pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The last bit of this extract is a classic. www.peterlilley.co.uk/kemi-badenoc... 000
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Is Robert Jenrick fit and proper to become Prime Minister? www.wiltshire999s.co.uk/raf-fairford... 010
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026He was in his office on the phone to WWOR-TV saying this - which doesn't seem consistent with what he now seems to think happened: 000
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026But how are we to understand the dramatic difference in attitudes to legal compared to illegal immigration, illustrated here, if concerns about illegal immigration are always a matter of racism? And do you think we have a country where far in excess of 50% of the population are racists? 700
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Thatcher wasn't stupid or inclined to shooting her mouth off, like senior politicians increasingly appear to be, and understood the value of diplomacy. time.com/archive/6882... 110
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026If this is the contentious quote, I assume there's strong feeling that it is wrong to claim that a) Europe (& the UK) has a broadly Christian cultural heritage and that b) most Europeans (Brits) would prefer that that should be retained? Or am I missing something? 110
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026The Royal Navy should maybe get the Chinese to do the aircraft carrier screws and prop-shafts (which are just bits of metal it keeps screwing up) but perhaps not its spy cameras. 020
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 18/07/2026I'd just note I have little idea what (plausible & realistic) thing she thinks she wants to do...which may be why she might not want to be CX. Things like this, as someone who knows a bit about gilts and markets seem comically naive. 011
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Impressed by the "translate" option for that point. 001
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 16/07/2026And was this pompous take from back then unfair and need updating given the way things are panning out? 100
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Have we moved on from this from 9 months ago? 100
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 10/07/2026The context here is residential construction. Ask any 'housebuilding' ceo what's the land bank like? and they aren't going to be confused. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/65548e... 100
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 10/07/2026A billion dollars lost on remote control airplanes shot down? 000
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Interesting to note that it is claimed that in 2016 it had to be explained to DJT that use of nuclear weapons wasn't something you could just do. Most people interested in geo-politics quickly understand that point, and why. This guy, as POTUS, seemingly had to have it explained to him. 000
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 01/06/2026How to out-compete AI in the workplace [1]. [1] until it's installed in the robot army. 000
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Can you help us understand why it is that, if shareholders have enjoyed such a good investment as you suggest, the chart of the Dow Jones Airlines Index looks like this...? While the index for the whole Dow Jones Industrials index looks like this...? Aren't airlines just a crap investment? 000
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Andy Burnham is causing mayhem in the German and US government bond markets. 010
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Thanks. Tho Manc is significantly in hock to lenders - been integral. And not so much "bond markets" thru reasoning like below - not a national option. It's difficult to understand whether he was being Germanic, thought bond investors don't read the NS, or thinks they don't understand investment. 100
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 13/05/2026If you're a journalist commenting on Starmer, Reeves, Streeting & Burnham and you don't understand this graph, please STOP commenting about Gilt yields. There's no shame in asking, people will help you understand. 000
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Can you tell, by looking at the movements of these 3 government bond market yields over the last week, which colour of line represents the collapsing Gilt market and spiking yields in response to Starmer and Reeves being on the ropes? 120
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Anyone know the origin of the term "TRUMPED-UP" ? 000
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Bit of a balls-up in a way then... 000
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 29/04/2026So you've got 1) this (stagnationary turmoil) 2) many more things go boom than last time 3)"oh, go on then! you can have the enriched uranium and we'll give up terrorism financing and extorting shipping if you go away" ...and the markets seem to be going "zzzzzzzzzzzzzznumber3" 000
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 23/04/2026The political class presumably are no less gullible than the average 17 year old filling out a ucas form. I mean, this guy is a professor, so an expert to be respected. 000
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Nobody cares about them and nobody's talking about them......just the President. 000
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 08/04/2026This used to be a highly paid industry employing very bright graduates. 000
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Big Freedom Fries energy in the replies. 000
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Capability which could be traded to Iran, presumably. A threat which could perhaps go away if traded for support for Ukraine? 001
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Shocking for a guy with a reputation for default, bankruptcy and such an appetite he tends to lob in a hand grenade and say "you guys sort it out". Nobody could have foreseen this. 000
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Historians will marvel at the way the United States of America became Millwall Football Club. 000
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 13/03/2026What absolute morons. It was widely known Iran was likely to close the Strait of Hormuz if attacked in a significant way. The Pentagon knew that. Everyone did. For ages. Who exactly, just decided their hunch Iran wouldn't bother 'cos it would *cost them a lot of money* was a dead cert? 000
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Unlike '08 - an abrupt shortage of paper - the problem with this is Fed & Treasury can't just get together and print a ton of the thing that's gone missing - or as Bernanke preferred "drop dollars from helicopters" If successful attacks continue Treasury underwriting would be pushing on a string. 000
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 06/02/2026No point in not just drawing straight lines on a chart with something that trades on nothing but sentiment... Resistance around 69,000 & 64,500 Support around 55,000 (rising trend line) & 50,500 (flat) 010
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 05/02/2026wen bailout? wen strategic bitcoin reserve? where new baggies? 000
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 14/11/2025possibly illuminating calibre of raw 000
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Not trivial. Not a minor editing mishap. A deliberate, stupid, counter-productive and immensely damaging over-reach by journalists on one side of the ideological scrap within the BBC. 000
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 25/09/2025How many of the top brass will be wondering about this film? 010
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 10/09/2025"We will defend every inch of NATO territory" is so last year. 000
