This is kind of fascinating -- Oxford Brookes easily beats Oxford and Cambridge at British rowing telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2024/…

In view of the direction in which Elon Musk is driving X, I will be spending more time on Bluesky and Threads for a while. I'm johngapper on both. Come and say hello!

Evgeny Lebedev tells the FT the end of the Standard's daily print edition was "primarily, the shareholders’ decision… I really should have done it four years ago, but I didn’t… I tried, I tried, I tried, and it just didn’t stack up.” ft.com/content/c2872c…

Professional news: I'm now (as of today) the FT's Chief UK Business Columnist. I'll be writing a couple of columns a week on everything from big business to start-ups, entrepreneurship and government policy. It should be a very interesting time: plenty to cover!

So, there are you at the top of a media empire. How do you keep viewers watching? A session at the RTS London Convention will explore exactly that, chaired by John Gapper with insight from Cécile Frot-Coutaz, Andrew Georgiou, Nami Patel and Sarah Rose rts.org.uk/london2024

My first UK business column, on the surprising recovery of Rolls-Royce ft.com/content/b8d58d…

"This should be the best of times for British television. US streaming platforms such as Amazon and Netflix been pouring billions into UK productions" But as John Gapper writes, indie producers are under pressure ft.com/content/643b0b…

Bloomsbury might have been lucky but it has made the most of its opportunities - John Gapper on how the publisher bucked the industry trend. It is not just a matter of its success with JK Rowling and Sarah J Maas. ft.com/content/a1ae82…

John Gapper highlights one of Bradford’s many hidden success stories. Astonish has little debt and owns its factory. private equity will be circling!

I took a boat trip on the River Tees and this is what I found about local politics and national regeneration ft.com/content/230670…

Labour needs to help the UK car industry to an EV transition, not crash it by speeding ft.com/content/ce3501…

My piece on a David and Goliath fight in the global berry market: Dyson vs Driscoll's . . . on.ft.com/3DcLZva

Blackstone’s Schwarzman stirs London art market with record purchases - John Gapper on.ft.com/42qHCHq

Sometimes a columnist comes across a story . . . ft.com/content/b40394…