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Founder of think tank New Financial. Bigger & better capital markets in Europe. ‘Top City wonk’ - CityAM. Expert on the decline of ties - Daily Mail
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Best beach in the UK. Looking forward to being back there in May.
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What is the annual cost of the Chagos deal as you understand it, Christian?
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Most of the RAF bases around the world that I grew up on have been converted. Most of Alconbury has already been sold off but there are still some big old spaces like Lakenheath and Fairford.
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The nauseating &infuriating spectacle of British "patriots“, who are (rightly) proud of Churchill &fighting the Nazis, now minimising the fact that Vance endorsed the far-right party in *Germany*, a party that called 12 years of dictatorship &the Holocaust just "a tiny spec of dirt“ on our history.
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Wales not playing rugby is a good start
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I wonder if this is the same banker who said a few weeks ago that he felt liberated that he could say retard and pussy again?
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A little harsh on Warren Gatland: as recently as five years ago Wales were officially the best team in the world…
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Yes - I started reading one on WW2 with my 8 year old and it was a few years too early for him
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If you could have a word with your editor I would be grateful
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(Members of New Financial already knew this as it was part of our 10 year perfromance review of the UK regulatory framework back in October:)
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This may reflect that firms are behaving better, that firms are settling with customers before they take a complaint to the FOS, or that the FOS is setting a higher bar in upholding complaints, or all three. Whichever, it doesn't really fit the narrative that the FOS is particularly harsh on firms
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I remember getting something very similar once from Portakabin.
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Make Annuities Great Again!
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Really interesting move
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The blue line / no impact is quite surreal
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The Godfather?
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On the other hand, it would create a large brownfield site on which you could build an awful lot of housing
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Tariffs as a % of US tax receipts?