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    John Gapper

    Business columnist

    John Gapper is business columnist of the FT Weekend. He writes a weekly column on business and society from a consumer perspective, and other features and interviews.

    He was formerly the FT's chief business commentator and opinion & analysis editor. He has worked for the FT since 1987 in London, New York and Tokyo, and has covered banking, media and technology and employment.

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    • Friday, 17 November, 2023
      Sport
      Manchester City’s bonuses beat those on Wall Street

      The superstar effect of being a famous footballer has the edge over investment banking

      Manchester City’s Erling Braut Haaland scores a goal from the penalty spot
    • Friday, 10 November, 2023
      Adidas AG
      Adidas needs to rediscover its creativity after Yeezy

      The German brand cannot just rely on collaborations and sporting heritage to drive sales of its sneakers

      A shopper browses the sport shoes at an Adidas store in Germany
    • Friday, 3 November, 2023
      Unions
      The United Auto Workers teach university lecturers how to strike

      US carworkers have been cleverer with industrial action than the UK’s University and College Union

      University staff strike in London. The University and College Union ‘s weakness was that its strikes did not hit university revenues because students kept on enrolling
    • Friday, 27 October, 2023
      Restaurants
      A £760 steak from Japan must be very well done

      An old Tokyo steakhouse is bringing quiet culinary luxury to London at an extremely high price

      A plate of wagyu beef
    • Friday, 27 October, 2023
      ReviewBiography and memoir
      The Fall by Michael Wolff — a combative view of Murdoch’s endgame

      The biographer returns to the media mogul and finds a once-powerful figure shaded by ‘doubt, ambivalence, regret’

    • Friday, 20 October, 2023
      Airlines
      Stop blocking the aisle: how to board an aircraft

      United Airlines is trying to ease the jam of passengers but priority boarding makes it worse

      People board a busy commercial aircraft
    • Friday, 13 October, 2023
      Luxury goods
      LVMH is suffering a vibe shift in the luxury business

      The art market downturn shows that Kering and Richemont also need to respond rapidly

      A pair of LV x YK Lous open back trainers on display in the window of the Louis Vuitton luxury clothing boutique
    • Thursday, 12 October, 2023
      FT Magazine
      Red, juicy, heat resistant: the hunt for a climate-proof apple

      Pomologists know how to grow the perfect fruit. But as the world gets hotter, can they save it from extinction?

      Red tutti apple
    • Friday, 6 October, 2023
      Financial fraud
      Many people longed to believe in Sam Bankman-Fried

      There can be a thin line between an entrepreneur weaving a fantastic vision and financial fraud

      An illustration of Peter Pan, Tinkerbell and children flying from an early edition of JM Barrie’s ‘Peter Pan’
    • Friday, 29 September, 2023
      Retail sector
      The price of shoplifting is getting dangerously high

      Retailers placing goods on open display is an everyday miracle that could turn into a perk of the privileged

      A police officer and a security guard stand outside of a boutique store in the SoHo neighborhood in Manhattan
    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      Media
      Russell Brand learnt his tricks in television studios

      Broadcasting takes the recipe for abuse of power and sprinkles on celebrity

      Russell Brand on stage wearing a waistcoat and trilby hat holding a microphone to his mouth and pointing at the audience with the other hand
    • Friday, 15 September, 2023
      Retail & Consumer industry
      Birkenstock should not get too fashionable for comfort

      The German sandal maker is enjoying its popularity as it prepares for an IPO but faces pitfalls

      A still from the Barbie film, showing one of the Barbie’s holding up two shoes, one of which is a Birkenstock
    • Friday, 8 September, 2023
      Legal services
      Lawyers have lost power if Schillings is going into PR

      The combative legal firm known for enforcing celebrities’ privacy cannot control the internet

      Meghan Markle, who was represented by Schillings. It is of declining utility to place pressure on papers to block or alter stories when damaging and misinformation circulates on social media
    • Sunday, 3 September, 2023
      The Big Read
      The crisis at the British Museum

      The theft of 2,000 items risks undermining the institution’s founding purpose as a custodian of the world’s treasures

      View of two people from behind looking up at ancient Greek sculptures in the museum
    • Friday, 18 August, 2023
      Legal services
      Private equity lawyers are taught to eat what they kill

      Law firms are fracturing partnerships by raiding each other for talent in London and New York

      A man walks down the street in the City of London, with The Gherkin building in the distance
    • Friday, 28 July, 2023
      Taylor Swift
      How Taylor Swift rules the live music economy

      The singer-songwriter has taken control of her business and turned herself into a direct-to-fan brand

      Taylor Swift poses for a selfie with fans as she arrives to speak at the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada in September 2022
    • Friday, 21 July, 2023
      Coutts & Co
      Dear Nigel Farage, you can keep your Coutts account

      The honest letter the UK private bank should send to the populist rightwing politician it rejected

      FT montage of Nigel Farage photo and Coutts bank logo
    • Monday, 10 July, 2023
      InterviewArts
      Gary Lineker and his Goalhanger teammates on their podcast empire

      The rapidly growing company emulates its amiable founder by encouraging hosts and guests ‘to disagree agreeably’

      Three men sit or stand in a line in a well-furnished kitchen
    • Friday, 7 July, 2023
      Mattel Inc
      Barbie is a brand that keeps changing with the times

      Greta Gerwig’s new film proves the remarkable resilience of Mattel’s original adult doll

      Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie in Barbie Film
    • Saturday, 1 July, 2023
      Medical science
      Three warnings about the obesity pills coming after Wegovy

      New treatments have had remarkable results but there are reasons to be cautious

      An advertisement for Wegovy weight loss injections in the New York subway
    • Friday, 23 June, 2023
      Artificial intelligence
      Advertisers should beware being too creative with AI

      The sunny optimism of marketing evangelists gathered in Cannes ignores the downsides of the technology

      A fashion fundraiser and disco on the VX Yacht in Cannes, France
    • Friday, 16 June, 2023
      EY
      Consultants will have the last laugh from the EY fiasco

      Consulting firms such as Accenture are taking over as companies become overwhelmed by technology

      A middle-aged man in a suit speaks to a camera with a winter landscape behind him
    • Thursday, 15 June, 2023
      ReviewBooks
      Material World — the six commodities that shape our lives

      Ed Conway’s lucid book explores the mines and quarries beneath the ‘ethereal’ economy of technology and services

    • Friday, 9 June, 2023
      Virtual and Augmented Reality
      Apple’s Vision Pro headset has made the metaverse feel outdated

      The technology company’s late entry into ‘mixed reality’ this week exposed the flaw in Meta’s virtual worlds

      Media photograph the new Apple Vision Pro headset on display in California this week.
    • Friday, 26 May, 2023
      Airlines
      The price of flying will keep rising, even on Ryanair

      A surge in demand for summer holiday flights presages an environmental squeeze on low-cost fares

      A Boeing 737, operated by Ryanair, at Riga International Airport in Riga, Latvia
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