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Chris F Jones

@chrisfjones.uk
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Sometime SIPP & due diligence nerd (when I'm not out escaping in live music 🎸🎶)

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Martin Saxby @thesaxbys.org · 15/04/2025
Amazing research findings! #CofE #BibleSociety #churchgrowth
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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
What can airplane cockpits tell us about the dangers of designing for the ‘average’ person? 🧵
F-84 jet
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Chris F Jones @chrisfjones.uk · 05/04/2025
“But too often the platforms' first action on the death of a client is to shut the adviser out of the loop, just when we are often needed the most.” Some great reflections and comments from @philbillingham.bsky.social www.financialplanningtoday.co.uk/news/phil-bi...
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Phil Billingham: Time for a wake-up call - for me
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 02/04/2025
“It takes a certain madness to put your name forward for the top job in this busted organisation, and anyone who wants it probably shouldn’t get it.” @andrewgraystone.bsky.social on the search for a new archbishop of Canterbury. www.prospectmagazine...
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Who wants to be archbishop of Canterbury?
Beset by safeguarding scandals and a fundamental split on LGBT+ rights, the Church of England is struggling to find a new leader
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Thomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account: Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social
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Gary Rawnsley @garydrawnsley.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Saw @aiannucci.bsky.social’s glorious Dr Strangelove tonight thanks to NT Live. Brilliant & innovative staging & a terrific cast led by Steve Coogan. After #Signalgate, Putin, Trump - rather too close to reality at times!
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Outstanding work
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Michael Liebreich @mliebreich.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
With the US now voting with Russia, Belarus and N Korea at the UN, this is a good time to read or re-read the 1994 Budapest Memorandum. Russia, UK *and US* made clear commitments to Ukraine in exchange for giving up its nuclear weapons. Six bullet points, read them. treaties.un.org/doc/Publicat...
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JohnG @butleighjohn.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Crikey, Frances, that’s grim. open.substack.com/pub/coppolac... But as ever, very definitely worth reading. @francescoppola.bsky.social
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A gruesome hostage exchange
Why are Hamas and Israel trading the dead for the living?
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Cara Thompson @cararthompson.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
If the suspense is too much, you can find the video and a short blurb about my part in it in the description here: youtu.be/ccnIUL5Z3Y4
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Footprints underground - Hannah Featherstone
YouTube video by Hannah Featherstone
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Sandy Martin @sandyofipswich.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
We’ve lost all hope’: Rohingya trapped as Bangladesh closes Myanmar border - UK has a moral duty to support both Rohingya and Bangladesh- we’ve left the responsibility for helping some of the most oppressed people to one of the poorest nations t.co/EhTDk6hv31
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/22/rohingya-refugees-bangladesh-border-myanmar-human-rights?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
This is a very well reasoned and worded complaint. Predictably, the response makes no attempt to address what it says
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Chris F Jones @chrisfjones.uk · 23/01/2025
This was great! Really fascinating explanation of how our understanding of the universe has grown over the last century. Looking forward to part 2 - thanks @jimalkhalili.bsky.social !
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Liz Truss threatens to sue Keir Starmer unless he "ceases and desists" from alleging she crashed the economy. In other news, here's Liz Truss making the exact same allegation against Gordon Brown
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The Church Mouse @thechurchmouse.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Denmark set to work building a defensive wall on the Greenland coast
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Chris F Jones @chrisfjones.uk · 06/01/2025
Great piece by @philbillingham.bsky.social : service to clients - it’s not just about an annual review! citywire.com/new-model-ad...
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Billingham: Measuring value by one meeting a year is bonkers
Phil Billingham, director at Perceptive Planning, says assuming that one client meeting a year delivers value for money is flawed thinking.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
NEW How the lore of New Year defeated the law of New Year How the English state gave up on insisting the new year started on 25 March By me Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/how-the-lo... Personal blog: davidallengreen.com/2025/01/how-...
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How the lore of New Year defeated the law of New Year
How the English state gave up on insisting the new year started on 25 March
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Rob Hughes @huzee.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
2025 = (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9)² and 2025 = 1³ + 2³ + 3³ + 4³ + 5³ + 6³ + 7³ + 8³ + 9³ How beautiful
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Barbara Rich @barbararich.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
“Women of a certain age”, state pensions, Suffragette costumes, and disappointment. My blog in the WASPI campaign and its supporters’ expectations of compensation, now disappointed by the government open.substack.com/pub/bleakhou...
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Full Restitution, Empty Promises
The WASPI campaign and increases in women’s state pension age
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Takes a few seconds to vote. No need to tick boxes or add emails
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Chris F Jones @chrisfjones.uk · 31/12/2024
Great analysis of the story of the Magi, with helpful historical context
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Chris F Jones @chrisfjones.uk · 20/12/2024
Just discovered Guy Garvey’s From The Vaults on Sky Arts - excellent! Great one for the much-missed Mike Morrison music hour… #pensiontechs
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Chris F Jones @chrisfjones.uk · 13/12/2024
At last! Great to see the FCA thinking openly about allowing stochastic projections for pension clients. We’ve until 27/2 to make our views known. www.fca.org.uk/publications...
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DP24/3: Pensions: Adapting our requirements for a changing market
We want your feedback on whether and what further changes might be needed to certain aspects of our pensions regulatory framework.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
This is an extraordinary document.
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Chris F Jones @chrisfjones.uk · 13/12/2024
Despite Consumer Duty, financial providers continue to make remarkably foolish decisions. Here's a sad example from @philbillingham.bsky.social www.financialplanningtoday.co.uk/news/phil-bi...
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Phil Billingham: Why are providers so bad at death?
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Chris F Jones @chrisfjones.uk · 30/11/2024
Great episode - thought-provoking, but strong lines of hope🙏
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Chris F Jones @chrisfjones.uk · 29/11/2024
Another example of the PO holding scheme trustees *personally liable* for losses to members, finding that “scheme funds had been invested in breach of trustee investment duties and in furtherance of a pension liberation arrangement”. #PensionLiberation www.professionalpensions.com/news/4383910...
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TPO orders trustees to repay more than £5m to members of three schemes
The Pensions Ombudsman (TPO) has ordered the trustees of three pension schemes to repay £5.2m after they were found to have been facilitating pension liberation.
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Chris F Jones @chrisfjones.uk · 27/11/2024
This is long overdue…
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Damian Stancombe @eudaimoniaman.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Sum up Retirement perfectly...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
“Anyone? Anyone?”
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Chris F Jones @chrisfjones.uk · 26/11/2024
Pension scam: Good to see the individual behind the corporate trustee being held liable - hope they're successful in recovering some of the c£10m lost. www.lexology.com/library/deta...
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Ombudsman awards £10m against trustee director in groundbreaking ruling
The Pensions Ombudsman has determined that a corporate trustee breached its duties in multiple ways. He has ordered a former director, Mr Shroff, to…
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33 Bedford Row @33bedfordrow.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The #detention of Dil Mohammed, a prominent spokesperson of the ‘No Mans Land’ Rohingya community, has been raised before the #UN WGAD. Haydee Dijkstal is instructed as counsel, & submitted a complaint raising serious #fairtrial/#dueprocess violations.⬇️ thediplomat.com/2024/11/inte...
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International Spotlight on Bangladesh as Rohingya Leader’s Case Heads to the UN
The case of Dil Mohammed, a prominent Rohingya spokesperson currently detained by Bangladeshi authorities, will be examined by the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.
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Michael Liebreich @mliebreich.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Good piece from @natbullard.bsky.social on why solar forecasts have been so bad, courtesy of #ExponentialView www.exponentialview.co/p/the-foreca...
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📈 Why everyone missed solar’s exponential growth
The forecasters’ gap
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Chris F Jones @chrisfjones.uk · 24/10/2024
Great to post real blue sky on @bsky.app - guess it would be looking stormy on Xitter... #IpswichWaterfront @ipswichtown.bsky.social
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Chris F Jones @chrisfjones.uk · 16/11/2023
Great post from @francescoppola.bsky.social
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Chris F Jones @chrisfjones.uk · 16/11/2023
Another great piece from Robin Ellison - highly recommended - enjoy! #Regulation #TPR
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Robin Ellison: VFM audit on TPR needed before general levy consultation completes
PP’s regular columnist says the regulatory budget needs halving not doubling
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Stephen Kinsella @stephenkinsella.bsky.social · 15/10/2023
This piece by Adam Tooze trying to answer the question from a historical perspective of why an evacuation of 1m Palestinians can be ordered by Israel is must-read. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
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Chartbook | Adam Tooze | Substack
A newsletter on economics, geopolitics and history from Adam Tooze. More substantial than the twitter feed. More freewheeling than what you might read from me in FT, Foreign Policy, New Statesman. Cli...
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