Jim Pickard 🐋 @PickardJE
Deputy Political Editor, Financial Times: Political Journalism team award 2019 (Corbyn’s Labour) & 2021 (Greensill Capital) ft.com London Joined August 2009-
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Chinese spying claims in Britain – and beyond On the Political Fix pod this week I'm joined by regulars @GeorgeWParker & @PickardJE, plus FT Global China editor @JKynge Espionage allegations, the new Cold War, UK defence spending & Labour's rail nationalisation vow on the menu
Astonishing chart from @jburnmurdoch- on.ft.com/49OMvdz The UK is brilliant at handling immigration, relatively. Could be a huge strength in the decades ahead
I worked as a teacher for a month at a school run by conspiracists who believed they were battling a sinister plot against humanity. The children were taught that crystals could cure them of illnesses and that Bill Gates was going to force them to eat insects. Here’s the story:
I worked as a teacher for a month at a school run by conspiracists who believed they were battling a sinister plot against humanity. The children were taught that crystals could cure them of illnesses and that Bill Gates was going to force them to eat insects. Here’s the story:
@PickardJE Why not 52%! Lad as no style.
It's world penguin day! 🐧🐧 There's a colony of Gentoo penguins at Sea Life London Aquarium that campaigners want released from a "dungeon" enclosure. Find out more here: express.co.uk/news/uk/187550…
the Labour party has pledged to fully renationalise the passenger rail network within a first term if it wins the UK general election, as it promised sweeping reforms of fares to draw people back on to trains ft.com/content/779799…
Honour guard for Sunak at German Chancellery. Speculation the troops have cut their trousers short in his honour
Beating @PickardJE at his own reflection game
very much focused on my shorthand at this precise moment in time
watching Sunak in Warsaw announcing pledge to lift defence spending from 2.3% to 2.5% of GDP by 2030 story here on @FT website ft.com/content/a6f7fc…
PM in huddle on plane. Asked him about Ukraine’s difficult summer ahead. He told me: “It’s imp we cont to support Ukraine…we’re stepping up, that’ what situation demands & requires…it is imp Europeans invest in their own security…I’m v proud UK has always led in that regard
Rishi Sunak will unveil an extra £500mn of military funding to Ukraine on Tuesday and announce the largest supply of munitions to Kyiv as the UK prime minister travels to Poland and Germany to reinforce ties with key European allies, @PickardJE reports. ft.com/content/7452a8…
Labradors - double coated, waterproofed & insulated - were bred from St John’s Water Dogs, carefully selected to retrieve fish from the semi-arctic waters of Newfoundland and Labrador for their fishermen owners. Here are 3 of them, begging to get inside to escape light drizzle.
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9K Followers 2K Following Award-winning journalist, now executive editor/head of newsletters @FT Also a long-suffering fan of @spursofficial Sign up for my newsletter, One Must Read ⬇️@PickardJE At the very least a place on the honours list.
Back in 2020, the Westminster Honeytrapper tried to trick one of my friends. It didn't work – my mate saw through it – but it did result in me attempting to catfish the Honeytrapper in return. Now wondering how to sell my 'I honeytrapped the Westminster Honeytrapper' story
went to get my film processed earlier in an effort not to pass out at about 5pm and have just got the pictures back and: isn't this one just terrific, I've not even edited it or anything, light was just aggressively good that day
@PickardJE This is one of those “man bites dog” stories
@PickardJE Oh god, not another Johnson sprog on the way!
@PickardJE Possibly one the worst articles I’ve ever read.
This comment captures gloriously a terrible economic fallacy that loads of people fall into. An economy does not only prosper if the marginal job created is above the mean prevailing wage. If work is needed and work is supplied, the economy grows. Consider an analogy ... 1/
@Gilesyb @jburnmurdoch Hi, your chart appears to show immigrants and their children significantly bringing down the average, but you spin this is a huge strength?
A huge thanks to @GarethSouthgate for being an absolute gent last night at the Brighton v City match, taking the time to chat to my kids (and me!).
@PickardJE To be fair having made an assessment of the talent on my side of the tent she probably deserves one
Epic FT Lunch with the Pet Shop Boys by @janinegibson Including how George Osborne sought the duo's advice (on behalf of him and David Cameron) about how to avoid falling out ft.com/content/b4e744…
I had Lunch with the Pet Shop Boys. Lucky me on.ft.com/4aNWGQI
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I've survived my first day... so I'm really happy to share that I've joined the fantastic @ftdata team as a data journalist. Will be working on companies, markets and wider data-led stories 📈 🥳
A multi-billion pound corner of the rail industry will remain firmly in private hands even under labour’s vision for a publicly owned railway. Today’s read on rolling stock companies w/ @PickardJE ft.com/content/97d22b…