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Baroness Hale: On Law
YouTube video by Shami's Speakeasy Baroness Hale: On Law

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26.10.2025 17:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Everything you ever wanted to know about pensions (but were afraid to ask)...

My colleague (and former Pensions Minister) @stevewebb1.bsky.social now has his own YouTube channel - a free searchable library of 3-minute explainer videos on pension topics.

www.youtube.com/@stevewebbexplains

23.10.2025 12:00 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Keep going @rosenz.bsky.social , your material speaks for itself.

02.10.2025 19:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A good example of sequencing risk.

19.07.2025 18:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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312. Frank Gardner Podcast Episode Β· Iain Dale All Talk Β· 23/04/2025 Β· 1h 2m

Truly inspirational.

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15.05.2025 18:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Frank Gardner | Full Q&A | Oxford Union Web Series
YouTube video by OxfordUnion Frank Gardner | Full Q&A | Oxford Union Web Series

Really enjoyed this. So much enthusiasm and honesty.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=27Vx...

08.05.2025 17:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Former Head of MI6: How The Ukraine War Will End & What If China Invades Taiwan? (Sir Alex Younger)
YouTube video by Leading Former Head of MI6: How The Ukraine War Will End & What If China Invades Taiwan? (Sir Alex Younger)

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05.05.2025 18:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Having woken us at 0515 #sophiefromromania is now shattered

03.05.2025 17:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1570    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 0

May be she has a different view on the productivity measure? Yours is definitely a high measure.

19.04.2025 09:05 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Old mobile phones and keyboards. Overlaid text reads: FT Exclusive: EU issues US-bound staff with burner phones to avoid espionage

Old mobile phones and keyboards. Overlaid text reads: FT Exclusive: EU issues US-bound staff with burner phones to avoid espionage

Breaking news: The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage β€” a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China www.ft.com/content/20d0...

14.04.2025 12:13 β€” πŸ‘ 26711    πŸ” 8589    πŸ’¬ 841    πŸ“Œ 1026

I think the Yips maybe spreading. Is that called contagion?

12.04.2025 16:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump exempts smartphones and computers from new tariffs The move comes after concerns that tech prices could skyrocket, as many gadgets are made in China.

Trump exempts smartphones and computers from new tariffs
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

12.04.2025 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Michigan numbers are brutal. But one amazing thing: Republicans still think Trump will magically end inflation. From Goldman Sachs:

11.04.2025 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 837    πŸ” 170    πŸ’¬ 72    πŸ“Œ 24
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Trump tariffs live updates: Global markets in flux as Trump says US 'doing really well' on tariffs policy The US stock exchange opens flat hours after China retaliated with 125% tariffs on US goods.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...

11.04.2025 16:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump tariffs live updates: Global markets in flux as Trump says US 'doing really well' on tariffs policy The US stock exchange opens flat hours after China retaliated with 125% tariffs on US goods.

Look at the inflation rate.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...

11.04.2025 16:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Economic uncertainty update:

The thing about veering wildly between policy positions, favouring and then discarding a new maverick advisor each week, and using contradictory justifications at every turn, is that even if one particular pivot is in the direction of sanity, chaos is the constant.

10.04.2025 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 920    πŸ” 296    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 36
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Markets live: US stocks and dollar tumble as Trump fails to soothe economic fears Investors warn 145% duties on US imports from China to hit growth even as president rolls back other levies

Trump says he has not seen Thursday’s stock market drop www.ft.com/content/4bad... via @ft

10.04.2025 17:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œI used to think if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or a .400 baseball hitter. But now I want to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.”

James Carville

09.04.2025 22:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump tariffs live updates: Trump's 'explosive' global tariffs take effect, including 104% rate on China European and Asian markets slump again as the US president's taxes on goods from 60

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...

09.04.2025 08:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks.

08.04.2025 23:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My explainer for US News on what Trump doesn't get about tariffs. (A lot, it turns out.)

www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...

08.04.2025 22:24 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Financial Times: Trump poised to ignite global trade war with steepest tariffs in a century #TomorrowsPapersToday

08.04.2025 20:14 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump vs China: 'It is a blood sport' Trump is furious, again. This time, it’s China that’s incurred his wrath by daring to subject the US to the same 34% tariff its own exports are now facing. What does the escalation between the superpo...

"I don't think the US is ready to take the sort of pain Donald Trump is about to inflict on the American people."

As Trump's tariff war with China escalates, has the president underestimated the economic resilience of his rival?

08.04.2025 14:31 β€” πŸ‘ 58    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Brits don’t want to be seen as pushovers’: Two-thirds support retaliatory tariffs against US New polling shows two-thirds of Brits are worried about the tariffs Donald Trump imposed on the UK. With support for the "special relationship" waning, how does the public rate Keir Starmer’s…

β€œBrits don’t want Starmer to blow everything up and make things worse - but they also don't want to be the poodle that goes along with everything.”

51% of Brits favour retaliatory measures against the US, even if it means increased inflation at home.

08.04.2025 16:33 β€” πŸ‘ 108    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 4
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Billionaire Trump backer Bill Ackman warns of 'economic nuclear winter' over tariffs Bill Ackman says the US president should pause his planned import taxes - or risk shattering investors' confidence.

Billionaire Trump backer warns of 'economic nuclear winter' over tariffs www.bbc.com/news/article...

07.04.2025 19:34 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Who knew technocrat central banker Mark Carney was going to turn out so imaginative and bold (in a good way) as a politician? His book on Value is pretty good.

07.04.2025 17:34 β€” πŸ‘ 257    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 1
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Dow futures fall 1,500 points Sunday as Trump tariff market rout escalates: Live updates Trump posted on Saturday to Truth Social for people to "hang tough" and that this was an "economic revolution."

www.cnbc.com/2025/04/06/s...

06.04.2025 22:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Danish Supermarket Hits Back at US Tariffs As anti-American sentiment grows across Europe, one retailer is giving shoppers a way to avoid products made in the US.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

06.04.2025 19:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Don't be over smart when you know nothing about chop | The Wolf Of Wall Street
YouTube video by Opamp Media Don't be over smart when you know nothing about chop | The Wolf Of Wall Street

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06.04.2025 15:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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