Kate Allen
@kateallen.ft.com
Weekend news editor, the Financial Times. I did write the headline.
Latest in the ‘controversial London officer worker opinion of the day’ series:
Prices everywhere else have gone up so much in the past couple of years that Pret is beginning to look tolerable again.
Prices everywhere else have gone up so much in the past couple of years that Pret is beginning to look tolerable again.
Latest in what’s now going to be a series:
Gail’s.
Gail’s.
Controversial London office worker opinion of the day: Farmer J is wildly overrated.
December 4, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Latest in the ‘controversial London officer worker opinion of the day’ series:
Prices everywhere else have gone up so much in the past couple of years that Pret is beginning to look tolerable again.
Prices everywhere else have gone up so much in the past couple of years that Pret is beginning to look tolerable again.
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December 3, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Tom Stoppard fans and mourners: the Hampstead Theatre run of Indian Ink starts this week; the Old Vic is doing Arcadia from late Jan.
(Gift link, 300 clicks)
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(Gift link, 300 clicks)
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British playwright Sir Tom Stoppard dies
[FREE TO READ] Czech-born author of witty, cerebral plays was also an award-winning screenwriter
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November 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Tom Stoppard fans and mourners: the Hampstead Theatre run of Indian Ink starts this week; the Old Vic is doing Arcadia from late Jan.
(Gift link, 300 clicks)
on.ft.com/4rub2yn
(Gift link, 300 clicks)
on.ft.com/4rub2yn
Tom Stoppard fans and mourners: the Hampstead Theatre run of Indian Ink starts this week; the Old Vic is doing Arcadia from late Jan.
(Gift link, 300 clicks)
on.ft.com/4rub2yn
(Gift link, 300 clicks)
on.ft.com/4rub2yn
British playwright Sir Tom Stoppard dies
[FREE TO READ] Czech-born author of witty, cerebral plays was also an award-winning screenwriter
on.ft.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Tom Stoppard fans and mourners: the Hampstead Theatre run of Indian Ink starts this week; the Old Vic is doing Arcadia from late Jan.
(Gift link, 300 clicks)
on.ft.com/4rub2yn
(Gift link, 300 clicks)
on.ft.com/4rub2yn
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One thing all but unknown to journalists, MPs and maybe ministers is that the MAC calculates annual inflows of net 110k are the level that has a stable population (and that net zero shrinks the population). So ought to be some limit on driving numbers down from net 205k given pressures & gains
November 27, 2025 at 8:56 PM
One thing all but unknown to journalists, MPs and maybe ministers is that the MAC calculates annual inflows of net 110k are the level that has a stable population (and that net zero shrinks the population). So ought to be some limit on driving numbers down from net 205k given pressures & gains
Latest in what’s now going to be a series:
Gail’s.
Gail’s.
Controversial London office worker opinion of the day: Farmer J is wildly overrated.
November 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Latest in what’s now going to be a series:
Gail’s.
Gail’s.
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Post-Budget briefing from economics editor Sam Fleming
November 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Post-Budget briefing from economics editor Sam Fleming
So it seems that the main winners in the Budget today are people who would like to own a £2mn+ house but only have ~£1.5-1.95mn to spend, right?
November 26, 2025 at 12:53 PM
So it seems that the main winners in the Budget today are people who would like to own a £2mn+ house but only have ~£1.5-1.95mn to spend, right?
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(‘Romans: A Novel’ at the Almeida is in 2nd place on my list of art that has something insightful to say about 2025, btw)
November 20, 2025 at 10:30 AM
(‘Romans: A Novel’ at the Almeida is in 2nd place on my list of art that has something insightful to say about 2025, btw)
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If the purpose of art is to hold a mirror up to nature then this story (including the artwork itself) has more to say about Britain in 2025 than anything else I’ve seen. Bravo all round, a marvellous festive farce.
It’s the exclusive everyone wanted, the story that will win next year’s Pulitzer…
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
London's giant AI artwork to be torn down
The bizarre story of why a much-talked-about creation is being torn down. Plus: Docklands Light Railway extension, giant laser stalks the night sky, and more tales of Android phone theft rejection.
www.londoncentric.media
November 20, 2025 at 10:26 AM
If the purpose of art is to hold a mirror up to nature then this story (including the artwork itself) has more to say about Britain in 2025 than anything else I’ve seen. Bravo all round, a marvellous festive farce.
If the purpose of art is to hold a mirror up to nature then this story (including the artwork itself) has more to say about Britain in 2025 than anything else I’ve seen. Bravo all round, a marvellous festive farce.
It’s the exclusive everyone wanted, the story that will win next year’s Pulitzer…
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
London's giant AI artwork to be torn down
The bizarre story of why a much-talked-about creation is being torn down. Plus: Docklands Light Railway extension, giant laser stalks the night sky, and more tales of Android phone theft rejection.
www.londoncentric.media
November 20, 2025 at 10:26 AM
If the purpose of art is to hold a mirror up to nature then this story (including the artwork itself) has more to say about Britain in 2025 than anything else I’ve seen. Bravo all round, a marvellous festive farce.
If Keir Starmer would like to speedily claw back a little bit of popularity in the polls, he could announce immediate and swingeing restrictions on the sale and use of fireworks.
November 15, 2025 at 7:29 PM
If Keir Starmer would like to speedily claw back a little bit of popularity in the polls, he could announce immediate and swingeing restrictions on the sale and use of fireworks.
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Shout out to FT colleague David Sheppard, who wrote this last week... www.ft.com/content/5480...
Why Rachel Reeves won’t raise income tax
An unpopular government cannot afford to be branded dishonest by the public
www.ft.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Shout out to FT colleague David Sheppard, who wrote this last week... www.ft.com/content/5480...
I know there are bigger problems in the world but the queues at the British Museum are absolutely crazy. Even if you pre book! @britishmuseum.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I know there are bigger problems in the world but the queues at the British Museum are absolutely crazy. Even if you pre book! @britishmuseum.bsky.social
Delighted to see that How To Spend It has discovered, of all places, Woolwich and Plumstead …
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Nepal’s culinary peak is in... Woolwich
There are mountains of Himalayan restaurants, cafés and food trucks to discover in south-east London
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October 20, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Delighted to see that How To Spend It has discovered, of all places, Woolwich and Plumstead …
www.ft.com/content/903c...
www.ft.com/content/903c...
Controversial London office worker opinion of the day: Farmer J is wildly overrated.
September 19, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Controversial London office worker opinion of the day: Farmer J is wildly overrated.
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I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.
Shocked by Epstein’s birthday book? That culture was everywhere before feminism | Rebecca Solnit
Feminism exposed the ubiquity of child abuse, rape, sexual harassment and domestic violence – and helped fight that culture
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September 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.
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Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?
The assassination of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk marks a watershed moment in a surge of US political violence, one that some experts fear will inflame an already-fractured country and inspire more unrest reut.rs/41PWH4l
Nation on edge: Experts warn of “vicious spiral" in political violence after Kirk killing
The assassination of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk marks a watershed moment in a surge of U.S. political violence, one that some experts fear will inflame an already-fractured country and inspire more unrest.
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September 11, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?
Re-upping for anyone interested (part of a short thread).
This is a more academic look at how politics descended into violence and how the state facilitated some of it (posting again as I messed up the thread)
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Schuma...
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Schuma...
Political Violence in the Weimar Republic, 1918-1933: Fight for the Streets and Fear of Civil War | Berghahn Books
Independent Publishing since 1994
www.berghahnbooks.com
September 10, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Re-upping for anyone interested (part of a short thread).
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Thanks for the many shares and warm responses to this piece today.
I think we need to hear more from asylum seekers to counter the myths and lies being deliberately spread about them
I think we need to hear more from asylum seekers to counter the myths and lies being deliberately spread about them
We escaped war and torture but now we feel unsafe in Britain
Special report: Amid protests and rising aggression towards asylum seekers across the country, we spoke to those being targeted
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk
September 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Thanks for the many shares and warm responses to this piece today.
I think we need to hear more from asylum seekers to counter the myths and lies being deliberately spread about them
I think we need to hear more from asylum seekers to counter the myths and lies being deliberately spread about them
News this afternoon: it’s looking increasingly likely that employment rights will be the first big internecine battle within Labour after Angela Rayner’s downfall …
www.ft.com/content/1816...
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Business hopes grow that Starmer will water down workers’ rights bill
Angela Rayner’s downfall leaves flagship crackdown on zero-hours contracts and “fire and rehire” vulnerable
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September 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
News this afternoon: it’s looking increasingly likely that employment rights will be the first big internecine battle within Labour after Angela Rayner’s downfall …
www.ft.com/content/1816...
www.ft.com/content/1816...
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💥 European capitals are working on “pretty precise plans” for potential military deployments to post-conflict Ukraine including “the necessary items for a functioning build-up of troops” with US backing, EU president Ursula @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu tells @financialtimes.com
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Europe has ‘pretty precise’ plan to send troops to Ukraine, von der Leyen says
[FREE TO READ] Post-conflict security guarantees will be fully backed by US commitments, commission president tells FT
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August 31, 2025 at 5:01 PM
💥 European capitals are working on “pretty precise plans” for potential military deployments to post-conflict Ukraine including “the necessary items for a functioning build-up of troops” with US backing, EU president Ursula @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu tells @financialtimes.com
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Good news for Glasgow: a new winter coat, and shoes for the wife - and a bicycle on the boy's birthday …
www.ft.com/content/2316...
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UK secures largest ever warship deal from Norway
The £10bn agreement is major boost for British defence industry and Glasgow shipyards
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August 31, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Good news for Glasgow: a new winter coat, and shoes for the wife - and a bicycle on the boy's birthday …
www.ft.com/content/2316...
www.ft.com/content/2316...
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The assassination of Andriy Parubiy, the former speaker of Ukraine’s parliament and a fierce opponent of Russia, is the most significant killing in a string of high-profile murders since the war with Russia began. www.ft.com/content/d08a...
Prominent Ukrainian nationalist politician shot dead in Lviv
Assassination of former parliament speaker Andriy Parubiy is the most significant in a series of high-profile killings
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August 30, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The assassination of Andriy Parubiy, the former speaker of Ukraine’s parliament and a fierce opponent of Russia, is the most significant killing in a string of high-profile murders since the war with Russia began. www.ft.com/content/d08a...
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Here’s what the Taylor swift and Travis kelce engagement taught me about B2B sales:
August 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Here’s what the Taylor swift and Travis kelce engagement taught me about B2B sales: