Doomed. We’re All Doomed.

On Monday I walked home past one of those Evening Standard headline boards that was yelling at me about “Black Monday”, and telling me that fifty odd billion had been wiped off global share prices. This was on a day when the FTSE had closed down about 300 points for the day. Yesterday the FTSE closed up about 200 points, and so far today it has continued to rise, and might even close marginally up…

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Update

Much to Sal’s chagrin (she calls me “clicky” if I spend more than 20 minutes hunched over the laptop of an evening), I’ve been doing a bit of work on the site recently. I’m really doing it for Sal’s benefit, as I’m anticipating a hypothetical period later this year when I might need to update the blog from internet cafes a bit so that people know what I’m up to, and so I’ve been adding…

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