World’s best band? LCD at Brixton last night.

£14 billion of new funding for Sizewell. Takes total taxpayer contribution to £18 billion. Will take at least a decade to build. No one can accuse chancellor of going after short term thinking in this spending review.

I play the odd game of scrabble/chess etc on my phone and get these brief ads come up - what’s weird is that they all have this low production value type feel like they were made by amateurs and are very similar. Temu/Royal Match etc. what’s that all about?

UK needs more nuclear to power AI, says Amazon Web Services boss The world's largest cloud computing company plans to spend £8bn on new data centres in the UK over the next four years.

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Donald Trump's tariffs have shaken the markets - how worried should we be? Workers are right to fear for their pensions, but the greater worry is the here and now - the economy they live in.

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Glad you liked it. Some belters coming up in series 3!

Should have credited @simonjackbbc.bsky.social & @misszing.bsky.social

Thank you. Catch up on BBC Sounds if you missed. Last episode today.

Catch the Prophets of Profit every day this week on Radio 4 at 1345 or on BBC Sounds.

Merry Christmas. Have you tried Tradle. You have to guess a country by looking the brekdown of its exports. A lot of fun. Really.

Royal Mail takeover by Czech billionaire approved The £3.6 billion takeover by Daniel Kretinsky's EP Group will be announced on Monday morning, the BBC understands.

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My wife has one of those apps which can switch heating on or off which I don’t have access to. I texted her to ask if she would put heating on as she’s out. One word answer - NO!

Open the pod bay doors Hal …Hal…

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Liverpool are surely going to rue missing four gold plated opportunities.

You are right of course. Dunno how tgat crept in there. Thanks.

Czech billionaire set to clinch deal to buy Royal Mail

It’s been one of the greatest pleasures and privileges of my professional life to work with Mishal Hussain. We - colleagues and listeners - will miss her so much. It’s impossible to overstate how admired she is by both.

It’s been one of the greatest pleasures of my professional life to work with Mishal Hussain. We - colleagues and listeners - will miss her so much. It’s impossible to overstate how admired she is by both.

Daughter said. “I think I’m going to be a parent like you guys because I’ve turned out pretty well. I could be a lot worse” is there any higher praise? I’ll take that - although realise at risk of coming across smug and complacent.

Water firms stopped from using customer money for bonuses The regulator's new powers prevent bonuses being funded from customer bills.

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