Nice. Out of interest what motivated the buying back part? Did the crash just seem like it had gone further than it should, or did your take on the underlying situation change between February and Ap… (View Post)

I don't trade stonks, I just buy companies I like and sit on them forever, or sometimes I let my cat pick them from the Nikkei listing page. But last time they were quite weird: Nothing happened for … (View Post)

Speaking of which, the British seem to have come up with a privatized version of the American civil forfeiture: Lloyds will be doing "rapid data analysis" to identify people who are up to n… (View Post)

I expect it depends how you poll it but the British voters hate freedom and aren't interested in theoretical concerns about how powers can be misused. If they think it's aimed at arabs and wrong-uns … (View Post)

On topic I think it's easy to see how Boris recovers from this. He does nothing much, there are some bad headlines, maybe he loses a by-election or maybe he doesn't. Then he waits for another issue w… (View Post)