There is no shortage of predictions about how artificial intelligence is going to reshape where, how and if people work in the future.

The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that it would provide up to $12bn in emergency relief for farmers hurt by the president’s trade war, moving to blunt the financial damage to American agriculture and the political fallout for Republicans as the consequences of President Trump’s protectionist policies roll through the economy.

John Saunders had an unlikely path to becoming a manufacturer.