Dec 12, 2012

Taking a tax lead from Starbucks

Dear Sir, Flush with the Christmas spirit, I am writing to offer you more income tax ...

Illustration of Robert Shrimsley's fulfilment centre ©Lucas Varela From LIFE & ARTS Dec 7, 2012

Fulfil me up

A fulfilment centre is the must-have retail accessory. So long dreary warehouse and distribution depot, hello dreamweaving fulfilment centre

Dec 5, 2012

Twitter feeding the Pope’s new habit

The Pontiff is gathering followers faster than Lady Gaga

Illustration by Lucas Varela ©Lucas Varela From LIFE & ARTS Nov 30, 2012

Political parenting – a user’s guide

Only when we have a pool of the truly unengaged will we have a foster system we can trust

Nov 28, 2012

A curious incident of the cops in the night

Society was gripped by the Leveson inquiry. Yet Sherlock Holmes remained undiverted ...

Illustration of a grieving guinea pig ©Lucas Varela From LIFE & ARTS Nov 23, 2012

Alas, poor Olek …

How do you comfort a grieving guinea pig?

Nov 21, 2012

The Church keeps banking on men

How the arguments against women bishops might work if applied to wider society

Nov 14, 2012

In Britain, our sex scandals Petraeus

We just can’t compete. We haven’t had a world-beating sex scandal since Profumo

illustration of Star Wars scene ©Lucas Varela From LIFE & ARTS Nov 9, 2012

The (Disney) empire strikes back

The scene: a desert landscape. A youth is herding alpacas when he sees two figures, one tall and gold, one small and a bit like a dustbin...

Nov 7, 2012

Republican right-thinking for 2016

The post-defeat postmortem begins ...

From LIFE & ARTS Nov 2, 2012

Bye, mate, nice knowing you

Expat friends are refreshing and different. Then suddenly they are off and a chunk of your social life just falls away

From LIFE & ARTS Oct 26, 2012

Join the club, George old mate…

Perhaps the chancellor just wants to know the thrill of defying the rope line

Oct 24, 2012

Beginning to tire of them Apples

Even for a fan like me, the hoopla surrounding product launches has become formulaic

From LIFE & ARTS Oct 19, 2012

Ahhhhh, yet another killer idea…

The 007 fragrance is the latest addition to the panoply of Bond tat that proves popular among those with masculinity issues

Oct 17, 2012

Starbucks makes a mochary of tax law

The chain has found itself in hot water even though it has followed the rules

From LIFE & ARTS Oct 12, 2012

My life as a post-men man

I don’t feel overly threatened by the end of a particular type of macho man

Oct 10, 2012

Cash upfront for the road to serfdom

George Osborne’s share-swap scheme: the silver, gold and platinum packages

From LIFE & ARTS Oct 5, 2012

Permission to raid the pension pot

‘They say you can’t take your money with you, but I had assumed I could at least hang on to it while I was still alive’

Oct 3, 2012

Colour-shift: from blue Ed to red Dave

After Ed Miliband’s appropriation of an old Tory slogan, David Cameron needs to retaliate

From LIFE & ARTS Sep 28, 2012

David Cameron: licensed to cull

Doubts behind the prime minister’s planned slaughter of badgers push me into the corner of those opposed to it

ABOUT ROBERT

Robert Shrimsley 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.

E-mail Robert Shrimsley

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