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Alastair Meeks
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Chase are really phoning it in now.
"Sympathy Statement Example"
November 9, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Saturday gym selfie.
I haven't done one of these for a while.
November 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Quilter Cheviot take a similar view.

AI may well be fuelling a bubble but serious investment professionals don’t see it popping just yet.
We are mindful of US equity valuations and as you can imagine, speak about it daily, but believe they are largely justified by earnings’ growth which remains incredibly strong. The below shows the growth in capex by the AI hyperscalers vs. expectations at the start of the year, highlighting just how much the market unappreciated the amount these companies will be ploughing into building out their AI infrastructure. These companies are spending in order to meet existing Datacentre demand rather than spending speculatively for a possible payback further down the line. As mentioned in my latest commentary, the CEOs of all of the below have stated they believe the biggest risk to them is to underspend rather than overspend
November 8, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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The most important details right here. A perfect encapsulation of the damage algorithms can do to people.
But she also said that her Facebook feed was full of stories of assaults by black people, as was the news. “Whilst you say that, you know, there are white people and yellow people and everybody else [doing crimes], on Facebook and on social media, it is pushed all the time in front of us, isn’t it?”
November 6, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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For those pondering about AI bubbles, this is UBS's view. Always good to hear different perspectives.
we have upgraded Global Equities to ‘Attractive’ for a few different reasons, despite the current valuation levels. We see fresh momentum behind the AI trend based on the anticipation that capex will exceed expectations and remain robust for longer than previously thought. This is happening with a backdrop of supportive US policy and a better US growth outlook as the U.S consumer continues to remain strong.
November 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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I haven't been, but this in particular makes me want to get the next train to Canterbury. Such an important point.
While I praise Hart’s cooking, I think the real star of the show is actually Pleasance. More restaurants, in my opinion, should have at their helm a stalwart, generation X woman who can update a bookings system and uncork a bottle of burgundy at the same time, while also hammering together a trestle table and charming an entire table of eight. One of the keys to good hospitality is the feeling that the proprietors really want to do it; they haven’t been duped into doing it or been held as hostages of fortune.
November 2, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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LNER seem to have a shaky grasp of geography.
Grantham seems to have moved to Peterborough or thereabouts.
October 31, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Further down the road.
October 30, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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A rural country road in Jamaica after the hurricane.
October 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Good morning from the City.
St Edmund's, St Michael's and Tower 42.
October 30, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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I strongly agree with this bit in particular.
I don’t believe for a moment than when push comes to shove, the next election will be Reform on 27 per cent and the chasing pack all in the mid-teens.
October 29, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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A catastrophe looks set to hit the Caribbean, and Jamaica in particular.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
Many of these communities will not survive this flooding.
October 27, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Sunset.
Canary Wharf looking mesmerising.
October 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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New railway station opening tomorrow in Chelmsford.
Beaulieu Park
October 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Suffolk sky.
Suffolk sky
October 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Good morning.
The sun breaks the horizon.
October 24, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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Thursday gym selfie.

Back for the first time since my health scare.
73 kgs, lightest I've been this year.
October 23, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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The mood took Arsenal for 15 minutes last night and in that 15 minutes nothing could have stopped them.
The Emirates In play
October 22, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Among many other questions this raises, which one is supposed to be the queen?
Bizarre White House royal imagery.
October 19, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Notable that the US Dept of Homeland Security, which has tweeted out barely coded Nazi memes, has deemed it worthwhile joining Bluesky before a SINGLE UK govt department has.
Blue ticked.
October 18, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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A picture of my dad and his elder brother, c1950.
Michael and Jack
October 16, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Striking timeline adjacency.
VIPs in jail, not art.
October 14, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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There are many really good points in this great column by @stephenkb.bsky.social but one of the most important will probably be overlooked.

www.ft.com/content/a65f...
One reason the successive Tory administrations from 2016 to 2024 achieved so little beyond damage control is that they traded middle-aged voters who needed little from the state for older voters who require rather more.
October 14, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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1993.
NB1 hair. NB2 no computer. NB3 all the paper.
October 13, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Sunday gym selfie.
Never as much fun with a hangover.
October 12, 2025 at 11:11 AM