James

UK-based investment analyst (ex-macro, now global equities), interested in econ & markets, defence, infra, etc.

[Adam Wren @aswren]

I’d love to be appointed head of the charity commission, maybe the single highest leverage appointment possible. The sector is completely out of control & the source of so much rot and suffering. It should be a top 3 priority

[James @TypeForVictory]

Reciting the Lord's Prayer above a whisper in one of the world's greatest churches is now, under Turkish law, an incitement to public hatred and hostility.

[Marcus Walker @WalkerMarcus]

Visiting Hagia Sophia is now a miserable experience. You are restricted to the balcony, they have roped off the balustrades, they have covered up the icons in the centre, they hector you to keep moving. No longer is it a place to roam and muse within.

[Collingwood 🇬🇧 @admcollingwood]

Britain's establishment has isolated our country diplomatically. As I said over a year ago, we risk losing the Falklands over the negotiating table as everybody else falls behind Argentina -- including Europe, where Spain would see it as a prelude to the annexation of Gib.

[Dr David Jeffery @DrDavidJeffery]

Windrush was not some grand historical event - the only reason we should teach it in schools is as an example of how elites can twist past events into new hagiographic narratives to suit modern mores.

[Marcus Walker @WalkerMarcus]

Visiting Hagia Sophia is now a miserable experience. You are restricted to the balcony, they have roped off the balustrades, they have covered up the icons in the centre, they hector you to keep moving. No longer is it a place to roam and muse within.

[James @jhallwood]

I understand that the Bishop of Rome has privately accepted the 39 Articles of Religion and embraced the light of the Reformation as refracted through the English Church.

[Ben Judah @b_judah]

It is time to admit that the Commonwealth does not only not serve its purpose, but works against its premise of post-imperial comity.

This is because it has become a little more than a poorly attended biannual summit whose only purpose seems to be to for Caribbean countries to lobby Britain for reparations. This does nothing but worsen these relationships.

My view was Botchwey was the last chance to try and pull the organisation back from this dead end but this had clearly failed. CHOGM is going ahead without any major reforms to its structure or meaningful agenda, resented by those in government involved in it as a result.

It is now only a matter of time before Prime Ministers stop attending our next King cuts the cord and eventually a new CANZUK-type summit or body is pursued.

[James @TypeForVictory]

You just created a million Angela Rayners

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham criticises Angela Rayner for including a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc in her survival kit

“I’m not sure that’s the top of the list… You need to have a clear head in a challenging situation. Some tins of food, bottled water. People are allowed a glass or two”

[Ben Brittain @BenABrittain]

The most miserable thing, whereby love and affection with family is reduced to a permissible action. How rotten.

[Adam Wren @aswren]

Maybe building our entire economy around services wasn’t a good idea. But at least we can pivot to physical AI in manufacturing & data centre buildout with our cheap energy and permissive planning system

[Mwarnism ⳩🇻🇦🇱🇧 @Maronidd]

A guy literally shot the pope, very notably wasn't beheaded, was visited and forgiven by the same pope, and later became a Christian himself

[Merryn Somerset Webb @MerrynSW]

If you think about the cost of immigrant workers in the care system in terms of wages plus long term welfare/benefits for them and family with ILR....it might be significantly more financially efficient for the state to top up care worker wages to the extent that our unemployed fancied it. No one's that into it for 20k. What about 50k? 75k?

[Helen Whately MP @Helen_Whately]

Polygamy is illegal in the UK. Yet our welfare system pays out benefits to multiple spouses.

Conservatives @RicHolden helped introduce legislation to stop this today.

[Madeline Grant @Madz_Grant]

You must either want to “make the case for communities like Peckham” or you’re engaging in “divisive rhetoric”. There is no third option according to these people

[James @TypeForVictory]

Without question, the campest figure in British politics today.

[Fred Dimbleby @freddimbleby]

Greater Lincolnshire Mayor Andrea Jenkyns enters her great exhibition in an autonomous vehicle

[Kris Carter @krxsctr]

Saying “you’ll only be charged 10% of your income for the next thirty years of your working life” isn’t the flex you think is is

[James Lippens @ShamebyJames2]

So the reason why it’s not good to support anarchic violence is because it typically doesn’t stop precisely where you like it. You can’t wink at people burning a city down or think it’s based and then cry foul if other people do violence to the rioters

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

Theoretically, stuff like this is *such* an easy fix in the UK. The Labour Party holds >400 seats in the Commons. They could pass it virtually without effort.

But there's just no interest in a serious, pragmatic rewrite of the tax code.

[James @TypeForVictory]

@MiriamBrett Not a problem, then, is it.

[James @TypeForVictory]

@MccailColl Are we trying to create jobs or power?

Because if you want to create jobs, you could replace Jackdaw with 85 million jobs cycling 8 hour shifts on bikes hooked up to the grid.