@oilsheppard.bsky.social
Financial Times Acting Whitehall Editor. Former FT Energy Editor, but still dabbles in what makes the world go round. Ex-Reuters.
Tbf sounds like the JPM tower has double height floors, which is a great flex. Spacious and airy to boot!
03.12.2025 10:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0London should build more skyscrapers.
03.12.2025 10:33 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Architecture critic: can you not see this is an obscenity because *1,000 words without ever really addressing how it looks*
Me: looks pretty cool. Sounds like you’re wrong.
The Guardian hates the new JPMorgan tower in NYC and has a litany of whinges.
I think it looks great
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
FT Exclusive: The Reform UK leader told donors he expects a deal or merger between his party and the Conservatives ahead of the next general election, suggesting he does not believe he can sweep to power alone. on.ft.com/44xlHi0
02.12.2025 21:22 — 👍 104 🔁 64 💬 45 📌 59
A chart of the projected percentage point increase un share of income paid as income tax and national insurance from 2025/25 through to 2029/30. It whos that 'fiscal drag' is set to hit those at or near frozen personal tax thresholds
Screenshot of financial times fiscal drag calculator.
New: 'Shark's fin' chart reveals the uneven impact of 'fiscal drag', the stealth tax beloved of recent chancellors. Plus use our interactive calculator to see how fresh freezes announced by Rachel Reeves at todays Budget could affect you on.ft.com/3KqOYUL
26.11.2025 08:37 — 👍 40 🔁 24 💬 3 📌 2I'd never fit into those trouser suits.
14.11.2025 14:34 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A terrifying prospect for everyone
14.11.2025 13:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0SAUSAGE
Starmer always u-turns since actually getting elected
Should probably get round to saying I've joined the FT's crack UK politics team, covering for the ace
@LOS_Fisher
as Acting Whitehall Editor
I'll be covering defence, foreign policy and lots more besides - and still keeping half an eye on the worlds of investigations and energy
The ‘bong’ when a TFL bus announces a diversion sounds like something you’d hear when your entire medieval family has just been sentenced to death.
So dramatic. You’re only sending us via Old Street, not convicting us of witchcraft.
Who is Jan Marsalek, the absconded fraudster and Russian spymaster to 3 Bulgarians convicted in the UK today?
Well, let me tell you a story about a high school drop-out who masterminded a $30bn financial fraud in the heart of Europe while trying to build a North African militia as a side hustle.
The horrors emerging in Syria:
“In Tadamon, the children know the difference between a human jaw and a dog’s.
“So inured are they to decomposing remains… that the boys casually toss around skulls and fractured femurs.”
ft.com/content/da422e…
FT Investigation: A Scottish-Lebanese dynasty. A sheikh scorned. A German arms deal. A £50mn penthouse. The former King of Spain. One of London’s hottest tech investors.
Intrigued? Hope you enjoy
What led to the fall of the house of El Husseiny
on.ft.com/402y3wZ
What do you think someone under US sanctions can do in the U.K.? You get a point if you guessed, “field two polo teams and play against Prince William”. My just-published story about Alessandro Bazzoni: on.ft.com/3OnSn50
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