WW3 Watch: Fintech factors
Inquiring minds want to know what’s what with Revolut, the British challenger bank with a reputation for saying “yes you can definitely have an account”. Talk at a Polish City Club event last night flagged the prominent display of a pro Ukrainian graphic on Revolut’s Twitter account and the impassioned statement put out by founders: […]
WW3 Watch: The Polish perspective
Last night I had the pleasure of attending a Polish City Club event in honour of professor Zbigniew Pelczynski, hosted by a number of prominent Poles from the London diaspora. Also attending was Poland’s new ambassador to the UK, Piotr Wilczek, Greg Hands, the UK minister of state for business, energy and clean growth and […]
WW3 Watch: Counter cyber activity and DSMA
Few media practitioners seem to have spotted that in November 2021, the Defence and Security Media Advisory (DSMA) Committee, which was previously known as the Defence Advisory Notice system until 2017, updated some of its standing notices, mostly with fresh references to cyber activities. The DSMA system is based on a voluntary code and consists […]
In the Blind Spot today
From the Blind Spot: Covid modelling that prompted first UK lockdown based on ‘inaccurate’ case numbers – Telegraph. (More evidence that the report that panicked the world into economic self-harm was based on flawed assumptions.) Fraud and embezzlement allegations at Austrian packaging company Schur Flexibles involving luxury Mayfair properties – FT. Albert Edwards on Recession […]
WW3 Watch: Moscow as the Third Rome
Important disclaimer: Things are happening so incredibly quickly it’s hard to do detailed and verified analysis. And it’s worth bearing in mind that this is true for all journalists not just me. I don’t want to add to unverified noise and kneejerk hysterical reaction so I’m flagging here that I will occasionally be using WW3 […]
WW3 Watch: The first casualty of war is the truth
Too much to say, not enough bandwidth. So here’s Russell Brand who pretty much sums it up I think. The comments are worth a gander too. Obviously I’m hugely sympathetic for the Ukrainian people who are just pawns in the whole mess. But I’m equally concerned about what the media messaging is doing to people’s […]
WW3 Watch: Can we trust in benign Western paternalism?
There’s a lot going on today. More than any one brain can process quite frankly. We are all going to be stunned with too much information flow and I don’t want to add to the noise. But I think there are a few important points that need stressing to do with hybrid information war and […]
WW3 Watch: The Mavrodi pyramid connection
As everyone reading this blog hopefully knows, I am not a military tactician or geopolitical expert. Most of my military insight comes from studying ancient historical battles, a brief excursion to Afghanistan during which time I got to hang out with mercenaries and about four years dating a British army officer (during which time I […]
Stuff I’ve been reading (Moderna)
From the “Fake News” zone: Daily Mail reports: “Scientists find virus contains tiny chunk of DNA that matches sequence patented by Moderna THREE YEARS before pandemic began”. The patent referenced is for a Moderna cancer treatment and the genetic match relates to the all important furin cleavage, which is the bit of the SARS-COV-2 virus […]
Stuff I’ve been reading (Novavax, PayPal and Trudeau)
(Some of these links are stale because I’ve been half-terming it, but I’ve included them anyway for commentary and record-keeping purposes.) Finance and markets: Perry Mehrling gathers a bunch of high-level money geeks for his 2022 “Money View” symposium. I was one of them. It’s been a bad week in markets. The disconnect between public […]