I see today we’re still in the sum zero attitude to net zero. The hairshirt lot are just the other side of the “we can’t afford net zero” lot. Idiots, all of them.

Not the quad god tonight

*Always* mention how much you rate the “whatever it takes” speech to Italian finance types. 🤌🏻

Ah, beers and a burger with colleagues I actually like ☺️

(It won’t surprise you that) I spent most of my teens being beaten up by various bullies at school. No running away there. Beat em once though… The below is good advice for anything that occurs in the street but it won’t cover you in car vs bike as you can’t run away (I have broken ribs to attest)

NGL I have some experience with both Nuveen & Schroders and I can’t help but be sad about it. I guess this is all the evidence you need that I’ve spent too long in the City

Omg who cares about Ratcliffe, he’s a jumped up chemicals serial acquirer who got lucky with a BP divestment. Honestly, if you meet anyone in the physical materials/chemicals world, you’d realise they’re best sticking to their knitting and not opining on stuff.

I do think, in general, given the populist mood across the world, which is being exploited by increasingly corrupt elites (as in, tech bros, the Epstein crew etc, Trump etc) billionaires and associates are in real danger of causing some serious anger that they can’t stop.

I’m a big Mexican and faux-Mexican food fan, but I didn’t realise that my obsession was such that I would start hallucinating fajita kit based airport closures

Ah yes, Birmingham, well known for being a talent centre for economists and fiscal experts…oh, wait.

FoM is obviously the best, but I think we all need to recognise that the public don’t want it and they’re happy with the trade off. They’ve made this clear.

The “WFH is terrible” trope is, surely, exclusively aimed at retirees for who WFH was a doss day you had to get special permission for, not least as the technology infrastructure was not set up for it. They cannot conceive that the modern services worker can do large parts of their job at home.

So this is just top tier Olympics stuff Emotions are running high!

Watching the Brit coverage of the Winter Olympics is a good gateway to seeing Britain as a middling country.

No live skating commentary from me today but the Dutch women absolutely smashed everyone else in the women’s 1km just now. Certainly not my favourite skater but Jutte Leerdam really is the modern archetype for an athlete.

I have noticed a remarkable amount of people with really obvious substance abuse / addictions on the train commute recently. From obvious cocaine addicts to alcoholics doing the clichéd double special brew. Maybe it’s a City thing but it’s got more noticeable over the last 6 months

BBC now not live because they had to have Chemmy be an unprofessional pundit **again**

These lads are going **fast***

BBC stops showing it as soon as the favourite starts to chat about Vonn 😩

Jilek the favourite

Ghiotto, what technique

Right now these guys from hereon in are the big boys

Liiitle slow for Huizinga needs to stay in the 28s

Swings skating for Belgium but has long been a feature of the Dutch skating scene.

Err BBC just cut to the fucking curling what the fuck

Kongshaug probably going too fast here. On for WR pace

van de Bunt riding a tidy race so far. Extremely consistent, on track for PB.

NGL putting Vonn as the biggest story is not putting the bbc in a good light

This biathlon coverage is missing the heart rate monitors. Though Simon is just unreal

Please don’t tell me we’re doing the “usury is sin” cycle as we all know where that ends up

Seriously, Chemmy, just straight up speculating on how bad the injury is with no evidence. Shut up

Maybe doing the Olympic downhill with a major injury was less brave and more a bad idea

After all the hype, Vonn crashed out at the top of the course

Enjoying this women’s downhill course more than the men’s

Football fans will recognise that when moral in Dutch teams goes, it can all unravel very quickly. They’ll be hoping for the men to right the ship today, else it’s going to be a long fortnight for Holland’s finest.

All is also not well in the Dutch skating camp. Coaches looked shell shocked yesterday, the interviews with the press have got barbed and spicy, with the social media star Jutte Leerdam getting into a spat and refusing to be interviewed by the rest of press.

Just watched some of the women’s 3000m and Francesca Lollobrigida’s winning skate gets more incredible the more you watch it. Zero form coming in, a slow, temporary track. Went out just so fast and managed to grit through the final two laps with an unorthodox style - that was real grit.

Dutch are not used to losing in the skating and the press are **not** giving the skating team an easy ride

NGL I do struggle with the x-games style events

Have heard US funds not able to even get meetings with Danish PFs anymore.

Disappointing time from Conijn but could be a slow track (read soft ice)

Director missed the attack in the skiathlon for the lead 🤦🏻‍♂️

Day one and the Dutch coverage is smashing both the British and Italian (!) coverage

Ffs we have a skiathlon final on right now and BBC are showing **more** curling and ice hockey ugh

Not a Swiss gold in the men’s downhill 😒

Perfect weather for it. Pleased for them

Casual 150kph

Main events today: Men’s downhill final in 90 mins Women’s skiathlon final midday Women’s 3km speed skating final 15:00 Men’s luge final 16:00 Women’s ski jumping normal hill final 17:45 Men’s big air snowboarding final 18:30 Ice dance final 21:00

Get the weirdo yank off boooo

More kitsch yes please