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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My father was stabbed in the back and left to die on the street when he was 8 because someone found out he was Jewish. .

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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’ve been trying to cancel a subscription for an hour now - and keep getting asked if I want to cancel … it’s possible I might start screaming. They should turn it into a game show where the winner gets to keep their sanity…and a cash prize

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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A plane booked now from Edinburgh to London is currently £40 (EasyJet) a train booked now is nearer £400 - the system makes environmentally friendly choices very hard indeed. Surely time for change

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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Andy Burnham said in August that he would not create political & economic turmoil by calling an early election. He said it other times as well The political donation to Reform in preparation for an election, makes it look like he’s increasingly disbelieved about that promise

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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Retail story of the day; Canned ‘mackerel’ now contains no mackerel …interesting piece by the FT which is even more fishy than the headline suggests giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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UK canned ‘mackerel’ now contains no mackerel

Critics say switch to tins comprising more sustainable species risks confusing consumers

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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

When I got stuck at the airport yesterday, I thought it likely the Air Traffic Control problem was due to a Russian cyber attack. Interesting to hear that it probably wasn't, we are able to make a mess of things all by ourselves.

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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Who invented the bank holiday & how to sort out your investments on the return from your summer holidays? That's what I'll be discussing with the great @jocoburn.bsky.social at 3:30 today on Times Radio - do join us.

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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

You could save £200+ a year on your energy bills by fixing now. October price cap is forecast to rise to around £1,729 — but there are cheaper fixed deals around - worth checking around. And with another rise possible in January, is it time to fix?

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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Lego is getting clever It has tripled the number of software engineers it has & launched a new ‘smart brick’ system — first used in sets of Star Wars and Pokémon — to make play more digital and interactive. It’s a family owned business and just saw profits rise by about 30%

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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The problem with our water companies and regulation revealed Spain is hotter, drier and has fewer people than England but has around 28 times the reservoir capacity Spain: 56 billion m³ England: 2 billion m³ Britain’s water problem isn’t that it doesn’t rain enough. It’s what we do with the water

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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Holiday car rental rip off latest. Book car excess insurance for the year will cost you £30. But do it when you arrive at the car rental desk - it can cost you £200 for a 2 week holiday. Save £170 and more by searching for ‘holiday car excess insurance’ before you travel

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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Booking 2 tickets on Trainline to Scotland and depending on whose phone I use, there is a dramatic difference in cost of around £100 - what on earth is going on??!!!

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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Why has Burnham’s reaction to climate damage, wild fires and lack of water been the rather underwhelming possibility that he might ban disposable BBQs? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Hot topic: why is Burnham so reluctant to talk about the climate crisis?

Extreme heat is harming wellbeing of ordinary people the PM champions, yet little has been said on the topic

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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Horrific and distasteful as it is amid the 1,000s who have been killed as a result of the war with Iran - the biggest factor in the USA moving to end the war, may be this graph. US petrol prices have risen 60% as a result of the war & Trump is feeling voters’ anger.

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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Bought a book on improving your memory to read while I’m away and predictably forgotten to take it with me - thus proving how much I need it.

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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Ministers are drawing up plans to boost growth by exploiting loopholes in fiscal rules to increase borrowing. It’s like cheating on a diet by saying biscuits don’t count. It’s still extra calories and this is still extra spending and borrowing.

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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Last year the EU saw more than 1m hectares burn; this year could break that record Is it not a more accurate way of describing one of the drivers of these fires, not as ‘climate change’ which implies a benign adaptation-but ‘climate damage’ implying something we need to mend?

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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The Big Hack - today Anthropic says its AI model went rogue & decided on its own to hack another company. Follows similar problem at OpenAI The AI race isn’t just about who builds the smartest model—it’s about who can control the code they create

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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Shell more than doubled profits, as it reaped benefits from jump in oil prices triggered by war in the Middle East Oil & bank companies in particular have a reputational problem that makes them easy targets for politicians looking to raise new taxes Burnham may be watching results with interest

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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Some good news: You are likely to live longer. There were an estimated 581,400 people aged 90 years or over. This has increased by: • 16.3% since mid-2015 • 3.0% since mid-2024 Men are living longer but still only make up about 30% of the over 90s population

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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

‘My life’s screwed’ says one investor quoted in the FT as the Korean stock falls nearly 40 per cent from its June peak. A bursting of an AI and tech bubble has sent shock waves through the market. Worries that this might spread.

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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Dangerous plug adapters. Consumer safety group Electrical Safety First tested 14 products from AliExpress, Amazon Marketplace, eBay and TikTok Shop - and found they all failed to meet UK safety requirements.

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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The world Microsoft championships have started in order to find the world’s best Excel and PowerPoint users. But what does the world’s best PowerPoint look like - this is the question the nation needs answering!

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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The Chinese fast fashion giant Shein reported a $99m loss. Love it or loathe it, Shein has changed retail. Traditional fashion often bets on big seasonal collections. Shein makes thousands of new styles in small batches and lets customers decide what survives.

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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Remember when Delia Smith created a national shortage of cranberries when she used it in a duck recipe? Well now the Great British Sewing Bee may be having a similar effect. Liberty has more than doubled the size of its fabrics department as it cashes in on sewing craze.

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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

This morning I'm on TimesRadio breakfast with the business news Reaction to Burnham's spending plans have pushed gilt prices up. We now spend £100 bn a year just paying interest on our debt. That's about what we spend on education & X2 what we spend on defence

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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The PM says “cavalry is coming” to save “working-class culture” of pubs Business rates cut by 20% for pubs in England I know a pub when I see it but is it easy to distinguish a pub that serves food & a restaurant that services booze & won’t restaurants now rebrand themselves?

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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Fun chat about office meetings with Kate McCann and Stig Abell on Times Radio this morning. I’ve always been stuck by story that Gore (makers of Gortex) have a rule to abolish bad meetings which is …anyone can call a meeting but no one has to come.

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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Whether you’re a supporter or not I think fair to say politically Burnham is strategically clever in quickly introducing (admittedly small policies) but ones that people understand and can be introduced fast. It controls the narrative and tells a story that Starmer never managed.

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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Andy Burnham has announced he will cut business rates for pubs and live music venues by 20%. Downing Street say the average pub around £1,100 in the next financial year.

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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Almost two-thirds of low-income families say they struggle to buy essentials such as clothes, heating & food, according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation Inflation is dramatically down from its highs - so the cost of living crisis is largely about uneven effects of economic trouble.

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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Latest: Consumer confidence up for 3rd month in a row, thanks in large part to a bump in sentiment among baby boomers (aged 62-80). But don’t mistake this for recovery: only around 1 in 10 expect the economy to improve, according to latest stats from BRC this morning @britishretail.bsky.social

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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Don’t Look Up - odd that still much criticism of any gov’t attempt to limit North Sea oil drilling when we are getting repeated heat waves and hosepipe bans and clear evidence of climate damage. Surely we need to act quicker to change energy not slower?

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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Many welcome PM’s cut in energy bills which replaces digital ID scheme But no one mentions the ID scheme was meant to reduce number of illegal workers who increase supply & cut workers pay So not clear if new scheme is overall better or worse for workers than Keir’s policy

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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The new PM’s first policy - VAT cut on electricity bills - is already in doubt 1 hour and 50 mins after it was announced. PM said it’s funded by money assigned to the digital ID card roll out. Now revealed that no money was assigned to digital IDs - so claim about how it’s funded now in question

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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The boss of JP Morgan has warned new PM of moving against what might look like another juicy money target - banks. Jamie Dimon said there would be “adverse consequences” if Burnham targeted lenders with windfall taxes. Banks currently face a 3% charge on top of corporation tax.

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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Rise in the ‘fake meeting’ - office workers so filled with meetings that they don’t have time to do any actual work, are creating fake meetings in their dairies to stop bosses calling them in for pointless meetings & to enable them to get real work done. www.ft.com/content/0291...

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Employees are scheduling fake meetings to make time for real work

When back-to-back calls leave little time for actual tasks, some turn to underhand solutions

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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Watch out for potential move on pension pots of higher tax payers - no news yet from new PM on that, but with plans for a lot of government spending, he’s in a corner on how to fund it.

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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

New PM to announce cut in energy bills of £45 as he will remove VAT on electricity bills in the first of a series of major economic announcements expected today.

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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The start of The Great Bursting? Global tech stocks fell sharply on Friday, as investors dumped some of the biggest winners from the AI boom. The Nasdaq 100 fell 2% in early trading on Friday, adding to a 1.6% drop on Thursday, says FT.

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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Today’s health-care system is designed to treat illness, not prevent it. So fascinating to see the most valuable pharma company in the world, US business Lilly, has started developing medicines that prevent illness rather than cure it. Could be the money maker of the century

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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

How do you raise tax without raising tax levels … this is how: 2 million more people will higher-rate tax than in 2023-24. The number of workers paying the higher or additional rate of tax soar as frozen thresholds pull hundreds of thousands more earners into the top tax bands just this year.

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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

China’s Robo Cops are coming - just seen this as part of Hong Kong’s tech fest

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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

When China’s ‘weakest’ growth is still more than 6 times better than UK’s. China has unveiled one of its lowest quarterly growth rates in decades. China’s GDP rose 4.3% in 2nd quarter lowest score since the introduction of GDP reporting in early 1990s, apart from COVID.

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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The appeal of the Rich List…The journalist who started it at the Sunday Times said when they introduced it “Circulation soared 18 per cent — absolutely unheard of. It blew all their minds.”

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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

More pain for first time buyers. The speed of house-price rises are forcing first-time buyers to wait nine months longer to get on the ladder than they would have had to five years ago, according to new figures from ONS

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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The dancing fighting robots of Hong Kong - this definitely got one of the biggest crowds at the Leap East tech fest

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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Forget electric bikes - get ready for electric legs - these are created by Shenzhen Kenqing Technology - I’ve been investigating at the Leap East tech festival in Hong Kong. Amazing stuff. They also help you walk up mountains

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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Sign of the times - here in Hong Kong, shops are now selling digital wallets for your crypto currency. Coming to a corner store near you soon?

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AdamShawBiz @adamshawbiz.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Tonight’s restaurant promised me my meal will not only expel my wind but says this will cure my dizziness. It sounds better than the pigs lungs but neither are great for my vegetarian diet. Real Chinese food is not like it is at home

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