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Systemic risk

“ ‘February 2018: the Beast from the East is a clear sign of Climate Change’

   ‘February 2019: the Sahara plume is a clear sign of Global Warming’

   See how the narrative gets twisted to suit the agenda ?”

• Tweet from #Marcher, 27 February 2019.

 

Our own jury is out when it comes to climate change. Whether or not our climate is changing – and we recall the 1970s experience of being told by climate alarmists that a new Ice Age was heading our way – it is a bit of a stretch to conclude that human activity must be causing it, given that the biggest power source in the universe is something called the Sun..

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Consequences

“Sajid Javid should’ve put down his pitchfork instead of stripping Shamima Begum of her British citizenship. Not the way to deal with this problem.”

• Tweet by Kevin Maguire, associate editor of the Daily Mirror.

 

“I agree. It seems that if you want to go abroad and consort with terrorists, it helps to be over 60 and have a beard. Then they make you leader of the Labour Party.”

• Response by Rory Sutherland, vice chairman, Ogilvy Group.

 

“Westminster voting intention:

CON:39%
LAB:34%
"A new centrist party opposed to Brexit": 8%
LDEM:6%
UKIP:5%
GRN:2%

“Spare a thought for the Lib Dems, a centrist party opposed to Brexit that is behind in the polls to an imaginary centrist party that is opposed to Brexit.”

• Tweet by Christopher Snowdon, author and journalist.

 

In 2010, we chanced upon the Adam McKay-directed comedy The Other Guys, starring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg. The film is a workmanlike but perhaps otherwise unremarkable piece in the “buddy cop” genre. But then come the end credits..

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Is Mark Carney the biggest Cnut in the world ?

“In many respects, Brexit is the first test of a new global order and could prove the acid test of whether a way can be found to broaden the benefits of openness while enhancing democratic accountability. Brexit can lead to a new form of international cooperation and cross-border commerce built on a better balance of local and supranational authorities.”

• Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, Tuesday 12^th February 2019.

 

“Woah, who are you and what’ve you done with Mark Carney ?”

• Tweet from @StandUp4Brexit in response to same.

 

“Laughable”

• Tweet from Grant Williams (@ttmygh) in response to same..

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Outrageous fortune

“Isn’t it funny when you walk into an investment firm and you see all of the financial advisers watching CNBC ? That gives me the same feeling of confidence I would have if I walked into the Mayo clinic or Sloan Kettering and all the medical staff were watching General Hospital.”

• A senior portfolio manager.

 

There may once have been a time when the plot of all dramas progressed in a linear manner, with a beginning, a middle, and an end; in which the significance of all the participants was entirely obvious; and wherein everything that they said made complete sense. If the theatre ever indeed enjoyed such a formulaic and logical ‘golden age’, such an age had broken down by the 1960s. The critic Martin Esslin coined the phrase “Theatre of the absurd” in 1960 to describe the output of playwrights like Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot), Eugène Ionesco (Rhinoceros) and Harold Pinter (The Birthday Party)..

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