Financial Eyes

Financial Eyes

  • Joined: February 25, 2016
  • Articles: 526
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creating a community

does one create a community – megalomaniacally? one’s tribe – in one’s own mould? or does one leech off the universal host till it’s time to go home awaiting a Messiah who will never come contains some room for optimism…

Cryptic Conversations on the Cusp of Convention

The shoddy app delivers no less value than the shoddy pen – two cheeks of the same arse.

Paul Mason considers running against Jeremy Corbyn

The Times is reporting that ex Newsnight presenter Paul Mason is thinking about running in Jeremy Corbyn’s seat at the next election. It’s still not clear whether Corbyn will run. Mason has not actually declared his interest. He has simply…

the bigger picture

Cumulative Returns learning to sit on the sidelines, pay attention to what is going on around me, and say something that is both relevant and performs a relatively healing function has been my life’s greatest challenge small step for man…

Ichimoku – the power and politics of a single glance

A friend told me about Ichimoku, a Japanese trading technique that says our first glance at a graph tells us how things really are. This reminds me of Gerd Gigerenzer’s work on how experts need very little time to get…

Was Pegasus software deployed to illegally hack & surveille a UK activist WhatsApp group?

Environmental campaigners appear to have been targeted by security companies linked to London Mayor Sadiq Khan. The protestors intended to unveil a banner about a planned road tunnel outside a Q & A attended by the Mayor at the O2…

Traumatised ex-cops and soldiers

Looks like austerity is a big factor when it comes to trauma in ex forces and emergency response communities. There is the trauma of the job itself and then there is the trauma of there not being enough money to…

Phrasing & Cadence in Biggie’s Rhymes & everyday life

A language learner and musician recently alerted me to a clip about how Biggie’s rhymes woud mimic the drum solo of a particular jazz musician – I think it’s something we all instinctively know but never directly think about. The…

CREW SLUT / VIP LANE / PPE MERCH SERVICES

Not Tonight, Josephine ! Michelle Mone has been in the news for making a lot of money from the UK Covid PPE contracts. The incestuous collision of public & private money happens time and time again in this country –…

Let’s say the UK Government were to suddenly collapse, who of us would even clock?

Amusing Ourselves to Death The thing about UK politics in the latter stages of 2022 is that hardly anyone pays it any mind. And why would they? There’s a World Cup on and only so much information the nation can…

Telling Tales Exhibition

Curated by artist Alex Fox, the show Telling Tales at Lea Bridge Library’s Pavillion, brings together eleven artists across different disciplines, all who have been inspired by folklore and story telling.

Confidence Noncey-Dents

It’s hard to know exactly what prompts the placement of any particular story in the news cycle. Take today’s Times. Evgeny Lebedev’s photo appears and we’re told that he’s only popped into the Lords twice in the last couple of…

Jubilee Britain: “when it comes to blacks, I’m with Enoch,”

There’s nothing wrong with putting these photos next to each other. We live in a supposedly free society in which one ought to be able to express oneself freely on any subject. Juxtaposing white UK police taking the knee in…

Google Docs to stop you getting yourself cancelled

On the radio this morning I heard the BBC presenters talk about Government recommendations to set up a regulator to oversee professional football. The idea is that the game has become too commercial and the owners not of sound character.…