faisalislam.bsky.social @faisalislam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Canadian finance minister on “teaming up” in current changed world: 081
Reposted by @faisalislam.bsky.socialBBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 23/04/2026“You’re more likely to lose your job to someone who is using AI, than to AI itself...” Rishi Sunak speaks to @faisalislam.bsky.social about how AI could impact jobs, with the former PM saying the “best protection” is to have a “competence and confidence using these new tools.” #Newsnight 26304
Reposted by @faisalislam.bsky.socialBBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 12/03/2026“AI is basically sucking up all human knowledge and throwing it back at us - and charging a price.” Talking Heads founding member David Byrne speaks to @faisalislam.bsky.social about AI and its impact on creativity. #Newsnight 522988
faisalislam.bsky.social @faisalislam.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Yes - this is clear, and occurs even in some of the very fastest growing areas of the planet eg San Francisco… but this was a piece mainly about economic growth more generally. 010
faisalislam.bsky.social @faisalislam.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Yes data is turning up in Liverpool too .. Leeds has always been higher productivity, it looks the part - I wil check the data 010
faisalislam.bsky.social @faisalislam.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Growth up, population up, per capita GVA up too, productivity of any other city in recent years. tram system setting records, now a net inflow of workers from London to GM, reversing the flow so familiar from history… spoke to CEOs, historians, the Mayor showing me about … 4384
faisalislam.bsky.social @faisalislam.bsky.social · 15/02/2026…where leading CEOs were lauding the “fantastic” investment climate, and a business model built on keeping thousands of smart young workers in the city from a campus including uni with the most applications, and experiment of what some call “living in the sky” in thousands of new build flats & homes 1230
faisalislam.bsky.social @faisalislam.bsky.social · 15/02/2026MOST READ: Look up at the skyscrapers and look down at the buzz of a city full of young workers, and you see something occasionally elusive in Britain, a city full of growth and optimism. In the week of more sluggish UK growth figures, for Radio 4’s In Other News… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukCould Manchester be a model for the UK to kickstart growth?With an annual growth rate of 3.1%, Manchester's economy has performed twice as well as that of the UK as a whole. 57618
Reposted by @faisalislam.bsky.socialJohn Peters @johnthejack.bsky.social · 19/01/2026From @faisalislam.bsky.social Surreal, but heard at Davos: Official Danish archives show Woodrow Wilson’s 1916 signature & Secretary of State Robert Lansing, committing US by treaty that Denmark has right to “whole of Greenland”, after Trump written denial of right. 21373166
Reposted by @faisalislam.bsky.socialCharles Tallack @charlestallack.bsky.social · 17/01/2026What explains the divergence between consumer confidence of the over- and under-50s? @faisalislam.bsky.social for BBC www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 6177
faisalislam.bsky.social @faisalislam.bsky.social · 25/12/2025has been of critical importance to the UK…I asked a number of related questions when I visited Google HQ including inside DeepMind’s US HQ last month including a visit to its academic library below… very much worth watching the film… perhaps even more than Elf! Merry Christmas… and a happy NY! 1100
faisalislam.bsky.social @faisalislam.bsky.social · 25/12/2025film is great introduction for any young people in your life to this frontier. Both an ex PM & current Cabinet minister told me, separately, that Demis’ insistence on staying in the UK as condition of Deepmind sale amid attempts from Musk, Google & others to move him and it over to Silicon Valley.. 360
faisalislam.bsky.social @faisalislam.bsky.social · 25/12/2025The @demishassabis film The Thinking Game is brilliant, already watched 160m times - probably the best advert for the UK’s centrality to the future of high level globally important research and therefore for the world economy… from AI itself to its applications in every corner of frontier science… 1173
faisalislam.bsky.social @faisalislam.bsky.social · 12/12/2025Friday night #Newsnight … 💥 warnings of war in Europe, what does it mean? 🌲 Gurinder Chadha on new Christmas film which gives a British Asian take on Christmas Carol ⛪️ Church of Englands new campaign against “populist right” With @PennyMordaunt @gilliantett @JOwusuNepaul 2230 BBC Two & IPlayer 0232
faisalislam.bsky.social @faisalislam.bsky.social · 20/10/2025NEW It’s China vs the world” says US Treasury Secretary but is it in fact the trade war vs the Nasdaq? Mad week in America… trying to work out how the rest of the world, and markets work out what’s going on with US economic policy and markets… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukBankers on edge, a gilded cash room and US blaming China - my week at IMFAfter five days talking to ministers, bankers and trade negotiators at the IMF, the BBC's Faisal Islam assesses the global outlook. 191
faisalislam.bsky.social @faisalislam.bsky.social · 20/10/2025NEW At the key international economic committee of finance ministers and central bankers, the IMFC, Chancellor Rachel Reeves chose to stress how the 2020 Brexit deal has “compounded” the UKs long term productivity, “acknowledging” OBR 4% long term hit www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukRachel Reeves blames Brexit deal for long-term damage to economyRachel Reeves made the comments about the 2020 deal at a key meeting of the world's leading finance ministers and central bankers. 189232
faisalislam.bsky.social @faisalislam.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Coming up on @BBCNewsnight Powerful interview with the family of Virginia Giuffre on latest attempts in Congress to release all Epstein files, their call for Sarah Ferguson to lose Royal title, and how they and she reacted to the Newsnight interview with Prince Andrew PLUS Digital ID Burnham 2230 14210
faisalislam.bsky.social @faisalislam.bsky.social · 08/08/2025on #Newsnight 1. Trump suggesting a Ukraine-Russia peace deal involving “some swapping of territories” 2. JD Vance @ UK - a charm offensive after his sharp criticism ? - a confidant explains 3. Wikipedia boss Jimmy Wales tells us of his concerns about Online Safety Act & AI hit to graduate jobs… 4204
faisalislam.bsky.social @faisalislam.bsky.social · 14/07/2025#BBCNewsnight at 2230 on BBC2 / IPlayer & across the world on BBC News: Astonishing footage of a drone dropping off contraband at a major prison: “we have ceded airspace” over our prisons says chief inspector - Chancellor big Mansion House speech as tax rise speculation rife 4160
Reposted by @faisalislam.bsky.socialVictoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Standing Strong: the John & Amy Hunt interview @BBCOne 9pm 1211010
faisalislam.bsky.social @faisalislam.bsky.social · 06/04/2025LONG READ From David Ricardo to Alexander Hamilton to David Autor to the “sum of all cheating” to the equation that tariffs penguins, to loaded guns & game theory. Another BBC InDepth trying to explain what’s on earth is going on and where it’s going…. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukTrump has turned his back on the foundation of US economic mightWhat made the US step back from the system that it profited handsomely from for decades? 2415864
faisalislam.bsky.social @faisalislam.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Tonight @BBCNewsnight at 2230 Does Russia want actual peace? key Putin ally suggests Moscow not about to compromise… Panel @PeterRicketts @montie @cocobyname What’s going on with Reform? AND end of week excl with banned Eurovision singer from Malta 9307
faisalislam.bsky.social @faisalislam.bsky.social · 06/03/2025on @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social latest in geopolitical geoeconomic chaos ⚡️ EU agreeing to fund rearmament 🚨 Trump row back on trade war after stock falls 🇨🇦 excl with Canada’s Security minister 💥 is tariff chaos is in fact about a bigger plan for a weaker dollar @gilliantett.bsky.social 0254
faisalislam.bsky.social @faisalislam.bsky.social · 25/02/2025… 👀 So in January 2025 166,065 Battery Electric Vehicles sold across Europe (EU+Efta+UK) UP 45,099 increase on last Jan, (+37%) Within that, Tesla sold 9,945 DOWN 8,216 on last Jan (-45.2%) So 1 in 7 EVs sold across Europe was a Tesla last January, Now it’s 1 in 16. 46010
faisalislam.bsky.social @faisalislam.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Thumping fall in Tesla sales in Jan across Europe (EU +Efta + UK)… down 45%, to 9,945 from 18k last Jan. In EU alone halved to 7,500… at the same time EV sales in general up 37%. Shares down 10%. Overtaken by JLR and Mazda. And BYD in UK. New model Y factor, but Musk hit too? 1315241
Reposted by @faisalislam.bsky.socialBBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 11/02/2025“Whoever controls powerful AI… could be a dictator” @faisalislam.bsky.social speaks to Nobel Prize winning Turkish-American economist Daron Acemoglu, who warns about the dangers of AI dictators and the impact powerful AI could have on global democracy. #Newsnight www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmzs...youtube.comNobel prize winner on threat of AI dictators and Big Tech’s risk to democracyYouTube video by BBC Newsnight 1514353
Reposted by @faisalislam.bsky.socialLouis Harris-White @lharriswhite.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Carney on five years of Brexit: "…unfortunately, the United Kingdom is living with the economic impact of that decision. This is a case where I wish I were wrong or had been wrong about the likely economic impact." WATCH: m.youtube.com/watch?v=yV10... #Newsnight | @faisalislam.bsky.socialm.youtube.com"We're going to stand up to a bully" | Mark Carney on President Trump’s Canada trade tariffsYouTube video by BBC Newsnight 14316
faisalislam.bsky.social @faisalislam.bsky.social · 25/01/2025quite something… An attempt to reshape global econ & trade by projecting US tech supremacy & economic optimism AND threatening trillions in tariffs… Ultimate carrot and stick. Charm & Offence. Davos elite nod along as Trump delivers ultimatum www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukDavos elite nod along as Trump delivers ultimatumPresident Trump's 'America First' message takes shape, as the rest of the world begins to digest what it might mean for them and global trade. 9339
faisalislam.bsky.social @faisalislam.bsky.social · 24/01/2025👀 PEM convention doesn't cross red lines? No it doesn’t… it’s not a customs union q. and a full fat Veterinary agreement. Dynamic alignment with the EU, that doesn't cross the red lines? No thats part of our manifesto, an SPS agreement, a veterinary agreement, yes. 42311
faisalislam.bsky.social @faisalislam.bsky.social · 24/01/2025 Trade Sec Reynolds met with EU trade Commissioner Sefcovic at Davos thanked him for “incredibly positive & helpful contribution” in my interview with him … “proves we can improve the terms of trade with EU and can do that whilst pursuing closer trade links around the world” 4174
faisalislam.bsky.social @faisalislam.bsky.social · 24/01/2025NEW 🚨 Trade Sec Jonathan Reynolds tells @BBCNews after Trump speech US does not need to apply tariffs to UK because there is no goods trade deficit. 🚨 Reynolds also clarified that both UK joining PEM and a Brexit vet deal with dynamic alignment would not cross red lines. 167529
Reposted by @faisalislam.bsky.socialLaura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 23/01/2025@faisalislam.bsky.social: “ #Trump tells #Davos for those that want to import into the #US from abroad: “You will pay a #tariff” differing amounts… which could be worth “trillions of dollars” for the US Treasury. This must be a universal tariff.” 431
faisalislam.bsky.social @faisalislam.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Exclusive interview with EU Trade chief from Davos… Seeking talks with Trump’s team… open to ambitious reset with UK on food/farm exports and pan European customs rule of origin area www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukEU trade chief: Bloc may consider UK joining pan-Europe customs schemeThe UK joining the Pan-Euro-Mediterranean Convention is up for discussion in reset talks, says Maros Sefcovic. 13515
Reposted by @faisalislam.bsky.socialSam Lowe @samuelmarclowe.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Referring of course to this @faisalislam.bsky.social story: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukEU trade chief: Bloc may consider UK joining pan-Europe customs schemeThe UK joining the Pan-Euro-Mediterranean Convention is up for discussion in reset talks, says Maros Sefcovic. 4226
Reposted by @faisalislam.bsky.socialKriszta Satori @fulelo.bsky.social · 23/01/2025The new European Union trade chief responsible for post-Brexit negotiations has told the BBC that a "pan-European [customs] area is something we could consider" as part of "reset" discussions between the UK and EU. www.bbc.com/news/article... #EU #brexit By @faisalislam.bsky.socialbbc.comEU trade chief: Bloc may consider UK joining pan-Europe customs schemeThe UK re-joining the Pan-Euro-Mediterranean Convention is up for discussion in reset talks, says Maros Sefcovic. 02514
faisalislam.bsky.social @faisalislam.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Bidenomics without the money and now without Biden too, is much too thin. A more detailed strategy for sustained growth is needed, and in short order. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukMortgages rates are not rising yet but Reeves has to actWhy Rachel Reeves needs a more detailed growth strategy - and soon. 2215
faisalislam.bsky.social @faisalislam.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Full show - it was a lively one watched by a stellar 600k viewers - featuring Joe Lonsdale, Caroline Lucas, Guto Hari, Nick Watt … www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...bbc.co.ukNewsnight - The inferno that woke the worldAs the worst-ever Los Angeles fires continue to burn, the political blame game has begun. What does the debate tell us about the imminent second Trump presidency? 571
faisalislam.bsky.social @faisalislam.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Green Party former leader Lucas concerned about the influence of tech infused Trumpism bsky.app/profile/bbcn... 22310
faisalislam.bsky.social @faisalislam.bsky.social · 10/01/2025We heard from one of the circle of tech bro billionaires backing Trump Joe Lonsdale about what their agenda is at this time of exponential change in AI etc… bottom line - incorporating Greenland could be part of a “healthy” growth in the US “frontier” bsky.app/profile/bbcn... 600
faisalislam.bsky.social @faisalislam.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Last night’s @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social kicked off with these extraordinary images from the devastation in LA 2143
faisalislam.bsky.social @faisalislam.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Coming up 2230 @BBCTwo Fascinating iv with @DMiliband on working with Syria’s new leaders, refugees, & UK’s place in a rapidly changing geopolitics And GDP, British ambition and Chinese spies with @samuelkasumu & @DrJoGrady @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social 0271
faisalislam.bsky.social @faisalislam.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Stunning view from Newsnight towers…. 080
faisalislam.bsky.social @faisalislam.bsky.social · 12/12/2024RESET! What does PM actually mean by a changed relationship with the EU, after his meeting with Council President at Number 10 today… myself and Nick picking up it could be more extensive than thought… with Margaret Hodge and Kwasi Kwarteng at 2230 on BBC 2 and IPlayer … @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social 4376
faisalislam.bsky.social @faisalislam.bsky.social · 29/11/2024dragged to see Wicked by 3 daughters and 3 of their friends… First reaction - 3 hours, seriously? Just for part 1. No way. Actually planned to leave early. how absolutely stunning a spectacle & unexpectedly funny too. Now … singing along to “Defying Gravity” on loop… surely a British Oscar… 2348211
faisalislam.bsky.social @faisalislam.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Also I was wearing black all bird wool runner trainer things, which some people take great offence at … but which are incredibly comfortable 010
faisalislam.bsky.social @faisalislam.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Is the algorithm basically the same as the original blue bird? You just see sequentially in real time what the people you follow are chirping? 8411
faisalislam.bsky.social @faisalislam.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Both can be true…. I think they were bottom of the barrel socks with yellow rubber ducks on them… jon snow always said the socks have to match the tie… as I get older I think I care less and less 230
