In the news

Yeah, my bad. Thought it looked a bit weird for the UK Observer.

But not who was on the list.

Mirror mentioned Damien Green and the Ashley Madison allegation. The Sun named names too, but didn't explicitly link them with their specific allegations (unless they were rebutting them, which they did report). But most largely stuck to reporting the list and the accusations as you say.

So RanDOm 👉👈

Looks pretty strong for a guy on chemo

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The work is in financial services, so I'm not sure if they were testing for presence or absence tbh

Things not looking too rosey with UK gilts again today. 10yr yield is edging closer to how it was when the BoE had to intervene.

Not sure that Kwarteng has got this.

Maybe it's a weird kind of character profiling?! No recreational drugs = poor fit

Maybe they're just testing to see if they're genuine students?

More than 330,000 excess deaths in Great Britain in recent years can be attributed to spending cuts to public services and benefits introduced by a UK government pursuing austerity policies, according to an academic study.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/oct/05/over-330000-excess-deaths-in-great-britain-linked-to-austerity-finds-study

And they are worried about weed.

And farmers choosing to put solar panels in fields during an energy crisis

But isn't there nothing more sad? I mean I can't think of anything at all worse.

I fucking hate these people.

Would you say you detest them??

BoE expanding scope of the gilt purchase program, but not extending it beyond the 14th for now.

I have no idea why this would be necessary. Why widen the scope of the buy back but not extend it, given that the buy back facility hasn't been heavily used anyway?

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/markets/market-notices/2022/october/temporary-purchases-of-index-linked-gilts-market-notice-11-october-2022

I expect that whatever happens to the UK economy over the next months and years, the government will blame it on the BoE. Cunts.

Hopefully the government will blame it on the Tories.

I was originally going to write a sarcastic snarky comment, but it's just too fucking tragic.

Excess deaths are awful, but what makes it even more sickening is that it has all been pointless. The policies over the last 12 years that impacted those deaths haven't put us in a stronger financial position. They along with Brexit have left us in a shit place, and I will never forgive these cunts for the spitroast they've given this country.

Excess deaths are awful, but what makes it even more sickening is that it has all been pointless.

Yep and then layer on top mental health impacts, physical pain and illness, poor social outcomes, absolutely horrendous set of policy choices that have popular support delivered by the most successful political party in the democratic world

Bailey appears to of spelt it out tonight that there will be no extension and markets aren't loving it, guess it firmly puts the ball back in the Governments court to resolve

I'm afraid that went over my head

Shit, I meant to buy some euros the other day but figured it wouldn't get even worse.

The Pensions Regulator, and by extension the government, is wholly responsible for the carnage that's unfolded the past couple of weeks and will continue to grip the UK Pensions Industry for the foreseeable. The whole budget debacle was unnecessary but not enough questions are being asked of the regulator and how they were happy to let pension funds gorge on leveraged LDI funds without, in my opinion, fully understanding the risks of these strategies.

That’s is 100% correct. I don’t fully follow the whole LDI trade, but it seems clear that “juicing up” pension returns is an insane strategy, even if the black swan event is highly remote. Pensions Regulator approach needs an inquiry.

Bizarre story from Jamaica

http://jamaica-star.com/article/news/20221011/immediate-ban-imposed-scamming-molly-and-gun-music

This deserves far more air-time than it's getting:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/oct/11/the-sun-faces-fresh-claims-of-phone-hacking-during-rebekah-brooks-era

A good listen on this very topic including why it isn't getting the coverage it deserves/did last time

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4rwSRJrlEFIkGPhnQVNhYD?si=Hdw8txFHRaevNdblGg04hQ