Happy New Year it is time to throw the leftover turkey away. See also that cream you keep sniffing and if you're not using that ham today it's done. This has been a PSA.

If you're interested in becoming a journalist at (in my salmon-tinted view) the best place on earth to be one, try this job-boards.greenhouse.io/financialtim...

RIP MTV thank you for not pivoting to vertical video

this is a beautiful homage by my friend and colleague Claer Barrett to recently-departed FT reader Bruce Dalton, which she read at his funeral last week

Got to do some drilling. Do we as a rule warn neighbour if we are drilling into their wall or is that weird NB i live in london only 40% confident of neighbour’s name

The Bins! They are being emptied! Rejoice!

Good morning it is Day 4 of cooking all the food in the house for a rotating cast of characters but today it's my sister's turn! To celebrate, please enjoy the FT Weekend Quiz of the Year it is very very hard. The first time I did it I got this as.ft.com/r/0c392f47-f...

there is no spoon

Good interview in the paper, this. I think Sadiq is right: London 'needs' to be less successful than it is for a bunch of political arguments here in the UK to work, hence the fictions being invented about it:

i say this once more and it is the best piece of advice i have ever given you. Put the printer in the teen's bedroom. You'll never have to shout again

It's Boxing Day. I, and a crack commando unit of journalists, have been condemned to producing the world's leading financial newspaper in just a handful of hours. I do not want to hear the words "Donald Trump has posted on Truth Social"

just having a lil extra half degree on the heating cos it's christmas and my massive adult children will be asleep for many more hours while i peel potatoes. Wishing you all a warm and happy day

Radio 4 is doing live motorway travel nightmare updates! Everyone's gone very Daily Mail today. Peace and Joy Peace and Joy

Happy Christmas everyone from the New York Times, you've got 24 hours to weigh everyone's presents

The shropshire canal 'sinkhole', the most exciting natural event of shropshire's year/decade, has been recategorised "giant hole". This often happens shortly after big hole appears and everyone denies responsibility. Not definitive. Developing... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The youngest texts to say Chris Rhea is dead 😞. “Wait how do you know Chris Rhea?” I ask. “There’s a bit in Gavin and Stacey where Rob Bryden says ‘I love Chris Rea’ which is when I learned who sings Driving Home for Christmas”.

🚨Canal boat in sinkhole 🚨 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sleigh bells ring are you listening? In Hyde Park, coke is glistening A typical sight, a massive fist fight Brawling in the Winter Wonderland

Hoover’s broken between family christmases and my one year old nephew was staggering round the house like a drunk uncle on a mission to seed breadstick all day yesterday. Anyway do you like your vacuum cleaner? is it good please rave about it .. I can’t afford to join Which? I need a new Hoover

This year I inherited many solemn mantles as is my birthright. First among them is the Riser at 6.45am To Write Schedules and Make Coffee on days of significant gatherings. Proud to take them on but oh i swear I can small my Dad’s bloody pipe

David Walliams AND the Epstein files? Truly it is a festive double issue bonanza take out the trash Christmas travel chaos Friday

Just popping out for a work lunch absolutely not going to buy a chair

Good christ it's the 19th of December, nothing is ready, there's still a paper to finish, the entire first page of my family tree is arriving tomorrow and I have somehow .. lost a chair?

i strongly STRONGLY recommend you urgently check your festive bin calendar for i have received bad tidings

Was very lucky to be asked by Netflix to host a screening of Laura Poitras’s documentary Cover Up about the storied US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh. We had editors, reporters, lawyers, some old lags (hi) some next gen. Film is on Netflix on 26th. It’s unflinching and inspiring. Recommend.

Suspect they couldn’t find enough people who remember who Sarah Palin was to serve on jury

The FT's favourite non-FT articles of 2025 www.ft.com/content/72d0...

My side hustle is apparently returning packages an activity which is increasingly baroque as I search for an Evri agent who isn’t a furious roadman cowboy somewhere in this godforsaken post code

Been an absolute bastard week for news so far, what a relief to reset with a return to discussing whether or not the BBC libelled Donald Trump.

If he didn't make one of your favourite movies of all time are you even real

Close reading of Stephen Armstrong in the Observer makes clear there is only one media ownership story but it is everywhere: who is RedBird trying to impress? observer.co.uk/news/busines..., observer.co.uk/news/profile...

I've spent a lot of time in Skipton (1) and I live in Camden (3) so I am ideally placed to comment. Skipton wins on pork pies, castle, "gateway to the Dales" and likelihood you share a child with a near neighbour. Camden wins on canal, trains, parks and likelihood of contact high on leaving house.

Teared up at this bit “an extraordinary, ordinary man whose decency and kindness on January 20 2023 prevented an atrocity in the maternity wing of a major British hospital”

Me in a meeting yesterday: “I fear the the south Yorkshire media diaspora is significant and will very much be all over the comments” beginning but not limited to Jeremy sodding Clarkson who is quite big in the media I believe

Good morning and welcome to your FT Weekend highlight giftlink thread. We start with this fantastic essay by Tim Wu, one of the big brains of web 1.0, cautioning that Silicon valley may be winning the AI battle to lose the bigger economic war to China as.ft.com/r/83deb81e-3...

classic editors' dilemma of which photo from the estate of the dead sex offender to put on the front page

Obviously, people will say this is Panglossian nonsense… .. I prefer, “factual” as.ft.com/r/f040c3e5-9... The UK economy is not nearly as bad as you’ve been told

also gift recommendations, answers to YOUR DILEMMAS and share tips. Ask her anything

pub? as.ft.com/r/fcb05428-3...

Good morning please open your bibles to Matthew 17:21 and ..

"the balcony was added in the 1930s" www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

I’ll feign interest in your Spotify wrapped but don’t you dare post your damn sleep summary

There comes a point in December where a brief bout of mutant superflu would be something of a relief

Use my one top life hack to make sure you never fall for this scam: pay for your kids' phones in perpetuity 🙄

Marvelling how against all the odds F1 has become a sport dominated by nice young men

Good morning, please stand for the gospel. “For it is written that for the four Sundays of advent she shall have a mince pie for breakfast if she wants one”. This is the word of the Lord. Give him thanks and praise

I did send a text saying how much i love living in Camden earlier this week but I'd had wine

oh my, the last truly good time WAS 1997 !

Good morning only to anyone whose listening age is seventy three wtf