I'm not entirely sure why we bother, but it seems GE 2024 ('25?) has kicked off with Starmer's "6 first steps". Just for completeness: DELIVER ECONOMIC STABILITY: empty. Only on the list...
http://www.cityunslicker.co.uk/2024/05/starmer-and-his-shameless-way-with-words.html
Recently we aired the thesis that the oil & gas majors (Exxon, Shell, BP, Total, Equinor et al) have effectively given up on net zero and, with greater or lesser degrees of 'green camouflage', i...
http://www.cityunslicker.co.uk/2024/05/where-will-engineers-come-from.html
> "The EU has restated its readiness to launch a trade war with China > over imports of cheap electric cars, steel and cheap solar and wind > technology, with Ursula ...
http://www.cityunslicker.co.uk/2024/05/trade-war-with-china-hmm.html
I was a teenager when the anti-war protests hit US universities (and Grosvenor Square) and there was one of those historically quite frequent Paris uprisings. It all seemed fairly apocalyptic a...
http://www.cityunslicker.co.uk/2024/05/trouble-at-tcampus-where-is-this-going.html
As argued here several times, governments are deeply ill-advised to set "legally binding targets" for Net Zero policies. Well, LBTs for almost anything actually; because somebody litigious will...
http://www.cityunslicker.co.uk/2024/04/net-zero-contradictions-snpgreen.html
Yesterday I met a senior DESNZ type who was a bit miffed that there'd been very little coverage of this announcement from January - > UK INVESTS IN HIGH-TECH NUCLEAR FUEL TO PUSH ...
http://www.cityunslicker.co.uk/2024/04/nuclear-fuel-important-dvevelopment.html
It's been a very long time since we last ran a thread on gold - it seems to be this one from 2015 , when CU wrote: GOLD HITS A FIVE YEAR LOW; A POSITIVE MESSAGE? Well, turned out 2015 was no...
http://www.cityunslicker.co.uk/2024/04/gold-very-traditional-debating-point.html
Prisoners of Geography (Tim Marshall) is a well known, oft-quoted book on geopolitics. It's really an A-level text - first-year university stuff at best. I don't have a copy to hand. But t...
http://www.cityunslicker.co.uk/2024/04/iran-israel-george-bush-snrs-1991.html
Here's a very odd story , that we must surely assume comes from Lloyds itself. > LLOYDS CUTS RISK MANAGEMENT ROLES IN BID TO ‘MOVE AT GREATER > PACE’ > BANK’S RISK ASS...
http://www.cityunslicker.co.uk/2024/04/why-would-lloyds-boast-about-culling.html
UNLOVED - IN SOME QUARTERS ... Shell seems to be putting it about that it might leave the LSE for a New York listing . Well, it's already listed in NY and has been for many years. Obviou...
http://www.cityunslicker.co.uk/2024/04/shell-to-quit-london-stock-exchange.html
The other day I was asked by a good friend and ex colleague whether, by some remote chance, I'd kept a copy of a report we'd written - 20 years ago ... Well, he stood a chance as I've always be...
http://www.cityunslicker.co.uk/2024/04/the-lies-that-businessmen-tell.html
Over at Sacker's blog, there's an interesting Good Friday post from 'JD': a religious procession in the Spanish town of Avilés, taking place to a somewhat syncopated drumbeat. Somewhat disconc...
http://www.cityunslicker.co.uk/2024/03/happy-easter-some-music.html
So we have an outcome on yet another of our 2024 predictions compo items: SB-F's sentence & fine . The jail term is clear enough, the fine less so: he must "forfeit $11bn in assets". Is that...
http://www.cityunslicker.co.uk/2024/03/2024-predictions-compo-bankman-fried.html
In times gone by Germany as a whole, and most German businessmen I have met, liked to come across as the grown-ups of Europe. Oh, their worldly wisdom! How I remember the condescending post-B...
http://www.cityunslicker.co.uk/2024/03/aspects-of-russias-war-on-ukraine-3.html
By, er, popular demand : a short account of the recent refurbishment of Sidney Cotton's legendary Lockheed Electra 12a, UK registration G-AFTL. For more on why it's a legend , see these earli...
http://www.cityunslicker.co.uk/2024/03/the-refurbishment-of-sidney-cottons-g.html
Having considered developments on the land , we now turn to the air. Many months ago there was a period of serious debate around whether Russia was going to go down the tactical nuclear route.�...
http://www.cityunslicker.co.uk/2024/03/aspects-of-russias-war-on-ukraine-part.html
A couple of years ago I ran a couple of posts on the piratical old rogue Sidney Cotton and his WW2 exploits in the famous Lockheed G-AFTL; and how it was returning to the UK to be refurbished ....
http://www.cityunslicker.co.uk/2024/03/sidney-cottons-pirate-war-revisited.html
What has Hunt achieved? A bit of stealing Labour's thunder? A bit of tinkering? The last budget by a Tory chancellor for a decade? Well I never pretended to understand macroeconomics. O...
http://www.cityunslicker.co.uk/2024/03/budget-open-thread.html
Lots to think about, and I hope we can do so without some of the inanities that have popped up BTL here over the past two years. Is that overly-optimistic? For the avoidance of doubt, nobody ...
http://www.cityunslicker.co.uk/2024/03/3-aspects-of-russias-war-on-ukraine.html
There are quite a few on the 'progressive', lefty side of the divide who believe that votes for 16 year-olds is a guaranteed way to lock in a majority for evahh. Hmm. The more rational ac...
http://www.cityunslicker.co.uk/2024/02/votes-for-those-gullible-16-year-olds.html
One of the questions in this year's Predictions Compo is: Size of V. Putin's share of the Russian vote (as announced) I have news from my quite-good-but-not-wholly-reliable Russian sources th...
http://www.cityunslicker.co.uk/2024/02/2024-predictions-compo-update.html
Recently Ukraine's President Zelensky caused a stir (rapidly overtaken by other news) when firing his fairly well-regarded Commander of Joint Forces Gen Zaluzhnyi. Political machinations? A s...
http://www.cityunslicker.co.uk/2024/02/sacking-generals.html
A couple of weeks ago at Mr Wendland's prompting, I undertook to post on the putative Sizewell C contract, currently "under negotiation" with EDF and various financial parties. I'd said it was...
http://www.cityunslicker.co.uk/2024/02/the-sizewell-c-rab-abomination.html
As oft-noted here, Evans-Pritchard is often amusingly contrarian with an interesting point to make; and equally often just plain bonkers. His latest DTel offering - fresh from his triumphant i...
http://www.cityunslicker.co.uk/2024/02/aep-on-green-boom-not-quite-full-picture.html
It may seem quixotic to pick on any one highly suspect facet of the vague 'Net Zero' plans we, along with every other western nation, have to pay lip-service to these days. But here's one that ...
http://www.cityunslicker.co.uk/2024/02/gas-industry-and-shrinking-critical-mass.html