Biography:
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Education: London School of Economics
Career: The Sunday Telegraph: reporter; The Daily Telegraph: lobby correspondent, chief political correspondent, 1989/2000; Financial Times: chief political correspondent, UK news editor, notebook editor (ongoing)
Current position/role: FT.com managing editor
(see Robert Shrimsley appointed FT.com managing editor, The Guardian, 15th January 2009)
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Broadcast media: regular appearances
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Selected articles
- Telling business to work harder - Once it was the unemployed who felt the lash of the Tory tongue, now it is the boss class - 17th May 2012
- Bin Laden’s dept of inhuman resources - Even in the service of bloody mayhem, certain professional standards were being maintained - 10th May 2012
- My date night with the PM - Normality in a prime minister is, in any case, overrated, especially since no one actually thinks politicians are normal - 5th May 2012
- Re-arming an Englishman’s castle - Hunks of aircraft will crash on to London before we let any harm befall our veldodrome - 2nd May 2012
- Pushing the posh out of Downing St - Memos on the privilege problem must be flying across Downing Street - 26th April 2012
- A nation that’s past Titanic disasters - It is a national outrage that the UK is too diminished to produce a modern epic calamity - 19th April 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 - 24th March 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 - 16th March 2012
- A PR strategy for the Kony fightback - The warlord is facing ‘a bit of an image problem’ - 15th March 2012
- A supercomputer for Citigroup - In hiring IBM’s Watson, the bank has stolen a march on its rivals - 8th March 2012
- Soccer spurns the handshake of history - You cannot create reconciliation with a gesture – only its appearance - 16th February 2012
- A dead man’s tale of Russian justice - The case of the lawyer facing prosecution despite having died in custody - 9th February 2012
- An evening in the Past Knights’ Club - Sir Fred Goodwin has joined one of the most select groups in Britain - 2nd February 2012
- Stripping Fred and docking Stephen - A campaign is building to strip the former RBS chief of his knighthood - 26th January 2012
- Waiving the rules with a royal yacht - Problems ahoy if the project goes private - 19th January 2012
- Occupy Davos: reclaim the slopes - Our new offshoot movement worries about getting on the right side of the rich-poor divide - 12th January 2012
- @rupertmurdoch’s tactical retweet - Robert Shrimsley follows something that looks like the News Corp’s boss’s unspun online thoughts - 5th January 2012
- A fabulous Olympic festival of Britain - The extra cash for the wretched event can only come as a relief - 8th December 2011
- The epic euro crisis disaster movie - Robert Shrimsley listens in on the Mayday calls from a sinking ship in the latest not-so-far-fetched bloc-buster movie - 1st December 2011
- Expecting a gift today? Hard luck - Buy Nothing Day looks like a good way to save a bob or two, but it requires planning and sacrifice, and plenty of workarounds - 27th November 2011
- The Olympian task of securing London - Some of us are frankly suspicious at Britain’s decision to double the number of security guards to cover the games – is there a hidden agenda - 17th November 2011
- Europe: rise of the calculating machine - Apparently, the answer to the eurozone crisis is to replace elected premiers with economic experts - 10th November 2011
- Cameron turning into a ladies’ man - The prime minister shows his female-friendly side - 3rd November 2011
- Where were you for the great BlackBerry Crumble? - Owning a BlackBerry is just not cool anymore – except perhaps for British kids, a market not known for residual loyalty - 14th October 2011
- The good and bad business guide - Robert Shrimsley throws the clock forward to 2015 and looks at the unveiling of Britain’s new National Council for Useful Production - 29th September 2011
- Mummy Google knows best... - It is good to know that there is someone there looking out for us, even if it is only software - 25th September 2011
- Tax and banking in the national interest - Robert Shrimsley finds patriotism can be the last resort of the high net worth individual - 9th September 2011
- Swim, cycle, run? Try fridge, beer, couch - The not-so-subtle point about triathletes is the overweening desire to show that they are better than everyone else - 12th August 2011
- Hello again! Who said the party’s over? - At the hot-ticket party of the summer, Robert Shrimsley finds the lines between networking and friendship becoming increasingly blurred - 25th July 2011
- Murdoch faces the British spring - Robert Shrimsley likens the News Corp chief to Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s deposed leader, and weaves a scenario similar to the revolts in Arab countries - 14th July 2011
- Royals to royalties: the Firm is in business - Freed from state support, a monarchy might deliver stellar returns - 1st July 2011
- Flop gear: the failure of Formula 1 - Formula 1 racing is a sexy sport … so how come it’s also so incredibly boring? - 25th June 2011
- Volvos versus va-va-voom - We have turned our leaders into status symbols – and who wants to be with a Merkel when you could be driving an Obama - 18th June 2011
- A degree of fame is the ticket to success - The philosopher A.C. Grayling has announced plans for a new private college of humanities that will charge students £18,000 a year - 8th June
- Olympic tickets: it’s not the winning . . . - The system for applying to attend the games was more bizarre than any of the events could be - 2nd June 2011
- How the grands séducteurs are fallen… - With one pounce, Dominique Strauss-Kahn has freed men of Britain suffering in the shadows of sophisticated Frenchmen - 27th May 2011
- Suits and cars and rock ’n’ roll - Middle-aged London was out in force at a recent Roger Waters concert, proving that smug rockers may have kids and mortgages but they’ve still got it - 21st May 2011
- The Osama his neighbours knew - Residents in Abbottabad admitted they were stunned to discover the world’s most wanted man had been living next door - 5th May 2011
- Talking turkey with the Taliban - The idea that direct talks between America and the Taliban are a way out of Afghanistan sounds less like a winning policy than a sketch by Bob Newhart - 22nd April 2011
- Street parties can be a right royal pain - The key measure to success in life, in the suburbs at least, is the distance between you and road celebrations for Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding - 16th April 2011
- Martin Luther Miliband speaks - Read the full transcript of the Labour party leader’s speech at the TUC rally - 31st March 2011
- All hail the March of the Makers - A dull Budget, high on rhetoric but limited in reality - 24th March 2011
- Inside Obama’s not-at-war room - The whole Libya rebellion problem could be off Barack Obama’s desk by Friday - 17th March 2011
- Dictator Island: where the ousted wash up - If only there was a secure, comfortable location outside the jurisdiction of international courts that tyrants could run to, they wouldn’t cling on so desperately - 12th February 2011
- When tragedy triumphs - I’ve sought the advice of friends and they are quite clear. I don’t have a future in politics. You see, it turns out that I lack the right kind of personal narrative – and these days you just have to have a narrative - 5th February 2011
- Fellow Lib Dems: there’s help out there … - Party members today face prejudice they are ill-equipped to handle. How can they cope with the stigma of their political condition? - 22nd January 2011
- Time to play NHS Reorganisation - The grey hairs among you may remember this game as being rather popular during your childhood - 20th January 2011
- Tweaks to a logo? A bit of a no-go - Rebranding can be valuable to signify a new direction, although it does often seem to be used as an alternative to fresh thinking - 15th January 2011
- Car drivers rejoice (but carry on paying) - ‘Whitehall’s war on the motorist’ is said to be over, but the phoney war now has a phoney peace - 7th January 2011
- Mark Zuckerberg shares his info only with . . . - Mark Zuckerberg may not care for your privacy but it seems he can see some advantages to his own, hence the company’s preference for private share placings - 5th January 2011
- You just can’t get the staff … - Most of us cannot afford live-in staff. Consequently we are at the mercy of unreliable decorators, idle cleaners, overcharging plumbers and cowboy builders - 18th December 2010
- Stuck in the middle with who? - It’s clear now that the squeezed middle is the place to be. Everyone likes you and sympathises with the pressures you face - 4th December 2010
- All the wrong notes - Show me a modern recorder soloist and I’ll show you a chap who couldn’t master the clarinet - 27th November 2010
- Dr Dave and Dr George consult - Cameron and Osborne are taking the expectation management game to new levels - 10th June 2010
- Adversarial cultures obstruct real change - A combative parliament and a feisty media may dash hopes for a new era - 15th May 2010
- A Papal bear hug for the AnglicansA Papal bear hug for the Anglicans - The Catholic Church this week went public with an audacious bid to acquire the Anglican community – and to swallow up its smaller rival - 22nd October 2009
- Time to reclaim that 70s feeling - As RBS toys with recreating a famous old banking brand Robert Shrimsley looks back to the seventies and wonders if this is a good thing - 15th October 2009
- Notebook: By George, Osborne will make us hate him - The shadow chancellor has predicted he will become the most unpopular man in Britain. Robert Shrimsley has some pointers to help him achieve his ambition -8th October 2009
- Off the record: Westminster’s Got Talent - The much vaunted live prime ministerial debate could soon be upon us but Robert Shrimsley wonders if it might be better off the record - 30th September 2009
- Obama talks the walk in the foreign policy minefield - It’s 3am in the White House and Robert Shrimsley listens in to the call Barack Obama would prefer was taken by Hillary Clinton - 24th October 2009
- Place product here for biggest impact - The news that the ban on product placement on commercial television companies might be lifted has been greeted with excitement - 16th September 2009
- After the remastered Beatles: the remastered Tories - It is not just the Beatles enjoying the marketing opportunity; Robert Shrimsley sees a similar trend among David Cameron’s conservatives - 9th September 2009
- Social usefulness and banking bosh - Lord Turner’s remarks that bankers may perhaps have been engaged in ‘socially useless’ economic activity have clearly stung some in the City - 2nd September 2009
- Tweeters of the world unite - After Twitter comes Twittiquette. Businesses and PR companies are flooding the world with guides on the do’s and don’t’s of micro-blogging (Number 7 – Don’t Tweet and drive) - 29th July 2009
- Making the moon landings sexy again - The biggest threat to a new US lunar landing programme may not be the cost but problems with stimulating viewer interest - 22nd July 2009
- Wisdom out of the mouth of babes - Robert Shrimsley asks FT intern Darren to offer readers some valuable teenage perspectives on bank regulation and the tripartite system, which is ‘like, Duh, not working’ - 15th July 2009
- California in not such a golden state - Is California too big to fail? If so might the federal government be forced to nationalise it? Lawmakers would certainly demand a change at the top. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger replaced, possibly by Vin Diesel - 8th July 2009
- Jail beckons for the Westminster gang - MPs who defraud the taxpayer now face a prison sentence, says Robert Shrimsley. But why should this crackdown be limited merely to the patently criminal? - 24th June 2009
- For thine is the Kingdom... - Mervyn King used his Mansion House speech to demand more power for the Bank of England, likening it to a church able to warn but unable to compel people to listen to its sermons - 18th June 2009
- Cabinet quakes as a tsar is born - The transformation from tellypreneur to government guru could have unseen repercussions for Gordon Brown’s cabinet as Robert Shrimsley envisages - 10th June 2009
- The new order is dead; welcome to the past - Gordon Brown may be days from departure. Or - like the twitching body at the end of a hangman's noose - he may sputter on - 5th June 2009
- And the band played on - The ship has struck an iceberg and on the bridge Captain Brown is talking to senior officers - 3rd June 2009
- An appeal for our hard-pressed MPs ...surrounded by shabbily dressed MPs, brandishing an empty pad of receipts. At worst we should be able to win them Nepalese citizenship - 13th May 2009
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