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AKA The Long march through the Institutions, via the Frankfurt School.

Was just looking at that on my HL account ex dividend date is 17/04/25 - payment date is 16/06/2025

Yes, but the capacity and infrastructure/manpower is not there in Europe any longer. Our manufacturing base has been hollowed out over the past fifty years , (hanks to the Chinese Trojan Horse of cheap everything) and to a great extent also the USA's . Look at Germany, the linchpin of European manufacturing; so dependent, as I said here at the start of this war, on dirt cheap Russian gas, and then surpise, surprise, Nord Stream 2 was put out. So much Slavic blood being shed on both sides. Time to sue for peace.

Heavens! I thought we'd have pulled back by today. An embarrassement of riches, (well almost) having bought in at 1.35 - and that number brought down by a few trades lucky trades on the pullbacks, so I still haven't worked it out the average. So anyroadup the best part, is that my nephew and his squeeze, put in a lot when it was at around 300 on the back end and start of the financial year I think via their ISAs - on the advice of their uncle O.. but credit where it's due I wouldn't have stayed the course without the input of Nettles the Cat and Cap'n Svend..thank you.

Well, it's my birhtday on the 27th March .. and I'm not saying which birthday!.. supposedly the day Rachael in accounts, (or was it Ed Millpede?) makes the big announcement about at SMR? Not a very original observation, but some big players have surely made a nice load of dosh shorting our RR in the past few days, again.

India's PM Modi, speaking at the WH with Trump a short while ago, mentioned their commitment to SMR'S.

I'm dreaming of a White Christmas me

Well, I was about to chip in earlier with my habitual pearl of wisdom observation, fill your boots, not your pants..!

Trump won.

President Trump's DJT stock is up bigly this evening : 9.82%

Retirment_Plan, Re your speculation as to whether CGT is only for NON-ISA - it certainly is, for the moment at at rate. It's the only means by which I hold equities, apart from an intentionally smaller SIPP holding. Though heaven knows what this gang of daylight robbers have planned. We'll find out soon enough.

CCUS - so that certain groups in the West, may delude themselves that they are being ever so virtuous over their "clean/green" agenda. Meanwhile, fossil fuel use in the BRICKS, region and beyond, is going full steam ahead (you should pardon the expression). Doubt they're the least bit concerned about the carbon capture angle there. Just a brief example of the mindset below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7tC88X5Ji4

This, on the day the last coal-fired power plant closed down in Nottinghamshire. Not to mention the closure today of the UK's biggest steelworks in Port Talbot, all in the name of the net zero lunacy. Beggars belief.

Let's hope the Dow keeps this momentum going. By the way never heard of this George Ezra, darn good..

Well I said here long ago, fill your boots, not your pants!

Aeoninvestor

Thank you, and my apologies for a previous spelling mistake: mediocrity.

Nick Dixon:

Starmer is a managerial midwit.

A brittle man of winter.

A dead-eyed shark pushing ever forward towards his next grim,

mechanical task.

You could coax Shakespeare himself down from the heavens to tell him

of all of England's beauty and he would only be annoyed that you had kept

him from his busywork.

He is a ruddy-faced nothing, an interloper.

To call him a traitor flatters him, as the traiter surely has some sense of

his own wrongdoing. Starmer lacks the imagination to arrive even at the

foothilss of his own wretchedness.

His emptiness could fill enitre stadia.

He is the final form of managerial man, signing Britain's death warrant

before lunch and never thinking about it twice.

To detest him is normal, yet pointless.

Hatred slides off him like water off some cheap synthetic fabric.

He is the blank-faced destroyer of joy, freedom and invention. He is

death on prescription, equally distributed.

He is nameless dread, the void, the negation that cannont be negated.

He is the end of hope.

In short, I am not a fan.

It's always a good day when it stays up! ...Oohh Matron!

Exactly, some jokers here and on the other side of the pond are making real money today. I should have just kept on trading this mother..

Only joking..

Same here, a lot of nice profits gone south lately. Someone mentioned issues with the banks pulling everything down;

but they want cackling Kamala, in the WH real bad on several fronts. I would think they'll keep the markets up till the US elections on 5th November at least, but what do I know..