Alan Beattie

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Alan Beattie
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FT opiner, London. Globalisation, econ, snark. Londoner, northerner, Brit, European. Lister of nouns. RT≠👍. Views own. [alan.beattie](http://alan.beattie )@ft.com. FT Trade Secrets newsletter [subs.ft.com/spa3_tradesecr...](https://subs.ft.com/spa3_tradesecrets?segmentId=357afa03-959c-93ed-0842-58e2115025d4 ). 🌉 [bridged](https://fed.brid.gy/bsky/alanbeattie.bsky.social ) from 🦋 [alanbeattie.bsky.social](https://bsky.app/profile/alanbeattie.bsky.social ), follow nostr:npub1pqr3g2gk3vsnrqk9kwfqqcxc6d5cwjr0hyc0nlzz9py5nf92vd9sn02sck to interact Web site: https://bsky.app/profile/alanbeattie.bsky.social Link: http://alan.beattie Link: https://subs.ft.com/spa3_tradesecrets?segmentId=357afa03-959c-93ed-0842-58e2115025d4
Competent experienced career FCDO diplomat. Good. Just the person for the job. (NB quite apart from Epstein, Mandelson's clever-clever trade and tech deal with the US is falling apart. [www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...](
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US puts £31bn tech ‘prosperity deal’ with Britain on ice
Pledge to invest billions in UK paused, with Washington citing lack of progress on trade barriers across pond
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Christian Turner to be new UK ambassador to US ft.trib.al/9UNDHMq https://ft.trib.al/9UNDHMq
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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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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Northern correspondent, Financial Times 📍Manchester
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