Jim Pickard
Deputy political editor, Financial Times. Also amateur iphone photographer and some-time musician.
- this is what gives journalism an imperfect reputation 1) headline claims one thing 2) paragraph 8 admits that the headline could be either true or untrue
- extraordinary that Thames Water executives are getting *new* bonuses, this time as a result of the £3bn rescue loan from the spring - which loads the company with interest rates of nearly 10% via me and Gill Plimmer www.ft.com/content/1f6d...
- it’s only May but this is already my book of the year, Sarah Wynn-William’s absolutely smashes it with her gripping, funny, shocking insider story of working at Facebook
- Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates ratcheted up his feud with Elon Musk, accusing the world’s richest man of “killing the world’s poorest children” through what he said were misguided cuts to US development assistance www.ft.com/content/bdd9...
- FT leak from imminent immigration white paper: “Migrants in the UK would need to wait longer before they could apply to make their residency permanent under plans being drawn up by the Labour government as part of a crackdown on foreigners coming to work in Britain.” www.ft.com/content/afa1...
- this is very awkward for Kemi Badenoch
- Keir Starmer at PMQs reminds newly Net Zero-sceptic Kemi Badenoch that both she and shadow chancellor Mel Stride have both previously praised the economic potential of green policies including more renewable energy
