Robert Shrimsley

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Donald Trump and the lunatic fringe

The businessman faces growing demands to prove his hair is US-born

©Lucas Varela From LIFE & ARTS May 26, 2012

Watch the real Olympic relay – on eBay

Commercialism is fine, but what grates is the attempt to pretend that everything is still true to the Games’ original ideals

May 23, 2012

Downtime Dave, chillaxed of Chequers

The PM’s relaxed demeanor seems out of kilter with austerity Britain

Philip Stephens Cameron forgets his first political lesson
Notebook Reagan would have ‘chillaxed’ too

illustration of a girl giving flower to the Queen

©Lucas Varela From LIFE & ARTS May 19, 2012

Telling business to work harder

Once it was the unemployed who felt the lash of the Tory tongue, now it is the boss class

©Lucas Varela From LIFE & ARTS May 12, 2012

My fatherly advice: leave your kids to it

Unless the problem is really serious, I have concluded that my children are better off sorting it out themselves

May 9, 2012

Bin Laden’s dept of inhuman resources

Even in the service of bloody mayhem, certain professional standards were being maintained

©Lucas Varela From LIFE & ARTS May 5, 2012

Re-arming an Englishman’s castle

Hunks of aircraft will crash on to London before we let any harm befall our veldodrome

©Lucas Varela From LIFE & ARTS Apr 28, 2012

Pushing the posh out of Downing St

Memos on the privilege problem must be flying across Downing Street

From LIFE & ARTS Apr 21, 2012

Look, how much to stop haggling?

It may be only a couple of quid, but it’s the presumption that you are a fool with more cash than sense which rankles

From LIFE & ARTS Mar 23, 2012

Deliver us from militant atheists

Atheism is a non-belief. Extremism in the name of something that doesn’t exist feels a bit silly

From LIFE & ARTS Mar 16, 2012

The Catholic Church is ruining my marriage

Acording to our religious leaders it is a dandelion in the wind, easily blown away by others you’ve never met

Mar 14, 2012

A PR strategy for the Kony fightback

The warlord is facing ‘a bit of an image problem’

From LIFE & ARTS Mar 9, 2012

My welfare plan (no shelf-stacking required)

Newly formed Chores for Yours-Truly Inc is eligible for handouts and ready to prepare youngsters for work

Feb 29, 2012

Bourne again…and again… and again

Lamenting the lack of anything worth watching has long been a national pastime, but the switch to digital was meant to end all that

Robert Shrimsley is the Managing Editor of FT.com. Before this he has served as the FT’s chief political correspondent and news editor.

He writes weekly for the Notebook column, a satirical look at the week’s news and for the FT weekend Magazine.

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The businessman faces growing demands to prove his hair is US-born

Commercialism is fine, but what grates is the attempt to pretend that everything is still true to the Games’ original ideals

The PM’s relaxed demeanor seems out of kilter with austerity Britain

Letting people’s children give them flowers is a simple strategy that should shore up the monarchy for a few decades

Once it was the unemployed who felt the lash of the Tory tongue, now it is the boss class

Unless the problem is really serious, I have concluded that my children are better off sorting it out themselves

Even in the service of bloody mayhem, certain professional standards were being maintained

Normality in a prime minister is, in any case, overrated, especially since no one actually thinks politicians are normal

Hunks of aircraft will crash on to London before we let any harm befall our veldodrome

Perhaps the decade did represent the first tugs at the cultural straitjackets, but these were the faltering efforts

Memos on the privilege problem must be flying across Downing Street

It may be only a couple of quid, but it’s the presumption that you are a fool with more cash than sense which rankles

Atheism is a non-belief. Extremism in the name of something that doesn’t exist feels a bit silly

Acording to our religious leaders it is a dandelion in the wind, easily blown away by others you’ve never met

The warlord is facing ‘a bit of an image problem’

You can tell me to go to the movies for the experience; actually these days I go for the lattes and the New Zealand sauvignon

In hiring IBM’s Watson, the bank has stolen a march on its rivals

Newly formed Chores for Yours-Truly Inc is eligible for handouts and ready to prepare youngsters for work

One day, will crime only be interesting if a famous person is involved?

Lamenting the lack of anything worth watching has long been a national pastime, but the switch to digital was meant to end all that

Robert Shrimsley

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