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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 29/09/2026

Opus 5.5 AI is astonishing. Look at the 3D racing game it helped me build. Then consider that it's running on a 2014-vintage Nvidia GT 720 graphics card with just 1GB of VRAM... [Sorry for intermittent sound glitches in video. Something weird is going on with my capture app.]

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 29/09/2026

Burnham's weak sauce stance on Brexit today was enough to send the right wing media into a rabid frenzy, but far too non-committal to move the needle for Rejoin enthusiasts. Takes a special kind of genius to triangulate that badly. Obviously a trait he inherited from Starmer.

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 14/09/2026

So much for the US government stepping in to regulate AI. Trump has turned AI supremacy into a penis-measuring contest. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 22/08/2026

The madlibs Harry and Meghan headline generator at the Express has hit peak stupidity. Has it burnt out on the dozens and dozens of hit pieces the gutter rag published over the last 24H?

Express headline:

I’m a dog behaviourist - what Harry and Meghan must do before family return to UK

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 14/08/2026

Did anyone else just jump out of their skin when their phone suddenly blasted an alert? All because of the dangers of wildfires. Wonder how many people just crashed their cars as a result of being distracted?

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 12/08/2026

Considering it's just a pinhole in one bit of cardboard projecting onto another bit of cardboard, I am pretty happy how this turned out. (There's no do-over if I limit myself to the UK, since there won't be another totalish eclipse until the 2080s.)

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 30/07/2026

What's the difference between my tiny Stocks and Shares ISA portfolio, and a multi billion dollar hedge fund run by a 24-year old whizz kid? I bought my shares using actual money not borrowed margin, so I didn't have to dump everything at the very bottom yesterday. Up 21% today.

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 21/07/2026

Never let anyone tell you that stock investing isn't lucrative.

Screenshot of $0.04 dividend payment from Micron

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 17/07/2026

Could one reason for the declining birth rate in the UK be the huge cost of raising a child, which seems to be from £200,000 to £300,000 by age 18? That's a vast chunk of change to find at a time of constrained earnings and huge cost of living pressures. (AI data below.)

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 14/07/2026

Beware of scam ads that send you to fake websites designed to trick you. The scam ads can be embedded in normal apps or websites. They look superficially innocuous, but hijack your click and send you to the scam site. Example: this fake Apple warning. Probably wants to install a virus.

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 09/07/2026

Final Starmer u-turn coming? Go out as he came in, by disappointing people. And why not. It's not as if he can polish the turd of the last two years with days to go until his departure. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 07/07/2026

Storm in a teacup, or the real deal? Will we finally be rid of the scourge of Farage?

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 03/07/2026

Unfortunately... www.nhs.uk/medicines/me...

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 03/07/2026

Claude Fable is amazing. The summary below is the result of a long session it spent deep diving into some code for me. Opus 4.8 and ChatGPT-5.5 had failed to spot any of the residual problems. Fable went through them like a chainsaw through butter.

Where things stand
Across five sessions: 23 real bugs fixed, spanning silent data loss, broken crypto round-trips, CRDT resurrection, dead feature wiring, security weaknesses, timer leaks, and now statistically-wrong estimators — with the suite grown 37 → 74 tests, all green, and a 298-line audit trail. The changeset is 54 modified files + 3 new. Coverage-wise, every core file, abstraction, subsystem, and every module over ~200 lines has now been line-read; the ~50 small remaining modules have passed all pattern scans (equality, sort comparators, division guards, timer leaks, unbounded growth) but haven't each had a dedicated line-read — that's the honest residual, catalogued in the notes if you want a final completionist pass.

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 03/07/2026

Compounding is magical! £1,000 invested in the MSCI World Index when it was created 56 years ago would be worth £266,000 today. After inflation, £1,000 in 1969 is £14,948 today. So your return above inflation would still be over £250,000. Invest while you're young. Future you will thank you.

Image showing that the MSCI World Index had a compound annual growth rate of 10.49% a year over the last 56 years.

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 28/06/2026

Did anyone else have a Panini sticker album as a kid?

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 26/06/2026

Alf Dubbs is half right. Mahmood deserves to be in a different party, not in a different cabinet role. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 25/06/2026

Starmer goes out with a dog whistle on immigration. A premiership bookended by "islands of strangers", and "migration has long been a cause for concern" has been an absolute gift to Reform. Good riddance. Let's hope Burnham's got his head screwed on right. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 23/06/2026

If you still think Brexit is a good idea...

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 21/06/2026

My best recent performing stock is an Austrian company I rarely see being discussed on social media. This isn't meant as financial advice btw. I genuinely find it interesting that there's immense chatter around other stocks, and yet some rockets go almost completely overlooked.

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 21/06/2026

The special relationship continues to pay dividends for Starmer. It's so lucky he granted Trump an unprecedented second state visit.

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 10/06/2026

Claude Fable 5 is extraordinary. The AI coded this Nebula Strike space shoot-em-up in a single pass. Multiple distinct waves and enemy types, a swathe of different weapons, challenge stages, boss fights, and much more. Try it for yourself at the link below... aitest.neocities.org/nebula-strike

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 03/06/2026

Imagine accidentally buying Neste stock instead of Nestle a year ago, then losing track of it. What a great surprise that would be!

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 02/06/2026

This is the most extraordinary one day move I've seen a non-penny stock make in the 3 months I've been investing. It's a combination of a new partnership with GlobalFoundries, and a potential near future US stock listing.

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 29/05/2026

This is not just theory. I've experienced the heat. (I realise now that I'd have done even better just buying the two ETFs I mentioned, but I wanted to try my hand at picking individual AI and space sector stocks as well. Still, I'll never complain about 44% returns!)

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 25/05/2026

Spent a productive couple of days rearranging my Stocks and Shares ISA portfolio into thematic pies in Trading 212. Researched each of the sectors, moved relevant stocks I already owned into the right pies, and decided which other stocks to hold in them. Rebalancing's primed for tomorrow.

Screenshot of various holding pies in Trading 212.

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 15/05/2026

It's one of those days where there's not a lot of green to be found. Hope your own portfolio is faring better!

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 14/05/2026

Hamish de Bretton-Gordon has written the most ignorant paragraph I've seen from any Telegraph writer this year. Where does the paper find these oxygen thieves? In reality an estimated 100,000 people died of the effects of radiation after the two bombs were dropped. archive.ph/H376D

From the Telegraph article:

Against dispersed, dug-in Ukrainian troops (as opposed to urban areas crammed with civilians) it would take an awful lot of nukes to make a serious difference. Assuming the use of air bursts to cause maximum destruction and leave the battlefield passable for the Russians, radiological consequences would be minimal. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were hit by tactical-range air bursts, remained inhabited and are thriving cities today, after all.

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 11/05/2026

ATX (AXTI) is an extraordinary stock. Up over 8000% this year. That's eighty times! Up close to 100% in the last month. Every time you think it can't go higher, it manages to. (Purely FYI. Not investment advice. All things MUST end eventually. Don't risk money you can't afford to lose. etc.)

Graph of AXTI stock price showing a rise of 8,122.88% in the last year.

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 11/05/2026

Starmer has finally come to the same realisation I have been warning about for years: if a Labour government lets in Reform at the next election, that will be deemed an unforgivable error. Essentially the end of the Labour party if it happens. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Guardian Live Politics blog entry:

Starmer says Labour will never be forgiven if it gets this wrong.

He is implicitly talking about the prospect of Reform UK taking power, although he does not say that out loud.

UPDATE: Starmer said:

I take responsibility for not walking away, not plunging our country into chaos, as the Tories did time and again, chaos that did lasting damage to this country.

A Labour government would never be forgiven for inflicting that on our country again.

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 09/05/2026

If you've not been paying attention today, Labour's losses have mounted as more council results came in. They're now down by close to 1,500 seats, very substantially worse than the picture last night when many councils still had to declare.

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 09/05/2026

Catherine West, who just declared she will challenge Starmer for the leadership if he's not ousted by next week, was once fired by Corbyn for trying to keep the UK in the single market. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-poli...

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 09/05/2026

I wrote this article in 2023, a year before the last general election. It's even more relevant now. medium.com/@edwinhaywar...

Britain is at a crossroads. The next general election may determine the fate of the country for decades to come. But Labour face a daunting challenge. They must undo the damage caused by the Tories and Brexit, while facing a hostile media and a volatile electorate. In this piece, I argue that Labour need to adopt a new approach to Brexit, one that does not rule out closer ties with the EU or even rejoining. I also explain the need to introduce PR as the only way to ensure long-term stability and progressive change. Without adopting these twin steps, Labour are at real risk of being a one-term wonder.

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 06/05/2026

That pesky EU, forcing farmers not to poison their crops... Where's the commonsensical British freedom to give consumers as much cancer as they like? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Guardian headline:

EU trade deal could force UK to restrict use of weedkiller linked to cancer
Glyphosate is currently sprayed on cereal and pulse crops to dessicate them and make them easier to harvest

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 28/04/2026

Bloodbath in the stock market if you're heavily into AI, photonics etc. Oh well. Ride that rollercoaster.

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 26/04/2026

If you're too young to have witnessed the .com bust as an adult/at all, try to track down a copy of this book. It gives a real flavour of the irrational exuberance which took hold back then. (Of course the bulls were right long term. But there were a lot of ups and downs between then and now.)

Cover art for F'd Companies by Philip J Kaplan

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 24/04/2026

I and many others warned against making big concessions to the USA to get a hasty trade deal. It has come back to bite Starmer on the proverbial. Trump's more slippery than a bag of eels, so nothing was actually gained from the concessions Britain made. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Guardian headline:

Trump says he will ‘probably put a big tariff on the UK’ if it doesn’t drop digital services tax

US president accuses UK of thinking it can ‘make an easy buck’ from US tech companies, weeks after warning that UK–US trade deal can be changed

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 23/04/2026

4 brilliant fun and thoroughly uplifting films about problem-solving... Science Fiction: The Martian Project Hail Mary (now in cinemas) Science Fact: Hidden Figures Apollo 13 Have you seen them all?

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 22/04/2026

This screengrabbed exchange illustrates perfectly why it is disastrous to let the politics of envy chase away very high earners in the UK through poor policy decisions. The wider cost to Britain of losing each one of them is enormous when considered over the longer term.

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 22/04/2026

My best ever single day so far for my small Stocks and Shares ISA pot. Things could so easily change when the US markets open, and not necessarily in the right direction. (There are only very thin price movements at the moment.) But I'll savour the sea of green while it lasts.

Screenshot of asset allocation across SOI, IQE, AAOI, TSEN, LPK, CIEN etc. with daily price movements.

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 21/04/2026

No consequences for murdering thousands of Lebanese civilians, but destroy a statue of Jesus and do jail time. What a messed-up world! www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 19/04/2026

Imagine the scene. It's 21 April 2025. On a whim you decide to take a chance on an unknown stock, AXTI. The company's only worth $66 million yet some instinct drives you to invest $14,625 in it. Today, you open your trading app and see your AXTI holding made you a millionaire.

Graph of AXTI stock, showing a 6,837.82% increase in price over the last year.

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 17/04/2026

As a special treat today, I am going to watch a re-release of 'Akira' on an IMAX screen. (I already own it in various formats, but I've never been able to see it at the cinema.)

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 13/04/2026

Trump's latest Truth Social insanity. Yes, he really did post it. Proof at link below. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 07/04/2026

Starmer found time to tweet about Kanye West. But he has stayed silent about Trump's threat to eradicate Iranian civilisation. No amount of electoral triangulation makes silence acceptable.

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 07/04/2026

Apparently, Trump is now too extreme even for Farage. Far too late!

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 06/04/2026

A poignant moment: the Artemis crew proposed naming an unnamed crater on the light/dark boundary 'Carroll' to commemorate Reid Wiseman's late wife. The crew then shared a weightless hug in the middle of the cabin, and you could see them wiping tears away. (Wobbly photo. Sorry.)

Artemis crew embrace floating in the middle of the cabin

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