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Paul Kelso

@pkelso.bsky.social
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Business & economics correspondent, Sky News. Formerly health, sport, newspapers. Posting mainly work & occasional enthusiasms (sport, music, misc)

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Paul Kelso @pkelso.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
And some analysis of Trump's speech and the challenge to European leaders, who arrived amid pessimism about the continent's prospects, and leave under direct economic assault from the new President news.sky.com/story/davos-...
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Davos delegates leave World Economic Forum under no illusion of Trump disruption ahead
Audience members shifted in their seats at Donald Trump's virtual appearance at the WEF meeting - a unique mix of money, power, civil society and celebrity.
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Paul Kelso @pkelso.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Last day in Davos as the World Economic Forum breaks up with threats from Donald Trump ringing in delegates' ears. TV report from last night's declaration of trade war, including walk-on parts for John Kerry, David Miliband... & the great Nile Rodgers 🎸🕺🏔️ youtu.be/b_QhuUrKAgQ?...
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Trump puts Davos delegates at World Economic Forum on notice
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Paul Kelso @pkelso.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
💦 📈 As water companies plan to finally address the infrastructure failures of the past, the cost of borrowing for the entire industry has gone up, and that means bills will too. Five charts that explain why you are about to pay a lot more for your water news.sky.com/story/five-c...
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Five charts that explain why water bills are about to go up
Rising debt, borrowing costs and public anger have left the water industry facing the biggest challenge of the privatised era.
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Paul Kelso @pkelso.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Another shift in UK media that speaks volumes about the value of digital transformation. While Spectator (£100m) & Telegraph (£500m TBC) attracted 9-figures the venerable Observer, wrapped into the Guardian online, goes to Tortoise on a promise to invest £25m in a digital brand
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Paul Kelso @pkelso.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Electric cars accounted for one-in-four new registrations in November, above environmental targets the industry wants government to soften news.sky.com/story/electr...
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Electric accounts for one in four new cars as industry demands sales help
While total sales contracted in November compared to the previous month, the industry sales there is only one, unsustainable, reason why EV demand is holding up.
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Paul Kelso @pkelso.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Analysis: As industry lobbies to water down electric vehicle targets, the UK market is doing better than you might think news.sky.com/story/uks-el...
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UK's electric vehicle market is doing better than you might think
Despite lobbying from UK car manufacturers to relax EV targets, the UK's transition to electric is remarkable - but the final steps will be the hardest.
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Paul Kelso @pkelso.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
🚗 ⚡️ Not Miami, but Merseyside, for the launch of an actual car you can actually buy. The electric Ford Puma Gen-E, powered by a motor built here at Halewood that will also power the electric Ford Transit
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Paul Kelso @pkelso.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
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Paul Kelso @pkelso.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
The new jaGuar [subs please check] is a concept rather than a car, and not a wildly original one IMO, but 10/10 for generating attention. (Would make a nice electric razor, “available in gents or ladies”) news.sky.com/story/jaguar...
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Jaguar boss defends rebrand after backlash - as new electric car revealed
Jaguar's boss says 'we want to be bold and disruptive' as its new electric car, which is expected to cost more than £100,000 when the production version hits the market, was unveiled at an event in Mi...
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Paul Kelso @pkelso.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Five days after he closed Vauxhall’s Luton plant with a sideswipe at UK EV policy, Stellantis CEO resigns
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Paul Kelso @pkelso.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
In 2017 I spent a week at St Luke's Hospice in Sheffield with Sky camera operator Andy Lumb, filming with patients as they faced death, and the staff for whom it is a daily duty. Been thinking about that a lot today - palliative care is truly remarkable youtube.com/watch?v=nyPZ...
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Paul Kelso @pkelso.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
🧑‍🎓Project for Oxford quantum physics department: how little do people care who is Chancellor? (Question 2: Despite not giving a monkeys, is the urge to click & find out anyway stronger than gravity?)
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Paul Kelso @pkelso.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Serious bout of EV-geebies after Vauxhall closure. A couple of points - EV’s are only category of sales to GROW market share last month - petrol & diesel declining. And a note on the politics - ZEV mandate was Conservative policy & Badenoch’s responsibility as Biz Sec news.sky.com/story/car-fa...
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Car factory job losses undeniably a blow - as Vauxhall's parent company crystal clear on reason behind move
It's not all bad news, but this is undeniably a blow, both to the UK car industry and a government already struggling to quell concern about its transition to EVs, writes Sky's Paul Kelso.
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Paul Kelso @pkelso.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Breaking: Vauxhall to close its Luton plant in consolidation of UK manufacturing at Ellesmere Port, up to 1,100 jobs in danger from a move that will end 92 years of vehicle production in Bedfordshire media.stellantis.com/uk-en/corpor...
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Stellantis announces proposed plan to invest £50 million to strengthen the Ellesmere Port plant as its UK commercial vehicle manufacturing hub
Proposed consolidation of UK manufacturing footprint and new investment aims to enhance Ellesmere Port's mission as the UK's sustainable, EV-only volume manufacturing plant Consultation launched with...
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Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Nick Drake passed 50 years ago today; and initially, I was going to post Road, or something darker from Pink Moon. But instead, here's something more uplifting, to celebrate, rather than mourn. youtu.be/EZ5X4qesLRs?...
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PS22 Chorus "Northern Sky" Nick Drake (ft. Clive)
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Paul Kelso @pkelso.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
💡Energy price cap up 1.2% from January (0.36p on a unit of electricity & 0.1p on gas). a marginal change consumers may barely notice. What's unignorable is that these prices are the new normal, up around 50% on the last pre-war winter & staying there without structural change
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Paul Kelso @pkelso.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Some lively reporting on heat pumps today. Worth remembering targets regime & £7,500 subsidies were Sunak government policy, delayed after protest from industry, but not scrapped due to threats of ministerial resignations. Notable that industry has welcomed the compromises announced yesterday
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Paul Kelso @pkelso.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
🥇🌹Favourite John Prescott story. His ally Richard Caborn was Sports Minister when London 2012 ran into trouble under the leadership of US businesswoman Barbara Cassani. Caborn negotiated her departure & replacement by Seb Coe, multi Olympic medalist, global sporting royalty... and a Conservative 1/
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Paul Kelso @pkelso.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Perfectly pitched from egg man, as was the left jab
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Paul Kelso @pkelso.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
⚡️🔥You might recall a shemozzle earlier this year over "boiler tax" - fines for manufacturers missing targets to sell proportion of heat pumps alongside gas boilers. Big row in DESNZ, ministers at loggerheads & fines were postponed for a year 1/4 news.sky.com/story/heat-p...
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Heat pump policy to proceed as energy secretary bows to pressure - but manufacturers warn cost of boilers will go up
A row between top Tories over the transition away from gas boilers looks set to be settled, with a push for heat pumps to go ahead, Sky News understands.
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Paul Kelso @pkelso.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Spoke to the Sly News Daily about the farmers’ protest, how many will actually pay inheritance tax, and whether the real questions is why doesn’t farming pay? t.co/IJafU5jPf9?s...
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Paul Kelso @pkelso.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
To Westminster for the farmers’ protest, which I’m pretty sure won’t be deterred by a bit of sleet. Written about the background and detail of changes to inheritance tax that have stirred a rural revolt, here with Aoife Yourell news.sky.com/story/whats-...
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What's the beef with farmers' inheritance tax?
As thousands of farmers cry foul over tax measures in the budget, Sky News explains the issues at stake and why they feel so aggrieved.
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