New UK steel tariffs ‘threaten’ British manufacturing, steel importers warn ministers.
Letter from Confederation of British Metalforming to the U.K. trade department warns that protections meant to boost homegrown steelworks risk “severely disrupting supply chains.”
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Reform donor Ben Delo, who has given £4 million to the party, is making legal threats to those who reference his 2022 US conviction for failing to implement anti-money laundering laws, prior to a pardon by President Trump.
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"Mentally unstable President given huge powers by cowardly party threatens to blow up the world" is the headline you're looking for.
Had several very sobering conversations with many able, intelligent and interested potential @cam.ac.uk applicants today in Yaounde. This UK visa ban is the most absurd measure and everyone in higher education should contact their MPs now. This is Home Office under Labour gone absolutely mad. 😡
Wondering what leverage in negotiations looks like?
Australia's new FTA with the EU provides 16,830 tonnes of tariff free access for beef.
Australia's FTA with the UK, completed with a desperate Johnson administration, provided 35,000 tonnes tariff free, rising to unlimited over 15 years.
The evidence is overwhelming: Brexit has been a disaster for London and the UK.
Rejoining the EU is now clearly in our national interest. The option to rejoin should be on the ballot at the next General Election.
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This is cruel to the young people concerned, self-destructive for the UK and will not win over a single Reform voter.
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Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
VAR really takes any joy out of football. Just scrap it
Two stories here - the failure of the Starmer/McSweeney political strategy and Reform's toxicity to social liberals. The latter is important and seems underdiscussed.
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🚨New report from us BCG CfG today🚨 we take a sector & firm view of UK productivity growth over past 3 decades, including benchmarking against peers. UK is falling back from global frontier but for quite different reasons in different sectors 1/
This lawsuit seems appalling to me, honestly. I feel for people whose student experience was lousy due to Covid but that's not the fault of universities. "I wanted in-person study." I'm sure you did. Nobody gets what they want in a global pandemic
A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE
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Chart showing UK trade with the EU in goods and services in 2024. On goods, the UK exports just under £200bn to the EU, importing over £300bn for a balance of around £150bn. On services, the UK exports almost £200bn and imports less, around £150bn, for a small positive balance.
Just want to flag that, in total, the UK trades more goods with the EU than services.
It’s a confusing story, because the UK overall has a comparative advantage in services, so has a positive trade balance, whereas we import a lot more goods than we export to the EU…
It is absolute and utter neglect to let this come this close to the wire just as the US has let most of its overseas broadcasting shutter.
I'm not sure I could ever forgive this government if it allows the BBC World Service to die
the loss of the World Service would be a tragedy and huge lost of soft power for Britain
I have been thinking a lot about this question. I saw David's YOLO'd paper, and have done similar things on my own. His paper's abstract is pasted below.
1. It's a remarkable achievement that CC can do this with minimal prompting.
2. The paper is unbelievably banal from a research standpoint.
Disgraceful decision by the IOC
Disgusting remarks, and that’s before you note this is someone who moved to (colonised as he would put it) a tax haven news.sky.com/story/the-uk...
Great discussion between @martinsandbu.ft.com and Michael Sandel on the rise of technocratic liberalism and the populist counter-revolution
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Nice piece. Do you think your reasons explain Ofcom's reluctance to act?
New personal piece: Why does regulation often feel so toothless?
The news is full of businesses behaving badly and seeming to get off very lightly. Why? As someone who used to work for a regulator, I wanted to set out some of the very simple reasons regulators struggle…
Usually UK companies base operations in other countries to get over barriers *their* governments impose, not ours.
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🚨 New KITE analysis on the EU–India trade deal: Simulations show sizable trade effects from the “mother of all deals” linking ~1/4 of global GDP and ~1/5 of the world’s population. Beyond gains, it strengthens supply-chain diversification and market access in an uncertain global economy.
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More profiles in cowardice:
Target, Best Buy, General Mills, Cargill and roughly four dozen other large MN companies issued a public letter calling for an “immediate de-escalation of tensions” in the state. Stops short of condemning the killings or who is responsible for them.
This country's ability to rinse the young and then berate them as lazy avocado addicts is ridiculous.
They're so up against it, it's madness.
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