Consumer journalist. Feature writer. Columnist for Times Business. Make TV progs (esp @C4Dispatches @TheGadgetShow). Host conferences etc. Agent: @knightayton
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I felt a bit of a fraud last night, surrounded by journalists who risk their lives in war zones. I wrote about bananas in a Coventry warehouse.
But...many thanks to @FPALondon judges for giving me the Economics story of the year. A genuine honour
#FPAawards23
++ WINNER FINANCIAL/ECONOMIC- FPA MEDIA AWARDS 23 ++
The award for Financial/Economic #StoryofTheYear goes to Harry Wallop for his article 'The Banana Unpeeled' tinyurl.com/BANANAUNPEELED on @thetimes #sundaytimesmagazine CONGRATULATIONS @hwallop #FPAawards23
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🏢🤫Over the last 50 years offices have become half as noisy. No one talks any more. Or if they do it's in a sound-proof video conferencing booth to a colleague working from home.
Is hot desking to blame? Or Slack? This week's @thetimes biz column...
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Full @thetimes biz column on hot desking. And workplace loneliness.
thetimes.com/business/techno…
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At @ocado Christmas launch I learnt:
🕐 4,000 people booked their Xmas delivery slots this week between midnight (when they were released) and 1am
🛒 By end of September, 52% of all the stuff Ocado will sell for Christmas is already in customers’ baskets
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Harry Wallop retweeted
You can tell Ozempic and Mounjaro are popular…in our Timpson shops we have seen a 680% increase in the number of free holes in customers belts we’ve been doing this year.
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I try @marksandspencer’s 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS WRAP. It’s “fattest ever wrap”.
Ingredients:
🐓 CHICKEN
🐖HAM HOCK
🥓BACON.
🍑APRICOT PORK STUFFING
🥬 PICKLED CABBAGE
🌱LEEKS
🥕CARROT
🌱ROCKET
🧀 CORNISH COVE CHEESE WHIP
🧀CHEDDAR
🫙CRANBERRY CHUTNEY
🥚GRAVY MAYONNAISE
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Review of @marksandspencer 12 ingredient monster Christmas wrap. Is this 9 ingredients too many?
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Is hot-desking partly to blame for a surge in workplace loneliness? Discuss...
Some 17pc go through an entire working day without speaking to anyone face-to-face while 40pc feel lonely at work, 37pc have no close friends there and almost a third felt lonelier in the office than they did alone at home during lockdown.
@rorysutherland the vice-chairman of Ogilvy and a Spectator columnist, believes the origins of today’s antisocial workplace can be traced back to the popularisation of the open-plan office.
While it was adopted to save money on floor space, he says it was sold on false promises of enhanced sociability and collaboration: “Now, there’s nowhere you can have a chat without disturbing or annoying someone else.”
🔗 telegraph.co.uk/money/jobs/w…
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How Nick Candy sold London's most expensive house. And helped the buyer avoid £18.5m in tax. Buy selling him *extra* houses.
Another great bit of journalism from the ever-interesting @London_Centric (with number crunching from @DanNeidle & team)
londoncentric.media/p/london…
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The "Beckham Stack". When did the language of software developers enter the world of wellness?
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Harry Wallop retweeted
🎄 I’ll never knock a supermarket for offering Christmas products in September - think yourself lucky that you don’t have to budget so carefully for the Big Day unlike some families… but it still blows my mind that people are buying gravy and stuffing this far in advance 🤯
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The young Herbie’s grandfather is the 96-years-old Marquess of Camden.
That Marquess’s younger brother, Lord Michael Pratt, merited an astonishing obituary. As one of the rudest men in Britain:
telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar…
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Herewith, against stiff opposition, my favourite marmalade-dropper from Earl Spencer’s memoir, serialised in today’s paper! dailymail.com/news/royals/ar…
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I try the viral @marksandspencer custard cream spread. Because I’m worth it.
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Memo to any PRs. If you send me a press release containing the phrase "cosy season" I will hunt you down and destroy you.
@Subway. You're first on the list:
"Autumn is officially upon us, and Subway® is kicking off cosy season with a lineup of hearty new menu items"
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🚗Always baffled why people spend £££ on personalised car number plates.
Press release from car plate auction site:
- MAF 71A, resembling "MAFIA", fetched £16,778
- 533 YAA, resembling "SEE YAA", sold for £16,506
- H80 RSE, resembling "HORSE", sold for £17,644
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Harry Wallop retweeted
I’ve exploded the incredible rise of chicken & UK’s reliance on imports for Mail:
mol.im/a/16126357
🧵ends
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