Heather Stewart
@guardianheather.bsky.social
Economics editor at the Guardian. Former political editor, former Observer economics editor. Londoner, Mum.
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Amazing chart, this -
This (not from that piece) is one of those charts where I am completely aware of the data but my mental map of how the global economy works still almost refuses to update to the new reality. Because the pace of change has been so rapid.
November 10, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Amazing chart, this -
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UBS: "we now forecast global AI capex to reach USD 423bn this year (from our previous estimate of USD 375bn) and USD 571bn in 2026 (from USD 500bn). By 2030, we expect overall spending to hit USD 1.3tr"
November 5, 2025 at 12:52 PM
UBS: "we now forecast global AI capex to reach USD 423bn this year (from our previous estimate of USD 375bn) and USD 571bn in 2026 (from USD 500bn). By 2030, we expect overall spending to hit USD 1.3tr"
YES!
if the curriculm review does nothing else, binning the fronted adverbials nonsense in Year 6 (if you know you know) means it was worth it frankly www.theguardian.com/education/20...
England curriculum should focus less on exams and more on life skills, finds review
Experts say pupils should spend less time in exam halls and more time on activities like life skills, sport and work experience
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November 5, 2025 at 11:07 AM
YES!
Love this piece, in which Guardian reading Blokes of a Certain Age recommend club tracks to their kids, a la John Lewis ad - www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
‘A shot of adrenaline’: readers pass on 90s club classics to new generations
With the latest John Lewis Christmas ad sparking nostalgia, readers share which 90s hits are worth partying to
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November 5, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Love this piece, in which Guardian reading Blokes of a Certain Age recommend club tracks to their kids, a la John Lewis ad - www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
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35bps on the 10-year in a month is not trivial - and notable that the fiscal crisis talk has been meaningfully quietened
November 4, 2025 at 10:15 AM
35bps on the 10-year in a month is not trivial - and notable that the fiscal crisis talk has been meaningfully quietened
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📰 Read coverage of the report in the @theguardian.com with thanks to the excellent @guardianheather.bsky.social.
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Raise £12bn in budget by extending income tax thresholds freeze, says thinktank
Fabian Society says move ‘best available option’ for chancellor as she seeks to offset impact of weaker economic forecasts
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October 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM
📰 Read coverage of the report in the @theguardian.com with thanks to the excellent @guardianheather.bsky.social.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Delighted to see coverage of taxing questions from @guardianheather.bsky.social in the @theguardian.com ⬇️
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October 25, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Delighted to see coverage of taxing questions from @guardianheather.bsky.social in the @theguardian.com ⬇️
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Oh for goodness sake grow up, lads.
A 450-foot Prometheus. A 500-foot George Washington. Tech investors are racing to build colossal monuments celebrating Western power.
America’s Tech Right Is Obsessed With Building Giant Statues
With proposals for a 450-foot statue of Prometheus on Alcatraz and a 650-foot George Washington, MAGA adherents are racing to build America’s largest statue.
bloom.bg
October 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Oh for goodness sake grow up, lads.
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X is not only completely out of control, it is also increasingly dangerous.
A very worrying escalation of online harassment.
Somebody has used a video of me saying "racism in football is a game of two halves" + put a fake voiceover on it saying "what I would say to the girls of Rotherham is it is a game of two halves"
x.com/EuropaIneffa...
Somebody has used a video of me saying "racism in football is a game of two halves" + put a fake voiceover on it saying "what I would say to the girls of Rotherham is it is a game of two halves"
x.com/EuropaIneffa...
Europa Ineffable on X: "In a recent panel at what looks like Labour conference, Sunder Katwala, wearing an England shirt, appeared to compare the R🦍 GANGS to a football match: "it's a game of two halves" 🥴 https://t.co/b5YNKyaQtu" / X
In a recent panel at what looks like Labour conference, Sunder Katwala, wearing an England shirt, appeared to compare the R🦍 GANGS to a football match
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October 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
X is not only completely out of control, it is also increasingly dangerous.
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Thanks Heather. I have made that point directly to Downing Street. I think it is going to take some more vocal political pressure to get it prioritised.
October 24, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Thanks Heather. I have made that point directly to Downing Street. I think it is going to take some more vocal political pressure to get it prioritised.
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Oh good he’s gonna talk to them at some point in the next three years that’s reassuring
HASSETT: EXPECCT TRUMP TO TALK TO CANADA AGAIN BY END OF TERM
October 24, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Oh good he’s gonna talk to them at some point in the next three years that’s reassuring
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Just done a quick electoral history check and the last time Labour stood a candidate in Caerphilly or seats covering roughly the same area and got 11% or less is...never.
Labour's first Westminster candidate Charles Stanton stood in E Glamorganshire in Dec 1910 and got 24%.
Labour's first Westminster candidate Charles Stanton stood in E Glamorganshire in Dec 1910 and got 24%.
Caerphilly, Senedd constituency by-election result:
PC: 47.4% (+19.0)
REF: 36.0% (+34.2)
LAB: 11.0% (-34.9)
CON: 2.0% (-15.3)
GRN: 1.5% (+1.5)
LDEM: 1.5% (-1.2)
GWL: 0.3% (+0.3)
UKIP: 0.2% (+0.2)
Plaid Cymru GAIN from Labour.
PC: 47.4% (+19.0)
REF: 36.0% (+34.2)
LAB: 11.0% (-34.9)
CON: 2.0% (-15.3)
GRN: 1.5% (+1.5)
LDEM: 1.5% (-1.2)
GWL: 0.3% (+0.3)
UKIP: 0.2% (+0.2)
Plaid Cymru GAIN from Labour.
October 24, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Just done a quick electoral history check and the last time Labour stood a candidate in Caerphilly or seats covering roughly the same area and got 11% or less is...never.
Labour's first Westminster candidate Charles Stanton stood in E Glamorganshire in Dec 1910 and got 24%.
Labour's first Westminster candidate Charles Stanton stood in E Glamorganshire in Dec 1910 and got 24%.
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Data through early October show that tariffs have raised retail prices on average by 4.9pp relative to the pre-tariff trend.
October 24, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Data through early October show that tariffs have raised retail prices on average by 4.9pp relative to the pre-tariff trend.
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Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America
October 24, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America
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Important to have priorities...
Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."
October 23, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Important to have priorities...
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So much angsty equivocation on responding to this from some Labour strategists - and yet when you actually ask the prime minister about what he thinks on this issue, he's absolutely crystal clear.
Might make you think no one ever asked him what the Labour response should be.
(clip is on ITV)
Might make you think no one ever asked him what the Labour response should be.
(clip is on ITV)
NEW - Starmer on Katy Lam: "I can't tell you how much I disagree with her.
"People who are lawfully in this country, who have been working in our communities, our neighbours... to reach in and remove them from our country - for 'cultural reasons'. That is how far the Conservative party has sunk."
"People who are lawfully in this country, who have been working in our communities, our neighbours... to reach in and remove them from our country - for 'cultural reasons'. That is how far the Conservative party has sunk."
October 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
So much angsty equivocation on responding to this from some Labour strategists - and yet when you actually ask the prime minister about what he thinks on this issue, he's absolutely crystal clear.
Might make you think no one ever asked him what the Labour response should be.
(clip is on ITV)
Might make you think no one ever asked him what the Labour response should be.
(clip is on ITV)
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NEW - Starmer on Katy Lam: "I can't tell you how much I disagree with her.
"People who are lawfully in this country, who have been working in our communities, our neighbours... to reach in and remove them from our country - for 'cultural reasons'. That is how far the Conservative party has sunk."
"People who are lawfully in this country, who have been working in our communities, our neighbours... to reach in and remove them from our country - for 'cultural reasons'. That is how far the Conservative party has sunk."
October 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
NEW - Starmer on Katy Lam: "I can't tell you how much I disagree with her.
"People who are lawfully in this country, who have been working in our communities, our neighbours... to reach in and remove them from our country - for 'cultural reasons'. That is how far the Conservative party has sunk."
"People who are lawfully in this country, who have been working in our communities, our neighbours... to reach in and remove them from our country - for 'cultural reasons'. That is how far the Conservative party has sunk."
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““When you need to move fast” is the new tongue-in-cheek advertising tagline for the company Böcker” (who made the special ladder the thieves used!)
October 23, 2025 at 2:49 PM
““When you need to move fast” is the new tongue-in-cheek advertising tagline for the company Böcker” (who made the special ladder the thieves used!)
Timeline cleanse: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
‘Quiet as a whisper’: German firm launches campaign after lift was used in Louvre heist
After watching the news about the Paris robbery, managers at Böcker decided to make the most of the publicity
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October 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Timeline cleanse: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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Stephen Bush on the extraordinary draft legislation which Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp, Matt Vickers, Katie Lam and backbench colleagues have proposed in parliament
It is a proposal that would seek to deport around 5% of the resident population, including over a quarter of a million with ILR
It is a proposal that would seek to deport around 5% of the resident population, including over a quarter of a million with ILR
October 23, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Stephen Bush on the extraordinary draft legislation which Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp, Matt Vickers, Katie Lam and backbench colleagues have proposed in parliament
It is a proposal that would seek to deport around 5% of the resident population, including over a quarter of a million with ILR
It is a proposal that would seek to deport around 5% of the resident population, including over a quarter of a million with ILR
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October 23, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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The turnip harvest is up 38%, Comrades!
Here's a sample piece of "journalism" from one of the "news" outlets that signed the DoD rules. Welcome to the new press corps.
October 23, 2025 at 6:41 AM
The turnip harvest is up 38%, Comrades!
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This is fascinating, though @luketryl.bsky.social perhaps you could have asked people where they thought other party supporters were going as well...
*I initially misread 'Hell' as 'Hull', and well Reform voters probably are more likely to go there too.
*I initially misread 'Hell' as 'Hull', and well Reform voters probably are more likely to go there too.
October 23, 2025 at 10:23 AM
This is fascinating, though @luketryl.bsky.social perhaps you could have asked people where they thought other party supporters were going as well...
*I initially misread 'Hell' as 'Hull', and well Reform voters probably are more likely to go there too.
*I initially misread 'Hell' as 'Hull', and well Reform voters probably are more likely to go there too.
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Oh great the retired colonels have gone woke now.
October 23, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Oh great the retired colonels have gone woke now.