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Isn't that Santander, not HSBC (for once...)?

Yeah, heard it on the radio this am, and guess the brain processed it as HSBC through force of habit...

They should probably fine them anyway - they're bound to have done something wrong.

They can't do anything wrong if they change the rules so they have no accountability tho.

Anyway, time to start looking for odds on the next financial crash...

Whatever GS is making a killing on is usually a good starting point.

Or whatever some pinstripe geography degree fund manager twat is heavily investing some poor fucker's pension in.

Gove will be reading a statement researched and prepared by civil servants.

He's unlikely to have seen the speech much before his briefing prior to entering the chamber.

Moscow fire:

https://twitter.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1601123478941630464

Can't believe they let this guy out

Crazy how long he’s been in prison in the US. Makes you wonder who else other countries have squirrelled away in some black site somewhere

I think average house price in the mine area is about £148,000. A semi that needs a bit of work £80,000..... I guess, London is over half a million on average?

The price of houses in the environs of the national park I agree is more but the mine is not in it.

I guess, London is over half a million on average?

From memory I think the average house price for London was over £700k last year.

Makes you wonder who else other countries have squirrelled away in some black site somewhere

He was hardly in a black site, he was in U.S. Penitentiary Marion. John Ashcroft's law firm even represented him in appeals. He got the minimum sentence for the crime he was convicted of and got out 13 years early...

Big oil gonna big oil and fuck everyone else
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/oil-companies-doom-global-efforts-climate-change-house-committee-finds-rcna59443

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/oil-companies-doom-global-efforts-climate-change-house-committee-finds-rcna59443

I think Peston’s take on this was pretty good. In 15 years the UK hasn’t managed to nurture any industry to beat the City’s pre-07 international competitive advantage. It’s just a shame that having financial services as your key engine of growth exposes you to blowups every 10-15 years and no-one can figure out how to avoid it.

https://twitter.com/peston/status/1601160689368076289?s=46&t=JXAyXY42iXru7Ezozm-oQQ

Bloody 'ell. It looks like Starcourt Mall in the season 3 finale.

Possibly because finance has been elevated over things that directly generate wealth (which finance cannot do)? Finance used to be seen as an enabler of wealth creation, not the be-all and end-all. Some people speculate that the City, as it has been for the last several decades, is a net negative for the British economy.

Finance used to be seen as an enabler of wealth creation, not the be-all and end-all

It’s one of the few things we export that we have a true competitive advantage in. If you want to pivot an economy away from that you need a pretty good idea of what will replace it… nobody does.

Can't believe they let this guy out

Nicolas Cage?

That’s who it looks like to me. What am I missing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_War

This pish..

https://labour.org.uk/manifesto-2019/a-green-industrial-revolution/

I live not far away from a very large windfarm. Not many people work there.
The turbines were all manufactured by Gamesa or Siemens.

And if we had an industrial strategy that meant we made the turbines?

Right so it's about a prisoner exchange.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63905112.amp

Proper cryptic series of posts for the news thread.