David O'Reilly

East London via Dublin. City based ACA. Asset Management / Real Estate. Golf.

[Dave Collum @DavidBCollum]

Gold investors haven't yet figured out that gold and treasury yields should rise in tandem since....(wait for it)...they are both responding to a growing inflation problem. My work here is done. You're welcome.

[David O'Reilly @David_OReilly_]

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[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I see that Stella Creasy is accusing me of leading a pitchfork mob against her, because I opined that she is less likeable and more hypocritical than the wild parakeet she mistook for an escaped pet.

For those who don’t know, Creasy is an elected politician and self-proclaimed ‘old-fashioned feminist’ who is ‘still fighting the patriarchy’. She’s more than once publicly defined herself against me (and my reaction was not to accuse her of leading a mob, even though I was probably averaging a dozen death threats a day at the point when the article below appeared.)

I thought it might be instructive for those of us who don’t share Creasy’s brand of ‘feminism’ to examine her campaigning record, so we can learn to do better.

Creasy wants women admitted to the male-only, exclusive, London-based private members Garrick Club, a change that would benefit rather privileged women like Creasy. Creasy is a mother who wants better accommodations for working mothers, a change that would benefit Creasy. Creasy takes selfies at a men-only Muslim march because that reminds everyone how non-racist she is, which benefits Creasy. Creasy asserts that ‘trans women are women’, which keeps her in good odour with her party’s most aggressive activists, and benefits Creasy.

However, keeping cross-dressing heterosexual men out of nurses’ changing rooms doesn’t benefit Creasy, because Creasy has never had to mop up other people’s piss, blood and vomit at work. Challenging the notion that a male basketball player becomes a girl if he says he is doesn’t benefit Creasy, who has no sporting ambitions. Speaking up against the patriarchy as practised by non-white men doesn’t benefit Creasy, who wants those selfie-opportunities. Criticising an ideological movement that persecutes, harasses and openly threatens women who don’t believe some women have penises wouldn't benefit Creasy, because she's already fully-signed up to self-id, where any man who says he's a woman must be taken at his word.

As the late Gloria Steinem said: ‘“Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere.’

Creasy the patriarchy-challenger is provably more than happy to cosy up to men and misogynist movements when it suits her public profile and career advancement, no matter the harms those men might be causing less privileged women. By Steinem’s definition, what Stella espouses is not feminism, but Creasyism, and I suggest the emblem for this brave new rights movement should be an indignant parakeet with severely ruffled feathers.

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[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

That's the problem with English libel law. It's rational to give in to bullies because if you fight and win, you can still lose.

Andrew is crowdfunding to raise enough money to fight for his costs.

If you can afford it, please consider donating. https://t.co/yv6YaChT3I

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Breaking: Stella knows what parakeets are! It’s probably too much to hope that women are next, but fingers crossed!

[David O'Reilly @David_OReilly_]

Creasy thinks the response and mocking to her being wrong is a threat to democracy, but that is how democracy works.

Taxpayers in Walthamstow should be able to see that she is wrong about everything.

��Do I think some women were born with penises? Yes” - Stella Creasy 2022.

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

I don't usually write personal stuff, but a few words about my experience of being interviewed by Gary Stevenson.

It started with a nice chat, comparing taste in hoodies... then the tone changed. He demanded to know why I'd deleted a tweet criticising him.

[David O'Reilly @David_OReilly_]

#AltynGold

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[David O'Reilly @David_OReilly_]

@DanNeidle @DavidGHFrost Following the data also means recognising that Govt collecting an additional £15bn leaves the productive sector with £15bn less Dan?

[David O'Reilly @David_OReilly_]

@DanNeidle @EastSussexBod Hi Dan, Yes, they maybe popular with social democrats but that doesn't mean they are economically desirable.

As you said, entrepreneurs left the UK on the mere rumour, and probably the direction of travel with higher all round taxes been talked about by higher tax enthusiasts.

[David O'Reilly @David_OReilly_]

@DanNeidle @EastSussexBod Which is arguably unconstitutional, and is a tax on emmigration and unrealised wealth.

The soviets had a similar mechanism to deter freedom of movement.

[Simon Mikhailovich @S_Mikhailovich]

If you wonder how gold price could be tanking in the face of spiking systemic risks, recall that credit protection on subprime mortgage bonds was tanking in 2005-2007.

After 2008, they made a movie about the few who stuck w/their conviction & kept buying.

[David O'Reilly @David_OReilly_]

@DanNeidle @CutMyTaxUK 2/...is whether they were used on a scale sufficient to overwhelm the behaviour of millions of investors, business owners and property holders making real economic decisions in the **real world**.

Not just deeming something to be so from a legal perspective

[David O'Reilly @David_OReilly_]

@DanNeidle @CutMyTaxUK 1/ It's one thing to identify mechanisms where gains could have been accelerated in the eyes of a tax practitioner, or solicitor sitting in a lawyers office.

What @CutMyTaxUK is saying...

[David O'Reilly @David_OReilly_]

@DanNeidle And maybe stopped prices from rising further?

[David O'Reilly @David_OReilly_]

@DanNeidle @DanNeidle why not just reduce tax for the cleaner? Instead of conjuring up wealth taxes. Is taxing Jim ratcliffe more going to really help the cleaner in this 'fair' scenario envisaged.

[David O'Reilly @David_OReilly_]

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#SBSW

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[David O'Reilly @David_OReilly_]

@CutMyTaxUK They should rename the resolution foundation to 'the great takers', and treasury to the 'ministry of debt'. Why keep the pretense any longer.