About Ed Grimshaw

Ed Grimshaw writes Cutting Comment, taking racing, politics, and public life exactly as seriously as they deserve — which is to say, not very. He brings a financial analyst's habit of checking the numbers to subjects most commentary treats as either sacred or beneath scrutiny, and applies it to BHA governance, racing economics and the odd Westminster farce with the same lack of patience for spin.

Every piece here is built on a specific fact, a named source or a genuine contradiction — the satire earns its punchlines rather than assuming them. Where an article states something as fact about a named person or organisation, that's a reported claim stood behind, not a joke; where it's satire, it's written to read as one. If a claim turns out to be wrong, it gets corrected — email below, and any substantive fix carries a note on the piece itself.

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MBA · MSc · CGMA

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