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
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….
⚡️ 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?
“Whoever controls powerful AI… could be a dictator”
@faisalislam.bsky.social speaks to Nobel Prize winning Turkish-American economist Daron Acemoglu, who warns about the dangers of AI dictators and the impact powerful AI could have on global democracy.
Carney on five years of Brexit: "…unfortunately, the United Kingdom is living with the economic impact of that decision. This is a case where I wish I were wrong or had been wrong about the likely economic impact."
Trade Sec Reynolds met with EU trade Commissioner Sefcovic at Davos thanked him for “incredibly positive & helpful contribution” in my interview with him
… “proves we can improve the terms of trade with EU and can do that whilst pursuing closer trade links around the world”
The new European Union trade chief responsible for post-Brexit negotiations has told the BBC that a "pan-European [customs] area is something we could consider" as part of "reset" discussions between the UK and EU. www.bbc.com/news/article... #EU#brexit By @faisalislam.bsky.social
"The UK is so vulnerable to being influenced by money coming in from people like Musk into our political system because we don't have any checks and balances."
Former Green Party leader Caroline Lucas discusses Musk and British politics.
We heard from one of the circle of tech bro billionaires backing Trump Joe Lonsdale about what their agenda is at this time of exponential change in AI etc… bottom line - incorporating Greenland could be part of a “healthy” growth in the US “frontier” bsky.app/profile/bbcn...