RickChasey
@rickchasey.bsky.social
Still a City worker, still following cycling too much like a religion.
Now has more opinions on ESG & sustainable investing than your average.
Now has more opinions on ESG & sustainable investing than your average.
Err yes obviously, but presumably that’s why Theresa May drew “citizens of the world” as “citizens of nowhere”.
When you have roots across borders, the artifice of nations and nationhood is shown up rather more clearly.
When you have roots across borders, the artifice of nations and nationhood is shown up rather more clearly.
Are you 'nation ambivalent'? And what's the link with national populism? From the latest Nation, State and Politics
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buff.ly/ucWUGzg
December 3, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Err yes obviously, but presumably that’s why Theresa May drew “citizens of the world” as “citizens of nowhere”.
When you have roots across borders, the artifice of nations and nationhood is shown up rather more clearly.
When you have roots across borders, the artifice of nations and nationhood is shown up rather more clearly.
Luckily policing was spared funding increases?
Looks like everything is a-ok with the UK's police and criminal justice system eh?
December 2, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Luckily policing was spared funding increases?
Work stuff is just the right balance of being obviously trivial and petty, yet entirely consequential.
Fuck sake
Fuck sake
December 2, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Work stuff is just the right balance of being obviously trivial and petty, yet entirely consequential.
Fuck sake
Fuck sake
Yes quite.
The ownership model only matters as much as it affects how it gets money into the system. Ie not as much as anyone thinks.
The ownership model only matters as much as it affects how it gets money into the system. Ie not as much as anyone thinks.
Why do trains in the UK cost so much at peak hours?
It's mostly NOT due to privatisation
It is because the UK state has not invested enough in its network to up capacity, and even today does not subsidise operations very much
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It's mostly NOT due to privatisation
It is because the UK state has not invested enough in its network to up capacity, and even today does not subsidise operations very much
Want to be like 🇨🇭, 🇦🇹, 🇳🇱?
POUR IN MORE MONEY
December 2, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Yes quite.
The ownership model only matters as much as it affects how it gets money into the system. Ie not as much as anyone thinks.
The ownership model only matters as much as it affects how it gets money into the system. Ie not as much as anyone thinks.
An admission of defeat
🇩🇰 Jonas Vingegaard reveals he'd 🇮🇹 'prefer the Giro' if he could win just one more race
📰 www.domestiquecycling.com/en/news/ving...
📸 Cor Vos
📰 www.domestiquecycling.com/en/news/ving...
📸 Cor Vos
December 2, 2025 at 8:33 AM
An admission of defeat
I mean, it doesn’t really matter.
“Just following orders” is, famously, a poor defence in international courts.
“Just following orders” is, famously, a poor defence in international courts.
December 2, 2025 at 6:43 AM
I mean, it doesn’t really matter.
“Just following orders” is, famously, a poor defence in international courts.
“Just following orders” is, famously, a poor defence in international courts.
Anyone selling anything b2b using an internet meme needs to be immediately sacked.
December 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Anyone selling anything b2b using an internet meme needs to be immediately sacked.
Suspect this year will be the first year Radiohead are not #1 on my Spotify wrapped but instead…Lanegan, which is rather less highbrow, albeit, arguably more miserable.
December 1, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Suspect this year will be the first year Radiohead are not #1 on my Spotify wrapped but instead…Lanegan, which is rather less highbrow, albeit, arguably more miserable.
So every year I **really** struggle with December.
Combination of the short days, slow work, end-of-year work stress and holidays being a distant memory.
Every year I try different approaches and tbh I never really works.
This year I’m going to try to lean into it.
Combination of the short days, slow work, end-of-year work stress and holidays being a distant memory.
Every year I try different approaches and tbh I never really works.
This year I’m going to try to lean into it.
elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a fire
ALT: elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a fire
media.tenor.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:18 AM
So every year I **really** struggle with December.
Combination of the short days, slow work, end-of-year work stress and holidays being a distant memory.
Every year I try different approaches and tbh I never really works.
This year I’m going to try to lean into it.
Combination of the short days, slow work, end-of-year work stress and holidays being a distant memory.
Every year I try different approaches and tbh I never really works.
This year I’m going to try to lean into it.
You really can’t do club cycling with young children.
Around 5 minutes from home, encountered a club run *setting off*
You’d need to have a **very** understanding other half and be pretty selfish.
Around 5 minutes from home, encountered a club run *setting off*
You’d need to have a **very** understanding other half and be pretty selfish.
November 30, 2025 at 9:45 AM
You really can’t do club cycling with young children.
Around 5 minutes from home, encountered a club run *setting off*
You’d need to have a **very** understanding other half and be pretty selfish.
Around 5 minutes from home, encountered a club run *setting off*
You’d need to have a **very** understanding other half and be pretty selfish.
To give a non-BlueSky take:
I know * a lot* of people who are furious about lifting the 2 child cap and think Labour only ever represent people who don’t want to work.
Like, genuinely pissed off.
I know * a lot* of people who are furious about lifting the 2 child cap and think Labour only ever represent people who don’t want to work.
Like, genuinely pissed off.
It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.
Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
November 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
To give a non-BlueSky take:
I know * a lot* of people who are furious about lifting the 2 child cap and think Labour only ever represent people who don’t want to work.
Like, genuinely pissed off.
I know * a lot* of people who are furious about lifting the 2 child cap and think Labour only ever represent people who don’t want to work.
Like, genuinely pissed off.
*newspapers are mainly read by the retired. *
*They sell to their audience*
*They sell to their audience*
The predictable crushing uniformity of the coverage of this Budget tells you an awful lot about the priorities of those papers, and also why there's actually quite a lot to praise in it bylinetimes.com/2025/11/26/t...
November 27, 2025 at 10:24 AM
*newspapers are mainly read by the retired. *
*They sell to their audience*
*They sell to their audience*
Judging by the reaction in my office, I’m not entirely sure it is overlooked
"The budget was further proof of a strangely overlooked fact in British politics: Ms Reeves is a chancellor in the most economically left-wing government of the past five decades."
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
Britain’s left-wing government is left-wing
An obvious fact. But still an overlooked one
www.economist.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Judging by the reaction in my office, I’m not entirely sure it is overlooked
A little sad that my most liked post (a very low bar, I grant you) is just straight up slagging off farmers.
Just goes to show.
Just goes to show.
November 27, 2025 at 8:37 AM
A little sad that my most liked post (a very low bar, I grant you) is just straight up slagging off farmers.
Just goes to show.
Just goes to show.
lol.
Lads (it’s Switzerland, it’s definitely lads).
Have you look in your own country recently?
Lads (it’s Switzerland, it’s definitely lads).
Have you look in your own country recently?
Swiss euphoria at securing lower US trade tariffs has given way to a backlash over “oligarch diplomacy” and the role executives played from companies including Rolex and Richemont. on.ft.com/48i4mL4
November 27, 2025 at 6:47 AM
lol.
Lads (it’s Switzerland, it’s definitely lads).
Have you look in your own country recently?
Lads (it’s Switzerland, it’s definitely lads).
Have you look in your own country recently?
👍🏻 as you were.
Fighting over your slice of the pie
Fighting over your slice of the pie
Damning line from the OBR this: "We have assessed that none of the policy measures in this Budget have a sufficiently material impact to justify adjusting our post-measures potential output forecast."
Ie it's a budget which does nothing new for growth.
Ie it's a budget which does nothing new for growth.
November 26, 2025 at 12:51 PM
👍🏻 as you were.
Fighting over your slice of the pie
Fighting over your slice of the pie
Fair to say this is moronic governance & politics.
Lots of headlines crossing from the UK budget but an explicit hand on the scales to favor ICE auto sales jumps out to me.
*UK TO FREEZE FUEL DUTY RATES UNTIL SEPT. 2026: OBR
*UK TO INTRODUCE MILEAGE-BASED CHARGE ON EVS FROM 2028: OBR
*UK TO FREEZE FUEL DUTY RATES UNTIL SEPT. 2026: OBR
*UK TO INTRODUCE MILEAGE-BASED CHARGE ON EVS FROM 2028: OBR
November 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Fair to say this is moronic governance & politics.
If you were long gilts you absolutely shat the bed for about 10 minutes
November 26, 2025 at 12:36 PM
If you were long gilts you absolutely shat the bed for about 10 minutes
It is curious as, in my job, I’ve witnessed a lot of self censorship related to the current US government from people, and I do find it, as a professional and hobbyist gobshite, remarkable.
Whatever the govt is doing to generate this behaviour, it’s pretty successful at it.
Whatever the govt is doing to generate this behaviour, it’s pretty successful at it.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 11:04 AM
It is curious as, in my job, I’ve witnessed a lot of self censorship related to the current US government from people, and I do find it, as a professional and hobbyist gobshite, remarkable.
Whatever the govt is doing to generate this behaviour, it’s pretty successful at it.
Whatever the govt is doing to generate this behaviour, it’s pretty successful at it.
One of the mysteries of life I will never understand is the absolutely massive popularity of Star Wars.
It was….fine?
It was….fine?
November 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
One of the mysteries of life I will never understand is the absolutely massive popularity of Star Wars.
It was….fine?
It was….fine?
Err no.
'I'm not a superhero, I'm just a normal guy': Tadej Pogačar insists he's a regular person who simply wants to win Paris-Roubaix
www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/im-no...
www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/im-no...
'I'm not a superhero, I'm just a normal guy': Tadej Pogačar insists he's a regular person who simply wants to win Paris-Roubaix
Roubaix and Milan-San Remo major targets for 2026, says the Slovenian, who says he isn't about to run out of motivation any time soon
www.cyclingweekly.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Err no.
This bond market chat has taken a life of its own.
*Your borrowing costs matter and are a material expenditure, and will impinge on your spending ability on the future*
*Your borrowing costs matter and are a material expenditure, and will impinge on your spending ability on the future*
@zackpolanski.bsky.social on the importance of spending multipliers & borrowing to invest
Zack is, without doubt, a great communicator. And on him talking about democracy & the bond markets I'm reminded of Eddie Dempsey at the Durham Miners Gala when he asked "who elected the bond market?"
Zack is, without doubt, a great communicator. And on him talking about democracy & the bond markets I'm reminded of Eddie Dempsey at the Durham Miners Gala when he asked "who elected the bond market?"
November 24, 2025 at 11:06 AM
This bond market chat has taken a life of its own.
*Your borrowing costs matter and are a material expenditure, and will impinge on your spending ability on the future*
*Your borrowing costs matter and are a material expenditure, and will impinge on your spending ability on the future*
A lot going on here.
Maybe someone who is actually close to the working class, rather than an unaccomplished academic with a petty bourgeois background, could make sense
November 23, 2025 at 5:31 PM
A lot going on here.