I'd love to have attended the meeting where this came up.

William of Ockham: we're gonna need a bigger blade.

A lie can be half way around the world before a preliminary crisis analysis has its trousers on.

that's definitely a phrase

Rosselkhozbank was also the bookrunner of a major bond issuance by the oil arm of Gazprom, the state-owned energy giant behind the strategically important Power of Siberia 2 pipeline project.

Small wonder the Kremlin wants the bank reintroduced to global finance. It is a Trojan Horse.

It seems widely assumed that Rosselkhozbank exists to do the benign job of financing agriculture and food exports.

But there is a catch. In 2023 we found that Rosselkhozbank had found a side-hustle in financing one of the mysterious oil traders that had sprung up to fuel Russia's war economy.

When the White House and the Kremlin announced the Black Sea ceasefire deal, it was noted that the Kremlin statement had set specific conditions.

Condition No.1: That Russia's state agricultural bank be removed from sanctions lists and reconnected to the global banking communication system. 🧵

good to know I have the same sense of humour as a Russian spy in a shambolic love triangle.

Reminds me of this exchange.

Successive posters on window at a closed Blackwell’s bookshop suggest Waterstones never quite won hearts and minds on the shopfloor.