Tom Calverley

Guardian assistant business editor. All views expressed are in a personal capacity and not those of my employer

[Tom Calverley @t_calverley]

@horton_official OBR says "Weak growth in imports and exports over the medium term partly reflect the
continuing impact of Brexit, which we expect to reduce the overall trade intensity of the UK
economy by 15 per cent in the long term."

[Tom Calverley @t_calverley]

@hilaryosborne 😂

[Benjy Sarlin @BenjySarlin]

Jon Stewart’s 2-minute history lesson here is worth everyone’s time before we start confidently breaking out our theories of what happened

[Alex Wickham @alexwickham]

Investment funded by changing fiscal rule

- £100b capital spending over 5 years
- funding for HS2 to Euston
- £6.7b capital investment in schools next year
- £5b for housebuilding next year
- £2b for automotive sector over multiple years
- £1b for aerospace
- 11 new green hydrogen projects
- Reeves says this will all increase long-term GDP by 1.4%

https://t.co/B5tXw3seGg

[Dr Adam Rutherford @AdamRutherford]

Ok, here we go: Much of my work concerns the history and return of scientific racism. I’ve written extensively about attempts to resurrect the shuffling corpse of
race science and eugenics for many years. Bigotry dressed up as biology. 1/n

[Tom Calverley @t_calverley]

Ah it's back up again https://t.co/SB3b1bp0Ji

[Tom Calverley @t_calverley]

The UK industrial strategy had been published at this link https://t.co/5ocI3HebiH but weirdly seems to have been pulled now?!

[Tom Calverley @t_calverley]

@lisaocarroll Odyssey seems an appropriate name, at this rate it'll take 20 years to get to Ithaca

[Mabel Banfield-Nwachi @mabelfbn]

Hello! Looking to talk to single people about the cost of living alone v in a couple. Drop me a line if you'd be happy to chat about how much more rent, bills, life costs in general as a single person...

[Tom Calverley @t_calverley]

@hilaryosborne That's awful news Hilary, such a huge loss. Thinking of you and your family and sending love and strength, T

[Tom Calverley @t_calverley]

Those giant Sports Direct mugs double as a handbag, so perhaps this is the tie-up the luxury goods market has been waiting for https://t.co/dqRaHudKqY

[Tom Calverley @t_calverley]

"Impact" journalism - just before we published this excellent dive by @marksweney into the Economist Group's links to tobacco, it confirmed its controversial Impact division would no longer take new work with the big cig firms
https://t.co/sXTnImID3j

[Blake Montgomery @blakersdozen]

Caroline Ellison sentenced to two years after serving as star witness against FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried https://t.co/KVFmiIUBIf

[Tom Calverley @t_calverley]

@jimwaterson Fantastic idea Jim. Excited to see how it goes

[Tom Calverley @t_calverley]

Genuinely worried Jean-Michel Jarre is going to electrocute himself playing in this downpour #Paralympics #Closingceremony

[Tom Calverley @t_calverley]

My favourites #AmadouAndMariam bringing the Paralympics to a close. Just perfect 🥹

[Tom Calverley @t_calverley]

@HarryTaylr Congrats Harry! Great you're going to get to report politics. Will keep eye out for your name on the wire

[Ben Riley-Smith @benrileysmith]

Exclusive

Liz Truss’s deputy prime minister applied for a senior Labour Treasury role after election defeat

Thérèse Coffey applied to be UK director at the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development

Rachel Reeves gets to pick. Coffey did not get it.
https://t.co/31mXTTuZdQ

[Tom Calverley @t_calverley]

Really pleased with how this idea I worked on with @gdncommunity and @cleaskopeliti turned out. Some fantastic stories of what overtourism feels like from inside some of Europe's biggest honeypots
https://t.co/TQgzSHxtXb