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BBC Business Editor Today Programme Good Bad Billionaire

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

13.06.2025 07:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Β£14 billion of new funding for Sizewell. Takes total taxpayer contribution to Β£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.

12.06.2025 06:15 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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?

01.06.2025 06:16 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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UK needs more nuclear to power AI, says Amazon Web Services boss The world's largest cloud computing company plans to spend Β£8bn on new data centres in the UK over the next four years.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

16.05.2025 06:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

05.04.2025 07:23 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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

04.02.2025 17:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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

01.02.2025 11:10 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

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

31.01.2025 07:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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

28.01.2025 07:33 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2

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

25.12.2024 08:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Royal Mail takeover by Czech billionaire approved The Β£3.6 billion takeover by Daniel Kretinsky's EP Group will be announced on Monday morning, the BBC understands.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

15.12.2024 22:19 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

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!

10.12.2024 18:14 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

Open the pod bay doors Hal …Hal…

07.12.2024 09:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Michael Palin tells me about screening of β€œlost” episode of Monty Python precursor Complete and Utter History of Britain x.com/bbcr4today/s...

07.12.2024 09:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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

01.12.2024 17:09 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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

28.11.2024 07:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Czech billionaire set to clinch deal to buy Royal Mail

28.11.2024 06:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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.

27.11.2024 21:47 πŸ‘ 46 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

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.

27.11.2024 21:43 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Daughter said. β€œI 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.

22.11.2024 11:06 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Water firms stopped from using customer money for bonuses The regulator's new powers prevent bonuses being funded from customer bills.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

21.11.2024 10:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0