I seem to have jinxed the cricket with my ill advised comment a couple of hours ago. Sent from a glamorous sunny Le Touquet (View Post)

The sea’s quite rough too. I just helped a nice bunch of young men who were struggling to get a dinghy afloat. Some sort of hi-jinks involved as there were about 30 of them on a small rubber boat. Ma… (View Post)

We We should never generalise from anecdotes. (View Post)

The cricket is making me nostalgic. Like the 1990s, only India in the role of England and England in the role of Australia. The way the pitch suddenly seems so different when the batting side changes. (View Post)

Reminder to readers that UK private debt (both household and business) is the lowest it’s been since the mid 1990s, and our savings rate is at historical highs. As a result of our miserly spending an… (View Post)