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America – your flag is bleeding – your leader and his friend are sleekit.
Putin got the upper hand in Anchorage. We have a great BBC radio reporting teem who have helped me with this word. It is the right word for Putin and . unlike our Prime Minister Nigel Starmer, the BBC Americast … Continue reading
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Tagged Alaska, American flag, Anchorage, putin, sleekit, Trump, Ukraine
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America loses at home, Ukraine dropped from the tournament
I am waking early on the morning after the morning before, the morning when America and Russia were supposed to have a deal to put to the team dropped from the tournament, Ukraine. “The fact that this meeting even took … Continue reading
Ramblings on trustees and what happens when you do!
I know I overuse Pension Oldie, but he’s one of the few people who talks technically that I understand , agree with and like a a bloke/bloke-ette. I will not go down this ambivalent gender route, Oldie is a bloke- … Continue reading
Can Mother Russia free herself of her war-lords?
It has taken a fascist criminal to do it, but it appears that Vladmir Putin’s control of his image has cracked. The Wagner mercenary army appears beloved of Russian citizens in Rostov, the home of the Russian army’s Southern army … Continue reading
From tactical to the trivial , Ukraine’s on our mind.
The top-read story in the FT had nothing to do with the financial times but to do with a counter-offensive by the Ukrainians in a flattened City on the country’s south eastern province. We have a huge appetite to hear … Continue reading
Pensions are the poorer for Putin and Truss
“From February’s Russian invasion of Ukraine to the gilt market meltdown in October, 2022 pension schemes find themselves in a much healthier position than at the start of the year”. So here’s to economic incompetence and state sponsored terror https://t.co/qtQTHDerbI … Continue reading
Can demographics help us understand Putin’s game?
The following thread is from Simon Kuestenmacher Simon’s one of the clearest thinkers on Geography I’ve read, maybe because he writes like Abba sang, as a European in a second tongue (making his words stand out as each is thought … Continue reading
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Tagged demographics, geography, putin, Simon Kuestenmacher, Ukraine, Vladmir Putin
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Life during wartime
A comment on yesterday’s blog on the impact of the Ukrainian war on our pensions Henry What was invested in your funds is no longer relevant – what is invested now is to all intents and purposes zero. So for … Continue reading
Why does Putin have so much of our money?
In a brilliant essay, Tim Harford looks at the brinksmanship Putin is playing with the rest of the world over Russia’s nuclear capability. This morning that threat seems the more real as his forces nearly damaged a Ukrainian nuclear reactor. … Continue reading
The West must learn fortitude.
The world is living through a perilous moment. Ukrainians are offering it a lesson in fortitude. Birdsong above Kyiv. Soon, the curfew on the city will lift. And millions can emerge from their bunkers. From our conversations over this weekend, … Continue reading