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Hilarious. After the DOGErs set up the new government-wide all employee email system in late January OPM, where it is housed, sent out an advisory which states explicitly that no employee ever has to respond to any of the emails. See 4.2 and 4.3. www.opm.gov/media/kfpozk...

submitted 22 hours ago • 169 comments

Thinking about ordinary public servants in the US now, wondering how to do the right thing without losing their jobs

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Gangster capitalism. www.wsj.com/business/med...

submitted 4 days ago • 40 comments

Have they thought about serving decent coffee?

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Every word of this marvellous valedictory food column by @jayrayner1.bsky.social: '...All new restaurants should employ someone over 50 to check whether the print on the menu is big enough to be read and the lighting bright enough for it to be read by...' www.theguardian.com/food/2025/fe...

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The last time we had a king who decided to rule as an absolute monarch we had 11 years of ‘personal rule’, nine years of civil war, and the execution of the king.

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If you thought the political pressure on UK regulators was bad... www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

I was surprised to wake up this morning and find that I live in the Democratic People’s Republic of Dorking and Horley.

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Great chart in this terrific piece on how Russia's hand entering into negotiations isn't as strong as Putin would have you think. Russia's main territorial gains were all at the start of the war, and have since come at enormous cost. www.economist.com/europe/2025/... From The Economist

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Whoever came up with ‘There’s no smoke without IR’ deserves an award on.ft.com/43jYhgv

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Policy suggestion: convert the US Air Force bases in the UK into new towns and build hundreds of thousands of new houses

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If only there had been some kind of warning - on.ft.com/40Zncmv

submitted 9 days ago • 215 comments

Or maybe everyone who jumped down his throat at the time had an uncanny knack to dismiss what they did not want to hear?

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My 8 year old son has been humming the tune from Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini and I feel my work is done

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It's early days and all that but the FTSE 100 performance this year is more than double the S&P500 (7.5% vs 3.2%). Over the past year it's closing in on the S&P (16% vs 23% in £ terms) with a total return of 20% vs 25% for the S&P. When do UK pensions start falling back in love with UK equities...?

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This is a fantastic read if local government pensions is your thing (which it obviously should be)

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The best, most readable 4000 words you'll ever read about Local Government Pension Schemes, by @tobyn.bsky.social (natch). www.ft.com/content/87c3...

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They're either here to complain about paying inheritance tax or apologise for voting Brexit, can't work out which

submitted 14 days ago • 41 comments

I can't even begin to imagine how many NSA documents include the words "diverse threats"

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This chart on deals in January is quite striking considering it does not match the narrative.

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Interesting factoid to add in light of the CEO of the Financial Ombudsman Service resigning: over the past decade a) the number of complaints to FOS has dropped by two thirds b) the % of complaints upheld has dropped to just 35% and so c) the number of successful complaints has dropped by 81%

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Bloody hell...this popped up from 11 years ago:

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Not the main point of this wonderful profile of The Prince of Darkness but in such a chaotic world I love the fact that the FT still uses a capital ‘H’ on ‘Hoover’ on.ft.com/413QdP6

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This made me laugh:

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Looks like UK gilts are now leading US large cap stocks YTD on a total return basis.

submitted 19 days ago • 22 comments

My feed has gone a little quiet as I have muted Trump and Musk. Please send any suggestions for interesting people to follow on European politics and history + banking, finance, and capital markets.

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UK economic crisis latest:

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There are worse places to spend the weekend

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This the key post in a very thoughtful thread: let’s not allow the same psychosis that infected the debate on Brexit to infect the debate on fixing what needs fixing in the UK. Otherwise we are well and truly f@%ked.

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If you wanted no leaks you should have gone into Settings -> Security -> Configure privacy & security -> Privacy options -> Other -> Configure -> Media interface and clicked “Disallow.” The Leak setting is on by default but we understand your privacy is important so we’ve made it easy to opt out

submitted 24 days ago • 876 comments

ONE My dad died. Classic start to a funny story. He was buried in a small village in Sussex. I was really close to my dad so I visited his grave a lot. I still do. [DON’T WORRY, IT GETS FUNNIER.]

submitted 28 days ago • 33 comments