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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 7h

Sets reminder to block Boles on Thursdays and Fridays

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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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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 20h

I continue to believe that Steve Smith and David Warner should have been banned from playing for Australia for life but I’m probably just a whinging Pom.

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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 20h

As Australia play their first test series in South Africa since the cheating scandal in 2018, this is a fantastic article on how the TV cameras discovered ‘sandpapergate’ www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...

bbc.co.uk

Sandpapergate: South Africa broadcaster on the 'fluke' which rumbled Australia

How a team of South Africa camera operators discovered Australia's sandpapergate scandal as it happened.

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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

For no particular reason, a reminder that wealth accumulation and wealth creation are not the same thing.

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Garvan Walshe @garvanwalshe.org · 07/10/2026

A pox on notaries of europe. Notaries have outlived their usefulness and should be abolished. Of course they object to this modest reform. They hold back innovation and trouser money like eighteenth century tax farmers.

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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It gets really good on the third rewatch

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Jon Henley @jonhenley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Whatever else they may be, good to see French students are still world-class slogan writers ... (translation in alt text if needed)

French student protest placard reading : "Macron: f*ck your teacher, not ours" ... Brigitte was famously once Macron's drama teacher

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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

An even more fun job: trying to work how much of the promised savings that were needed to ‘pay’ for any particular policy were ever achieved after that policy was introduced

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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It must be a fun job trying to find increasingly obscure potential savings on public spending www.ft.com/content/b830...

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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Net net probably good: it would go a long way to solving the pensions crisis in Europe.

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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I was six if that counts. We had a black rabbit called Bright Eyes and was traumatised for months / years.

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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Any thoughts on a decent wicket keeper?!

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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Not a bad England cricket team considering they're apparently not English. Not sure who would be be wicketkeeper, though. Andrew Strauss Graham Hick Robin Smith Allan Lamb Kevin Pietersen Ben Stokes Jofra Archer Philip de Freitas Devon Malcolm Gladstone Small Monty Panesar

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The sweetest moment in every capital markets banker's career is the moment he gets to explain to a stroppy investor thatn if they don't buy it somebody else will.

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Check the date

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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

'My Mummy & Daddy earn money writing about the future of equity market structure': I talk a lot with my boys about my work at New Financial but youngest really excelled himself with his homework yesterday (he had a series of words with 'ear' in them and had to write a sentence on each)

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Emily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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 · 01/10/2026

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

Sean Berrigan, who stepped down today after 40 years at the Commission (the last six running DG FISMA) did a near impossible job really well and will be missed. Paulina (who has also worked at DG FISMA before) is also great ... but her job is still nearly impossible ...

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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There had been lots of Brussels bubble speculation that it might be Mario Nava, currently DG at DG EMPL (Directorate Generale for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion): he used to work at DG FISMA but he is apparently not that interested in finance

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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

It used to be easy to block: 'right click on account, scroll down to block'. The account is blocked & the post disappears. Now it's: 'right click on account, click on three dots, scroll down to block, click confirm, wait a few seconds, click close'. The account is blocked but the post is still there

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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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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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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Additional Road Traffic Offences Bill 2027 can be very short: a three month notice period before it comes into force and then ‘if your vehicle has cloned or ghost plates your vehicle is impounded until a large fine is paid and the driver loses 9 points on their licence’

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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

If there is a finer view in the country than looking north from the top of Cader, I would love to know

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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

One of the positives of U.K. pensions having a lower allocation to private markets than their peers…

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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sadly this didn’t happen on the high seas bsky.app/profile/robi...

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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It’s an act of illegal violence, committed for private ends, by a passenger on a private vessel, on the high seas, directed at another vessel - so it fits the definition in Art 101 of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea used in English law under the Merchant Shipping & Maritime Security Act 1997

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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If you included secondary issuance / buybacks it would work as a cash comparison but usually it is presented as ‘more equity being taken private than coming to the market’ which is unfair as that gives take privates a 4x headstart

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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

100% this. Using IPO value vs take private value distorts the debate and arguably helps fuel the take privates

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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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