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Posts by Dan Davies

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Why America is falling out of love with Israel Public opinion and elite sentiment has turned decisively against Netanyahu

"There should be no mystery why younger Americans are as pro-Palestinian today as their forebears were once pro-Israeli. Rabin staked his life on peace. What will posterity say of Netanyahu?" My column on why America is falling out of love with Israel. www.ft.com/content/353e...

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If you are trying to argue that this was a good or justifiable decision I kind of feel like the moment has passed

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My guess would be that they would prefer to organise a lifeboat and do it via the banking sector, but they will and up bending a point because the big players are just operationally difficult to handle any other way. I suspect there are a few sets of half filled in banking license paperwork.

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The big risk - and everyone knows it but can't say so publicly because it is so big that it will take a lot of time to manage down - is that we can't necessarily rely on the swap lines to provide dollar liquidity outside the USA.

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3) Mandelson had a history of making scathing comments about Trump which the administration was aware of
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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A picture of a majestic humpback whale leaping from the seas with the caption “humpback whales are forming super-groups”, rather than simply admire the wonder of nature I am making a poor quality music gag

A picture of a majestic humpback whale leaping from the seas with the caption “humpback whales are forming super-groups”, rather than simply admire the wonder of nature I am making a poor quality music gag

This is why whale punk had to happen

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Or just one of the wider initial circles of the same spiral? If the growth in the number of potential applicants is higher than the growth in the number of vacancies then it's like r>g, something like this is the only possible end point of the system

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‘I tell all my Irish friends that Ireland is the Brazil of Europe’ Stephanie Marques moved to Dublin from São Paulo

I also sometimes talk complete bullshit
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

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Something which isn't painted is likely to decay faster than something which is painted, and concrete rebar is prone to rust; not really so much the architectural style as the choice of material

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In general banks are more leveraged than almost anyone else, so pushing risks off their balance sheet and onto someone else is almost always a positive move.

(Hem hem basis trades Archegos I said *almost* always. But credit funds are so obviously risky that afaiaa nobody will give them much)

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Minion Titanic would actually be worth making

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omg Battleship Minion Potemkin

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Birth Of A Minion Nation

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Blackberry Messenger is still probably bouncing around the ghost IP market

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The films that really get you cancelled are all westerns. The True Story Of The James Gang And Minions. Custer's Last Minion Stand. Minion Revolt At Fort Laramie. Last of the Mohican Minions.

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Minion Oppenheimer is the film we deserved

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Show me an alpha male and I'll show you a monkey

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"and now I've ticked off everything on Schindler's list"

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Quite apart from anything, the minions are idiots! They are not in a position to make judgments about consequentialism and deontology, they like karaoke and silly machines. They would have worked for Barnes Wallis

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but ... Gru isn't even the most evil person in the despicable me films?

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Oh dear I'm so sorry

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Thanks very much!

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Every mf likes to say they're taking full responsibility, no mf wants to take full responsibility.

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Paris Hilton was once paid $200,000 to go to a nightclub and say what she loved about Austrian men. She replied "I love Austrian men, they paid me $200,000 to come to a nightclub!".

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Some of us will be able to find work explaining the difference between unemployment and labour market turnover.

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Somewhere Bismarck is looking down in confusion as Germany projects power by sending 4,000 pensioners, 12 buffet stations and a TUI loyalty program through the Strait of Hormuz

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It is the "squishy liberal acting how he thinks a hard nosed capitalist boss would be" effect, but with a lawyer trying to act with the standard of honesty he believes of politicians

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Thinking about it lots of people never learn this lesson. Was always amazed how easy my first boss at the Bank of England found it to absolutely stitch people up (with me, the writer of the minutes, as his little yellow guy in the blue dungarees)

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Did Starmer somehow miss the day when you get taught the first lesson of public administration; "don't pick a fight with the guy who approves the minutes"?

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Although then potentially quite a bit worse again if it turns out that nominally friendly intelligence services have been trying to be clever like they did with the Manchester arena bomber.

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