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This is the second part of our interview with Ed Conway, Sky News Economics Editor, author of Trade World and Material World. The first part is out on all platforms.

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Ed Conway on Trade Wars, Bread Monocultures, and the Fragile Supply Chains Behind Modern Life

Sky News Economics editor Ed Conway discusses his book Trade World, based on two years of research into how bread, cars, and textiles are made and traded, arguing globalization has made goods cheaper by concentrating production into a few places, creating dangerous vulnerabilities. He highlights monocultures in crops such as wheat and bananas, focusing on the wheat disease UG99 and how industrial bread relies on just one or two wheat varieties, drawing parallels to the Gros Michel banana collapse and risks to the Cavendish.

This is the first part of our interview with Ed. The second part drops later this week.

Watch the full interview on YouTube ⁠here⁠.

Chapters

00:00 Food Supply Sword
00:29 Meet Ed Conway
02:08 Will We Run Out
05:05 Bread Still Matters
06:44 Innovation Beats Doom
13:37 Writing Material World
18:32 Three Products Focus
22:43 AI And Conversation
24:17 UG99 Wheat Threat
24:54 Monocultures And Risk
33:29 Chokepoints And Stockpiles
40:56 Tracking Product Journeys
42:17 Russia Wheat Surge
42:47 Wheat as Power
44:30 Automation and Bakeries
48:25 Lights Out Mills
52:04 AI as Job Tool
53:51 Markets Need Work
56:31 Red Flag Lessons
01:03:22 Who Makes Cars
01:10:28 China EV Shock
01:17:24 The 80 Pound T Shirt
01:20:40 Blue Plaques for Industry
01:23:02 Humans in AI Age

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Ed Conway on Trade Wars, Bread Monocultures, and the Fragile Supply Chains Behind Modern Life

Sky News Economics editor Ed Conway discusses his book Trade World, based on two years of research into how bread, cars, and textiles are made and traded, arguing globalization has made goods cheaper by concentrating production into a few places, creating dangerous vulnerabilities. He highlights monocultures in crops such as wheat and bananas, focusing on the wheat disease UG99 and how industrial bread relies on just one or two wheat varieties, drawing parallels to the Gros Michel banana collapse and risks to the Cavendish.

This is the first part of our interview with Ed. The second part drops later this week.

Watch the full interview on YouTube here.

Chapters

00:00 Food Supply Sword
00:29 Meet Ed Conway
02:08 Will We Run Out
05:05 Bread Still Matters
06:44 Innovation Beats Doom
13:37 Writing Material World
18:32 Three Products Focus
22:43 AI And Conversation
24:17 UG99 Wheat Threat
24:54 Monocultures And Risk
33:29 Chokepoints And Stockpiles
40:56 Tracking Product Journeys
42:17 Russia Wheat Surge
42:47 Wheat as Power
44:30 Automation and Bakeries
48:25 Lights Out Mills
52:04 AI as Job Tool
53:51 Markets Need Work
56:31 Red Flag Lessons
01:03:22 Who Makes Cars
01:10:28 China EV Shock
01:17:24 The 80 Pound T Shirt
01:20:40 Blue Plaques for Industry
01:23:02 Humans in AI Age

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Producer: Thuy Dong
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Georgia Harrison on Revenge Porn, Changing the Law, and the Real Work Behind Being an Influencer

This week, Georgia joins Jimmy to describe her work as a celebrity campaigner, author, and influencer, and explains why creating content is a real job that requires research, editing, trend awareness, and constant posting across platforms.

She recounts how a former boyfriend filmed her without consent and sold the footage online, leading her to waive anonymity, take him to court, and campaign to remove the “intent to cause distress” loophole in the 2015 revenge porn law, work that earned her an MBE.

Georgia says current rules still fail victims, calling for faster takedowns than 48 hours, a “kill switch” system, stronger enforcement on tech companies, and action on the rise of intimate image abuse and manosphere content.

She and Jimmy also discuss motherhood, online trolling in politics, LinkedIn’s professional benefits, and taking risks despite embarrassment.

00:00 Intro
01:23 Influencer Life Explained
03:11 Reality TV Journey
03:55 Why She Became Activist
04:54 Abuse And Court Fight
08:47 Going Public For Evidence
11:26 Beyond Revenge Porn
12:32 Georgia’s Law Proposal
14:32 Tech Companies Accountability
15:55 Shame Empowerment Motherhood
19:20 Politics Like Reality TV
27:32 Trolling Bots And Safety
31:48 Receiving The MBE
34:20 Tackling The Manosphere
35:38 Manosphere Money Funnel
36:58 Creator Economy Explained
38:08 Trends Algorithms Workflow
40:56 Brand Deals And Campaigns
45:18 Styling Image Strategy
47:50 Fearless Mindset Failing
50:20 Why LinkedIn Works
54:25 Paying Mum For Childcare
56:53 Early Jobs Hustle
59:01 Love Island Leap
01:01:46 Mentor Boss Can Do
01:03:24 Reality TV Business Pitch

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What happens when Downing Street texts on a Sunday asking if you can interview the Prime Minister two days later?

In this special episode of Jimmy vs the Producers, Jimmy sits down with growth leads Aggie and Annabel, alongside producer Thuy, to unpack the whirlwind behind our Andy Burnham interview.

Aggie and Annabel ask Jimmy how the opportunity compared with interviewing Tony Blair and Keir Starmer, what went into preparing for the conversation in just 48 hours, and why this felt like an “Olympic medal moment” for the show.

Thuy then turns the tables on Jimmy to discuss how they first connected through LinkedIn, how a one-day-a-week university placement became a full-time producing role, and how relationships and social capital can compound into career-changing opportunities.

This episode is supported by LinkedIn.

Watch the full Andy Burnham interview: https://youtu.be/mXnO06QfnCM

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Inside Number 10: Jimmy on Tim Cook, getting a wedding letter from Theresa May, and Starting Jobs of the Future

We decided to swap the seats this week: Jimmy is the guest. He went on The Independent's In The Room to talk about the three years he spent deciding who got through the door of Number 10 and what that taught him about how people actually get hired.

Helen MacNamara, the former Deputy Cabinet Secretary, and Cleo Watson, former special adviser to Theresa May and Boris Johnson, run a summer series called Lessons from Number 10 - what it's really like to work behind that black door.

Jimmy worked with both of them. Which, given this show spent the last month asking how you get in the room when you know nobody, is a fairly on-the-nose demonstration of the answer.

In this conversation: what the Prime Minister's Business Director actually does all day, why Number 10 has no floor plan and what that does to a new starter, how he got entrepreneurs into the building instead of the companies with big lobbying teams, what business consistently misunderstands about government and the other way round, why bringing business leaders into politics so often doesn't work, the trade trips and the logistics of losing CEOs in foreign countries, and the day it all stopped being fun.

Also: the origin story of this podcast. A question Theresa May asked him one
morning about where jobs actually come from - and why he's been trying to answer it ever since.

Thanks to Helen, Cleo and the team at In The Room for letting us play this here.

Their show is at @intheroom.pod, and it's part of The Independent Podcast
Network, produced with Next Chapter Studios.

Jimmy's Jobs of the Future is a show about work, careers and how people actually get hired - long-form interviews with the people who do the hiring.

Next week: Jimmy vs the Producers, on Andy Burnham interview.

You can read Jimmy's piece on the BTS of our Andy Burnham interview here: https://jimmysjobs.substack.com/p/did-i-like-andy-burnham

Follow us on socials at @jimmysjobs, and follow Jimmy on Instagram at @jimmymcjournal for more content.

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