MattBrookes
@MattBrookes3
I seem to have gone unintentionally viral recently so I’ve dropped personal details from here. I’m sure you understand.
I’m thinking this is a good idea. I’ve not read enough in the last few years so keeping notes might help me to the bottom of my pile of shame
I'm going to do an ongoing thread of books I've read and enjoyed this year — in part to remind myself, but also because I've had some really helpful reading recommendations here over the years — it's one of the under-acknowledged things that this site does very well indeed. 🧵
If half a pint of White Russian doesn’t count as an isotonic sports recovery drink when you get home from the gym, now is not the time to tell me.
The best argument I’ve heard for dropping for voting age is bollocks to pensioners voting themselves ever more freebies at everyone else’s expense.
That moment when you realise you’re overqualified to work at both Citi *and* the FT
I see from the spam messages I'm getting on this site that the online safety bill definitely doesn't apply to Twitter :/
According to the news this morning, Rachel Reeves is looking for an economics advisor. Me:
Just had to call in hostage negotiators to successfully cancel my Google Workspace account.
Every rock biography I’ve ever read - motley crue, Dave Lee Roth, gnr, others - has a chapter which opens: “we thought we were the most hard drinking, hard partying, hard drugging band in the world. And then we went on tour with Ozzy.”
Sharon Osborne wondering if she can squeeze another performance out of Ozzy.
I see Labour have accepted nationalisation just makes things worse and have dropped the idea.
The Tories did nothing as water companies dumped filth into our rivers, lakes, and seas. My Labour government launched the largest criminal action against polluting water companies in history and banned unfair bosses' bonuses. And we will cut sewage pollution in half.
I had quite seriously considered adding a domestic arm to my construction engineering company in anticipation of increased house building under this government. Fortunately my spider sense tingled and I didn’t take the risk. Good call on my part.
As things stand, HMG has basically done nothing to actually *change* the planning system for housebuilding The NPPF tweaks + reintroduction of housing targets are good, but not huge The PIB will not affect 99% of housing applications The status quo is essentially still intact
Anyone know anything about Premium Bonds? I've found a stack of certificates from the 60s and 70s and I'm wondering if my luck is in.
Me after I go 10p/point on the S&P.
The Traders, Frank McCarthy, 1973
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people that Yanis Varoufakis is good at economics.
I’m always charmed by the optimism of conspiracy theorists, thinking someone is actually in charge of all of this.
Before I started my own business, I would suffer from anxiety on Sunday nights. But now that run my own business, I have anxiety every night.
A bumblebee had its nest under the pipe outside my window. I’ve been watching it busily coming to and fro for weeks. Today, it flew out followed by a much smaller bumblebee.