Recent content by nimrod

awful awful news. so much to live for. heartbreaking

album 40 years old this week

35 this week

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-clean-energy-just-put-chinas-co2-emissions-into-reverse-for-first-time/

precisely, but I think that's just one aspect and I imagine it'll never get properly analysed given any award 'interference' was likely conducted in secret over whatsapp with conversations conveniently 'lost' or 'forgotten'. demonstrated by the likes of Rishi, who on the one hand claimed that...

Whether it could be called 'corruption' would be up to others to decide but it's fair to say mis-spend during the covid period was off the scale in some notable cases linked to the government in power at the time.

you can do a lot with statistics. downsizing your economy, through self inflicted means or other, is probably not the smartest thing to do even if it can bring about higher growth figures thereafter.

iirc Osborne's guestimate was a c. £4k hit to households, which was prob the estimate of loss divided by no. of UK households. so not doomsday except to the extent that any loss was never likely to be evenly distributed in that way.

definitely referring to amounts still due as they were talking about buying on credit. I was surprised at the total but they didn't go into where the number was calculated from.

listened in last week to an ICAEW webinar on football finance. had kieran maguire and a few others running through a bit of history and a few examples of creative accounting by a few clubs (non current cases other than a nod to the charges v Man City) that were allowed through, really to...