Janine Gibson
@janinegibson
Editor of Weekend FT • sinkhole tracker • Do not buy crypto from me or anyone who appears to be me
Let's move on from ethics in window mounted air conditioning units. Get a coat with a built in AC. as.ft.com/r/49b02e6b-c...
Just if your days are filled by devising measures to stop the customers using your product to harass and secretly spy on others do you think you'd wonder if your product was bad? www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...
SO this celebrity tailor is suing the people who made his enormous wine fridge because the expensive wine labels went mouldy and the £1mn wine 'might' be corked. And all I can think is are those trousers really the right length? www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic...
If this shot isn’t in some sort of Adam Curtis style thing in 20 years…
Again. Someone has dug up this sapling and nicked it. And an arboreal expert says it's worth a fortune. How do you authenticate a sapling? How do you trace one? Hear me out. A reboot of Oceans Eleven but trees? I'm thinking Jacob Elordi and Bill Patterson but that's just off the top of my head
Good morning and we're back with a thread of FT Weekend highlight giftlinks. Some great pieces this week so please enjoy and remember not to complain if you're late to the party, simply go here and register to read for free subs.ft.com/weekend?segm...
Apparently the Queen is a big fan. “When you talk to the Queen and you’re at Clarence House or whatever….” WTAF HARLAN??
Past Lives and Materialists Filmmaker Celine Song and HTSI editor Jo Ellison in conversation
Gideon Rachman’s World Affairs panel in which former Australian PM Kevin Rudd, ex NSA advisor Philip H Gordon and former war policy advisor Katherine Thompson solve all the world’s problems
Currently on stage Rahm Emanuel is doing his best not to swear and @edwardluce.bsky.social is doing his best to provoke him my
John Lithgow came to open our @ftweekend.com Festival in New York before doing two shows on Broadway in Giant. Such a joy to get to interview him again after we spoke two year ago as he was just entering rehearsals for the play. Just an Olivier and a Tony in between…
Hockney. I was concentrating very hard on spelling Lucian correctly. Anyway check out these two in 2002 and imagine the extremely well-lit sitcom they were almost in
Here is a gift link to Simon Schama's appreciation of David Hockney's life and art which we ran last year. It's an amazing piece and contains, as you might imagine, some spectacular pictures including an absolute corker of Hackney with Lucian Freud as.ft.com/r/f1473f70-0...
So a while back I started doing a thread of FT Weekend highlights on Blue Sky of a Saturday morning. Today and throughout June you can register here to read four of those articles for free! subs.ft.com/weekend This week featuring: Nigella, Anthropic, Colombia and the World Cup
The glorious celebration of journalism that is the Paul Foot Awards feat. the exceptionally worthy shortlist being celebrated by Ian Hislop and the winner, @petergeoghegan.bsky.social for Democracy For Sale’s brilliant work exposing Labour Together
It’s a stupidly high bar but I believe this to be Craig Brown’s finest work
Much more geopolitics and local electoral analysis in your five-section FT Weekend, all the papers you need, on sale now. This is not an advert, remember one in three people who complain about gift links can be cursed with unshiftable foot fungus, don't take that risk. Have a lovely weekend.
Congratulations to everyone on following this very influential account deadline.com/2026/05/satu...
who among us doesn't head to work every day hopeful our lives will eventually be summarised as "highly efficient"
Got a take-it-to-the-grave secret? The safest place to store anything is a UKSV security vetting report, no one will ever want to read it.
i tell you what'll cheer you up: our gardening columnist has seen a production of a Midsummer Night's Dream which disagreed with him and he's fantastically cross about it. as.ft.com/r/93aab4d1-a...
pretty sure the Times has a gif of an octopus glory hole on its front page www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
Nick Candy sells most expensive house in London for £275mn as.ft.com/r/47afa0f4-f...
My "youngest" is 20 today. This information is, if you don't mind my saying, a bit late. www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
I choose "Beatrice's Italian husband is cutting a blade round Palm Beach" over "you're going to die in your sleep".
I live for the days where the Mail forensically details a fictional apocalypse