SimonEnglish

Journalist and pollster. Partner at digital pollsters @FindoutnowUK, author of Tomorrow's Business @roxhillmedia.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

in hindsight, perhaps it was a bad idea to build an entire global economy around whether one man would be faithful to his wife

[Patrick Kidd @patrick_kidd]

When James Anderson opens the bowling for Surrey at home next year it will be his first County Championship match at the Oval since 2003. Indeed, that is his only one. He took the first five Surrey wickets to fall in that match so he's got 24 years of making-up to do

[SimonEnglish @SimonEngStand]

Exactly.

[Michael Brown @MrMBrown]

General rule of thumb in markets is that it’s always very easy to put together a snazzy-sounding equity bear case, but you’ll seldom make money doing so 🤷‍♂️

[SimonEnglish @SimonEngStand]

A genuine question: if governments have NO money how can they routinely spend more than they take in tax? Where is that money coming from? I’m just curious.

[City A.M. @CityAM]

"They have to understand, that governments have NO money." Liam Halligan, director of the CPS, tells City AM that Labour needs to appreciate the risk-taking business owners who are funding public spending.

#Economics #Tax #Finance #News

[monos estocásticos @monospodcast]

Se podrá criticar a la IA por muchas cosas, pero por el nivel de memes sobre el tema Jensen Huang desde luego que no.

Vamos con selección con los mejores del día, dentro hilo:

[SimonEnglish @SimonEngStand]

What man in 2026 cannot afford to pay another man to handle such drudgery.

[(C) @Jbag2202032]

@SimonEngStand @Argos_Online @JohnLewisRetail @currys What man in 2026 cannot install a TV may aswell have a pair of tits 😂😂😂

[SimonEnglish @SimonEngStand]

Dear @Argos_Online @JohnLewisRetail @currys I would like to give you money for a TV I'd like you to install. Is this an option? Your websites don't suggest so. Currys offered me a video call. But didn't actually answer. I'd like to give one of you some money. For a tele.

[SimonEnglish @SimonEngStand]

Since you have taken the trouble to reply, I will give it a go. I have read enough of you to have an opinion. As for not liking you, well, we might not exactly be each other’s cup of tea, but in the unlikely event we ended up colleagues or neighbours I’m sure we’d find common ground and be civil.
Your work bothers me when it is about money. Your take on it is always to predict disaster regarding inflation or debt. This disaster never happens, but you act like it did. It contributes to the narrative that we are in terminal decline and just can’t afford nice things. It’s unhelpful and hardly ever true.

[Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah]

.@ simonengstand . That is because you don’t read me and don’t like me. I suspect you don’t even know what he is trying to parody.

[josh ryan-collins @jryancollins]

The Bank of England has just raised interest rates to 4%. But higher rates won’t make oil any cheaper, and households are paying the price for a shock we can’t control. My piece for @LBC 🧵1/9
https://t.co/XFaTi8JUtd

[SimonEnglish @SimonEngStand]

That might have been in breach of some sort of rule though.

[David Yelland @davidyelland]

Anderson is worth twice what we paid for him... what a player... critical win on a tough night... @ManCity 🍌🩵

[SimonEnglish @SimonEngStand]

Peter Hitchens is quite hard to parody. But I don’t think this is so far off.

[Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah]

Is this Craig Brown’s fourth or fifth attempt to parody me? And yet he still
cannot do it, because he doesn’t read me.

[Dr. Ian Garner @irgarner]

Liz Truss posting from Mar-a-Lago on the night MAGA imploded. She's just too good.

[john sturgis @sturgios]

Pablo Escobaa

[Mr. Keynes @TyKeynes]

Economics might be the only profession where you can spend your entire career explaining why something shouldn't happen, watch it happen repeatedly, and still get invited on television to explain why it didn't really happen.

[SimonEnglish @SimonEngStand]

Robert Miller lunching with David Buik feels like an institution all of its own. I look forward to reading the book! @truemagic68 @IanKingBusiness @Frencheconomics @RobertMMiller1

[Simon French @Frencheconomics]

Completely agree @IanKingBusiness. @truemagic68 became a friend on my first day in the City twelve years ago, and has been every day since. Lovely write up by @RobertMMiller1

[paul bassett davies @thewritertype]

We're being told to stockpile for shortages caused by impending cyberwars. But what should we be stockpiling? Me, I'm planning to stockpile long tracking shots of eerily empty supermarket aisles, which will be in high demand from the media. I'll make a fortune.

[John Stepek @John_Stepek]

If you want to know why folk in the UK seem to be grumpier than they were before the 2008 financial crisis, a chart of real wages goes a long way. Prior to 2008, real wages rose consistently and strongly. Since then? Sporadic and unpredictable.
https://t.co/dXhaJAF8w5

[SimonEnglish @SimonEngStand]

Come on Coventry.

[Paddy Power @paddypower]

Big night for Spurs.

If they beat Coventry, they will finally have won more league games at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in 2026 than Eberechi Eze.

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

🔗 https://t.co/TQyu3iGmiR

[Mr. Keynes @TyKeynes]

The stock market is a wonderful place where millions of people who don't understand a company compete to guess what millions of other people who don't understand the company are going to do next.