special needs, but the bill risks reversing the greatest national achievements of previous decades - the improvement in state education.

So we can add BA silver cards to the list of things we boomers had which are now denied to younger generations. www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...

Thanks to the @financialtimes.com Claer Barrett for letting us know that the latest model of Monopoly is card-only.

This CD player was my birthday present in 1997 along with the incomparable Fresh Hits 1997. I found it recently and COULD NOT BELIEVE how rich the sound was, after years of streaming Spotify on my phone. My column today is about this phenomenon, which I’m calling “qualitynesia” on.ft.com/3ZlwHf5

Here's @pilitaclark.bsky.social writing about how "around" had replaced "about" as the word used when talking about something. While I'm an ever bigger pedant than Pilita, I hadn't noticed this one. It will now irritate me every time. www.ft.com/content/b589...

My old friend Peter Grimsdale arguing in the @financialtimes.com that Jaguar's ad is a return to traditional values.

People facing retirement often want whatever they do next to have a wider purpose or worry that their career didn't have one. So thanks to Victoria Tomlinson of Next-Up for alerting me to this study concluding that a sense of purpose reduces dementia risk. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC....

Our overdiagnosis crisis Amid a sharp rise in mental health conditions, critics say we have started to pathologise “ordinary human unhappiness”. By Rachel Kelly www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...

My old deputy, and then editor, Isabel Berwick and I talk about what we wish we'd known when we started out. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...

Delighted to see @pilitaclark.bsky.social advocating "if you cough, you're off". If you're ill, go home and don't infect everyone else. As a manager, I was sending snifflers home long before Covid, as my deputies @martinbrice.bsky.social and Hugo Greenhalgh will recall. www.ft.com/content/d79c...

How to play the organisational politics game. My @financialtimes.com column. (And, no, opting out of the game entirely doesn't work.) www.ft.com/content/772f...

Pleased to have caught the last performance of "Skeleton Crew" at the Donmar Warehouse about the closure of a Detroit car plant. Brilliant portrayal of the middle manager's invariable dilemma: having to defend company line against the rage of your team, who you try to protect against all the odds.

Special deal for new Starbucks CEO: he doesn't have to come into the regular office. Baristas will presumably still have to show up for work. www.ft.com/content/ef7a...

In today's FT, @lynneguist.bsky.social and @byagoda.bsky.social, admittedly in a report from New York. Is there an increase in UK use of "wait lists" and "wait times" over "waiting"?

Brilliant column by the FT's John Thornhill on the Post Office scandal, especially this conclusion. www.ft.com/content/3cbb...

@byagoda.bsky.social @lynneguist.bsky.social Spotted in the wild. www.ft.com/content/8e7e...

I spoke to @financialtimes.com's Isabel Berwick about why we need to stop talking about retirement. It no longer describes what people like me are doing. open.spotify.com/episode/7ae7...