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Weekly ish running update...

I managed four runs in the last week! Sunday's Run Longer - just! Headed out on Sunday for a nice gentle slightly longer than usual run, at 7.2K - a slightly different

The Laffer Curve Returns

The Laffer Curve describes the sweet-spot with the tax rate where the government maximises revenue without creating too much of a disincentive for people to invest...

Happy June HPUD... Another 25K Hive Powered Up This Month...

So it's still bleak out there, BTC going lower, Hive dancing around that $0.05 cent mark.... But I've just been selling off my HBDs and buying some more Hive. Another

How the Premier League Became One of Britain's Greatest Exports

The UK economy is struggling in many respects, but the Premier League is a real success story.... it is one of Britain’s biggest cultural and commercial hits. Premier

Late June Allotment Update - Full Bloom

Oh man it's looking good down the allotment this June... We are harvesting lettuce, broad beans and baby courgettes and soon we'll have tomatoes too! Sunflowers

Dicking about with voice to text...

I had a bit of spare time this morning to experiment with voice to text, I'm so used to tyhping but I've long felt that voicing thoughts would be quicker than typing,

Watch Out for the “Genius Bubble”

Have we gotten a bit too hooked on “geniuses” in the world of investing? These days, markets seem quick to put founders and visionary CEOs on a pedestal: not just

Why Good Economic News Doesn’t Always Feel Good

Politicians love to big-up their country's GDP growth - at least if it's increasing - productivity up = good news. But GDP growth doesn't tend to matter to ordinary

Is the Triple Lock Bankrupting Britain?

The Triple Lock is enormously expensive, yet politicians just aren't up to tackling it... This is unsurprising given that pensioners are more likely to vote, so

Weekly-ish Running Update... Hanging on in there!

I had a reasonable week's running - although I think I was mainly in recovery mode from my big Satirday night out wknd before last! Saturday Park Run defo NOT feeling

Why Not Just Call?

Elaine Moore from the Financial Times makes a fair point: with everyone glued to their screens, pinging messages, emails, Slack posts, and WhatsApp notes all day,

Could Gold Tip the Global Balance of Power?

After years of only mild interest, gold has made a massive comeback in recent years, it's quite the change! For the first time in decades, the total value of gold

Japan’s Impossible Trinity

Japn is having to face up to a big problem ATM, and it's one that other developed countries could find themselves dealing with soon enough. It all starts with something

Labour’s Bond Market Nightmare

Liam Halligan’s Sunday Telegraph piece sounds a familiar alarm: you can promise whatever you want in politics, but in the end, the bond markets always have the final

Weekly ish Running Update - Circuits and Easy!

I only managed three runs in the last week, went out with some mates on Saturday and that kind of killed my Monday run even, slower on Tuesday! No circuits this

The Shadow Cast by Spirit Airlines

Spirit Airlines tended to divide people - being a budget airline some loved it for its cheap prices, others loathed it because of its lack of frills and low quality

Britain’s Ajax Armoured Vehicle: A Pricey Headache

Britain's Ajax Armoured Vehicle could well be one of Britain’s biggest military mistakes in recent years... The government kick started the project over 10 years

Starmer.... was his most basic mistake was just being weak...?!?

John Rentoul’s article in The Independent doesn’t go after Keir Starmer for some flashy blunder or headline-making misstep. Instead, he says Starmer’s real mistake

Tim Cook’s Choices and Apple’s Bigger Story

Patrick McGee wrote a short piece recently in The New York Times that puts Tim Cook under the microscope, askingP How should we look back at Cook’s time leading

Has the EU finally regulated itself into a corner?

Over the past half a century Europe’s become a specialist in drafting rules for tech, climate, and digital markets, but when it comes to producing world-leading