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I live in London, and the mayoralty of New York City makes no practical difference to my life at all, but my goodness it’s been a while since I rooted for anyone as strongly as I’m rooting for Zohran Mamdani
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Kwasi Kwarteng, the former UK chancellor whose infamous “mini” Budget under then-Prime Minister Liz Truss triggered a crisis in the gilts market, is backing the launch of a bitcoin investment company. 

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Former UK chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng backs bitcoin investment company
Ex-politician infamous for 2022 mini-Budget will become non-executive director of Stack Bitcoin Treasury
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James Murray explains Rachel Reeves’ speech. Like the bloke who follows the elephant with a bucket and shovel. #C4news
It’s not that Labour is bad at comms. It’s that the only people who don’t know it are Labour.
Michael Burry (the Big Short chap) is shorting Nvidia and Palantir.

I am going long on canned goods and ammo.
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Sir David Beckham, knighted for services to pestering for a knighthood. Sarong twat.
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From 5 years ago 🤔

I suppose now he's got his knighthood he doesn't give a shit anymore. Probably going to eat a swan tonight too.
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I'm almost tempted to pop back into The Bad Place to check out the Beckham poppy absence discourse
The wacky world of tax. Alcohol helps.
“Don’t stand there saying ‘I want to be clear’ when you’ve got a fog machine in your arm, spraying mist across the room.”

Rachel Reeves's pre-Budget speech was to ‘clarify’ expectations, while refusing to say anything concrete.

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I love the smell of onions and mustard in the mornings!
Remembering olden times, when the govt would announce the date. And, then, on that date, there would be a Budget.

Simpler times.
I wish they’d made Posh a Dame. Just to piss him off.
For services to tattoos and tax avoidance.
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Fired after one day on the building site. My brick glue was ‘runny’ and ‘not called that’ and my wall icing ‘uneven’ and ‘not called that’.
Call me soppy, butt I still miss the old Ritzy.

And I wish that, for old times sake, I’d kept one of their posters showing the weekly programme.