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John Gapper

Chief UK Business Columnist

John Gapper is chief UK business columnist of the Financial Times, writing on UK companies, entrepreneurs and business policy. He was formerly weekend business columnist and opinion & analysis editor. He has worked for the FT since 1987 in London, New York and Tokyo, writing widely on business affairs and contributing many features and interviews.
Email John Gapper @johngapper  on X.com (link opens in a new browser window)
  • Tuesday, 4 November, 2025
    Quantum technologies
    Britain’s quantum software start-ups might be giants

    Companies such as Phasecraft and Riverlane will need to be brave to remain independent

    Ian Hogarth stands outdoors on a terrace, leaning on a railing and gesturing with one hand.
  • Thursday, 30 October, 2025
    UK employment
    Tips are taking the place of restaurant wages

    UK hospitality chains have increased service charges to offset the high cost of employment

    A waitress clears a table while diners eat and talk at other tables
  • Tuesday, 28 October, 2025
    Business InsightTravel & leisure industry
    The Topgolf twins bring AI to the pool table

    Steve and Dave Jolliffe, UK pioneers of the competitive socialising industry, are back with the Poolhouse chain

  • Tuesday, 21 October, 2025
    Business InsightOctopus Energy
    Kraken’s software is swallowing Octopus Energy

    The software platform behind the UK’s largest home energy supplier has passed its parent

    A giant squid-like kraken wraps its tentacles around an ancient wooden sailing ship in rough seas under a stormy sky.
  • Thursday, 16 October, 2025
    London Stock Exchange Group
    Britain is inviting its companies to emigrate

    The UK’s rules for secondary listings on the London Stock Exchange could drive British business abroad

    Large letters reading "LSEG" and the London Stock Exchange Group crest are mounted on the exterior wall of a building
  • Tuesday, 14 October, 2025
    Transport
    Lime bikes need a tech fix in London

    The race among dockless e-bike companies to expand in the city is causing disruption

    Several Lime eBikes lie toppled on a city street as people walk by.
  • Wednesday, 8 October, 2025
    Rail
    Let’s end Eurostar’s monopoly on cross-channel rail 

    New entrants could revitalise and expand rail services from London to continental Europe

    A man stands filming or taking a photo of a stationary Eurostar train at St Pancras International station
  • Tuesday, 23 September, 2025
    Business InsightTelevision
    British television faces a battle for its independence

    Netflix and Disney have found financial value in UK talent, producing hit shows

  • Thursday, 18 September, 2025
    UK energy
    The convenient truth of the North Sea drilling ban

    The government can allow more UK oil and gas production without breaking its clean energy pledges

    Oil rig illuminated at dusk with cranes and structures visible above dark, choppy North Sea waters under a cloudy winter sky.
  • Tuesday, 16 September, 2025
    Motor sports
    Goodwood enters the global luxury experience race

    The West Sussex estate run by the Duke of Richmond has become a magnet for motor racing fans

    Three women in vintage dresses and sunglasses stand on the racetrack holding “Row 1,” “Row 2,” and “Row 3” signs at Goodwood Revival.
  • Thursday, 11 September, 2025
    Business InsightDe Beers
    De Beers and Botswana were made for each other

    The diamond company should patch up its close relationship with the African country

    A pair of tweezers selects a clear, uncut diamond from a pile of assorted rough colourless and coloured diamonds.
  • Tuesday, 19 August, 2025
    Travel & leisure industry
    The glamorous but tough industry of luxury hotel uniforms

    UK design studios that produce bespoke clothing for grand hotels face complex demands

    A man wears a deep blue velvet suit with a bow tie, and a woman wears a long-sleeved, gold sequin dress. These are the new Waldorf Astoria uniforms
  • Thursday, 14 August, 2025
    UK labour disputes
    What I witnessed at the battle of Orgreave

    An inquiry into the pivotal confrontation of the 1984-85 miners’ strike should not sanitise history

    Miners and police at Orgreave in 1984
  • Friday, 8 August, 2025
    Drug prices
    Britain is squeezing AstraZeneca too tight

    NHS curbs on drug prices have alienated UK pharma companies and become self-defeating

    AstraZeneca logo on a vaccine
  • Tuesday, 5 August, 2025
    Business InsightRenewable energy
    Aberdeen is trapped between Starmer and Trump

    The city that grew rich on North Sea oil wants to transition to renewables but needs a better chance

    The Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm with a beach and people walking in the foreground
  • Tuesday, 29 July, 2025
    Business InsightHaleon
    The Sensodyne formula for marketing to the world

    The UK consumer health group Haleon is using a practised strategy to introduce its brands more widely

    A Sensodyne toothpaste brand promotion in Prayagraj, India
  • Thursday, 24 July, 2025
    Utilities
    Britain should come clean about its water industry

    The government must admit that higher investment means rising utility bills for customers

    People using umbrellas whilst walking in the rain on Westminster Bridge, in London
  • Tuesday, 22 July, 2025
    Business InsightPremier Inn
    Premier Inn should loosen up a little as it expands

    Whitbread’s budget chain keeps tight control of its UK hotels but needs more flexibility overseas

    A Premier Inn hotel in Liverpool
  • Monday, 21 July, 2025
    ReviewBiography and memoir
    The Spinach King — the tale of an agricultural dynasty and its dark secrets

    John Seabrook wryly details the rise and fall — and Oedipal struggles — of his family’s farming empire

  • Friday, 4 July, 2025
    Non-dom tax status
    Britain cannot afford to scare foreign residents away

    The end of the non-dom tax regime has been badly handled and risks economic damage

    A view of affluent and expensive homes in Knightsbridge London
  • Tuesday, 1 July, 2025
    Business InsightHealthcare
    Welbeck’s doctors are building the new Harley Street

    A private healthcare facility in London co-managed by its consultants is expanding as the NHS struggles

    OneWelbeck
  • Wednesday, 25 June, 2025
    UK industrial strategy
    Thatcher’s legacy endures in Labour’s industrial strategy

    A 10-year plan to raise productivity and growth depends on tackling vested interests and unleashing investment

    Black and white photo of Nigel Lawson, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Margaret Thatcher the Prime Minister at a press conference in London
  • Tuesday, 24 June, 2025
    Advertising
    London’s independent ad agencies will survive the AI apocalypse

    Mother, VCCP and other creative partnerships retain a role in an industry transformed by technology

    Mother advertising offices in East London
  • Wednesday, 18 June, 2025
    CMR Surgical
    British surgical robots should operate around the world

    Cambridge start-up CMR Surgical has innovative technology but it needs global ambition

    CMR Surgical robot
  • Thursday, 12 June, 2025
    London Stock Exchange Group
    Wise’s move to New York is an emergency for the UK economy

    The government should reform taxes to push savers and pension funds to invest in London-listed equities

    Kristo Käärmann
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