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Alan Beattie
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Someone I knew at the Bank of England was going to title a research note “You know when you’ve been contangoed” but bottled it.
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Opiner for Financial Times/associate fellow at Chatham House. Globalisation, econ, snark. RT≠👍. Views own. alan.beattie@ft.com. Sign up to my FT Trade Secrets newsletter tdy.lol/NZKfpz.
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Alan Beattie
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Someone I knew at the Bank of England was going to title a research note “You know when you’ve been contangoed” but bottled it.
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Alan Beattie
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I’m just saying if you want to retain credibility as a scientist. Otherwise people will say “there goes the man who inferred statistical significance from an inadequate sample”. Also tbf “the orange-in-mouth man”.
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Alan Beattie
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The question remains whether @PaulKagame returns the money already paid by the UK, or was that offer only valid under the government that handed it over?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-poli...
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Alan Beattie
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OK but hold on, that's a sample of one. You really need to assemble another few hundred scientists to try to fit oranges in their mouths as well.
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Alan Beattie
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🎉🎉🎉
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Alan Beattie
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The key thing is how the voters are feline about it.
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Alan Beattie
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But he can afford to because everyone is rich now.
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Alan Beattie
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The lights are going out. They will not be lit again in our lifetime.
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Alan Beattie
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Who’s having a hissy fit?
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Alan Beattie
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Blocked and reported.
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Alan Beattie
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There are 5.6 million businesses in the UK, of whom CCHQ could find just over 100 to back the Tories. Last day of this today folks. We're approaching the end in more ways than one, so I'll close this thread here. Thanks for reading. It's been real.
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Alan Beattie
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Alan Beattie
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That annoyed me too.
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Alan Beattie
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Apparently Labour will create a Department for Destroying the Countryside and explain its plans in advance like an exceptionally vain and stupid supervillain. Last day of this today folks.
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Alan Beattie
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Let's give the man his due. He wrote something that wasn't wrong once.
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Alan Beattie
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If you were wondering if Rishi Sunak could do anything right, by coincidence someone just pointed me to a report he did in 2017 on the security of undersea cables. Credit where it's due. Probably doesn't outweigh the debit column though.
#thecaseforRishi
policyexchange.org.uk/publication/...
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Alan Beattie
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"And my beloved husband's still alive. £2k in tax? Bargain!"
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Alan Beattie
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Yep I'd like to know what proportion of incompetence, don't-give-a-fuck, alcohol and dares were involved in the creation of these ads.
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Alan Beattie
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Yes. "They're taxing me more but I've made it to ninety!"
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Alan Beattie
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“I tax dead people”. A day of this to go folks.
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Alan Beattie
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(h/t for this to the great @mcgregor.bsky.social, who understand these things.)
www.facebook.com/ads/library/...
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Alan Beattie
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I’m assured 100%. Apparently targeted Facebook ads.
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Alan Beattie
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Labour will starve puppies and kittens and tax adults who are still children and great-grandparents before they become great-grandparents. One day (mercifully or disappointingly depending on your tolerance for rank insanity) of this to go folks.
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Katie Martin
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How 120 knife-edge seats may tip the Tories from defeat to wipeout - on.ft.com/4eP739u
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Alan Beattie
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Best get someone calming and emollient to be leader like *checks notes* Kemi Badenoch.
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Alan Beattie
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Maybe the propellers don't actually work but they're still in the water, so when the boats are propelled forward by the magnet they leave wakes behind them. Once you start looking at this graphic the number of inanities really hits you.
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Alan Beattie
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OK folks. Two days till UK election day. Hit me with your best #BanterHeuristic predictions.
I'll start: Tories come second, just ten seats ahead of the LibDems. Eleven Tory MPs immediately defect to Reform, making Ed Davey Leader of the Opposition. #banter
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Alan Beattie
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Also if those boats are sufficiently ferrous to be attracted by a big magnet I wouldn't have thought they'd be buoyant enough to make the Channel crossing. Someone should tell the people-smugglers about vessels made from light, durable fibreglass or inflatable dinghies.
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Alan Beattie
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Mine (also octogenarian) successfully migrated from TalkTalk to Gmail, but it was a close-run thing at times.
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Alan Beattie
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"What experience do you have which makes you suitable for this job?"
"Well I used to work in social media for the Conservative Par.."
"Get out."
Two days of this left to go folks.
x.com/rishisunak/s...
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iucounu
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these Tory election leaflets are becoming increasingly desperate I feel
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Alan Beattie
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Alan Beattie
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Two Slovxits in two days from #EURO2024.
You might say we're on a go-Slo.
Sorry.
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Alan Beattie
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Not convinced the voting public regards Angela Rayner with the same frothing hostility CCHQ does. Three days of this to go folks.
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Alan Beattie
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Truly was. None of them was a bad penalty.
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Alan Beattie
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Alan Beattie
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Starmer says he will spend every Friday night with his kids unless there’s an emergency. Tories say this means he will leave the country undefended in an emergency. Three days of this left to go folks.
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Alan Beattie
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My Trade Secrets today. There's quite a lot of bipartisan consensus over trade in the US (wrongheaded) and the UK (OKish for non-EU trade).
But Marine Le Pen in France is a new and v dangerous departure, bringing protectionism to the French border.
on.ft.com/4cnVuEr
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Alan Beattie
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I realise I didn't specify the Chris but I'm sure you get my point.
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Alan Beattie
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Not that I watch rugby, unlike metropolitan elites like Chris, but it's been an English rugby song for a long time.
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Alan Beattie
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Cosmic justice if spending constraints help destroy the Tories. Austerity comes for them too at the last. Six days of this to go folks.
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Alan Beattie
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Right, we were talking about the centrist/mainstream commentariat.
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Alan Beattie
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Sorry forgot Clegg studied in US too but when he was young and I can't imagine he bought anywhere to live there.
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Alan Beattie
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I don't think either had even lived in the US except Miliband studying at Harvard or MIT or wherever it was. Clegg was hired because of his Brussels connections AIUI.
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Alan Beattie
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IDK tbh - I always thought Nick Clegg was regarded as all a bit suspiciously EU (time working in Brussels, Spanish spouse) but maybe that was just me being particularly aware of it. (Miriam was a trade lawyer contact.)
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Alan Beattie
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Yep without disagreeing with anyone (unusually for me), it is noticeable that the standard line is "ha ha he's going run off to California" rather than "ha ha he's going to run off to India", despite his wife's connections in the latter.
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Lomelindi12
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Clearly on glue, so apt image
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Alan Beattie
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My Trade Secrets today. It's not just political caution about Brexit restraining a Labour government from aligning with the EU economy. If the US presses the UK to join its anti-China camp on tech and trade, Britain will be pulled in two directions.
on.ft.com/3zfXoZ6
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Alan Beattie
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(There are as of course you know multiple locations on the PFI spectrum.)
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Alan Beattie
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If it's purely a balance sheet fiddle, not too bad. (Corrosive of public trust and all, but not too bad.) But this seems more like actually letting private investors say what gets built.
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