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Odious, opportunistically greedy, and deceitful, yes. But let’s not lose sight of the vast amount of charitable donations that did go to the right place, thanks to the efforts of that true British Gent, Captain Sir Tom.

I bought 3 tickets on day one in section P9, which has now been handed back to Villa, but I have no communication to tell me where our 3 have now been moved to.

For Russia to say it shot down 6 of 8 Storm Shadow missiles is ludicrous. These missiles contain signal scrambling invisibility capability and can be programmed accurate to 11 feet, so this was a known target scale of intelligence and it was clearly obliterated. The video shows 5 separate...

The rouble continues to devalue. There seems to be a weekly pattern of interventions by the Russian central bank, every 7 days, every Tuesday, and their efforts are proving progressively less effective.

If 1000 lives are lost each day, and Tuesday is day 1000 of this war, then 1 million lives have been lost. One. Million. Lives.

I once scored a perfect hat-trick at Deepdale, but never mention it. Much.

I’m convinced Biden would not have done this had Kamala Harris won the presidential election for the Democrats.

This chart plots the rouble against the US$ for the last 3 months. In that period the rouble has devalued by 15%, on the back of at least 2 years of prior substantial devaluations. Marked with the red arrows, you can see how over time, the interventions of the Russian central bank have become...

That Gordon who sold most of our gold reserves, at a low point in the price cycle, before going on to print money, and then leave the cupboard empty?!

Whether we can trust the data or not is questionable, but I did find some numbers implying that Russian M2 money supply has grown 19% in the last year alone, rising from 91 billion to 108 billion roubles. And 108 billion roubles is now worth US$1billion. Which is a p155 in a pot compared to...

The hyper-inflation in the Russian economy suggests that money supply is growing much faster than real economic output. We don’t have any hard information on money supply in Russia, but it’s likely, maybe even probable, that Russia is now printing/creating new money, to use to prop up its...

I’m an economist. I was head of operational planning and strategy for the uk arm of a large multi-national retail bank.

Because he was off his t1t5 on toot, perhaps? Allegedly.

It’s Houghton…..

Resolved. please delete thread.

Log in page not working. Never had this before. Anyone else struggling to log in? If so, needs flagging before the West Ham ticket sale tomorrow morning.

With French wine it is all so easy to be sucked in by the big labels, but for me the trick and the reward comes from uncovering gems. Take Chateuaneuf du Papes for example. Big label, big prices. But not 8 miles away is the village of Gigondas. Same climate, same soil, same terroir, same blend...

This.

Eeyore, well done, well done indeed, I’m proud of you, and you should be proud of yourself. Celebrate that huge step. But equally, celebrate the small steps you make too. And by small steps, I mean just survival and daily continuity. It takes real courage to share what you did. And in return you...

My absolute favourite is Henri Martischang from Pfaffenheim, but bless him the old boy has passed away now. But the intensity and character of their wines is just brilliant.