Tom Saunders
@tomjs
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Business reporter at The Times, specialising in trade. One of MHP's "30 To Watch" young journalists. @tomjss.bsky.social on the other place.
England
Joined January 2017
Yesterday the defence sec said that the Yantar, a known Russian intelligence ship, was spotted passing through British waters. It's not the only Russian ship with military links to pass through UK waters since Feb 2022. With @Effy_Yeomans
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RT @alexralph: AstraZeneca, Britain’s most valuable public company, has made about £45 million in payments to doctors and healthcare organi…
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RT @fish_bella: Police are investigating claims of stalking and “corporate espionage” made by executives at Boohoo Group, The Times can rev…
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RT @GeorgeGreenwood: The government will force a Chinese tech company to sell its majority stake in a British chipmaker a year after @tomjs…
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Non-US Election News: A year ago @GeorgeGreenwood, @ltrgoddard and I reported that a UK semiconductor manufacturer, FTDI, bought by a Chinese state-owned entity had supplied chips to Russia - at least one ending up in a Russian Tank. On the back of our reporting, today the UK gov has forced FTDI's Chinese owners to sell their stake in the company due to concerns that the company's tech might be used in ways that are "contrary to UK national security".
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Auspicious timing. One day off the two year anniversary of two sandwiches!
NEW: Meta has fired about two dozen staff in its LA office for using their $25 meal credits to buy household items including acne pads, wine glasses and laundry detergent Mark Zuckerberg’s recent efficiency drive is alive and well w @sjhmorris
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RT @KSE_Institute: 1/4 Fears of a spill in Gibraltar grow as Russia’s shadow fleet transports oil, writes @tomjs @thetimes, featuring @KSE_…
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Also, separate research has found that the number of shadow tankers passing through the Dover Strait between January and August this year increased by 355 per cent compared with the same period in 2022!
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Happy to say that I've finished the graduate scheme at The Times and will now be working as a general business reporter, primarily covering trade!
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Feryal Clark, Labour's minister for AI, walked back comments made at the Labour Party Conf re the state of an AI copyright bill Then: Legislatoin going out to consultation in October Now: Maybe Legislation or something else before the end of the year
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Fun, highly unscientific, anecdote: If the FTSE 100 falls by more than 1% on a Thursday, Friday and then Monday, its average outturn on Tuesday is 0.9% For the FTSE 250, the figure is 0.4% (though the index only fell by 0.65% last Thursday)
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5⃣However, given that this lobbying group makes no revenue (in the UK or anywhere) and would never do so it is likely the oddest business funded by taxpayers through the Future Fund. A spokesman for the BBB said that the scheme was rules-based and any company, regardless of their purpose, would receive funding if they met the eligibility criteria.
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