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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.

  • 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
    Business InsightFinancial 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
  • Friday, 1 September, 2023
    LexCompanies
    The Lex Newsletter: weighing up bosses good, bad and far-sighted Premium content

    Plus, UBS, GAM, Ørsted, Superdry, Prudential, China tech, Didi, smartphones

    Muhammad Ali glances at his rival Zora Folley during their weigh-in for their boxing fight in March 1967
  • Friday, 25 August, 2023
    LexCompanies
    The Lex Newsletter: deus ex machina moments elevate tech and pharma Premium content

    Plus, Nvidia, Arm, Duolingo, 23andMe, Teva, Mallinckrodt, Subway, US student loans, Evergrande

    The painting Apollo Abducting Cyrene 18 by Frederick Arthur Bridgman
  • Friday, 25 August, 2023
    House & Home
    Love is in the air but birds are often unfaithful partners

    Contrary to received wisdom, most birds are not monogamous. And it is as futile to moralise about their infidelity as it is about humans’

    Illustration of several birds including two albatrosses mating
  • Monday, 21 August, 2023
    Business InsightUBS Group AG
    Too much is at stake for UBS to fail in its integration of Credit Suisse

    There is political pressure to avoid job losses as a result of the takeover

  • Friday, 28 July, 2023
    LexCompanies
    The Lex Newsletter: how Farage’s barrage routed the NatWoke Bank Premium content

    Plus, Anheuser-Busch, Deutsche Bank, Carlyle, Banc of California/PacWest, Credit Suisse/Julius Baer, St James’s Place

    Alice with Tweedledum and Tweedledee getting suited up for a fight from Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. Antique etching circa late 19th century
  • Friday, 28 July, 2023
    House & Home
    Corvids: smarter than the average chatbot?

    Magpies, crows and kin have passed several tests of sentience — in that regard, they may be one step ahead of AI machines

    Composite illustration including magpies, a crow and a jay. Also includes a smartphone with ChatGPT logo against a sunrise backdrop
  • Monday, 24 July, 2023
    Business InsightUK property
    Generation Rent is at the sharp end of rate rises

    Landlords with buy-to-rent mortgages are passing on their pain

    Pedestrians walk past the front window of an estate agent advertising properties to let and to sell in Lavender Hill, in South London
  • Friday, 21 July, 2023
    LexCompanies
    The Lex Newsletter: Goldman, JLR and Blackstone take the Bowie test Premium content

    Plus, Tata, BlackRock, Alzheimer’s drugs, China developers, Shein, Indian banks

    David Bowie in the video for ‘Ashes to Ashes’
  • Friday, 14 July, 2023
    LexCompanies
    The Lex Newsletter: hydrocarbons and free traders hiding in plain sight Premium content

    Plus, Exxon, BP, Axa, Sam Altman, Kingspan, Apple, Geely Auto, Ant Group

    Liu Bolin, a Chinese artist, blends himself into the background in front of a shelf lined with comic books as part of a series of performances in Caracas in November 2013
  • Friday, 7 July, 2023
    LexCompanies
    The Lex Newsletter: scapegoating catches sheepish banks on the hoof Premium content

    Plus, UK banks, Sainsbury’s, Currys, US incomes, L&G, Threads, VW

    ‘The Scapegoat’ (1854-55) by William Holman Hunt
  • Friday, 30 June, 2023
    LexCompanies
    The Lex Newsletter: Thames Water and other sniff test flunkers Premium content

    Plus, Revolution Beauty, Circor, Renault, Canary Wharf, hybrid working

    A Victorian cartoon showing the Great Stink
  • Friday, 30 June, 2023
    House & Home
    Will beavers be eager for London life?

    Surplus Scottish rodents are to be rehomed in Ealing this autumn, where it is hoped they can help restore an ecosystem

    Composite illustration of beavers, lodge and bullrushes with Ealing buildings and street sign
  • Thursday, 29 June, 2023
    ReviewBooks
    Many Things Under a Rock — octopus legends and lore

    David Scheel’s engaging and unsentimental study helps us understand the life of these vulnerable marine creatures

  • Friday, 9 June, 2023
    LexCompanies
    The Lex Newsletter: regulation red in territorial tooth and claw Premium content

    Plus, banks, SEC, private equity, mental health apps, AI, Evroc, C3.ai, Apple, Inditex

    An angry male mandrill screams and shows off his big teeth
  • Friday, 2 June, 2023
    LexCompanies
    The Lex Newsletter: Humanity’s $20tn hydrogen challenge Premium content

    Plus, Nucera, WE Soda, sodium, nuclear power, banking turmoil, Purdue Pharma, Dollar General

    ‘The Sun’ painting by Edvard Munch
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