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Extremely mature maths undergraduate. East, east, east London.

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There’s the Wilson quip that Benn immatured with age. Would have been interesting if he’d lived long enough for the Brexit campaign.

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Avoriaz?

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it’s crazy how much of that route is single track.

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Early and often. Probably more chance of the metro opening in Dublin than a new station being built in the North.

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Pay off the national debt?

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Youth. I took my O-levels under Callaghan. Simply not possible to hate Major if you were conscious for the Thatcher years. And he always comes over well in Chris Mullins’ diaries.

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I recommend retirement. And I’ve cancelled my Friday morning gym session.

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Should have added that the Republic did an awful lot of ignoring in the same period

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Or if RUK had ever looked at what went along with that electoral system at any time between, say, 1945 and 1968.

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You should watch this.

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Yup. It was ok to knock a chunk of east London for the M11 link road.

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It’s not in London though.

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Guess so. It would be a pain for me, but maybe Epping becomes a very frequent straight-through and Leytonstone-Woodford a much more frequent shuttle. Must be a plan somewhere?

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Hate to say anything is a no-brainier, but crossrail 2 is a no-brainier. And maybe doing something Chingford-Loughton-Epping.

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Is it signaling to start with? Ie what would it take to get Victoria frequency?

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Thankfully it’s pretty busy most days. Last Sunday at 6.30am was standing only (I get on at Wanstead). I’m guess that it would need a big increase in train frequency, like the Victoria, but I think that needs a signalling upgrade.

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Interesting stuff. I didn’t know that about Abercrombie. One question: let’s say that we expand Epping/Theydon Bois (or Ongar and reopen the old line), how will people in Leyton ever be able to get on the tube in rush hour?

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HDM also suffers from author-to-big-to-edit syndrome in the third book, which I recall as being baggy and boring.

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It’s easy to leave when you don’t like things and to rejoin when it’s all been sorted out. It’s harder to choose between two poor options (actually it’s not, that’s your basic job as a voter). I had to vote for a Lexit idiot of a candidate because even he was better than a Tory.

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I hope you are in a constituency where your hissy fit was inconsequential.

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I happily voted for those idiots in 2017 and 2019. They were idiots but look at the alternatives. And I’ll vote for the deeply shifty Starmer next month. That’s loyalty. The people who faltered in those elections were cowards who flinched.

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SF phase. First a canonical great. A Canticle for Liebowitz. Post-apocalyptic. A very Catholic book working through his guilt and doubts, reworking events in his life. Miller is very careful not to indicate what you’re supposed to conclude. Also, lots of jokes.

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Someone else’s psychodrama. But, like Cameron, just thought the job was a bauble. No vision.

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Doing it well isn’t the point. It was just something to do.

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He wasn’t a big deal in finance. His wife has all the money. He’s got to be a success at something. Let’s do politics. His tragedy is that he couldn’t have predicted how quickly he’d become a contender.

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I’d guess that, if you structure the instruments correctly, you could catch money from insurers running matching adjustment portfolios for annuity books. (I expect that could be a mechanism that would indirectly drive higher quality buildings).

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That’s why I’d develop for students/key workers if I had a big balance sheet.

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Worse than I thought. I didn’t know they were doubling down on DB buyouts. “He said the transfers represented a “store of future profit”. “We need these reliable earnings after that for years to come – we’re talking about decades,” he added.” They’re fucked.

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Kind of sad. They used to be a good insurer but now they’re reduced to asset management.

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Several markets I guess and L&G are doing a bit of reputation washing. But I’m surprised that closed WP funds or DB schemes don’t develop those cashflows more.

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Yup. LGIM can develop from scratch so why pay anyone else.

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I started watching because of the string theory but then I was hooked.

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I was writing in SQL for Tandem mainframes in the late 80s before I ran away to become an accountant. And COBOL. They work.

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No substance. Anecdote, but I was sitting in the same carriage on a train up from Brighton at the end of a conference and he didn’t appear to give a shit about anything but himself.

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Ah well. I’ll go back to my practice of avoiding the election coverage. Only a few more weeks.

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Is it bad enough to be worth watching?

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I’m so old that I went on a trip to the Science Museum to see a Ceefax receiver on display before it was released on the market.

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I’m just surprised that Rishi’s people haven’t arranged a phot-op yet.

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Path dependency. I doubt that overlaying PR on the UK gives anything like the German split.

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Boys from the Blackstuff at the National. Some great performances and staging but the play tries to cram in too much of the TV series and is smaller than it should have been as a result. Much better than Nye though.

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Certainly true for me. I inherited a party, a religion, and a football team. Can’t stand election campaigns as they’re just a version of waiting for Christmas

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Just absurd. Like a committee of mosquitoes charged with keeping us safe from insect bites. The US’s new AI Safety board. There are other names, but mostly tech CEOs.

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Repeat after me , there is no such thing as AI

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