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Robert Shrimsley

Managing Editor of FT.com

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.

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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FT Magazine

A Donald Trump-inspired plan to make my home great again

‘For years, my wife has been telling me to do more around the house, which is obviously political correctness gone mad’

Robert Shrimsley

November 18, 2016 10:51 am
Donald Trump

Nigel Farage as envoy to Donald Trump: the go-between from hell

British PM Theresa May rejects the advances of a man with a most Special Relationship

Robert Shrimsley

November 17, 2016 1:43 pm
Brexit

A test of British values

‘I cannot help noticing how some of the most bellicose British nationalists don’t actually seem to like Britain very much’

Robert Shrimsley

November 11, 2016 10:43 am
Donald Trump

A look on the bright side of President Trump

Critics detect a gentler side that was lost in the hurly-burly of the campaign

Robert Shrimsley

November 10, 2016 12:32 pm
Donald Trump

Donald Trump delivers America’s Brexit

This revolt against the political and economic order is immeasurably more significant

Robert Shrimsley

November 9, 2016 5:04 pm
Brexit

Brexit blues, or life as a victim of democracy

‘For many, myself included, the referendum was the first real example of democracy being something that is done to us’

Robert Shrimsley

November 4, 2016 5:52 pm
Donald Trump

Trump TV: We’re live from the White House

The new president welcomes viewers into the Oval Office

Robert Shrimsley

November 3, 2016 2:36 pm
Internet of things

When dumb appliances are the smart choice

‘Just as the interconnectedness of the financial system was responsible for the scale of the financial crisis, so it could be with the internet of things’

Robert Shrimsley

October 27, 2016 4:10 pm
Theresa May

100 days of May: not so much a number, more a political strategy

Notebook: the prime minister is keeping her options open and the country guessing

Robert Shrimsley

October 27, 2016 2:52 pm
FT Magazine

When the minor injuries unit is a major headache

‘Once a possible broken finger brought out the parental instinct to comfort the injured spawn. Now we just think, “What a pillock”’

Robert Shrimsley

October 21, 2016 9:42 am
Conservative Party UK

Big beast blues: Ken Clarke laments a lost era

The memoirs of a Europhile Conservative are full of nostalgia for the days when the big decisions were left to men like him

October 19, 2016 4:00 am
FT Magazine

The pressures of being one of Theresa May's international elite

‘Last week, Theresa May, our new prime minister, denounced me as part of the enemy within’

Robert Shrimsley

October 13, 2016 9:29 am
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

Would you trust the future of humanity to a group called PAIBPS?

‘It’s the kind of name that gets chosen by a committee whose only members are Hal and Borat’

Robert Shrimsley

October 7, 2016 11:12 pm
Conservative Party UK

Theresa May offers a Dad’s Army vision of Britain

The Conservatives’ worldview pushes against modernity to invoke a more comforting, simpler time

Robert Shrimsley

October 6, 2016 2:00 pm
Brexit

London’s five stages of baffled Brexit grief

Something momentous has happened but nothing has really changed, so we live in a phoney war

Robert Shrimsley

October 4, 2016 3:52 am
Sharing Economy

The sharing dogonomy

‘Dog-sitting is not new but the idea of a technology-driven, part-time pet economy seems intriguing’

Robert Shrimsley

September 30, 2016 10:13 am
Donald Trump

Donald Trump: excuses to take you to the end of the world

He would have done so well with a good mic, a fair moderator and if Hillary hadn’t eaten his notes

Robert Shrimsley

September 29, 2016 2:02 pm
FT Magazine

Why I’m making loans to PC World

‘An assistant helpfully pointed out a “cashback” offer that put it within our price range. It was only as we went to pay that it became clear it would be some time before we got the cash back’

Robert Shrimsley

September 23, 2016 10:41 am
Apple

Apple Car: breathlessly redefining the future of personal transport

‘This is the most tax-efficient vehicle ever. We have located our intellectual property on Sark’

Robert Shrimsley

September 22, 2016 1:38 pm
Alan Johnson

Beyond Westminster: new memoirs by Labour’s Alan Johnson and Chris Mullin

Two dispatches show how ‘human’ politicians can prosper — up to a point

September 20, 2016 2:23 pm
Facebook

Facebook photos: snap judgments

‘How dare Facebook’s twentysomething techies, with a hinterland that barely stretches back to the first “Star Wars” movie, erase moments of history?’

Robert Shrimsley

September 16, 2016 1:31 pm
FT Magazine

Suited. Booted. Sorted

‘To prepare for his newly acquired master-of-the-universe status, the boy suggested we go shopping for his new school attire’

Robert Shrimsley

September 9, 2016 9:39 am
FT Magazine

The great moan offset

‘Somewhere in Africa, my mewling has financed clean water for a small village’

Robert Shrimsley

September 2, 2016 9:28 am
Donald Trump

Donald Trump practises politics the old Mexico way

Look moderate on one side of the border, and do the opposite on the other

Robert Shrimsley

September 1, 2016 3:08 pm
FT Magazine

How the waist was won

‘I’m all for more health education but it may take more than a nudge to make a fatty budge’

Robert Shrimsley

August 26, 2016 9:35 am
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