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Still fifty weeks to go but I’m feeling confident.

Right now, this is/should be the biggest story in Europe. The price of natural gas is falling very fast again, thanks to growing stockpiles & expectations of warmer weather. If this sustains, then electricity prices & inflation should fall quickly too 🥳🥳

It looks like we're going to get a cracking Michael Lewis book out of this FTX debacle. Apparently he's been hanging out with SBF for the past six months. Excellent timing: telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/…

I have written an essay for Reaction about the big themes: life, death and Test match cricket. A requiem for cricket elegies: reaction.life/a-requiem-for-…

Bocconi University’s Massimo Amato and Luca Fantacci argue that, in challenging the current global monetary system, crypto “poses the right question, but gives the wrong answer". project-syndicate.org/commentary/ftx…

Vaughan & Tuffers CC podcast is back 👍

Great deep dive by Ben Wright on the rise of #China's surveillance state – the stuff you thought was futuristic is already happening now. Can't tell you how many convos I've had w cybersecurity experts surprised by China's capabilities... telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/… The Telegraph

"...Dylan Hartley has revealed how Jones would harangue him in training: ‘That was f-----g s---, mate. That’s f-----g s---. You’re s---. You shouldn’t be here.’ And Hartley was his captain." A good day to re-read this profile of Eddie Jones by Ben Wright telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/0/…

Separated at birth: the Economist's Jeremy Hunt/Rachel Reeves mash up and late-noughties Lionel Messi economist.com/britain/2023/0…

Insightful interview with Shell's new boss by Emily Gosden

Matt Levine on AT1s (CoCos). Definitive.

My take is that Credit Suisse's AT1 bondholders were paid a coupon of 9.75% to stand really close to the fan and are now complaining about their dry cleaning bill.

I spoke to the Telegraph about why business leaders should be reading Jane Austen and George Bernard Shaw telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/…

Excellent background piece on the pitiful state of our rivers by Ben Wright in the The Telegraph and yes, it really is time we started having a very big conversation about farming. National Farmers' Union telegraph.co.uk/environment/20…

'What am I thinking? I'm singing 'Broady's gonna get ya' in my head' 🎙️ David Warner on what he says to himself as Stuart Broad runs in #TelegraphCricket | #ENGvAUS | #Ashes

The Farage/Coutts story is one of those stories that manages to totally reverse political polarity. We've got people on the right calling for tougher regulation and people on the left arguing politicians shouldn't interfere in how businesses run themselves.