Tag Archives: TS Eliot

The day of mourning dawns

Posted on September 19, 2022 by henry tapper

It is 6am on the day of the late Queen’s funeral. The bells of St Pauls ring above me as I think about the day ahead. Around parliament the tail of the queue wags towards Westminster’s St Stephen’s Hall, stragglers … Continue reading →

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Simon Carne – ‘I learned to write’

Posted on June 21, 2020 by henry tapper

    Yesterday, a few hours before I went into my current isolation, I got a mail from Simon Carne. I know I was not alone, this is what my friend Con Keating wrote me   Henry I thought this … Continue reading →

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Time to stop dissing Robo-Advice?

Posted on January 10, 2020 by henry tapper

In a brilliant article , which you may be quick enough to access via this link, the FT’s Damian Fantano explores what is going on with robo-advice – or what robo-advisers like to call “putting the AI into financial advice”. … Continue reading →

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The sordid side of nudge.

Posted on March 28, 2019 by henry tapper

Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind Cannot bear very much reality.   (TS Eliot – four quartets) There is a thin dividing line between nudge and dishonesty. Nudge  flirts with transparency but never consummates. We are nudging millions of … Continue reading →

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