Richard Tomkins, born 4 September 1952, was a senior writer and commentator on the staff of the Financial Times.
Before joining the Financial Times, he spent five years in the Civil Service, three of them as assistant private secretary to a government minister; left to travel the world; and served a three-year apprenticeship with his local newspaper, the Walsall Observer.
At the Financial Times, Tomkins was a columnist, writing a weekly column on consumer culture, and also wrote occasional editorial comments, known as leaders.
[1] In 2007, he was awarded the £10,000 David Watt Prize for outstanding political journalism for a feature on globalisation and its effects on the living standards of employees in the west.
In his last years on the Financial Times, Tomkins was chief feature writer, writing mainly for the FT Magazine.