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@lazytrader.bsky.social
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Ex retailer and commercial buyer. A bit of politics, music, film, general culture. Trying to take a deep breath before posting each time

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lazytrader.bsky.social @lazytrader.bsky.social · 11h
I wonder what dietary requirement is met by a full English?
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Kemi Badenoch wants to exempt the family home from inheritance tax. But that creates a perverse incentive for elderly people to *upsize* to save IHT. That could double the cost of the policy, and push £100bn+ from savings into housing. A 🧵 on bad tax cuts.
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lazytrader.bsky.social @lazytrader.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I've accidentally called myself a Traitor by mistake. Can you help? #celebritytraitors #richardegrant #withnailandi
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lazytrader.bsky.social @lazytrader.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
One of those names who seemed everywhere in about 1974 and then nowhere. I'll be very intrigued to read this
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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"I've declared myself a traitor by mistake!"
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lazytrader.bsky.social @lazytrader.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Fab Wish it was on Apple as I don't use Spotify
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lazytrader.bsky.social @lazytrader.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It never ends well when "Blackshirts" are on the streets
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lazytrader.bsky.social @lazytrader.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"Magna Carta. Did she die in vain"?
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lazytrader.bsky.social @lazytrader.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Or St Edmund, St Alban, St Cuthbert, to name just a few
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lazytrader.bsky.social @lazytrader.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I'd love to see the faces of The Electoral Commission leadership as they are openly laughed at by James Orr
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lazytrader.bsky.social @lazytrader.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gotcha!
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lazytrader.bsky.social @lazytrader.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
He chose a song by the Tragically Hip ( one of my all time favourite bands) that discusses the difficult relationship between the two countries. "Me debunk an American myth. Take my life in my hands". #nomusicnolife #tragicallyhip
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lazytrader.bsky.social @lazytrader.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This is such clever politics as well as showing what a switched on guy Carney is. In the week of the 10th anniversary of the final gig before Gord died and when the USA led by the orange maniac tried to impose itself on Canada, www.facebook.com/share/r/1BLV...
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lazytrader.bsky.social @lazytrader.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Unfortunately, Germany is just as bad at the moment. Constant delays.
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lazytrader.bsky.social @lazytrader.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
A depressingly limited list for film students. Nothing outside of the US & UK
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lazytrader.bsky.social @lazytrader.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I'd say, The Godfather, Citizen Caine (though it's 41, so could be Casablanca) & Taxi Driver given the dates
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lazytrader.bsky.social @lazytrader.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
And Winston Churchill! Flunked his Sandhurst entrance exam twice
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lazytrader.bsky.social @lazytrader.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
If only someone had paid for protection Farage could have attended. Oh, wait a minute.
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lazytrader.bsky.social @lazytrader.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
So a chicken won the by-election in the end
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lazytrader.bsky.social @lazytrader.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
He's a cheeky chappy
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lazytrader.bsky.social @lazytrader.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Long-term sickness may be smaller problem for UK than thought, says ONS - www.ft.com/content/1690... via @FT. Well, well, well. So the moral panic over sickness benefit claims may well be overstated due to the poor response rates to the ONS Lab Force Survey. They were warned.
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Long-term sickness may be smaller problem for UK than thought, says ONS
Statistics agency’s new labour market survey shows lower levels of economic inactivity due to ill health
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lazytrader.bsky.social @lazytrader.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Waveney Valley was a haven for hippies & alternative lifestyles from the 70's onwards. Norwich & Cambridge the only University towns
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lazytrader.bsky.social @lazytrader.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I'd also add that this part of the world hadn't really seen many "foreigners" migrating there since the Huguenots
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lazytrader.bsky.social @lazytrader.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
There is a very good Man Alive programme on Haverhill from 1968 which reads like a vision of the future. I grew up as part of that "London Overspill" exodus to Haverhill. It was an angry town by the 70's. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...
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lazytrader.bsky.social @lazytrader.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I'd put it down to the collapse of traditional industries like fishing in the coastal regions plus the influx of people going to work in the light industries of the region from 60's onwards finding those jobs disappearing from 70's onwards CF Thetford, Haverhill
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lazytrader.bsky.social @lazytrader.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Big fan of your work, but I'm guessing you might have wanted to add clarification in hindsight.
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lazytrader.bsky.social @lazytrader.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Thanks Lewis. I've just read that and I think you & Christina largely agree that better mitigation for the trade offs ( especially for less advantaged social groups) was a major failure of our approach in the UK & elsewhere. I guess the problem was that the TNA comment was a bit too off the cuff.
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lazytrader.bsky.social @lazytrader.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
There's a very good rebuttal of your argument by Christina Pagel, Lewis open.substack.com/pub/christin...
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We are learning the wrong lesson from Covid school closures
A response to yesterday's News Agents podcast...
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lazytrader.bsky.social @lazytrader.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Friends in the UK are astounded when I tell them how bad DB is at the moment. 15 years of austerity strikes again
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lazytrader.bsky.social @lazytrader.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Have you seen Putney News? An excellent daily online newspaper which focuses on local government putney.news?utm_source=P...
putney.news
Putney.news | Independent Local News for Putney & Southwest London
Daily local news for Putney, Roehampton, Southfields and Wandsworth. Council investigations, transport updates, events, crime and community stories. Free email newsletter.
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lazytrader.bsky.social @lazytrader.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The live feed appears to have died of shame
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lazytrader.bsky.social @lazytrader.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
"And now, I'll take the first question and it's from GB News"
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lazytrader.bsky.social @lazytrader.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Apparently, the problem is too much waste. Not an ageing population, not an underfunded health service, not 14 years of botched Tory reforms.
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lazytrader.bsky.social @lazytrader.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
And now he is promoting Palantir as the solution!
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lazytrader.bsky.social @lazytrader.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Why are Sky carrying a speech by Robert Jenrick on social care live at the moment? He is criticising a policy that has not been announced with the usual pack of lies.
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lazytrader.bsky.social @lazytrader.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Not so much the War of Jenkins Ear as The War of Badenoch's Arsehole
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Great @bretdevereaux.bsky.social Odyssey review-essay. foreignpolicy.com/2026/07/23/o...
foreignpolicy.com
Odysseus at the End of Civilization
Nolan’s film confronts the betrayal of the West’s own values.
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lazytrader.bsky.social @lazytrader.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
From Healey to Healey
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lazytrader.bsky.social @lazytrader.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
John Healey Chancellor. Laughing my head off at the assembled media who were 100% WRONG. Would they like to apologise to the country? They know nothing
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lazytrader.bsky.social @lazytrader.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Oh no, Coldplay with a child choir. Glee Club
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lazytrader.bsky.social @lazytrader.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
3. He also gives the impression of a man who does know what he wants. If the media paid a bit more attention & spent less time on pointless speculation, trying to find division & contradiction they might learn something
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lazytrader.bsky.social @lazytrader.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
2. Complete nonsense. He's made the 3 key directions of travel clear: devolution, a focus on improving the prospects for those struggling with the cost of living & economic resilience. You don't get much more detail in a GE manifesto. Quite sensibly taking the time to flesh out the details private
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lazytrader.bsky.social @lazytrader.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
1. Fascinating listening to political commentators about the prospective Burnham Govt. With a few honourable exceptions, they are sounding so aggrieved that they haven't been consulted about policy and who gets what. Bleating on how nobody has any idea what they will be.
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lazytrader.bsky.social @lazytrader.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Very detailed analysis. I wonder if keeping an element of stamp duty on higher value properties might be a way of smoothing the transition
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lazytrader.bsky.social @lazytrader.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
John Swinney to join Devo
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lazytrader.bsky.social @lazytrader.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Perhaps he'd like to call a by-election to prove his innocence!
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lazytrader.bsky.social @lazytrader.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Well, let's hope Count Binface stands in Clacton. Him beating Farage ( and Farago having to debate him) would be priceless
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lazytrader.bsky.social @lazytrader.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Suggestion on GB News ( I only turned it on to gloat, but interestingly they seem to have turned on him) that it would reset the 12 month donations rule, so he can claim it's no longer relevant. Very dodgy argument and unlikely to work
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lazytrader.bsky.social @lazytrader.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Source: YouGov Daily Survey
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lazytrader.bsky.social @lazytrader.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
While the media wazz on about sticking to the manifesto as some sort of morality test for Andy Burnham, the public are much more sensible & realistic.
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