Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

…. and inevitably someone will say “the solution is blockchain“ and then I will go away and cry somewhere and feel sad.

The IMF article is actually a pretty interesting read although it will be deliberately misinterpreted by the “the big bad naughty hedge fund bogeyman creating all the problems in fixed income!” types. Er no, not quite…

Wow. Just wow.

In market parlance “Get long, dummy!”

That would be just another thing for me to clean after the kids used it.

It’s good to have a sense check from someone who lived in the era before central heating

Bruv does write good books, tho.

In further bad news for middle aged finance dads

If the UK is rejoining the EU, will it be a candidate for Euro? GBP/Eur 10y10yf convergence, anyone?

The last week in fixed income

The more you reflect on Heseltine, the more you come to realise what a minister he was.

Ninety years ago today, Oswald Mosley tried to march his Blackshirts through the Jewish East End. 🧵 He had thousands of uniformed fascists behind him and 6,000 police clearing the way. But the people of the East End got there first.