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Editor of Weekend FT • sinkhole tracker • Do not buy crypto from me or anyone who appears to be me

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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 27/09/2026
As Charlotte points out, the problem with the Sky Wargames thing - largely a jolly romp through your worst nightmares - is that you wake up to a major incident at RAF Fairford and all you can picture is Penny Mordaunt insisting we nuke moscow to show strength www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-r...
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It’s the end of the world with Michael Gove — we’re all doomed
As Russian bombs fall on London in a simulated attack, a Dad’s Army of former politicians try to save us all — plus Sharon Horgan’s new hit comedy drama
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 26/09/2026
I've been off for two weeks so let's read @ftweekend.com together. We haven't had a thread of giftlinks for a while. [Free links may expire and annoy you, consider those inside thoughts and don't type them out]
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
An excellent&long overdue essay on British (lack of) resilience, explaining just how dependent the UK is on circumstances it cannot guarantee itself, and why protecting your security means a lot more than to just spend more money on arms (although that is necessary, too). www.ft.com/content/ba80...
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How resilient is Britain?
As climate and geopolitical risks cast doubt on the UK’s ability to cope in a crisis, leaders are turning from ‘just in time’ to ‘just in case’ as a governing philosophy
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 25/09/2026
can't believe that football has yet again been rocked by a financial scandal
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 25/09/2026
one of you needs to take hold of Royal Mail. it cannot be this hard to find a poxy parcel.
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 24/09/2026
A new byelection green leaflet, bit more green, and one from SPGB (subs pls chk)
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 24/09/2026
"No one ever feels _sorry_ for an investment banker"
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 23/09/2026
Finally some good news! I’m reading this right yes?
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 23/09/2026
This week's Moral Maze on Radio 4 is about whether Ed Sheeran is obliged to have a public opinion. Far be it from me, but i feel like if you can cover it in an SNL cold open, it's not a maze.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 22/09/2026
"Staff at world-leading AI companies and institutions are increasingly suffering from the mental strain of working on systems they fear could cause serious harm to society." - Eye-opening story by Madhu Murgia and Lucy Fisher www.ft.com/content/6087...
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AI staff complain of mental toll over fears of threat to society
Top researchers at Aisi, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind report burnout and stress over developing powerful AI
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 22/09/2026
How has the Holborn/St Pancras byelection been progressing in my absence? A full array of the leaflets I returned to after 10 days away: 5 Polanski: 1 Sagal *I had a doorknock from Labour and one from Reform before I went away. Yet to spot George Galloway
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 20/09/2026
Actually makes Tony Baddingham seem quite tame www.thetimes.com/article/e2bb...
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Patrick Dromgoole obituary: HTV boss who inspired Jilly Cooper’s Rivals
West End director and children’s TV producer who launched Joe Orton and smoked television’s first joint, dies aged 96
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 12/09/2026
Look! The Green candidate is in my ends this morning and canvassing on my route-to-buy-a-paper. Generally the only person I encounter at 10am on Saturday is Gareth from no 33 washing his car so I feel alive with democracy
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 09/09/2026
👀👀
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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Since @timbale.bsky.social alerted me to what looks like a fab re-enactment of the Battle of Hastings in Oct, I now humbly share our attempt at the FT Festival @robertshrimsley.bsky.social to recreate the 'Bayeux Travesty' a narrative frieze for our own times. vue panoramique! @financialtimes.com
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 09/09/2026
There's a constant insinuation that Ed Miliband is not a 'real Jew', and it seems very bad
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 07/09/2026
Two things to read this morning to be immediately briefed and smarter about the AfD victory. Ben Hall's superb, concise instant insight as.ft.com/r/c7cbd1b6-8... and icym this mag piece from last week as.ft.com/r/8aa37170-1...
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Ulrich Siegmund: the face of Germany’s far-right breakthrough
Alternative for Germany has surged to first place in regional elections in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Germany’s far-right AfD thanks Elon Musk as France warns state election win a ‘serious moment’ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Germany’s far-right AfD thanks Elon Musk as France warns state election win a ‘serious moment’
Lead candidate in Saxony-Anhalt welcomes further ‘strong’ cooperation with Musk as French minister says ‘we cannot forget our history’
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 06/09/2026
You know who we all forgot about? Punch, the Japanese macaque monkey
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Cordelia Jenkins @cordeliajenkins.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This @robinwigglesworth.ft.com essay lifting the lid on the repo market is so clever and well written. Free link here... www.ft.com/content/8a7e...
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The repo market is the ‘dark matter’ of finance: powerful and perilous
How worried should we be about the multitrillion-dollar market’s influence over the cosmos of central banks, bonds, pension plans and private credit firms?
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 06/09/2026
From the Camden New Journal newsletter (newjournal.substack.com) I wasn't going to do much today but now i'm going to hang round the tube til someone vox pops me
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 05/09/2026
If you’re reading this we started without you but there’s still time to join us at Kenwood House #ftweekendfestival
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 04/09/2026
lot of shouting on the radio must be someone from Reform
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 03/09/2026
Cambridge university was ordered to pay £5,000 compensation to a former PhD student who was found to have been bullied by Professor James Orr, who is also Reform UK's head of policy as.ft.com/r/c0b319f3-2...
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 03/09/2026
If you’d like to know more about James Orr, here’s this week’s @ftweekend Magazine cover story as.ft.com/r/2ba39ce2-9...
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James Orr and the gospel of the new British right
Reform’s policy head is a Cambridge theologian with an enviable contact book and a belief in ‘faith, family and flag’
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 03/09/2026
Just got canvassed! On behalf of “no candidate yet”! #itsstarted
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 03/09/2026
1. Camden New Journal deservedly having a huge week 2. If you think other byelections generate too much coverage you ain’t seen nothing. Can’t throw a stone where I live without hitting a journalist. 3. JayZ was here yesterday but no one noticed because A24 had closed all the roads for some film.
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 03/09/2026
let me the first to say i am not going to see the tapestry. I've taken against it. There's no logic. I'll probably go in three years when it's in its post-imperial phase in a small French town and being largely ignored
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 01/09/2026
Byelection in the people’s republic of Camden!!! I can vox pop myself!!
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 30/08/2026
No one knows why she attempted to travel from Camden to Soho on a bank holiday weekend but she had no one to blame but herself for what followed
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 29/08/2026
Has anyone considered putting the heating on? #england #socialmedia
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Rob Jacques @knutcrosswords.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I set the Bank Holiday jumbo cryptic crossword in the weekend edition of the @financialtimes.com. Sample clue: Check it - BA generally accepts a small piece of luggage (3,3) print the pdf here: www.ft.com/content/c502...
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FT Crossword: Number 18,465 (Jumbo)
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 28/08/2026
is this true or is it PR for LinkedIn it seems highly unlikely to me. No shame but who is attracted to someone's AI generated bullet points on asserting yourself in the workplace? www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...
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Why young professionals link up on LinkedIn rather than dating apps
The jobs site’s ‘real-world environment’ can be a basis for romantic connection, but some say men making the first move may be seen as creepy
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 27/08/2026
People keep asking me what's happening to the Media Confidential podcast and I do not know! They don't tell me, I'm just the holiday cover. But they've done a 'last episode under current proprietor' here from the Union Club and i hope that's how they mean to go on open.spotify.com/episode/3iJe...
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Hasta la vista, baby!
Media Confidential · Episode
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 27/08/2026
ON the radio Alexandra Pringle, apparently the former editor in chief of Bloomsbury is asserting that of course memoirs aren't true stories and no publishers are not responsible for checking books. This well spoken lady is achieving tech bro level of don't be so naive it's not MY business
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 26/08/2026
I like how Bonnie's already over it and waiting to greet the next dead icon
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 26/08/2026
Dolly stan @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social wrote this a while back about having a fantasy dinner with her and the love and understanding will make you smile www.thetimes.com/life-style/f...
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Dinner with Dolly Parton: Marina O’Loughlin on her dream date
My recent sad little lockdown birthday was brightened by the arrival of a book from my pal Fay called One Last Lunch, a title I initially thought doom-laden. We
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 25/08/2026
Is there any such thing left as the British national identity? Well David, if there is, it's a self-policed hour-long queue to get a picture on Mount Snowdon and a massive row kicking off when someone jumps it
People are queuing for an hour on Mt Snowdon to get a picture and then there's a row when some people jump the queue
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 21/08/2026
So fun that Meghan is going to be next James Bond
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 20/08/2026
there is a fucking massive spider somewhere in this bedroom and I didn't want to hurt it but i might have panicked a tiny bit and now I no longer have eyes on and what do i just leave for good now i think it was definitely the man eating kind
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 19/08/2026
lawyers feel free to pronounce on journalism all the time so I feel emboldened to declare it is to soon for a mushroom beef wellington murder appeal.
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 18/08/2026
Look you probably don't have a lot of interest in cleanser, so fine move on. But I had a tiny tiny pot of this from a hotel in Tokyo some years ago and my god I loved it but I could never find it. UNTIL TODAY as.ft.com/r/b8e3ee0b-2...
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Nigella Lawson: the beauty favourites that simplify life
Skincare happiness lies in balancing the familiar and the fresh
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 17/08/2026
Good morning it is the 17th August. On the radio we're discussing whether it's safer to cross the road now than when Justin was growing up.
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 16/08/2026
What was the last thing you watched that was really funny
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 15/08/2026
Good morning time is tight today, but here are a few giftlinks to highlights from FT Weekend. First up this eye opening and brilliant reporting about the shadow network fighting the world's bloodiest war as.ft.com/r/147ade5b-b...
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The mercenaries fighting in Africa’s forgotten war
Hundreds of Colombian fighters were brought to Sudan by a shadow network. At the end of the journey lay a city of corpses
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 14/08/2026
On the radio, Lee Anderson is rowing back a "credible threat" to "threats of planned disruption". No wonder their security bill is so high, it seems to be triggered by embarrassment
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 14/08/2026
he didn't turn up to the count? He called it, it cost £250k and he didn't turn up? Perhaps he could pay the bill from the security fund
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 13/08/2026
You’ll never guess
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Which UK national newsbrands reach the most under-35s?
New research based on Ipsos iris data reveals proportion of young amongst audience of major online newsbrands.
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Sam Joiner @samjoiner.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
New: How Israel is making southern Lebanon ‘unliveable’. @rayajalabi.ft.com and Aditi Bhandari worked with @lighthousereports.com to reveal the IDF’s destruction of critical infrastructure — damage that has made returning near impossible for thousands of displaced people. as.ft.com/r/9680cc7f-8...
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 12/08/2026
Good morning your phrase of the day is Path of Totality
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