Everything that requires to be paid for the next 20-50 years requires investment. Non-investment types especially actuaries and other managerialists…
I don't know why you are all getting excited. In reality the likelihood is that the govt will cut pensions…
How far do you want to stretch the principle that compos mentis adults should not be treated as moral agents…
You're right, and Treasury have previous on this. Examples ... Netting at departmental / spending-review level Barnett is applied to…
Tag Archives: Cambridge
I wasn’t black, was at Cambridge and am still prejudiced
I read this story with a sickening feeling of guilt. I was boasting last week that I read English at Cambridge like Andy Burnham and Amy Hunt as if that made me something. Of course it does, it makes you … Continue reading
AI is taking hold but can we meet it’s demand for electricity? Asks Thomas Aubrey.
Thomas Aubrey has worked with Con Keating and is one of the best academic minds we have contributing to this blog. Here is his latest contribution to our understanding of the impact of AI upon our business lives. Here is … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, Cambridge, Data Centre, electricity, Productivity, Thomas Aubrey
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Why the government’s New Towns strategy is likely to fail
Published on 8 April 2026 by Thomas Aubrey in Place & public policy As the UK government advances its New Towns agenda, Thomas Aubrey argues that current funding plans are ill-equipped to deliver infrastructure at scale, and makes the case … Continue reading
Is it worth having an intellectual education- or is work the best university
I spent a good part of a morning last week in the FT, talking with journalists about pensions but also about the predicament the children of parents have, once they’ve graduated. It doesn’t surprise me that the paper bemoans the … Continue reading
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Tagged Arts, Cambridge, Glastonbury, Graduates, John Keats, Keats, Oxford, Science, Shakespeare
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Jonathan Clements – a gentle and sensitive financial writer
I am sorry to hear that Jonathan Clements has died . I have read with some humility the obituary he has written for himself. It includes a couple of paragraphs about his schooldays, he hated where we went to, he … Continue reading
Thoughts on Jo Grady’s letter to the Trinity dons
Here’s Jo Grady’s open letter and I think it’s worth some thinking about. Trinity College Cambridge, the one who’s Great Court is supposed to feature in Chariots of Fire, is rich. It is rich because of endowments given to it … Continue reading
A Masterful letter from Athene Donald.
Athene Donald, the Master of Churchill College Cambridge has written a letter to Alistair Jarvis at UUK. It talks of clarity and is a model of clarity. It expresses in a few word, a concern voiced several times on this … Continue reading
The rotten boroughs of the Isis and the Fens – Mike Otsuka
On the implausibility of the Registrar’s denial of disproportionate Oxbridge influence In an article in the Guardian entitled ‘Universities strike blamed on vote by Oxbridge colleges’, Richard Adams reports that “the employers’ backing” of “policies resulting in the harsh cuts” … Continue reading
Oxford’s and Cambridge’s role in the demise of USS – Mike Otsuka
To be more precise: what follows is an account of the role of these two universities, and their constituent colleges, in the demise of USS as a multi-employer scheme that promises a decent, defined benefit (DB) pension to its members. … Continue reading
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Tagged Cambridge, Mike Otsuka, Oxbridge, Oxford, pensions, USS
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If you can’t be clever – have clever friends
Having clever friends has been the secret to whatever success I’ve had! In my third year at college in 1983, a bloke in specs appeared. His name was David Wilson and he came out drinking with us. He was a … Continue reading
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Tagged Cambridge, David Wilson, Selwyn, Sophie Wilson, University Challenge
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I believe you are absolutely right and its polical expediancy to rob us of our State Pension. ounce again. That…