🎥IRAN WAR PRIMER
Six days on from the start of this war, what have we learnt about the economic consequences?
Here's our latest primer. 10 mins. Longer than usual. But a lot to cover in this one 👇 youtu.be/Mv7n3gqOWyI?...
🎥IRAN WAR PRIMER
Six days on from the start of this war, what have we learnt about the economic consequences?
Here's our latest primer. 10 mins. Longer than usual. But a lot to cover in this one 👇 youtu.be/Mv7n3gqOWyI?...
🎥Today was supposed to be all about the latest UK govt economic forecasts... and then the wholesale gas price jumped at the fastest rate EVER.
Now Europe faces the spectre of another energy crisis...
Our latest data dive, day 2 on the economic consequences of the Iran War👇 youtu.be/ENy5sS_uoqM?...
🎥The Economic Consequences of War in Iran.
My first data dive on the extraordinary events in the Gulf.
On chokepoints, oil/gas giants and the reason a drone strike on a plant most people have never heard of thousands of miles away could plunge Europe back into energy crisis
youtu.be/KRaNainwk5k?...
📽️EXCLUSIVE
For the first time ever, @skynews has been into the @bankofengland's gold vaults to see the world's second biggest trove of physical gold. An extraordinary place. An extraordinary sight.
Have a watch of our film👇 youtu.be/dDlY4AFqV7o?...
Glad you enjoyed it. That's the UK edition. The US edition has a slightly different cover and sub-title. Should be available somewhere!🤞
06.02.2026 19:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🚨Our film is up
We spent months making this👇
About how Britain shut down many of the factories we need to feed us and defend us.
Will have more to say on it in due course but in the meantime - pls watch, share and let me know what you think youtu.be/PQ3hT8tqZgo?...
Van Eyck, if you buy Hockney’s thesis, leveraged technology to enable him to depict the world in a novel way. Much as C15th artists embraced new creative tools, C21st technology threatens to disrupt art and creativity.
(£) www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
By @edconway.bsky.social
✍️Why on earth is the Government forking out £120m of taxpayer money to save a Scottish chemicals plant?
The answer comes back to one of the most important, and least well-known, pipelines in the country.
The backstory of today's Grangemouth bail-out👇 news.sky.com/story/christ...
📽️Donald Trump wants you to know he's targeting Venezuela because of illegal drugs.
But what if this were really about something else altogether...?
Dig into the murky world of crude oil refining and you find another, even more intriguing explanation...
Full primer 👇 youtu.be/Pgwny1BiCYk?...
If you're interested in how global supply chains work and how this year's US tariffs hit the world's economy, watch this amazing report by @edconway.bsky.social on @skynewsrss.bsky.social. Ed is the frontier of journalism on the global economy, tariffs and sanctions.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=woT0...
This is excellent.
09.12.2025 06:17 — 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
📽️ Been working on this film, on & off, for the best part of a year.
It's about the REALITY (not just the theory) of tariffs.
It's the tip of the iceberg of the biggest econ story of our day.
It'll air on Sky News on Fri 9pm but you can watch the whole thing here NOW👇
youtu.be/woT0FX5Ztas?...
📽️What on earth is "fiscal drag"?
Why will it form the centrepiece of @RachelReevesMP's efforts to raise money this week?
Why are Budgets getting ever more complex?
And could this one backfire like @George_Osborne's omnishambles?
All this and more in my 11m(!) primer👇 youtu.be/idnW0Wu3BzQ?...
It's a great book! 👏
20.11.2025 21:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📽️Did the Treasury just pull off an audacious trick to reduce the "black hole" by billions - without actually having to do anything about it?
Or is the market rollercoaster yet more evidence of incompetence?
Watch my 10m primer and decide for yourself...
youtu.be/KG1uW-9XKuo?...
Thanks Soumaya glad you're enjoying it!
11.11.2025 22:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you glad you enjoyed it!
05.11.2025 13:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🎥 Why is the chancellor rolling the pitch for tax rises?
Because she's backed herself into a fiscal hole.
So what happens next?
The short answer is a VERY controversial Budget. A massive moment in UK economics and politics.
For the longer answer watch my 13 min (!) primer 👇 youtu.be/uminSMgTxjM?...
📽️What on earth are rare earths?
Why do they matter so much?
Why do they nearly all come from China?
And how worried should we be about the latest chapter in the trade war?
These and more questions answered in my latest primer👇 youtu.be/vq4eRtwFjIc?...
today on The Broadside: how a rock from western NC is key to making basically every semiconductor in the world…and why it’s important to know where all the raw materials we need for our stuff actually comes from. featuring @edconway.bsky.social
www.wunc.org/podcast/the-...
If its not built of it its probably built by it but can #steel ever be green? Rare Earth @bbcsounds.bsky.social with @helenczerski.bsky.social @edconway.bsky.social @steelwatch.bsky.social @willarnoldengineer.bsky.social Also BBC R4 today midday
12.09.2025 08:38 — 👍 19 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1Last week, trying to find arguments to convince my colleagues to stop binning paper clips, I went on a deep dive about what it takes to make one. There was a lot of crossover with this thread. Also - paperclips are reusable almost to infinity.
10.09.2025 17:20 — 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 0The Hong Kong/Ukraine numbers are counted separately to the normal asylum numbers (which includes Afghanistan asylum seekers). They are the "safe and legal routes" categories in the breakdown chart I included.
10.09.2025 13:02 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Anyone fancy ten-plus minutes of non-emotive charts on what's really going on with immigration in the UK?
Well, either way, here you go👇 youtu.be/zTs3PDEkB2w?...
Great news 🤓
16.08.2025 07:53 — 👍 33 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
📖A few years ago I wrote a book about the materials that make the world go round.
It was pretty relevant then. I think it's still pretty relevant (maybe even more relevant) today.
Anyway it's on offer TODAY ONLY👇
Have a read & let me know what you think shorturl.at/ONyBZ
Thanks Paul! Nice to hear from you 👍
04.08.2025 12:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
If you have not already bought @edconway.bsky.social Material world then do so today - one day kindle offer, £1.99 - a steal www.amazon.co.uk/Material-Wor...
04.08.2025 08:44 — 👍 20 🔁 10 💬 5 📌 2We already knew about the scale of waste from these kinds of retailers, this is eye opening about the environmental impact of the shipping. All that stuff from Chinese e-commerce is getting *flown*.
29.07.2025 14:45 — 👍 17 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0The picture does not do justice to how very hot the room was
29.07.2025 20:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0