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Jonathan Guthrie

Former Head of Lex

Jonathan Guthrie was an associate editor of the FT and the head of Lex, the agenda-setting premium commentary service on global capital. Aside from Lex, Jonathan wrote regular FT columns on world finance and nature.

For six years he was city editor and writer of Lombard, an irreverent column on the square mile and corporate Britain. He has also been enterprise editor, midlands correspondent and UK companies editor. He has led investigations into Eurasian Natural Resources Corp, British Biotech and the “Gem of Tanzania” accounting fraud.

  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    Gardens
    Hallucinogens, hexes and healing — inside the witch’s garden

    All too often plants are demoted from mysterious organisms to passive garden ornaments. Henbane, mandrake and other ‘witching herbs’ remind us to carefully respect their power and magic

    An illustration of a garden, with roots, flowers and leaves, and two witches flying away on broomsticks. A sign shows a skull and crossbones
  • Tuesday, 3 September, 2024
    House & Home
    Building more houses is great, but where are the parks to go with them?

    Urban green spaces are oases of serenity amid tumult — and needed more than ever

    Illustration of people playing in the park, with flowers and insects in the foreground and city buildings in the background
  • Wednesday, 7 August, 2024
    House & Home
    Seagulls just wanna have fun

    Summer is here, and so are the seaside scavengers. But we have lots in common with the much-maligned birds — let’s celebrate it

    A drawing featuring several seagulls flying against a grey, cloudy background. The seagulls are holding objects in their beaks, such as pieces of food or debris
  • Monday, 25 December, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Ukrainian refugees plant seeds of a second life in our home

    With war still raging in their native land, no one knows if this story will end in a safe return

  • Sunday, 24 December, 2023
    Gardens
    Prepare for a waxwing winter

    Certain birds are flocking to UK gardens and supermarket car parks because of this year’s abundance of berries

    An illustration of waxwings, red berries and mistletoe
  • Thursday, 14 December, 2023
    Unhedged Podcast16 min listen
    Thirty-seven years of wisdom

    Longtime FT columnist Jonathan Guthrie retires with a note on what he’s learnt

  • Monday, 11 December, 2023
    Financial services
    What I have learnt in 37 years of financial journalism

    Amid all the recurring crises, a few universal constants will always apply

    A combination image of Jonathan Guthrie, an FT front page, bowler hat and hedgehog
  • Friday, 8 December, 2023
    LexCompanies
    The Lex Newsletter: science is where the magic happens Premium content

    Plus, Sanofi, Roche, Merck KGaA, China biotech, US healthcare, Airbus

    Joseph Wright’s painting ‘An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump’
  • Friday, 1 December, 2023
    LexCompanies
    The Lex Newsletter: Charlie Munger nailed why US capitalism flourishes Premium content

    Plus, Shein, US stocks, Elon Musk, Robinhood, COP28, Rolls-Royce, Heathrow

    Tim Robbins and Paul Newman in a scene from 1994 film ‘The Hudsucker Proxy’
  • Friday, 24 November, 2023
    LexCompanies
    The Lex Newsletter: is a leather jacketed CEO a sell signal? Premium content

    Plus, OpenAI, Intel, UK pensions, Italian banks, Julius Baer, Virgin Money

    Photos of Marlon Brando and Jensen Huang both wearing leather jackets
  • Friday, 24 November, 2023
    House & Home
    Who — or what — killed the sparrows?

    It’s easy to blame the sparrowhawk for the reduction in their numbers but there are other, non-animal world culprits

  • Friday, 17 November, 2023
    LexCompanies
    The Lex Newsletter: are we nearly there yet? Premium content

    Plus, British Land, Walmart, Carvana, BT, Berkshire Hathaway, Burberry, Manchester City

    An image from a US magazine advert for Ethyl Corp, c1950s
  • Monday, 13 November, 2023
    Inside BusinessFinancial & markets regulation
    The real regulatory risk highlighted by a booming US Treasury arbitrage

    Basis trade shows challenge for watchdogs is to understand hedge funds and prime brokers as symbiotic organisms

    Ken Griffin, chief executive and founder of Citadel
  • Friday, 10 November, 2023
    LexCompanies
    The Lex Newsletter: workplaces in Hell Premium content

    Plus, multi-managers, Square Mile, Arm, SoftBank, AI, Nintendo, M&S

    An open-plan office, c1935
  • Friday, 3 November, 2023
    ReviewBooks
    Vet at the End of the Earth — animal adventures in the wild

    Jonathan Hollins rises to veterinary challenges in some of the most remote parts of the world with warm humour

    A middle-aged man in a grey sweater and floppy hat with a giant tortoise
  • Friday, 27 October, 2023
    LexCompanies
    The Lex Newsletter: hair-trigger selling brings High Noon to equities Premium content

    Plus, Siemens Energy, Chevron, Amex, Meta, Microsoft, Foxconn

    An illustration of a cowboy and sheriff in a gunfight
  • Friday, 27 October, 2023
    House & Home
    Ghosts, ghouls and to-whit to-whoos

    Now is a good time to observe owls as the tawny’s spooky call warns off interlopers and the barn owl’s marital relations intensify

    Illustration of owls
  • Friday, 20 October, 2023
    LexCompanies
    The Lex Newsletter: a penny for the ferryman, a farthing for Mastercard

    Plus, credit cards, CBDC, US banks, Nokia, Rentokil, Hipgnosis

    Detail of ‘Charon and Psyche’ (1883) by John Roddam Spencer Stanhope
  • Monday, 16 October, 2023
    UK property
    Private capital can ease squeeze on Generation Rent

    Big investors can finance housing developments in return for a lengthy income stream of rents

  • Friday, 6 October, 2023
    LexCompanies
    The Lex Newsletter: Rishi Sunak and London’s failures of ambition Premium content

    Plus, HS2, Alstom, UK tobacco, nuclear energy, Generation Rent and Metro Bank

    Detail of ‘The Railway Station’ (1862) by William Powell Frith
  • Friday, 6 October, 2023
    House & Home
    Born to rewild: am I cut out for a life devoted to biodiversity?

    ‘Tragically, I do not possess a country estate. Anything I attempted would be on a budget. But how to go about it?’

  • Friday, 29 September, 2023
    LexCompanies
    The Lex Newsletter: other people’s capital is the best kind Premium content

    M&A, BT, US real estate, China property, UK banks, Microsoft, Capcom

    Composite images of Danny DeVito and Karl Marx
  • Monday, 18 September, 2023
    Inside BusinessFinancial services
    Private credit’s push into Europe is gaining momentum

    Activity still forms only a small fraction of traditional lending but it is building

    Société Générale logo
  • Friday, 15 September, 2023
    LexCompanies
    The Lex Newsletter: get me anywhere else yesterday Premium content

    Plus, Tesla, American Airlines, Trainline, Getir, Fortescue, BP

    Detail of ‘Saint Jerome in his Study’ (1514), an engraving by Albrecht Dürer
  • Friday, 8 September, 2023
    LexCompanies
    The Lex Newsletter: Burning Man, burning platform, burning planet Premium content

    Plus, Arm, Universal Music, Lloyd’s of London, Enbridge, UK offshore wind, Albemarle

    The ‘Man’ effigy burning at the 2013 Burning Man Festival in Nevada
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