Chris F Jones
chrisfjones.uk
Chris F Jones
@chrisfjones.uk
Sometime SIPP & due diligence nerd (when I'm not out escaping in live music 🎸🎶)
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Amazing research findings!
#CofE #BibleSociety #churchgrowth
April 15, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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What can airplane cockpits tell us about the dangers of designing for the ‘average’ person? 🧵
April 15, 2025 at 6:29 PM
“But too often the platforms' first action on the death of a client is to shut the adviser out of the loop, just when we are often needed the most.” Some great reflections and comments from @philbillingham.bsky.social

www.financialplanningtoday.co.uk/news/phil-bi...
Phil Billingham: Time for a wake-up call - for me
www.financialplanningtoday.co.uk
April 5, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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“It takes a certain madness to put your name forward for the top job in this busted organisation, and anyone who wants it probably shouldn’t get it.” @andrewgraystone.bsky.social on the search for a new archbishop of Canterbury.
www.prospectmagazine...
Who wants to be archbishop of Canterbury?
Beset by safeguarding scandals and a fundamental split on LGBT+ rights, the Church of England is struggling to find a new leader
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
April 2, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account:

Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social
March 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Saw @aiannucci.bsky.social’s glorious Dr Strangelove tonight thanks to NT Live. Brilliant & innovative staging & a terrific cast led by Steve Coogan. After #Signalgate, Putin, Trump - rather too close to reality at times!
March 27, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Outstanding work
March 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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With the US now voting with Russia, Belarus and N Korea at the UN, this is a good time to read or re-read the 1994 Budapest Memorandum. Russia, UK *and US* made clear commitments to Ukraine in exchange for giving up its nuclear weapons. Six bullet points, read them. treaties.un.org/doc/Publicat...
treaties.un.org
February 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Crikey, Frances, that’s grim. open.substack.com/pub/coppolac...
But as ever, very definitely worth reading.
@francescoppola.bsky.social
A gruesome hostage exchange
Why are Hamas and Israel trading the dead for the living?
open.substack.com
February 20, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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If the suspense is too much, you can find the video and a short blurb about my part in it in the description here: youtu.be/ccnIUL5Z3Y4
Footprints underground - Hannah Featherstone
YouTube video by Hannah Featherstone
youtu.be
February 18, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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We’ve lost all hope’: Rohingya trapped as Bangladesh closes Myanmar border - UK has a moral duty to support both Rohingya and Bangladesh- we’ve left the responsibility for helping some of the most oppressed people to one of the poorest nations

t.co/EhTDk6hv31
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/22/rohingya-refugees-bangladesh-border-myanmar-human-rights?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
t.co
January 22, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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This is a very well reasoned and worded complaint. Predictably, the response makes no attempt to address what it says
I complained. The BBC’s response is perplexing.
January 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
This was great! Really fascinating explanation of how our understanding of the universe has grown over the last century. Looking forward to part 2 - thanks @jimalkhalili.bsky.social !
I see Jim Al-Khalili’s THE BEGINNING AND END OF THE UNIVERSE is getting a repeat tonight.
This is a brilliant documentary - as always with @jimalkhalili.bsky.social - and part two is on next week.
Wonderful stuff!
January 23, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Liz Truss threatens to sue Keir Starmer unless he "ceases and desists" from alleging she crashed the economy.

In other news, here's Liz Truss making the exact same allegation against Gordon Brown
January 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Denmark set to work building a defensive wall on the Greenland coast
January 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Great piece by
@philbillingham.bsky.social :
service to clients - it’s not just about an annual review!
citywire.com/new-model-ad...
Billingham: Measuring value by one meeting a year is bonkers
Phil Billingham, director at Perceptive Planning, says assuming that one client meeting a year delivers value for money is flawed thinking.
citywire.com
January 6, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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NEW

How the lore of New Year defeated the law of New Year

How the English state gave up on insisting the new year started on 25 March

By me

Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/how-the-lo...

Personal blog:
davidallengreen.com/2025/01/how-...
How the lore of New Year defeated the law of New Year
How the English state gave up on insisting the new year started on 25 March
emptycity.substack.com
January 1, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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2025 = (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9)²

and

2025 = 1³ + 2³ + 3³ + 4³ + 5³ + 6³ + 7³ + 8³ + 9³

How beautiful
January 1, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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“Women of a certain age”, state pensions, Suffragette costumes, and disappointment. My blog in the WASPI campaign and its supporters’ expectations of compensation, now disappointed by the government open.substack.com/pub/bleakhou...
Full Restitution, Empty Promises
The WASPI campaign and increases in women’s state pension age
open.substack.com
December 31, 2024 at 10:32 AM
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Takes a few seconds to vote. No need to tick boxes or add emails
This clickbait poll on Khan's knighthood was at 85/15, now it's down again to 73/27.

Set them straight. Link does not artificially inflate Express's traffic figures.

You can scroll down to see the results; no need to enter an email.

xd.wayin.com/display/cont...
Do you agree with Sadiq Khan’s knighthood?
xd.wayin.com
January 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Great analysis of the story of the Magi, with helpful historical context
December 31, 2024 at 1:07 AM
Just discovered Guy Garvey’s From The Vaults on Sky Arts - excellent! Great one for the much-missed Mike Morrison music hour… #pensiontechs
December 20, 2024 at 8:37 PM
At last! Great to see the FCA thinking openly about allowing stochastic projections for pension clients. We’ve until 27/2 to make our views known. www.fca.org.uk/publications...
DP24/3: Pensions: Adapting our requirements for a changing market
We want your feedback on whether and what further changes might be needed to certain aspects of our pensions regulatory framework.
www.fca.org.uk
December 13, 2024 at 5:13 PM
Despite Consumer Duty, financial providers continue to make remarkably foolish decisions. Here's a sad example from @philbillingham.bsky.social www.financialplanningtoday.co.uk/news/phil-bi...
Phil Billingham: Why are providers so bad at death?
www.financialplanningtoday.co.uk
December 13, 2024 at 12:34 AM