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School holidays/WFH upside: chips and fish fingers for lunch. Yes, I *could* do this at other times but I don’t.

He was such a nice and kind man.

Really sad news. He was really well thought of by colleagues at the FT and was incredibly helpful to many of us over the years. My thoughts are with his family. bondvigilantes.com/blog/2026/07...

Although, when I think about, I think my parents were reasonably concerned when I moved to a rented flat in Brixton 20 years ago.

Had a boss once who had bought a lovely basement flat with a garden on a grand terrace in Notting Hill circa 1995. A decision which his parents thought was mad as it was a “rough and dangerous” area.

I’d bet the 1990s.

V good. And I’ve long thought that service costs are a much better than debt stocks. cepr.org/voxeu/column...

Yes. Watched it again last week with the eldest, who loved it. Also: his Roald Dahl films are on Netflix and superb.

About half the time I open London Centric it is another edition of “what has the comic book villain done now?”.

Good news: someone is actually reading our thought leadership documents, rather than just the executive summary. Bad news: it is mostly to check for AI slop.

Chef’s kiss stuff

The A/C discussion summarised. We didn’t need it and now we do.

Lovely take. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...

Couldn’t resist.

And really nice to see Crawley having a good innings.

Harry Brook being Harry.

This is a fun Hundred match. World class fast bowlers and world class batters.

Sensible policy klaxon 🚨 Currently, if a 16 year old chooses to stay in school/college, their family can keep claiming benefits as before (notably child benefit). If they opt for an apprenticeship, the benefits stop. The system discourages apprenticeships. The DWP just announced a fix 🧵

Took me three children to learn that you don’t have to go to Clarks to discover a child’s shoe size.

Incredibly variable quality in that series. I always suggest people start with the Eisenhorn novels instead.