Frankly I think you shouldn’t even run this boilerplate bullshit quote from Osborne. www.ft.com/content/8b04... Epstein propelled investment career of UK power broker Ian Osborne

I’m generally sceptical that even good leaders in business politics wherever really have their arms around everything that is going on underneath them in big organisations. Delegating well is very important. Keir Starmer is really rebasing my assumptions about how much even half-arsed leaders know.

A scammer just tried exactly this on me via WhatsApp. Glad I saw a post here recently outlining the scam - it would be very easy to fall for. The “hotel” account had an unconvincing name, but they had my name, number & reservation dates. lifehacker.com/money/hotel-...

Oh I’ve only just noticed the same guy plays both Heathcliffe *and* the monster! I wonder if he’ll have something extremely interesting to say about the parallels on the Graham Norton show?!

Oh, posted erroneously by some halfwit staffer now was it?

Never change Norwich. Never change.

Something I’ve said with complete confidence several times this week is: Serious companies in highly regulated industries need their information and decision making to be well recorded, accessible to management and auditable. So staff can’t just go building their own software for everything!

My biggest takeaway is watch the TikTok number 6 months from now

On the “huge vibe divergence” between tech and finance on AI: Enhanced AI tools are <offering> much more to the world, but AI is also <asking> much more of investors. sherwood.news/markets/why-...

Journalists can't stop writing about this extremely unlikely penis gossip!

it’s Black History Month

"This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion King. Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt explained.

Hahahaha. This is going to be *really terrible* Dictating emails and reports rather than typing them means, as one startup selling the technology promises, you can do everything “at the speed of thought.” Coming Soon: Co-Workers Dictating Everything Into AI www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Most European bank stocks are having a bit of a rebound today - all except UBS. It's had a terrible week and I think the major reason is people are clocking it has a nasty Nazi-finance problem returning. Via @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

If you missed it, Ken Griffin of Citadel said some important things out loud this week. It's not much but it's something. www.wsj.com/business/ken...

Why are we having a burst of original gothic and what does it mean? Wuthering Heights, Frankenstein, The Bride...

*Love* Gwenno - an outstanding performer if you ever get the chance...

A selection of @Reuters headlines from the past 24 hours. It's almost as if Epstein spent all his time in northern Europe, not the US.

What a cover! Looks like a public service announcement

I thought I was done with Instagram. But they changed the algo somehow and now I get floods of early 90s breakbeat, jungle and garage classics. And earnest people talking about good records that I like. Just when I thought I was out…

Once upon a time Homer Simpson was comedy

*BLUE OWL'S LIPSCHULTZ: NO RED FLAGS IN TECH LENDING PORTFOLIO

Good job it's reputation wasn't already tainted... what's that? Oh

Executives often get acccused of refusing a takeover to protect their own jobs. Sabadell has seen its CFO and now CEO leave during and after its sucessful defence against BBVA www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Well, this looks like a real mess! A Two Sigma founder's divorce raises the stakes for the billionaire feud at the center of the giant hedge fund @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Hang on, Starmer quizzed Mandelson *through* McSweeney? 🤦‍♂️

this is vicious and correct www.economist.com/britain/2026...

UBS’s option of escaping tough Swiss rules by moving to the US has got even less likely. Credit Suisse’s role in laundering stolen wealth from Holocaust victims and aiding Nazi flight is a real risk to UBS’s reputation if handled badly. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Head of Paul Weiss gone Epstein’s fondness for elite lawyer ends in downfall www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Does kind of seem like McSweeney ought to go pretty sharpish. Not just because he was Mandy’s sponsor getting back into gov, but also as a close mentee don’t we think he might be prone to similar behaviour, networks etc?

Higher Ed finance needs a major rethink and I’d say that goes double for doctors, nurses, teachers and armed forces during their public sector careers at the very least. www.ft.com/content/82f5... Britain’s inequitable student loan system

@davelee.me here on why the software sell off is already overcooked. For @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Blisteringly good column from @rosaprince.bsky.social >> There’s a moral void at the center of the Mandelson-Epstein affair that shames more than the chief protagonists. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Software selloff goes hard. Still! A selloff in software debt has pushed billions of dollars of loans into distressed territory, rapidly repricing a market amid the threat of AI disruption. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Some of this stuff is so farcical. (Fantastic thread)

I was going to say this game was 75% niggle. But Havertz scoring at the death makes it fully 99% niggle.

Rotten. It’s grimly amusing that a reputation laundering strategy prepared for Epstein by a pr firm that I read in the docs earlier had as its first point: Distance yourself from Prince Andrew… Former prince discussed with Epstein ways to get round investment rules www.ft.com/content/6b2f...

Bands are just not hot like this anymore

Enjoying how much niggle Cucurella Is getting in this game tbh

*Wholeheartedly* agree with this. So much. Most people do need some kind of purpose, just some reason to get out of bed every day.

One* of the head scratchers here is Meta makes >13 times the revenue of SpaceX and yet it worth just 40% more? I’ll astounded if this thing IPOs anywhere near that anytime soon. *there are a lot of confusing things in this whole … thing.

SpaceX is the anti-Google! Lol at @matt-levine.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

This is very good. www.ft.com/content/3f82... The Epstein rot goes deep

No no no. You’re eating Branston pickle straight out of the jar on the end of a butter knife

I hadn’t known this. Two men who were accused of sexual abuse on the Shitty Media Men document that I created back in 2017 reached out to Michael Wolff for help as they looked to sue me, and Wolf forwarded their concerns to Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein offered to help. www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...

Watching US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Nazi Swiss bank accounts having by pure coincidence last night finished reading Marathon Man by William Goldman, a thriller about an escaped Nazi torturer and his hoard of diamonds.

this is fine

Apollo's John Zito last autumn in an investor forum: The real threat for private capital markets isn’t tariffs, inflation or elevated interest rates. “The real risk is — is software dead?” Private Equity’s Software Bet Upended by AI @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump’s First National Bank of Scams Is Coming newrepublic.com/article/2059... via @newrepublic.com