My Trade Secrets column today. The EU has been talking about "economic security" (insulating itself against esp geopolitical shocks) for years. As the electric vehicle saga shows, it hasn't got far. First 300 reads free. See also 2 other great pieces coincidentally published today... 1/2 [The EU’s economic security bla...](
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Federica Genovese (@fgenovese.bsky.social)
Yes. This is important. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/16/uk-to-rejoin-eu-erasmus-student-exchange-programme
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1957: Sputnik flies overhead. US: Dammit, the Ruskies are doing space. We’ll do big cars with fins. RE:
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The Wall Street Journal (@wsj.com)
Breaking: In a massive hit, Ford is writing down $19.5 billion in EV investments. It will also stop making the electric version of its F-150 pickup...
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Marie Le Conte (@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com)
something quite deeply, richly, darkly comical about this headline
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As a lifetime member of the (association football) Goalkeepers' Union, I regard the idea of nomenclatural apartheid between two sports in both of which both hands and feet are used as goalie erasure and I strongly oppose it. RE:
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Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Trump: "When you look at football in the US, soccer -- we seem to never call it that, because we have a little bit of a conflict with another thing...
Once again the Guardian plays with fire by recklessly putting together two people separated by such a vast ideological gulf that it's a wonder a fight doesn't break out. https://amanita.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:mymiyz3x72kdfeb5nfmrk5my&cid=bafkreiajsqjbsdw6coyqrt5iz4aowpe6qdjievonhwhrlpclsbuz2ftube
Platform signs at Euston. Please note the Polar Express is 1. not run by Avanti, so it might actually get there and 2. just next to the Chester train, thus proving Chester is in the north. cc [@jenwilliamsft.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy](
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Jennifer Williams (@jenwilliamsft.bsky.social)
Northern correspondent, Financial Times πŸ“Manchester
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Dan Davies (@dsquareddigest.bsky.social)
"if that's the strangest thing you ever seen in your life, I'd say you haven't done much"
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David Woodruff (@dmwoodruff.bsky.social)
He listed Meadway too in answer to this question, but whoever prepared the clip deliberately left that out. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...