Chris Burn
@chrisburn.bsky.social
Head of Business and Features at The Yorkshire Post, Stoke City fan.
Parades should have been sent off about three times, no surprise at his actions at the final whistle.
Get Enzo Fernandez out of the dressing room so we can all see him cry at full time.
Growing up is going from being the kid crying at the heartbreaking England defeat to being the adult comforting your kids crying about the heartbreaking England defeat (then staring into middle distance for about an hour afterwards).
Trump: "The USA will be, from this point forward, known as 'THE GUARDIAN OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT,' but as such, and as a matter of FAIRNESS, will be reimbursed, at the rate of 20% on all cargo shipped, for costs necessary to do the job of providing safety and security ... "
Think I’ve done about 20,000 steps around the living room in that last 20 minutes. What a win.
Haaland doesn’t just have Gabriel’s number, he’s got his postcode, National Insurance details and FaceID.
NEW: Council officials are against the clock to renegotiate the Doncaster Sheffield Airport lease as the reopening project could "run out of money" in September, sources tell the LDRS It comes after an airport update briefing for elected members yesterday
Airport reopening could 'run out of money' by September, councillors told
The City of Doncaster Council is working to reopen Doncaster Sheffield Airport after it closed in 2022.
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Intruiging to see Rachel Reeves wasn't there for Keir Starmer's resignation speech but turned up for Andy Burnham's photo call. Wrote last month that is far from impossible she stays as Chancellor: www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/the...
The case for Andy Burnham keeping Rachel Reeves as Chancellor: Chris Burn
The political fortunes of Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have become so intertwined in recent years there is an understandably widespread assumption that a change of Prime Minister would also lead to ...
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SpaceX (revenue $19bn, net loss $5bn in last accounts) now a 'more valuable' company than Amazon (revenue $717bn, profit $78bn) - bananas: www.ft.com/content/1715...
SpaceX leapfrogs Amazon to become world’s fifth-most valuable company
Elon Musk’s AI, rocket and satellite group also announces $60bn deal for AI coding app Cursor
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I've reported on Musk for around 8 years. I've co-authored a book on him. I don't think folks understand the rate of his wealth accumulation. Shortly after he helped elect Donald Trump in Nov 2024, his net worth was around $350 billion. That net worth has nearly tripled in less than two years.
Think any slim hope Starmer may have had of surviving as Labour leader has disappeared as a result of this shock resignation and the reasons set out for it by John Healey.
Shashank Joshi@shashj.bsky.social · 2mo agoWow. UK defence sec'y John Healey resigns. His resignation letter says DIP settlement he was given "falls well short of what is required for defence and the country" and that UK would be spending just 2.68% of GDP in 2030.
Exc: The Government rejected an unsolicited “offer of help” from Prince Andrew to find investors in Sheffield Forgemasters weeks after convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein had been contacted about potential involvement with the steel company.
Keir Starmer says of Nigel Farage’s “appeal for rage” in response to Henry Nowak's death: "Exploiting this tragedy to create grievance and division would be wrong in any circumstances, but to do it when the family are expressly saying ‘please don’t’ is unforgivable. It shows exactly who he is.”
NEW: China's campaign of oppression in Xinjiang has entered a pernicious new phase - and FT analysis shows that the region still has the highest detention capacity in the world, relative to its population. as.ft.com/r/a4b72955-5...
How China is breaking apart a people and its culture
The campaign of repression against the Uyghurs has entered a new phase
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Chair of Government’s GB Energy calls for end to use of ‘net zero’ terminology and says phrase has become too politicised. Exclusive story from @michaelcrossland.bsky.social: www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/environ...
GB Energy chair calls for phrase ‘net zero’ to be scrapped claiming it is too ‘politicised’
The chairman of Great British Energy (GBE) has said the phrase ‘net zero’ should be “scrapped” as he called for major change in the language around decarbonisation and green energy.
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Pleasure to speak to Dave Rowntree about Blur's early days, their long road to success and his concerns about the state of the music industry as he brings his book tour to Yorkshire this week: www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/whats-on/art...
Blur's Dave Rowntree: It's virtually impossible for young bands - Brexit has been an absolute disaster
As Dave Rowntree heads to Yorkshire to discuss Blur’s early days and his pictures which documented them, he tells Chris Burn their long road to global success couldn’t be repeated today.
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Nigel Farage’s claim that he paid for a £1.4mn house with his fee from a reality TV show "has been challenged by corporate accounts that appear to show that the income remained on his company’s balance sheet after the property purchase"... www.ft.com/content/88ce...
Nigel Farage’s accounts challenge claim that he paid for £1.4mn house with TV fee
Reform UK leader has said he did not use £5mn gift from crypto billionaire to buy Surrey property
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New: Christopher Harborne - the crypto tycoon who gave Nigel Farage an undeclared £5m gift - may be "significantly wealthier" then the extraordinary £18bn valuation that the Sunday Times Rich List has just estimated.
In the circumstances, good day for Keir Starmer so far - 110 MPs in support, a handful of junior ministers resigning with the only one anyone has ever heard of being Jess Phillips and Streeting not looking like he has sufficient support.
Reform spent a reported £8m on local elections (10x the usual amount, according to Kemi Badenoch) with the core aim of throwing the kitchen sink at getting Keir Starmer deposed. Labour MPs now seem to be delivering on that aim for them.
Can’t wait for the Keir Starmer v Wes Streeting battle royale to be Prime Minister based on their shared sole ideological conviction that they’d quite like to be PM.
Spider-Man Pointing at Spider-Man Meme
ALT: Spider-Man Pointing at Spider-Man Meme
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Exclusive: Reform WON'T cancel a £57m loan for Doncaster Sheffield Airport tomorrow - but are set to impose a series of "safeguards" on the release of the funding and the wider reopening scheme. Details here: www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/don...
Doncaster Sheffield Airport: Reform won't cancel £57m loan tomorrow
Reform councillors will not cancel a £57m loan for the Doncaster Sheffield Airport project tomorrow – but are set to impose a series of “safeguards” on the release of the funding and the wider reopeni...
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