THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE SAYS IT’S ALL IN THE MIND
Hello, hello, me again. Sorry for breaching your inboxes yesterday in an unexpected fashion and thanks to all who dropped a note to say you’d voted for Steve for Professional Adviser’s Personality of the Year. Double thanks to those of you who managed to crack a joke about Steve’s personality too – all of those […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE IS SORRY YOU FEEL THAT WAY
Non-apologies are great, aren’t they? As a rhetorical device they’re hard to beat. At one stroke you can say you’ve apologised, and your interlocutor is left sputtering about how that wasn’t a proper apology, which in turn lets you come straight back with “Oh, we’re grading apologies now? Well I’m sorry you feel my apology […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE IS NOTHING IF NOT PREDICTABLE
Some people just don’t want to go messing about with irony. After the excitement of James Hay’s announcement that it plans to assimilate Nucleus, I popped onto the Twitter and hilariously asked if anyone had any thoughts on what I might cover this week. Well, I got lots of nice suggestions and now I feel […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE IS HERE FOR YOUR STONKS
Were you in? On #GME? And Dogcoin? Were ya? I’m proud to say that I took all the cash we’ve built up in the lang cat over the last 10 years, and SPANKED it straight on these STONKS because that’s what RoaringKitty told me to do. No, I didn’t, and neither did you (though Mark […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE TAKES THE LONG VIEW
Nearly done with January. And breathe. They – whoever ‘they’ are – say it’s darkest just before the dawn. This isn’t true – it’s coldest just before dawn; the lighting state is influenced primarily by lunar phase and urban light pollution – but it’s a useful way of saying that you shouldn’t be downhearted; that […]
YOU HAVE NO NEED TO PARDON THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE
No, indeed you do not, for the Update is practically perfect in every way and shines out in the darkness like…I dunno, a big shiny thing, but one which kind of has its own light rather than reflecting other light, or maybe both. That sort of shiny. Not this sort of shiny. I’m glad we’ve […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE CANNOT BE DEPLATFORMED
What a week, what a week. We are all living through stuff that will be written about in the history books here – I mean, we’re always doing that, that’s the way history works – but even so, this was a big, hairy, two-bottle week. It’s a tale of…what, exactly? Sound and fury for sure, […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE IS DIVING BACK UNDER THE DUVET
And so it came to pass that the old year ended, and the people did cautiously open their eyes on the new year’s morn, and lo they found that everything was much the same except slightly worse because of the military drum cadre playing a tattoo on the inside of their skull owing to half […]
THE LANG CAT’S ALBUMS OF 2020
First things first – you’re not expected to read this (though it’s obviously lovely if you do). I’ve done a roundup of my albums of the year every year since we started – so this is the tenth one – and it’s as much for me as for you. Strike that, it’s massively more for […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE IS OUT OF HERE
And so it’s nearly over, thank the deity of your choice. The No Fun Decade I wrote about 11.5 months ago started and self-actualised in a way very few of us could have ever have imagined, and what followed was attritional. “If you want a picture of the future,” wrote George Orwell in 1949, “imagine […]
