Robin Wigglesworth
@robinwigglesworth
Editor of FT Alphaville. Norwegian, despite the Harry Potteresque name.
From bossing the midfield against Brazil and England, to playing against Fredrikstad (population 86k) in a rainy arctic circle Bodø (population 56k).
In South Korea, SK Hynix is a $967bn company. But in the US, the company is valued at almost $1.4tn. Why? Because of a kind of "reverse Kimchi premium" caused by the difficulties of arbitraging ADRs and main listings. www.ft.com/content/d86e...
A couple of astonishing stats that really show how England bizarrely shat the bed last night. www.football365.com/news/16-conc...
Still proud of our boys. Glad we got one last row up all of Karl Johan and all the the way to the palace.
Hi England, here’s the Christmas tree we’re sending you for Trafalgar Square this year.
Oh so the magic sensor suddenly didn’t work this time? Huh. Funny how that happened this time.
This is just the first of two episodes on the South Sea Company, the crisis it caused, and how the clean-up transformed British politics — making Robert Walpole the country's first (and still-longest serving) prime minister.
Imagine all the hard work it requires to become a senior stock analyst at a major institution on Wall Street — and then having to utterly debase yourself like this: www.ft.com/content/ea0a...
See you on the other side. In the meantime, here’s my explanation for the main difference between Southgate and Tuchel’s managerial style.
That last Brazil penalty was utter bullshit, but I was never in doubt.
Five things we learnt from Donald Trump’s financial disclosure www.ft.com/content/b96a...
Related: Setting aside things like Pac-Man, here are four of the earliest games I can remember playing to death. Bangers, every single one.
Don’t think I’m winning the office sweepstakes this World Cup…
When Obama worked with Larry David. variety.com/2026/tv/news...
Brexit has made the UK more European. (In the ‘lacklustre GDP growth and weak inward investment’ sense, not the ‘café culture and egalitarian social values’ sense) www.ft.com/content/ad4a...
Donald Trump — electric car salesman extraordinaire. www.ft.com/content/60d8...
However, the combination is also fraught with dangers, as even some insiders concede...