Graeme Tough
@graemet.bsky.social
Dad, accountant, triathlete, cycling bore (and commuter), skier, golfer. Distinctly average at a lot of things. Interest in personal finance, Scottish/UK politics, business, economics, and almost all sports. 70.3
Awful journalism as no context given. This guy thinks he is a genius because his pension is up 22% in 18 months (supposedly because he moved it to SIPP, went to 100% equities and traded so well). Except MSCI ASWI (global equity benchmark) is up 28.5% in that time... www.thetimes.com/article/1786...
My pension is up £167k — and I’ve only put £7k in
At an age when you are told to take less risk, Jaspal Saund threw caution to the wind and invested his whole pot in the stock market — and it really paid off
www.thetimes.com
August 4, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Awful journalism as no context given. This guy thinks he is a genius because his pension is up 22% in 18 months (supposedly because he moved it to SIPP, went to 100% equities and traded so well). Except MSCI ASWI (global equity benchmark) is up 28.5% in that time... www.thetimes.com/article/1786...
Meta AI tells me the dangerous creatures referred to is probably a dragon. My job seems safe for a few years at least...
July 6, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Meta AI tells me the dangerous creatures referred to is probably a dragon. My job seems safe for a few years at least...
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It’s like that whole ‘subtract your age from the year you were born thing’.
Don’t do that.
Don’t do that.
June 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
It’s like that whole ‘subtract your age from the year you were born thing’.
Don’t do that.
Don’t do that.
Peter Hesgeth presser was joke. He talks in absolute terms. He projects absolute certainty about something he cannot be certain about. He attacks the press for challenging the certainty he projects. But that's their job.
It is all about image for this administration.
He may be made to look a fool.
It is all about image for this administration.
He may be made to look a fool.
June 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Peter Hesgeth presser was joke. He talks in absolute terms. He projects absolute certainty about something he cannot be certain about. He attacks the press for challenging the certainty he projects. But that's their job.
It is all about image for this administration.
He may be made to look a fool.
It is all about image for this administration.
He may be made to look a fool.
The capacity of finance journalists to ignore dividend yield is astonishing. This suggests a FTSE100 investment from 10yrs ago wouldn't have kept place with inflation. The index would not: but an investment with yield would have. Easily (& yielded far more than cash) www.thetimes.com/article/59a6...
Why it’s worth getting on the British comeback trail
The FTSE 100 is leaping forward after a decade of plodding along behind US markets and some analysts see no signs of a slowdown
www.thetimes.com
June 22, 2025 at 11:13 AM
The capacity of finance journalists to ignore dividend yield is astonishing. This suggests a FTSE100 investment from 10yrs ago wouldn't have kept place with inflation. The index would not: but an investment with yield would have. Easily (& yielded far more than cash) www.thetimes.com/article/59a6...
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At least three have been important sources of vaccine misinformation - very bad www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/... science.feedback.org/review/scien... sciencebasedmedicine.org/unethical/
BREAKING: RFK Jr. names Martin Kulldorff and Robert Malone and six others to ACIP.
x.com/SecKennedy/s...
x.com/SecKennedy/s...
Secretary Kennedy on X: "On Monday, I took a major step towards restoring public trust in vaccines by reconstituting the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP). I retired the 17 current members of the committee. I’m now repopulating ACIP with the eight new members who will attend ACIP’s" / X
On Monday, I took a major step towards restoring public trust in vaccines by reconstituting the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP). I retired the 17 current members of the committee. I’m now repopulating ACIP with the eight new members who will attend ACIP’s
x.com
June 11, 2025 at 9:07 PM
At least three have been important sources of vaccine misinformation - very bad www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/... science.feedback.org/review/scien... sciencebasedmedicine.org/unethical/
Spurs: We want an entertaining, trophy winning game team.
Postecoglu: Here is attacking football, a Europa League trophy and a Champions League place.
Spurs: You're sacked.
Postecoglu: Here is attacking football, a Europa League trophy and a Champions League place.
Spurs: You're sacked.
June 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Spurs: We want an entertaining, trophy winning game team.
Postecoglu: Here is attacking football, a Europa League trophy and a Champions League place.
Spurs: You're sacked.
Postecoglu: Here is attacking football, a Europa League trophy and a Champions League place.
Spurs: You're sacked.
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must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
“In light of the President's statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately”
June 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
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There’s been another Tweet Chris! But from who?
June 5, 2025 at 9:25 PM
There’s been another Tweet Chris! But from who?
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The antidote to depressing political news is to read about a decent man trying to make a difference
Lunch with the FT with James Timpson, by Emma Jacobs
www.ft.com/content/9c06...
Lunch with the FT with James Timpson, by Emma Jacobs
www.ft.com/content/9c06...
Prisons minister James Timpson: ‘This is not a quick fix’
The former chief executive of the Timpson Group on his plans to modernise the penal system — and how to stop ex-convicts reoffending
www.ft.com
May 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The antidote to depressing political news is to read about a decent man trying to make a difference
Lunch with the FT with James Timpson, by Emma Jacobs
www.ft.com/content/9c06...
Lunch with the FT with James Timpson, by Emma Jacobs
www.ft.com/content/9c06...
When it comes to the law, I'm betting on Harvard law professors over Trump's administration.
May 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
When it comes to the law, I'm betting on Harvard law professors over Trump's administration.
That Trump attempting to bully Harvard barely registers any more is a sad indictment of how low US politics has fallen under Trump. Universities need to work together to stand up to Trump or their independence will erode.
May 22, 2025 at 7:27 PM
That Trump attempting to bully Harvard barely registers any more is a sad indictment of how low US politics has fallen under Trump. Universities need to work together to stand up to Trump or their independence will erode.
Not really bothered about football, but the Ange Postecoglu press conference tomorrow will be fun! Well done Spurs!
May 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Not really bothered about football, but the Ange Postecoglu press conference tomorrow will be fun! Well done Spurs!
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Orban making overtures to Simion made sense from one perspective only: to gain an illiberal ally in the EU Council. Orban chose to make this incredibly costly gamble, essentially betraying the Transylvanian voters his party spent decades cultivating. And he lost. This is likely consequential.
💥Viktor Orbán made one of his biggest mistakes by praising anti-Hungarian far-right candidate George Simion.
🇭🇺 In Hungary, he hurt his “nationalist” credibility, angering many right-wing voters.
🇷🇴 In Romania, the Orbán-loyal Hungarian diaspora voted most heavily against Simion.
👎And Simion lost.
🇭🇺 In Hungary, he hurt his “nationalist” credibility, angering many right-wing voters.
🇷🇴 In Romania, the Orbán-loyal Hungarian diaspora voted most heavily against Simion.
👎And Simion lost.
May 18, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Orban making overtures to Simion made sense from one perspective only: to gain an illiberal ally in the EU Council. Orban chose to make this incredibly costly gamble, essentially betraying the Transylvanian voters his party spent decades cultivating. And he lost. This is likely consequential.
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Agree but the relevance of yes minister still amazes me. Virtually all of the dilemmas are still resonant. The Middle East, Europe, transport, industrial policy, defence, “up north”, councils, arts funding, personal data, the literal physical space of No 10, it’s all there
May 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Agree but the relevance of yes minister still amazes me. Virtually all of the dilemmas are still resonant. The Middle East, Europe, transport, industrial policy, defence, “up north”, councils, arts funding, personal data, the literal physical space of No 10, it’s all there
That is a lot of dwarfs.
The drop in pupil numbers, being blamed on VAT being added to fees, is the biggest since the Independent Schools Council began tracking the figures in 2012
Private school exodus of 13,000 dwarfs ministers’ predictions
www.thetimes.com
May 18, 2025 at 7:14 AM
That is a lot of dwarfs.
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Oh god France's entry does look like explosive diarrhoea, doesn't it? #Eurovision
May 17, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Oh god France's entry does look like explosive diarrhoea, doesn't it? #Eurovision
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“There’s a small but growing tribe of pontificators, politicians and columnists who can be relied on to mock and demolish net zero without suggesting any alternatives. This is just climate denialism in a posh suit.”
@arusbridger.bsky.social @prospectmagazine.co.uk
@arusbridger.bsky.social @prospectmagazine.co.uk
Kemi Badenoch can’t rubbish net zero—unless she has a better plan to save the world
The days when people could get away with outright climate change denial are mostly behind us. But using net zero as the latest front in the culture wa...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
May 3, 2025 at 10:44 AM
“There’s a small but growing tribe of pontificators, politicians and columnists who can be relied on to mock and demolish net zero without suggesting any alternatives. This is just climate denialism in a posh suit.”
@arusbridger.bsky.social @prospectmagazine.co.uk
@arusbridger.bsky.social @prospectmagazine.co.uk
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Did Danny Baker became a Cardinal?
BREAKING: Conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis will begin on May 7, the Vatican announces.
Conclave to elect a new pope will start on May 7
A conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis will begin on Wednesday, May 7, the Vatican announced Monday.
bit.ly
April 28, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Did Danny Baker became a Cardinal?
Got to be in it...to be in it...
April 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Got to be in it...to be in it...
He doesn't look 85, he is probably an idiot with money, but he remains a comedy hero and in this he is 100% correct. John Cleese:
April 26, 2025 at 7:44 AM
He doesn't look 85, he is probably an idiot with money, but he remains a comedy hero and in this he is 100% correct. John Cleese:
Tesla results look awful. What is even worse is that Q1 includes about a month before DOGE implemented anything and the anti-Tesla feeling has only grown since then. Q2 is going to be FAR worse.
April 22, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Tesla results look awful. What is even worse is that Q1 includes about a month before DOGE implemented anything and the anti-Tesla feeling has only grown since then. Q2 is going to be FAR worse.
The thief decided not to try to steal her makeup bag given the weight.
My first reaction was to speculate wildly about why someone would be carrying $3,000 in cash on an evening out.
April 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The thief decided not to try to steal her makeup bag given the weight.