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- The @demishassabis film The Thinking Game is brilliant, already watched 160m times - probably the best advert for the UK’s centrality to the future of high level globally important research and therefore for the world economy… from AI itself to its applications in every corner of frontier science…
- Friday night #Newsnight … 💥 warnings of war in Europe, what does it mean? 🌲 Gurinder Chadha on new Christmas film which gives a British Asian take on Christmas Carol ⛪️ Church of Englands new campaign against “populist right” With @PennyMordaunt @gilliantett @JOwusuNepaul 2230 BBC Two & IPlayer
- NEW It’s China vs the world” says US Treasury Secretary but is it in fact the trade war vs the Nasdaq? Mad week in America… trying to work out how the rest of the world, and markets work out what’s going on with US economic policy and markets… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- NEW At the key international economic committee of finance ministers and central bankers, the IMFC, Chancellor Rachel Reeves chose to stress how the 2020 Brexit deal has “compounded” the UKs long term productivity, “acknowledging” OBR 4% long term hit www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Coming up on @BBCNewsnight Powerful interview with the family of Virginia Giuffre on latest attempts in Congress to release all Epstein files, their call for Sarah Ferguson to lose Royal title, and how they and she reacted to the Newsnight interview with Prince Andrew PLUS Digital ID Burnham 2230
- on #Newsnight 1. Trump suggesting a Ukraine-Russia peace deal involving “some swapping of territories” 2. JD Vance @ UK - a charm offensive after his sharp criticism ? - a confidant explains 3. Wikipedia boss Jimmy Wales tells us of his concerns about Online Safety Act & AI hit to graduate jobs…
- #BBCNewsnight at 2230 on BBC2 / IPlayer & across the world on BBC News: Astonishing footage of a drone dropping off contraband at a major prison: “we have ceded airspace” over our prisons says chief inspector - Chancellor big Mansion House speech as tax rise speculation rife
- Do believe the hype… 🎤
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- LONG READ From David Ricardo to Alexander Hamilton to David Autor to the “sum of all cheating” to the equation that tariffs penguins, to loaded guns & game theory. Another BBC InDepth trying to explain what’s on earth is going on and where it’s going…. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Tonight @BBCNewsnight at 2230 Does Russia want actual peace? key Putin ally suggests Moscow not about to compromise… Panel @PeterRicketts @montie @cocobyname What’s going on with Reform? AND end of week excl with banned Eurovision singer from Malta
- on @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social latest in geopolitical geoeconomic chaos ⚡️ EU agreeing to fund rearmament 🚨 Trump row back on trade war after stock falls 🇨🇦 excl with Canada’s Security minister 💥 is tariff chaos is in fact about a bigger plan for a weaker dollar @gilliantett.bsky.social
- Thumping fall in Tesla sales in Jan across Europe (EU +Efta + UK)… down 45%, to 9,945 from 18k last Jan. In EU alone halved to 7,500… at the same time EV sales in general up 37%. Shares down 10%. Overtaken by JLR and Mazda. And BYD in UK. New model Y factor, but Musk hit too?
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- quite something… An attempt to reshape global econ & trade by projecting US tech supremacy & economic optimism AND threatening trillions in tariffs… Ultimate carrot and stick. Charm & Offence. Davos elite nod along as Trump delivers ultimatum www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- NEW 🚨 Trade Sec Jonathan Reynolds tells @BBCNews after Trump speech US does not need to apply tariffs to UK because there is no goods trade deficit. 🚨 Reynolds also clarified that both UK joining PEM and a Brexit vet deal with dynamic alignment would not cross red lines.
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- Exclusive interview with EU Trade chief from Davos… Seeking talks with Trump’s team… open to ambitious reset with UK on food/farm exports and pan European customs rule of origin area www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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- Bidenomics without the money and now without Biden too, is much too thin. A more detailed strategy for sustained growth is needed, and in short order. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Last night’s @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social kicked off with these extraordinary images from the devastation in LA
- Coming up 2230 @BBCTwo Fascinating iv with @DMiliband on working with Syria’s new leaders, refugees, & UK’s place in a rapidly changing geopolitics And GDP, British ambition and Chinese spies with @samuelkasumu & @DrJoGrady @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
- RESET! What does PM actually mean by a changed relationship with the EU, after his meeting with Council President at Number 10 today… myself and Nick picking up it could be more extensive than thought… with Margaret Hodge and Kwasi Kwarteng at 2230 on BBC 2 and IPlayer … @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
- dragged to see Wicked by 3 daughters and 3 of their friends… First reaction - 3 hours, seriously? Just for part 1. No way. Actually planned to leave early. how absolutely stunning a spectacle & unexpectedly funny too. Now … singing along to “Defying Gravity” on loop… surely a British Oscar…
- Things I notice about this place…. No one cussing my socks… Nice not to have the proprietors’ tweets a random warblings in your face every 5 seconds. Very much like the very original Twitter…
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- Great to speak to @adamfleming.bsky.social for Newscast on the Trump tariff trap, electric vehicle conundrum… and my inadvertent realisation watching Industry that my gilet was central casting for a wannabe failed finance bro…. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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