RickChasey
@rickchasey.bsky.social
Still a City worker, still following cycling too much like a religion.
Now has more opinions on ESG & sustainable investing than your average.
Now has more opinions on ESG & sustainable investing than your average.
You really can’t do club cycling with young children.
Around 5 minutes from home, encountered a club run *setting off*
You’d need to have a **very** understanding other half and be pretty selfish.
Around 5 minutes from home, encountered a club run *setting off*
You’d need to have a **very** understanding other half and be pretty selfish.
November 30, 2025 at 9:45 AM
You really can’t do club cycling with young children.
Around 5 minutes from home, encountered a club run *setting off*
You’d need to have a **very** understanding other half and be pretty selfish.
Around 5 minutes from home, encountered a club run *setting off*
You’d need to have a **very** understanding other half and be pretty selfish.
To give a non-BlueSky take:
I know * a lot* of people who are furious about lifting the 2 child cap and think Labour only ever represent people who don’t want to work.
Like, genuinely pissed off.
I know * a lot* of people who are furious about lifting the 2 child cap and think Labour only ever represent people who don’t want to work.
Like, genuinely pissed off.
It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.
Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
November 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
To give a non-BlueSky take:
I know * a lot* of people who are furious about lifting the 2 child cap and think Labour only ever represent people who don’t want to work.
Like, genuinely pissed off.
I know * a lot* of people who are furious about lifting the 2 child cap and think Labour only ever represent people who don’t want to work.
Like, genuinely pissed off.
*newspapers are mainly read by the retired. *
*They sell to their audience*
*They sell to their audience*
The predictable crushing uniformity of the coverage of this Budget tells you an awful lot about the priorities of those papers, and also why there's actually quite a lot to praise in it bylinetimes.com/2025/11/26/t...
November 27, 2025 at 10:24 AM
*newspapers are mainly read by the retired. *
*They sell to their audience*
*They sell to their audience*
Judging by the reaction in my office, I’m not entirely sure it is overlooked
"The budget was further proof of a strangely overlooked fact in British politics: Ms Reeves is a chancellor in the most economically left-wing government of the past five decades."
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
Britain’s left-wing government is left-wing
An obvious fact. But still an overlooked one
www.economist.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Judging by the reaction in my office, I’m not entirely sure it is overlooked
A little sad that my most liked post (a very low bar, I grant you) is just straight up slagging off farmers.
Just goes to show.
Just goes to show.
November 27, 2025 at 8:37 AM
A little sad that my most liked post (a very low bar, I grant you) is just straight up slagging off farmers.
Just goes to show.
Just goes to show.
lol.
Lads (it’s Switzerland, it’s definitely lads).
Have you look in your own country recently?
Lads (it’s Switzerland, it’s definitely lads).
Have you look in your own country recently?
Swiss euphoria at securing lower US trade tariffs has given way to a backlash over “oligarch diplomacy” and the role executives played from companies including Rolex and Richemont. on.ft.com/48i4mL4
November 27, 2025 at 6:47 AM
lol.
Lads (it’s Switzerland, it’s definitely lads).
Have you look in your own country recently?
Lads (it’s Switzerland, it’s definitely lads).
Have you look in your own country recently?
👍🏻 as you were.
Fighting over your slice of the pie
Fighting over your slice of the pie
Damning line from the OBR this: "We have assessed that none of the policy measures in this Budget have a sufficiently material impact to justify adjusting our post-measures potential output forecast."
Ie it's a budget which does nothing new for growth.
Ie it's a budget which does nothing new for growth.
November 26, 2025 at 12:51 PM
👍🏻 as you were.
Fighting over your slice of the pie
Fighting over your slice of the pie
Fair to say this is moronic governance & politics.
Lots of headlines crossing from the UK budget but an explicit hand on the scales to favor ICE auto sales jumps out to me.
*UK TO FREEZE FUEL DUTY RATES UNTIL SEPT. 2026: OBR
*UK TO INTRODUCE MILEAGE-BASED CHARGE ON EVS FROM 2028: OBR
*UK TO FREEZE FUEL DUTY RATES UNTIL SEPT. 2026: OBR
*UK TO INTRODUCE MILEAGE-BASED CHARGE ON EVS FROM 2028: OBR
November 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Fair to say this is moronic governance & politics.
If you were long gilts you absolutely shat the bed for about 10 minutes
November 26, 2025 at 12:36 PM
If you were long gilts you absolutely shat the bed for about 10 minutes
It is curious as, in my job, I’ve witnessed a lot of self censorship related to the current US government from people, and I do find it, as a professional and hobbyist gobshite, remarkable.
Whatever the govt is doing to generate this behaviour, it’s pretty successful at it.
Whatever the govt is doing to generate this behaviour, it’s pretty successful at it.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 11:04 AM
It is curious as, in my job, I’ve witnessed a lot of self censorship related to the current US government from people, and I do find it, as a professional and hobbyist gobshite, remarkable.
Whatever the govt is doing to generate this behaviour, it’s pretty successful at it.
Whatever the govt is doing to generate this behaviour, it’s pretty successful at it.
One of the mysteries of life I will never understand is the absolutely massive popularity of Star Wars.
It was….fine?
It was….fine?
November 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
One of the mysteries of life I will never understand is the absolutely massive popularity of Star Wars.
It was….fine?
It was….fine?
Err no.
'I'm not a superhero, I'm just a normal guy': Tadej Pogačar insists he's a regular person who simply wants to win Paris-Roubaix
www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/im-no...
www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/im-no...
'I'm not a superhero, I'm just a normal guy': Tadej Pogačar insists he's a regular person who simply wants to win Paris-Roubaix
Roubaix and Milan-San Remo major targets for 2026, says the Slovenian, who says he isn't about to run out of motivation any time soon
www.cyclingweekly.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Err no.
This bond market chat has taken a life of its own.
*Your borrowing costs matter and are a material expenditure, and will impinge on your spending ability on the future*
*Your borrowing costs matter and are a material expenditure, and will impinge on your spending ability on the future*
@zackpolanski.bsky.social on the importance of spending multipliers & borrowing to invest
Zack is, without doubt, a great communicator. And on him talking about democracy & the bond markets I'm reminded of Eddie Dempsey at the Durham Miners Gala when he asked "who elected the bond market?"
Zack is, without doubt, a great communicator. And on him talking about democracy & the bond markets I'm reminded of Eddie Dempsey at the Durham Miners Gala when he asked "who elected the bond market?"
November 24, 2025 at 11:06 AM
This bond market chat has taken a life of its own.
*Your borrowing costs matter and are a material expenditure, and will impinge on your spending ability on the future*
*Your borrowing costs matter and are a material expenditure, and will impinge on your spending ability on the future*
A lot going on here.
Maybe someone who is actually close to the working class, rather than an unaccomplished academic with a petty bourgeois background, could make sense
November 23, 2025 at 5:31 PM
A lot going on here.
Don’t pick up parts of your hob within 30s of having it on full blast for about 15 mins.
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November 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Don’t pick up parts of your hob within 30s of having it on full blast for about 15 mins.
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😫
This November has not been the one
November 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
This November has not been the one
So there was this thing just before I graduated, called, at various times, the credit crunch, the great financial crash and, eventually, the Great Recession.
So despite being straight As and getting a first….🤷🏻♂️
So despite being straight As and getting a first….🤷🏻♂️
November 22, 2025 at 11:03 PM
So there was this thing just before I graduated, called, at various times, the credit crunch, the great financial crash and, eventually, the Great Recession.
So despite being straight As and getting a first….🤷🏻♂️
So despite being straight As and getting a first….🤷🏻♂️
Had a legit Radiohead ticket for tonight in my online basket for £429 but ultimately decided that was far too much 😔
November 22, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Had a legit Radiohead ticket for tonight in my online basket for £429 but ultimately decided that was far too much 😔
I see cloudfare is down
November 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I see cloudfare is down
How is this not obvious to everyone?
Trigger warning.
“In crashes, SUVs are more likely to strike vital organs in the core of adults’ bodies & heads of children. Hitting pedestrians above their center of gravity means they’re more likely to be knocked forward & down and then be driven over.”
Plus more likely to hit in the 1st place.
“In crashes, SUVs are more likely to strike vital organs in the core of adults’ bodies & heads of children. Hitting pedestrians above their center of gravity means they’re more likely to be knocked forward & down and then be driven over.”
Plus more likely to hit in the 1st place.
November 18, 2025 at 8:05 AM
How is this not obvious to everyone?
NGL, gotta hold the line at school pick up; can quite easily see how it radicalises you.
Bunch of absolute cretinous parents, accosting governors and teachers, their children obviously the same, and loudly making it obvious they’re surviving off social security(in as many words).
Horrendous.
Bunch of absolute cretinous parents, accosting governors and teachers, their children obviously the same, and loudly making it obvious they’re surviving off social security(in as many words).
Horrendous.
November 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
NGL, gotta hold the line at school pick up; can quite easily see how it radicalises you.
Bunch of absolute cretinous parents, accosting governors and teachers, their children obviously the same, and loudly making it obvious they’re surviving off social security(in as many words).
Horrendous.
Bunch of absolute cretinous parents, accosting governors and teachers, their children obviously the same, and loudly making it obvious they’re surviving off social security(in as many words).
Horrendous.
Lads, it’s not the platforms.
Things are demonstrably not as good as they used to be.
People need to stop with the “sheeple” argument and wonder why the nasty politics is landing.
Hint: things are shit and a shortage of stuff is facilely blamed on more people joining queue aka immigrantion
Things are demonstrably not as good as they used to be.
People need to stop with the “sheeple” argument and wonder why the nasty politics is landing.
Hint: things are shit and a shortage of stuff is facilely blamed on more people joining queue aka immigrantion
The real issue isn’t immigration, it’s the feedback loop: platforms amplify anxiety → voters feel it → politicians chase it → hollow policy follows. Until we break that cycle, we won’t get functional decisions or functional democracy.
November 17, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Lads, it’s not the platforms.
Things are demonstrably not as good as they used to be.
People need to stop with the “sheeple” argument and wonder why the nasty politics is landing.
Hint: things are shit and a shortage of stuff is facilely blamed on more people joining queue aka immigrantion
Things are demonstrably not as good as they used to be.
People need to stop with the “sheeple” argument and wonder why the nasty politics is landing.
Hint: things are shit and a shortage of stuff is facilely blamed on more people joining queue aka immigrantion
Did their LLM’s confuse Black Mirror as a utopian drama rather than dystopian?
November 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Did their LLM’s confuse Black Mirror as a utopian drama rather than dystopian?
You can tell in the comments that not many of these people have done business in Switzerland 😬
To negotiate a trade deal with the President of the United States, the Swiss government arrived with a "special Rolex desktop clock" and "a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar"
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
www.axios.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
You can tell in the comments that not many of these people have done business in Switzerland 😬