Robert Shrimsley

Friday, 3 February, 2023

FT MagazineLife & Arts

Memo to staff: dress fabulously

Do we want our lawyers to ‘express themselves to the full’?

Wednesday, 1 February, 2023

UK politics & policy

Conservatives are forced to face the economic case for net zero

The green industrial revolution is coming: ministers need to back a Tory plan to embrace it and prosper

Wednesday, 1 February, 2023

Northern Ireland

Sunak faces crunch decision on post-Brexit Northern Ireland

Deal takes shape on trading arrangements but unionists and Eurosceptics still need to be brought on board

Sunday, 29 January, 2023

Instant InsightUK politics & policy

Zahawi affair raises doubts over Sunak’s ruthlessness

Sometimes political leadership requires acting on gut instinct rather than sheltering behind investigations

Friday, 27 January, 2023

FT MagazineLife & Arts

How the reborn high street is making us both fat and fit

Old banks are turning into cafés or fitness centres. Perhaps a new social divide is on its way

Wednesday, 25 January, 2023

Conservative Party UK

Careless conservatism is killing Sunak’s effort to save his party

Hit by a series of mini scandals, the studious prime minister is starting to look weak

Monday, 23 January, 2023

InterviewLabour Party UK

Labour vows to rebuild international reputation of ‘isolated’ UK

Shadow foreign secretary says repairing relations with the EU will be a priority if elected

Friday, 20 January, 2023

FT MagazineMusic

What Shakira gets wrong about men and their cars

The star’s diss track about her ex, Gerard Piqué, proves our stereotypes about motors need updating

Wednesday, 18 January, 2023

Brexit

There is no path back to a pre-Brexit Northern Ireland

The EU must help Rishi Sunak face down hardliners to break the logjam

Friday, 13 January, 2023

FT MagazineLife & Arts

The misery of the always-switched-on parent

My phone allows me to monitor my daughter’s late night journey home. But is that a good thing?

Wednesday, 11 January, 2023

UK politics & policy

British politics is still suffering from ‘long populism’

Sunak is refusing to confront reality, just like his predecessors

Wednesday, 4 January, 2023

Conservative Party UK

Boris Johnson is the itch Tories must stop scratching

The former leader’s return is unlikely but it is a sign of the Conservatives’ malaise that so many still dream of it

Friday, 23 December, 2022

FT MagazineLife & Arts

How my farfetched predictions for 2022 came true

Three prime ministers and a birthday cake: a year in British politics

Friday, 16 December, 2022

FT MagazineLife & Arts

Your views on Harry and Meghan once indicated your social values. Not any more

Even those who sympathised with the Sussexes fear they’re ‘overdoing it’ with their new Netflix series

Wednesday, 14 December, 2022

Conservative Party UK

Tories are selling their future for short-term salvation

Instead of backing older generations, the party needs to make political choices to appeal to working-age voters

Friday, 9 December, 2022

FT MagazineLife & Arts

The problem of everything being too convenient

How did we become people for whom a minor mishap equals household disaster?

Wednesday, 7 December, 2022

Conservative Party UK

The Conservatives risk being consumed by Faragism

With its leaders pandering to the right, the party is pushed into ever more incendiary promises it cannot deliver on

Wednesday, 30 November, 2022

UK constitutional-electoral reform

Reforming democracy could be the next Brexit

Pressure for constitutional change is gathering momentum but England could end up paying the price

Friday, 25 November, 2022

FT MagazineFIFA World Cup

Why not have a festival of sporting corruption?

Forget furtive backhanders and brown envelopes – let’s get it out in the open and turn it into an international sport

Wednesday, 23 November, 2022

Brexit

The true Brexit divide is now between pragmatists and zealots

Both Sunak and Starmer face ultras within their parties who are not keen on compromise

Friday, 18 November, 2022

FT MagazineLife & Arts

These days the Irish are telling English jokes

Other countries no longer engage in Brit-bashing – they now treat us with pity and concern

Thursday, 17 November, 2022

Conservative Party UK

Hunt and Sunak are down to their last grains of hope

The Autumn Statement was managed as well as possible but the outlook is grim

Wednesday, 16 November, 2022

Autumn Statement

Low taxes cannot be the core Conservative mission

The party should abandon its Thatcher tribute act and focus on the public’s priorities for fiscal policy

Wednesday, 9 November, 2022

Keir Starmer

Labour hopes hang on the battle of Starmer vs Starmer

Clashing demands to both reassure and inspire voters hobble the UK opposition leader’s electoral prospects

Friday, 4 November, 2022

FT MagazineLife & Arts

Confessions of a north Londoner

What if the Conservatives are on to something and my deviations are the results of endemic north Londonism?

UK chief political commentator and UK editor at large

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