HEADLINE: Commodity Market Trends and UK's Lack of Risk Appetite for AI Innovation GUEST NAME: Simon Constable SUMMARY: Simon Constable notes that data center expansion for AI is increasing prices for copper (up 15%) and steel (up 14%). He points out that
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🗓️ 16 October 2025
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| 0:24.1 | I'm jab Datsu with my good colleague Simon Constable. He's in the south of France, |
| 0:27.7 | but he's an Englishman. So therefore I bring to his attention. |
| 0:31.8 | London Times reporting, Sir Kerr Starrmer at the box defending his party, dominantly controlling parliament. |
| 0:41.5 | The government will publish critical evidence in the China spying case that led to the collapse of the trial, |
| 0:47.4 | says Sir Kier Starmor. |
| 0:49.2 | The Prime Minister told MPs that he had decided to publish three witness statements that were shared with prosecutors in full as he blamed the last government for the failed prosecution. |
| 0:59.6 | The Tories did it. |
| 1:01.0 | The Crown Prosecution Service dropped charges against Christopher Cash, 30, a former parliamentarian |
| 1:07.2 | teacher, and Christopher Barry, 33, an academic last month after saying the government had failed |
| 1:12.9 | to provide a statement that at the time of the offense, China represented a threat to national |
| 1:18.0 | security. The pair have denied the allegations. Simon, I'm fascinated. China is a thief. China spies on |
| 1:26.8 | everyone, including itself. There is no doubt whatsoever. It's a hostile |
| 1:32.3 | force in the world. It's an adversary of everything you and I have grown up with. What is the |
| 1:38.0 | problem in Britain? Can you help me with this? Well, first of all, let's say this is yet another version of the Keir Stama |
| 1:47.8 | saying, oh, it was the other guy did it, which is from the conservatives. And they said that |
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