Extraordinary game. France playing rugby from a different planet in the last 20 minutes.
07.03.2026 16:05
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Extraordinary game. France playing rugby from a different planet in the last 20 minutes.
I must have banged my head this morning. Beginning to support Scotland for I think the first time ever.
Doubly so right now as there is a nationwide shortage of mackerel: apparently one trawler hoovered up the entire UK quota in one day a few weeks ago so you can’t even buy them in Waitrose
The Spanish language ESPN call of Carré’s try is, predictably, absolutely top notch.
I’m more concerned about England (not) beating Italy
Come back next year and Wales could be quite something
Well played Ireland, even if you relied on a forward pass and an extra from Braveheart for that last try
Wales beating Ireland would be so much funnier than Ireland beating England
The SIU getting bogged down by the debate over centralized supervision, who could have possibly predicted this?
Separately, I wonder based on that headline alone which country with a supervisor called the CNMV is top of the list in the EU for the number of outstanding cases of infringement of EU law…?
Capital markets union is all fine and well, but as long as capital markets remain tiny, the payoff from
integration will be small, too.
My leader this week in The @economist.com.
economist.com/leaders/2026...
Thank you
Apologies to the senior political adviser with whom I had a call this afternoon at 5pm. While I may have inadvertently given the impression that I was not focusing on your thoughts on UK financial regulation, I was definitely not watching the last half hour of the cricket.
Is this nominal or adjusted for PPP?
Incredibly illuminating to compare income and hours worked across countries and states for ***the bottom 95% of earners only***. The typical Belgian earns as much as the typical Californian but works about 24% less
via sethackerman.substack.com
This is how I feel too
If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.
Good to read in the Telegraph that this family who have been stuck in Dubai are safe and well
I spent 6 years of my life writing a PhD about UK policy in Persian Gulf in the 1960s, including the role of the Anglo-American alliance.
Key to the Persian Gulf policy of both countries: AVOID a power vacuum under any circumstances &keep Iran&Saudi Arabia from attacking the smaller Gulf States.
This reminds me of that Frankie Boyle joke about how Americans not only come to your country and kill your people, they also come back twenty years later to make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers sad.
“Mr President, the bombings have begun in Tehran and also customers are complaining we have run out of shrimp at the pool buffet.”
Hey, all you folks who voted third party or not at all to protest Biden/Harris Mideast policies, good job!
On the plus side, I don’t have to watch England trying to play rugby this weekend
Private Eye very good this week on Fleet St hindsight
‘Welcome back to the MCG and if you’re just waking up in the UK, England were all out for 117and Australia are on 186 for 1…’
Going to bed with same feeling as when England are playing cricket in Australia and not really wanting to turn on the radio or look at my phone when I wake up tomorrow…
Great piece.
This is a great example of how AI and tech are trying the bend the real world to suit them and of the negative impact that will have on virtually everyone else in the real world www.ft.com/content/cdf3...
Here's @thekrazykobra.bsky.social on the dangers of fast-tracking the likes of SpaceX and Anthropic into the Nasdaq 100.
as.ft.com/r/bd836d1f-b...
