MOST 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...

From @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.

What explains the divergence between consumer confidence of the over- and under-50s? @faisalislam.bsky.social for BBC www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The @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…

Friday 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

NEW 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...

NEW 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...

Coming 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

on #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…

#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

Do believe the hype… 🎤

Standing Strong: the John & Amy Hunt interview @BBCOne 9pm

LONG 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...

Tonight @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

on @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

Thumping 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?

“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...

Carney 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.social

quite 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...

NEW 🚨 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.

@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.”

Exclusive 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...

Referring of course to this @faisalislam.bsky.social story: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The 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.social

Bidenomics 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...

Last night’s @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social kicked off with these extraordinary images from the devastation in LA

Coming 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

RESET! 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

dragged 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…

Things I notice about this place…. No one cussing my socks… Nice not to have the proprietors’ tweets a random warblings in your face every 5 seconds. Very much like the very original Twitter…

Morning Do remember to follow @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social

Great to speak to @adamfleming.bsky.social for Newscast on the Trump tariff trap, electric vehicle conundrum… and my inadvertent realisation watching Industry that my gilet was central casting for a wannabe failed finance bro…. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

“I am concerned about the difference...we want to make the system equitable” @faisalislam.bsky.social asks Bridget Phillipson why nearly twice as many private school students are getting extra time in exams under special educational needs provisions than those at state schools #Newsnight

"I know that colleagues are thinking really seriously about what is a very sensitive and emotive issue” Cabinet Minister Bridget Phillipson MP is asked by @faisalislam.bsky.social whether “it’s OK if the Prime Minister ends up on the wrong side” of the assisted dying debate #Newsnight

“I don’t think it’s gaming the system…if you don’t ask you don’t get” Ex-Work and Pensions Secretary Thérèse Coffey is asked about stats which show nearly twice as many private school students are getting extra time in exams than those at state schools #Newsnight

“The Education Secretary is very worried that state school pupils are at a disadvantage” Political Editor Nick Watt responds to Bridget Phillipson’s concerns that nearly twice as many private school students are getting extra time in exams than those at state schools #Newsnight

“The focus was no longer on benefits and sanctions and compliance - the focus was now 'what’s stopping you get there'" Labour MP Barry Gardiner on a visit to his local job centre #Newsnight

“I think Israel came under immense pressure from the United States.” @faisalislam.bsky.social asks Nomi Bar-Yaacov, Associate Fellow of Chatham House, what was behind Israel’s push for a ceasefire with Hezbollah in Lebanon. #Newsnight

“We do need to make that transition… moving towards electric vehicles” Speaking to @faisalislam.bsky.social, Cabinet Minister Bridget Phillipson reacts to the closure of Vauxhall’s factory in Luton, with the company's owner blaming government green policy for the decision #Newsnight

Thread - The most important battle in the world for AI supremacy/ impact of Trumps election on Musk’s AI firm value/ OpenAI court emails reveals the real story… but let’s start here with my earlier #Newsnight interview with the now Nobel prize winner Geoffrey Hinton: m.youtube.com/watch?v=MGJp...

Well hello there!! @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social

Significant influx of followers on here - thanks for following … will be sure to post much more - please say if there’s something you want us to take a look at etc…

NEW Trade experts calculate £22bn or 2.6% annual hit to UK exports, 0.8% to GDP if Trump goes through with 20% blanket tariff… fishing, petroleum, mining sectors could see exports down a fifth according to @centre4ITP … clothing up a bit tho www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Geoffrey just won Physics Nobel prize - this is my @newsnightbbc interview with him on Artificial Intelligence earlier this year… on what jobs to do, to the Oppenheimer style dilemma on weaponisation, to how no one, not even him, really understands how it works… www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGJp...

NEW Most comprehensive Brexit trade analysis from economists suggests hit from new trade barriers worsening in 2023 as UK decouples from EU supply chains… uses 3 full years of data to analyse trends by sector/ sub sector and country… 27% export hit vs no Brexit model: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

As benign as today’s inflation uptick appeared, with core inflation and services inflation slowing… occupier housing cost is now at a record (since data calculated in 1992) of 7% and this driving a notable wedge between the target measure of CPI (2.2%) and the ONS favourite measure of 3.1%