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A common factor with any crisis is not attending to issues that stoke it. So it is with UK steel. The government deserves praise for yesterday's intervention. But this was coming for decades. Today's sniping from ex business ministers sits against this backdrop www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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A welcome climb down. More of this, please

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“Every time we create one of these AI memes, it kills a tree.” My grumpiness at this craze is for a purpose www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Free speech latest.

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New voter just dropped: Dead Man www.economist.com/britain/2025...

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I wonder what conversations they had about this before deciding it was worthwhile. Bad move, full stop.

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Yup www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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In one way, rolling commentary on presidential decisions is a logical place to end up. For a system that needs clarity and direction to make long-term decision, it’s a bad place to be. Move fast and break thing is a nice slogan and a shitty way to run an economy.

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You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.

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An astonishing lack of humility from Niall Ferguson here. In full infallibility mode.

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Listening to some of the comments from older people on the BBC this morning stiffened my view that this is the right thing to do. Younger people are much more worldly wise than many of their elders give them credit for. And they would be going some to make things worse.

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Build more properly affordable homes www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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We checked and she’s alive

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“There is only one thing worse than fighting with your allies, and that’s fighting without them.” —Victor Hugo We’re entering the “worse” phase.

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Very focused on the car industry which is badly impacted by tariffs, but welcome lines in here about the state’s role in enabling businesses to thrive. www.thetimes.com/article/78fe...

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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...

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I'm slightly surprised by the shocked Bluesky response to briefings about globalisation from the UK government today. Just a reminder, this is Rachel Reeves' Mais Speech from last year. Is she wrong?

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Tremendous stuff @johnharris1969.bsky.social America is better than what we’re seeing right now www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Oh my...

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When I read the word 'alignment', I see you.... 🤖

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After dinner walk. Distant Tor

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Two contradictory points, which are both also true. This would carry more weight if they hadn’t set up 20+ since July. It didn’t go well last time a government did this.

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Badenoch supporting a foreign government's actions against two British parliamentarians - shocking, embarrassing. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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🚨 Kemi Badenoch doubles down, accusing Labour MPs of “promoting Hamas propaganda in parliament.” Expect a Conservative backlash to this stance. Could become a significant row

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UK wealth managers say enquiries from US-based investors worried by the actions of Donald Trump and his administration and seeking to move money from the country have risen markedly www.ft.com/content/5cbf...

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Companies need to avoid subsuming the tariff into the final price and, instead, mark clearly on their packaging the intended retail price, the cost of the tariff, and the final price. Make it abundantly clear how much this is costing people.

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Gitman's oxford button-down shirts, made in the USA December 2024: $205 April 2025: $235

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Worst two-day stock market crashes in the U.S. by percentage loss: 1. 1929 (the Great Depression) 2. 1987 (Black Monday) 3. 2008 (the Great Recession) 4. YESTERDAY AND TODAY And while this happened, the man responsible for it was golfing and dining with enemies of America.

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The revolution will not go better with Pepsi. Purpose doesn't come from campaigns alone, and never has. It needs backing up with intent and action, even when it's tough to do. Too many businesses ducked that challenge. It showed. But didn't, and won't. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Brutal www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

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Too big to care... If we treated clients like some big companies treat us we'd be dead as a business. Hours on hold. Promised action, that doesn't happen. Not listening, or hearing. Losing emails. Even sacking them is hard. But I'm stubborn and HATE being messed about so I'm doing that today.

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This backdrop creates big comms challenges for organisations, which today’s Distinctive Dispatch summarises and shares thoughts on how to address them. Great writing and thinking from the team. open.substack.com/pub/distinct...

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For Americans who didn’t get the joy of living through the Truss/Kwarteng budget, this is the point where the government starts to call the stock market left-wing and/or woke.

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I'm being lectured by a banking bot being kept whilst on hold about me using my correct phone to call them. I'm also calling them to tell them I have lost my phone and can't log into my account. How did we allow this mind-bendingly awful time-suck?

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Very early days but looks like the policy of doubling council tax on second homes in Cornwall is working www.bbc.com/news/article...

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