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William Wright

@williamw1.bsky.social
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Founder of think tank New Financial. Bigger & better capital markets in Europe. ‘Top City wonk’ - CityAM. Expert on the decline of ties - Daily Mail

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 23h
Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."
Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.
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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read
A printed poem which reads:

I hav for breakfast Weetabix

I hav for lunch some meat

I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat

Peter Hazel, 5
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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 12h
Does this mean the UK stock market has overtaken the French stock market again? * asking on behalf of the three other people who will get this
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Will 🇺🇦 Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
He's got nine days to pull it off
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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Big news in EU finance policy wonk world that Paulina Dejmek Hack has been appointed as the new Director-General in the Directorate General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (DG FISMA). Disappointed not to see a live blog on the BBC. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Fascinating to see that Facebook has made it *more* complicated to block accounts. Not content with filling up my feed with crap, it has switched from a one click block to a six click block. I wonder why?
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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Whenever I read about 24 hour trading I am reminded of the quote from Mike Platt about hiring traders who get up early on a Sunday morning to pick off drunk poker players in the US overnight
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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If someone ‘moves to seize’ something ‘within months’ are they really ‘seizing’ it at all? www.ft.com/content/2b6d...
ft.com
UniCredit’s Andrea Orcel moves to seize control of Commerzbank within months
Italian executive aims to replace 10 board members and oust CEO as soon as January, say people familiar with plans
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Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The first thing I will do when I am appointed global dictator is mandate that PDF/report pages have to match, ie if the report page says it's page 28 it HAS TO BE on page 28 of the bloody PDF.
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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
a) This made me laugh toys.jamesomalley.co.uk/mpchain/
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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You might have thought that the RAC and BBC had heard of inflation: previous peak for diesel would be about 235p a litre in today’s money www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
UK diesel price hits all-time high, the RAC says
The US-Israel war with Iran has caused fuel prices to soar due to disruption of global oil supplies.
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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
London dodged a bullet with Shein
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Simon Jeffrey @simonjeffrey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Such a huge red flag for wrong'uns. Traffic police and punishing offences should be a much higher priority. Cars with ghost plates and drivers with no-license/insurance on motorways are an important enabler of serious criminal enterprise using cars and motorways.
bbc.co.uk
Thousands of illegal ghost plates on cars revealed by new cameras
Illegal registration plates are far too easy to get hold of and are putting the public at risk, BBC is told.
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Ryan @ryanwright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is how I remember the order of Henry VIII’s wives.
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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Cader Idris is one of my favourite places
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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A £1m fine is going to really sting for a firm that has only made £512m in post tax profits on just over £2bn in revenues since this poor man was killed www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Developer fined £1m after man killed by falling window
Mick Ferris was crushed when the 130kg window fell from The Corniche building in Vauxhall.
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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Quite the thread:
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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Piracy 101:
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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Like many people I was shouting at the TV during the missing vowels round of Only Connect that UBS isn’t an abbreviation of ‘Union Bank of Switzerland’. It’s just ‘UBS’.
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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Too many people on here this evening showing off how young they are
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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
On the BBC News Katya Adler has just described Germany, where the far right AFD keep winning elections, as entering 'uncharted political territory'. Hmmm. Where Germany is concerned I think that territory is pretty well charted.
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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Sounds like me, age 8 or 9, designing a Lego space station. "AND it's gonna have..."
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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Just waiting to hear what Guy Hands thinks and then my weekend will be made
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans
Piddington residents voted over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby
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Paul J Davies @pauljdavies.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
There are two certainties in life: death, and taxes getting the blame when rich people leave the UK. Rokos quitting Britain for Greece sparked more squeals, but data show we should take the billionaire exodus with a huge dose of salt. via @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
bloomberg.com
No, Tax Isn't Driving UK Billionaires to Athens
There are two certainties in life: death, and taxes getting the blame whenever rich people leave the UK. Billionaire hedge fund manager Chris Rokos departing for Greece, where he’ll pay just €100,000 ...
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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I wonder if this story involves private equi….
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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
When I am Prime Minster I will regulate the price of phone charging cables, particularly at airports.
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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Double whammy on the train today: politely asked a guy in his twenties to put some headphones on, and then politely asked him to stop filming me with his pervert glasses while he (not so politely) argued with me. But he did turn his phone off.
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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is very good:
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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Not my main concern, but don’t the guys playing dressing up in black shorts have jobs?
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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Many congratulations to the Pakistan under 19 cricket team who absolutely thumped England U19 today after the vile racist demonstration outside their hotel last night www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/s...
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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The cabinet and all of their advisers could do worse than have a movie night and watch ‘War Game’, the Storyville documentary on war gaming a repeat of the insurrection on 6 January 2021 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
bbc.co.uk
Storyville - War Game
A Storyville documentary that sweeps viewers into an elaborate simulation which dramatically escalates the threat posed in the USA by the Capitol attack on 6 January 2021.
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Want to feel old? This is what The Human League look like these days.
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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Kevin Pietersen getting involved in coaching the England cricket team... www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...
A photo of the worst person you know...
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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
It’s always the pollsters you least expect
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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Reform has billionaires falling over themselves to give the party millions of pounds ... and they can't resist grifting for another five or 10 grand?
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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It would be fascinating to add pension contributions and healthcare costs to this chart to provide a more accurate comparison.
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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Is he joining the Tony Blair Institute? www.politicshome.com/news/article...
politicshome.com
Keir Starmer Standing Down As MP To Work In International Affairs
Keir Starmer is standing down as Labour MP for Holborn and St Pancras, after having resigned as prime minister in June.
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Danny Fearns @dannyfearns.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Good morning Bluesky ☀️ This is one of the last coal powered sheep. The vast majority of UK sheep are now all electric ⚡️
Sheep grazing in fields, the one in the foreground with white smoke apparently coming out of its bottom
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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Happy Burning of the White House Day to those who celebrate (24 August 1814) www.history.com/this-day-in-...
history.com
British troops set fire to the White House | August 24, 1814 | HISTORY
On August 24, 1814, during the War of 1812 between the United States and England, British troops enter Washington, D....
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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
My wife’s new favourite village
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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I am currently considering relocating my family and company to Austria
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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
What sort of moron forgets to remove the 8” pocket saw from the backpack they use for hiking before trying to take it through security at Gatwick…?
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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Somebody at the French athletics federation is going to be out of a job this week
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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
A great way to cleanse a pretty grim week: took my boys to watch their cricket coach Jonny playing for England Mixed Disability against India at Arundel. Such a beautiful ground, great cricket and a great win www.ecb.co.uk/news/4560092....
ecb.co.uk
Team effort puts England ahead at Arundel
England Men's Mixed Disability side win at Arundel to go 3-2 up in Vitality IT20 Mixed Disability series.
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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I’m sorry but it should be illegal for policymakers/regulators to publish PDFs without a publication date on them.
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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This is marvellous news: the more people who know that their cars / motorbikes can be seized for anti-social driving the better www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Police seize limited edition £3.7m Ferrari in supercar crackdown
Ninety vehicles worth more than £8m were seized in a weekend operation in central London.
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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Dobby dies? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Harry Potter fans force power link diversion to avoid Dobby's grave
Potter fans complained after a project manager suggested cables would go under the grave in a BBC interview.
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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
This seems like a good idea:
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