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Arthi Nachiappan

@ArthiNachiappan

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journalist | ex tech correspondent @skynews | ex economics correspondent @thetimes | DJ @arthi_dj | views mine.

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Exclusive: our undercover investigation @thetimes found that a Tory MP offered to leak confidential documents and lobby on behalf of gambling investors ahead of the government’s publication of the gambling white paper
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I’m joining @SkyNews as technology correspondent next week! Really excited to expand into TV alongside written journalism. I’m on arthi.nachiappan @sky .uk
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Excited to start a new job today as Economics correspondent @thetimes ! You can send stories & tip-offs to arthi.nachiappan @thetimes .co.uk 🙏🏽
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Scott Benton has had the whip suspended following our investigation in @thetimes - full story in tomorrow’s paper
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Thursday's Times: “Tory MP in gambling cash-for-access scandal” #BBCPapers #TomorrowsPapersToday
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Need to know from Bank of England decision just now: - UK expected to enter a recession this winter until mid-2024 - Inflation now expected to exceed 13% at its peak this year - main cause of all this is energy bills which by Oct will be 3x last year - interest rates now 1.75%
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Today was my last day @thetimes ! I am going freelance to better balance my work in journalism with DJing and other creative interests. Thank you to everyone who has given their time to speak to me for my articles over the years🙏
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A school friend of Ella Adoo-Kissi Debrah, whose death was the first to be blamed by a coroner on air pollution, has set up a campaign group with friends to tackle the issue in their neighbourhoods - thank you @anjali_lrm @ChokedUp_UK for speaking to me!
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“It’s hard to think why I am here and Jimi is not” - I interviewed Joaquín Garcia, a young man who jumped into the river Thames two weeks ago with Jimi Olubunmi-Adewole to rescue a stranger. Today’s long read with @thejohnsimpson
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Stalking and harassment crimes involving social media have risen tenfold in five years as the platforms are increasingly used to target victims - my investigation is in @thetimes today:
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Mine and @billykenber investigation exposing a cash-for-access Tory MP in @thetimes has been nominated for the Cudlipp award for campaigning and investigative journalism. Full list of nominees here, some really important pieces of work:
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Today’s front page: Millions face higher bills after interest rate increase - likely to be the first of a series of rate rises in coming years With @George_Nixon97 @thetimes
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Reported from Stamford Bridge where 1,000 Chelsea fans gathered last night to protest the club’s involvement in the European Super League for today’s front page story with @Steven_Swinford @martynziegler @hzeffman
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Euro 2020: Hope for a nation after year of tested faith Unreal reporting on the Euros yesterday from Wembley and Trafalgar Square with @andrewellson for today’s @thetimes !
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The number of online grooming crimes against children has risen by 82% in 5 years according to police figures gathered by @NSPCC - today on @SkyNews breakfast:
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"Britain has long struggled to accept the imperial explanation for its racial diversity.The idea black & brown people are aliens who arrived without permission &with no link to Britain to abuse British hospitality has been the defining political narrative of my lifetime"- @Sathnam
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2 years
How has inflation changed the price of your roast dinner? Launched today on @thetimes - a new monthly feature from us looking at the cost of living through the lens of a Sunday favourite Great working with @ryanleewatts @narottammedhora @_mkeith_ on this
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Today’s front page: surge in claims of sexual abuse by pupils at state schools as the scandal over rape culture widens, I’ve reported with @benellery @ryanleewatts
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Tuesday’s TIMES: “We’re on track to reopen shops and pubs, says PM” #TomorrowsPapersToday
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2 years
True but misleading: Jeremy Hunt is saying the UK had the fastest growth in the G7 last year. The UK is the only G7 country that has not yet returned to its pre-pandemic size
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3 years
The Bank of England should raise rates by at least 0.25 percentage points today to maintain its credibility, according to our shadow committee of experts - they voted for interest rates to go up to between 0.75% - 1.25%. Full story @thetimes :
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3 years
We have had almost 100 years of the five-day week in the UK - it came here from the US when John Boot, chairman of Boots, cut working days in order to reduce redundancies in 1934. In the 19th century, factory staff worked every day apart from Sunday
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3 years
Benefits next month, which are indexed to inflation last September, will go up by just over 3% despite the cost of living rising at double that rate and set to exceed 8% - Andy King of @OBR_UK says he cannot recall any previous 5% real terms decline in the value of benefits
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3 years
Exclusive: Experts have warned of a rise in botched cosmetic procedures carried out at hole or by untrained people as teenagers increasingly book treatments on social media to deal with rising pressure to look like celebrities and influencers
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2 years
Inflation is now expected to reach a 40-year high of 10.25 per cent at its peak in Autumn, officials at the Bank of England said as they raised rates to 1 per cent - the highest level since 2009. Story to follow from me and @MehreenKhn
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Great opp for aspiring economists - @DiscoverEcon has launched its "Young Economist of the Year" competition for year 10-13 students who would like to be published in the @FinancialTimes , more details here if you know of anyone for it:
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Excited!! Thanks @markmleach 😄
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Pleased to welcome @ArthiNachiappan to Team @Wonkhe today.
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2 years
Need to know from the Bank of England today: - Recession expected to be shorter and shallower than previously thought - BUT UK still faces 7 years of lost growth, not returning to pre-pandemic size until 2026 - Interest rates now at 4% after a 0.5pt raise just now
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Full story @thetimes here:
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Today’s front page: Inflation will hit 18% in January according to forecasts from economists at Citi. The Bank of England expects 13.3% peak in October and other analysts expect 15% Read my story with @Steven_Swinford here:
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3 years
Today: The 20-year-old man who died trying to save a woman from the Thames has been nominated for a bravery award that has been given previously to Alexander I of Russia and Bram Stoker
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The Bank of England has raised interest rates to 0.5 per cent in its first back-to-back rate rise for 17 years to get a grip on soaring prices - story to follow shortly on @thetimes
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Today’s front page: US emissions “will be halved” after global leaders unite, written with @DavidCharter @bwebster135 @hzeffman
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Today's front page: Rishi Sunak is under mounting pressure from cabinet colleagues to implement radical tax cuts after the Bank of England warned that the economy could tip into recession next year - written with @Steven_Swinford @Smyth_Chris
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4 years
In today's paper, interviewed the amazing Rachel Merga, a 50-year-old ballerina who retrained herself to a professional standard from not being able to walk after a hip replacement three years ago and is now ready to return to the stage
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@Lapsang_ Very, Somewhat = positive. Unsure = neutral. Not very, Not at all = negative. Is it imbalanced because it doesn't love the SU?
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6 years
I notice this in relation to catcalling specifically - “imagine if it were your mother/daughter/sister” imagine if you could see women who aren’t related to you as full human beings
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special s/o to the men who didn't need a daughter to learn how and why to respect women
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@CSkidmoreUK has said he's grown from these mistakes he made when he was "immature" but still worth noting that members of privileged groups in public life love to get their "growth" from discriminating against others - how many times has this been said
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6 years
Wrote about ethnic diversity in academia for @Wonkhe : "I am tired of us all coming together to put pressure on organisations of all sectors to publish reactive written statements detailing how much they “abhor” racism, without making real cultural changes"
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7 years
How can I actually be bad at the "verify you're not a robot" questions
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6 years
Visiting the higher education statistics agency @ukhesa with @dkernohan today!
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1 year
Scott Benton, MP for Blackpool South, met with me and @billykenber but believed he was meeting with representatives of a wealthy British-Indian family office
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4 years
Reports of stalking and harassment crimes using the most popular social media sites rose from 1,727 in 2014 to 17,637 in 2019, according to figures from 17 police forces obtained by freedom of information requests
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1 year
Very excited to work with the amazing science, climate and technology team at Sky 🙏🏽
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This is so cute!!! Day made 😂 thanks @QAAtweets
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1 year
You can watch our meeting and read the full investigation here:
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My new email address is hello @arthinachiappan .com and I’ll be working across economics, business and music
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3 years
The UK was closing its productivity gap with the G7 before Covid-19 struck, although it remained 13 per cent below the average, according to @ONS stats published this morning. My story in @thetimes today:
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‘Inflation will be higher for much longer’ - banks and economists have increased their inflation forecasts and warned about the impact of the war in Ukraine on economic growth in Britain. You can read my story in @thetimes here:
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2018
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7 years
One hour till #wonkfest17 ! Calm before the storm
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“It was important that the monetary policy committee signalled its willingness to act last year… some of the language could have been clearer” @jagjit_chadha @NIESRorg tells the Treasury Committee in the House of Commons hearing this afternoon
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Such a good discussion on @UCASMedia panel about higher education and the press today! Thank you for having me
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4 years
“We have a different experience than most white people of the NHS, of the police, of the government. I’m not going to trust something automatically. I know people who died in Grenfell [the tower block fire] because they did what they were told.”
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On the exodus of older workers - Early retirement is not a permanent state & people below state pension age will come back for the right job - @GlassdoorUK economist Lauren Thomas in parliament today
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"Imagine if fees had led to a 50% fall in participation among 18 year-old students" - David Latchman of @BirkbeckNews explains how mature and part-time students are not seen as a priority #bgconference18
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Gender pay gap: Asos, Savills and easyJet are among the big companies with the highest pay gaps in Britain as figures reveal a second consecutive year of narrowing pay differences Written with @alexralph @matildakdavies @narottammedhora for @thetimes
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3 years
The Bank of England has raised interest rates to pre-pandemic levels in a bid to control inflation, which is at its highest in 30 years, rates are now at 0.75 per cent in the third consecutive rate rise in as many months - full story to follow @thetimes shortly
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Reviewing tomorrow's front pages with @bonsuman @BobbyFriedman on @TimesRadio in half an hour
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Listen to Henry Bonsu in for Kait Borsay on 🔊 🔹 Sunak's NHS backlogs cash injection - Oliver Wright 🔹 Civil servants' "leaks to Facebook" - Eleni Courea 🔹 US Politics - Ahmed Baba and Sarah Baxter @bonsuman I @oliver_wright I @EleniCourea
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@LunaRoseHD Hi, thank you for this. As explained in the article, the location indicated on the map is where he/she was spotted on Saturday, not where they are today (that location is being kept secret)
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@WarwickBoar That looks beautiful 😍
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Today was supposed to be the day nightclubs could open with Covid-19 restrictions behind them, but with the PM confirming “freedom day” would be put back four weeks, nighttime economy and hospitality industries are counting the cost - my story with @katie_gibbons1 @jameshurley
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He offered to leak the white paper, which contains market-sensitive information, 48 hours before publication and even table parliamentary questions on our behalf, boasting of his “easy access” to ministers
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6 years
@ryjharris @spxxgel How can you say random like nottingham... I think this when the train passes Stevenage 😭😭
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Interesting - intensive apprenticeships at a young age rather than shorter ones at a later age offer better returns for firms and apprentices #apprenticeshipsthatwork
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3 years
Today’s front page: Britons rush to cancel holidays after Portugal removed from green list, written with @benclatworthy @oliver_wright
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BBC News (UK)
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Friday's Times: "Britons rush to cancel holidays in travel chaos" #BBCPapers #TomorrowsPapersToday
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Cost of living crisis: Rishi Sunak has been accused of being a “fiscal illusionist” by @PJTheEconomist for claiming to cut taxes but allowing the overall tax burden to rise Read my story in @thetimes today:
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Worked with @katie_gibbons1 for this piece on vaccine hesitancy among Black and Asian people in @thetimes today:
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Story for @thetimes about campus accommodation shortages when unis over-recruit
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Freshers face sharing rooms at Warwick university for 1st term due to over-recruiting: story by @ArthiNachiappan
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