2025 Brain freeze. We’ve all had it haven’t we. That excruciating moment where you’re very clearly about to use someone’s name and it just disappears. Not great in the pub but survivable. Less good when you’re the President of the US and you’re trying to think of the name of the Australian prime minister you’ve […]
2025 Well I have to say it’s extremely challenging to keep track of all the changes in today’s Cabinet reshuffle when the BBC is also running the headline “Nicki Minaj, Boris Johnson and the swollen testicles” but let’s stay focussed. Gavin Williamson finally gets the bullet from Education, Robert Jenrick goes from Housing (Gove in) […]
2025 I hope you’ve locked in your gas and electricity bills. UK “next day” power prices up another 35% today and that’s a gentle +830% in the last ten days now. Ofgem announcing that two major energy suppliers with 550,000 customers failed today in the UK as they presumably struggle to keep up with the […]
2025 So that’s the first Christmas lunch in the diary. Fifteen weeks to go still but one slightly darker morning and all of a sudden the rush to lock in the best days is on. This was a day to pivot from the internal back-to-office admin of last week and start to think about the […]
2025 “Just remember you’re not 27 any more” said the wife helpfully as I left this morning. Yes. Tonight is the Redburn Summer 2020/Christmas 2020/Summer 2021 party. Trebles all round surely. I do love that the only rule we have from our senior partner is “No photos”. Presumably the salesman who at our last party […]
2025 Probably one of the hotter days of the summer today so squeezing myself into a suit that I swear used to fit me could best be described as sub-optimal but face-to-face meetings are back and you will not find me complaining about that. Lots to discuss out there right now and not least our […]
2025 Well that’s a bit more like it. Queues at the coffee shop. Other people in the lift. A morning meeting that lasted longer than 10 minutes. Chatter. Noise. Life. One of those days where the market didn’t do a great deal (Stoxx 600 -0.49%) but there were the first glimpses of volumes coming back. […]
2025 So happy Labor Day / Return-to-School day / Back-to-Office day / or just good old fashioned Mon-day to you (delete as appropriate). A good day to get started on all those things you’ve been putting off til September with US markets closed and we continued the theme of the summer with a gentle bump […]
2025 No Carbs Before Marbs a well known tactic for those Love Island types amongst you so you’ll be glad to know I’ve been religiously following that diet since about 3.30pm this afternoon. I might skip dinner and just call myself beach ready. “Not another holiday Quicky” etc but this one actually is a holiday […]
2025 A good microcosm of the broader economy today as I went to get my pre-holiday haircut only to find a queue at the barbers. Pent-up demand you all nod thoughtfully but the real issue was that, of the four chairs in there, only one had a barber behind it. People coming in and walking […]