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Editor, Responsible Investor. Sustainable finance, CEE, sailing.
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- I’ve had a thought…
- Happy anniversary!
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Yes, I support Britain in the cricket.
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I also feel that what’s missing in this debate is the fact that reading the opinion pages is optional.
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Or just dodgy AI and slapdash editing. Either or both entirely credible at this point.
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Had the same thought. The kids in that video won’t be cheerfully serving cocktails at the Trump Gaza Resort in 10 years’ time.
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Oh good, I didn’t hallucinate the pic on the right.
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As opposed to the, er, other tissues?
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Superpower = being prepared to spend your mineral wealth on disrupting the lives of people minding their own business. Apparently.
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Cheaper at West Bay and they have a nice art gallery. Less cheap if you end up buying a picture though.
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“Sigourney, Jean Claude and their kits”
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Was at a pensions conference a few months ago, main topic of discussion was the massive savings cliff much of the country is going to fall off aged 65. Anything that encourages saving is probably worth it.
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I was astonished to learn that the EBRD discriminates against grads/post-grads from CEE unis. Basically, if you’re from CEE you have to have been to a western uni to get a job, er, covering CEE.
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The problem with this is that there are fairly few examples of actual harm caused by “woke”, as opposed to people finding it annoying or perceiving it as unfair (and those examples have been heavily publicised). As opposed to the widespread harm caused by persistent racism, sexism etc.
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I mean, those crazy Czech central bankers, something something. Really just an excuse to mention it, tbf was quite memorable. By the standards of central European supervisor interviews, anyway.
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His predecessor once drew a very detailed picture of an automatic pistol on a sheet of A4 while I was interviewing him. Not strictly relevant, but comes to mind whenever the CNB is mentioned.
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Hopefully most people. But it’s clear that the Trump anti-DEI drive is designed by/for the men/people who look at the only woman/POC in the room and say, ‘They’re the one who isn’t here on merit.’
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‘Talented’ rather than ‘skilled’ now, interesting.
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The apple guy
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If you were in finance, it would be “veteran”
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Musk does not deserve to be in the same sentence as Bowie.
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www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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When I first started reading the Economist I thought it was a nice conceit. Many years later, I just find it annoying.
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Or the electricity goes off the day after you go away for a fortnight, during a heatwave, and your freezer was full of meat and poultry.
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What could possibly go wrong?
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Good tsar, bad boyars?
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I love how back in the day women were both frigid and also unable to control their lusts if told what lesbianism is or sit on a bicycle without getting over-excited.
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May not be many people buying the papers but plenty are seeing the headlines in shops, garages etc.
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Yes, there’s a phrase I find myself using quite a lot lately: ‘No women were involved in the making of this decision.’
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Saving this for when I go to the Cairngorms next month.
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You’ve died when it’s flatlined at 5 for three days.
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Two snowmen in Brunswick Square at 5pm, sadly probably gone by now.
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Cf also “unabashed nationalism”. It’s like a reverse second mentions, where you have to lead with the mealy mouthed euphemism.
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Got this for Xmas, proper warm and proper long (particularly if you’re not a 5’10” model) www.thewhitecompany.com/uk/Shawl-Col...
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And a pricey gastrastrophe at that. At Lidl you get all the reflux at half the price. (I’m just jealous, we’ve finished all our Xmas crisps and stollen.)
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Hope it was Lidl stollen bites and Snacktastic crisps, makes it all worthwhile.
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Brighton definitely the place for inspiring seniors. My favourite still the immaculately dressed 80yo woman sitting outside a Hove bar at 11am with a pink cocktail and a long cheroot.
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Confirmation from local Facebook group this NYE
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Rockwater is open on Hove seafront, pretty impressive in these conditions.
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We didn’t start the fire. Happy New Year 🥳
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Happy to swap some of our Brighton heavy sand for your Bournemouth light sand.
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My brother left mine on a bus in Croatia in 1999. I have never forgiven him.
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Two of us, both plague-stricken. Had barely got over the last go of plague, which went on for weeks. Blast it.
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“There may have been disillusionments in the lives of the mediaeval saints, but they would scarcely have been better pleased if they could have foreseen that their names would be associated nowadays chiefly with racehorses and the cheaper clarets.”
Saki