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David White
@dpenberthy.bsky.social
A dedicated follower
The winter solstice celebrated by John Donne
December 21, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Tranching of loan structures - junk bonds in other words. When will the financial world ever learn?
October 22, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Jonathan Swift's suggestions for tax self-assessment:
October 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
As an old buffer myself I couldn’t resist modifying the front page headlines of today’s i newspaper
October 15, 2025 at 1:18 PM
He brought us the trumpery moonshine of Brexit
October 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM
@bsky.app

Aldeburgh always
October 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
And so say all of us
September 19, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Daily Mail circulation in 1997 was 2.3m - the population of Birmingham. Today it is 687,000 - the population of Zagreb.
September 4, 2025 at 9:19 AM
David Lipsey's gallant defence of the Wilson government in the Oxford University undergraduate newspaper Cherwell before its defeat on June 18 1970 says all that you need to know about him - a thoroughly honest and humane man. For me, a mourned New Society colleague.
July 4, 2025 at 8:13 PM
The president’s chances of a Nobel peace prize are growing day by day
June 18, 2025 at 6:42 AM
With the thoughts you’ll be thinking
You could be another Lincoln
If you only had a brain.
June 17, 2025 at 9:33 AM
The only undefended frontier in the world - so no need for a special military operation by Agent Orange
June 1, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Whoops
May 14, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Who else has small hands?
May 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
April 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Homer (Simpson) nods
April 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
It has HAS happened. For the Agent Orange, Donald Trump, read Berzelius 'Buzz' Windrip
April 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
How trade wars end
April 4, 2025 at 8:03 PM
March 27, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Sunset in Kent
March 15, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Lest one forgets...

Frederick Forsyth "The Outsider"
March 11, 2025 at 10:39 PM
March 11, 2025 at 10:27 PM
A wraparound on every UK newspaper. The government MUST take note and act!
February 25, 2025 at 10:24 AM
February 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Bertrand Russell shows how the UK should respond, politely, to Trump, Vance and the Muskrats.
February 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM