Peter Foster

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BBC Radio 4 - The Briefing Room, How close is the UK getting to the European Union? Is Labour's promise of 'an improved and ambitious relationship' with Europe coming true?

The Briefing Room at 4 on #BBCRadio4 + #BBCSounds @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social and guests discuss whether we’re seeing a closer relationship between the UK and the EU? @pmdfoster.bsky.social @jillongovt.bsky.social @mijrahman.bsky.social

Was reading excellent James Kirkup @jkirkup.bsky.social piece on the coming pension crisis and the need to encourage saving…in which he warned against populist rabbble rousers.

And then, forsooth, look what dropped into my inbox from GB News…🙄

www.thetimes.com/article/0552...

Trump reaps $50bn tariff haul as world ‘chickens out’ Only China and Canada have retaliated against US president’s tariff war

A good, uncomfortably contrarian take from @pmdfoster.bsky.social here makes us ask who is really ‘chickening out’ - on.ft.com/4nSFNv0

Trump reaps $50bn tariff haul as world ‘chickens out’ Only China and Canada have retaliated against US president’s tariff war

Who is the 🐔 here?

Nice piece led by @pmdfoster.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/82e3...

There it is.

Republicans just BLOCKED the release of the Epstein Files.

Ecotricity founder Dale Vince: ‘There’s got to be a bigger purpose in life’ The entrepreneur on his Labour party donations, the case for green growth — and taking Elon Musk to court

"Lunch with Dale Vince was never going to be chateaubriand at Hawksmoor..." what a start to this wonderful 'Lunch with the FT' where @pickardje.bsky.social meets the Ecotricity entrepreneur and eco-warrior.

www.ft.com/content/8418...

🚨Don’t believe the myth: Britain’s services exports have been hit hard by Brexit

Important @chrisgiles.ft.com piece writing up LSE paper.

on.ft.com/3GyOyK5

EU blocks Britain’s attempts to join pan-European trading bloc [FREE TO READ] The PEM convention would reduce exporters’ post-Brexit difficulties with supply chains

Scoop: first signs of limits of UK-EU “reset”…EU says doesn’t want UK to join pan-Euro trade area; & digging in in Northern Ireland. With @andybounds.bsky.social @financialtimes.com

on.ft.com/44IFdsh EU blocks Britain’s attempts to join pan-European trading bloc

👇this. what happpens when you don't build a reservoir for 30 years and have expanding populations (but higher than average rainfall)...you still get 'droughts'.

Due to lack of capacity to hold water rather than a lack of rain...last year was a wet year...

Why you’re getting drought warnings if you live in north/midlands of UK

Great piece. After the noise, the data…

What has Labour achieved after 1 year in government? [FREE TO READ] After a tumultuous first 12 months in office, the FT looks at Keir Starmer’s record so far

Labour was elected on bold pledges to kick-start the economy, fix the NHS and get Britain building again, but has Starmer's government delivered? Here's an overview of what progress has (or hasn't) been made in the first year: on.ft.com/44pU7Cl

A 10Y infrastructure strategy...or financial engineering? @pmdfoster.bsky.social @greenmirandahere.bsky.social @oldtrotter.bsky.social @chriscurtis94.bsky.social @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social

Yes, the currency of trust.

This Telegraph admission is v scary sign of our times. They admit the story is fake to SQUASH the rumour that it was AI-generated -- because they know that this would turn all their journalism into soup.

Of course, if it HAD been AI generated (unique pix etc) no-one would ever have known. Discuss.

Gotta smile at this from my old shop. Somewhere in the jungle, the war continues...

It turns out reports of a 'millionaire exodus' from the UK last year were completely unfounded.

Posh London Lebanese/Levantine eatery.

Breaking: Chinese vice premier left for lunch off site.

Not a man for sandwiches, were told. Even Ottolenghi ones.

US says trade talks with China ‘going well’ as sides reconvene Howard Lutnick says discussions in London expected to go on throughout Tuesday

US is holding trade talks with China in London’s Lancaster House.

It’s a neutral venue provided by the Brits, but it seems that catering was not included in the rental…

…They just took a huge delivery of Ottolenghi take-out for lunch. Only the best.

on.ft.com/3HxM0vU

🙏🙏

So according to this poll, a third of Lib Dem and Green voters, and one fifth of Labour voters trust Farage over Starmer to run the economy 🤷‍♂️.

@robfordmancs.bsky.social can you help?

Makes you wonder if they read the question right?

Spent the week truffling in the margins of the OECD conference on trade and the economy— here’s what i picked up was going behind the scenes.

on.ft.com/3ZlF7Uv Donald Trump’s go-it-alone trade doctrine shakes Paris summit

All sad, and true. But now wrapped in a political inertia bubble of Labour’s making. We’ll just get slowly poorer, and the bet is no-one will ever really work out why. And we’ll keep saying “growth” often enough to make it so. Onwards.

single cover of "I'm Not In Love" by 10CC released 50 years ago today.

50 years ago, today, the british voted in the very first brexit referendum and this seminal single was released by 10CC.

Incredibly, the song is still a favourite 50 years later while Labours anti EEC/EU stance has remained unchanged.

Still Not in Love with EU?

🧵

Aggressive reshoring of supply chains risks significant GDP loss, warns OECD Modelling shows localising manufacturing too quickly could reduce global trade by 18%

Aggressive reshoring of supply chains risks significant GDP loss, warns OECD—The Paris-based @oecd-ocde.bsky.social which represents most of the advanced economies… www.ft.com/content/e930... @pmdfoster.bsky.social @financialtimes.com