YT has thrown up this 4 year old video.
The bit at 11.44 is…errr…interesting considering where we are now.
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New game from wordle inventor
Not sure it’s newsworthy but a pretty amazing way of learning how cryptic crosswords are put together 
What an absolute shit show this all is. Israel have bombed the South Par gas field without consulting America (twice) and Trump is losing his mind.
Iran then bombed a Qatar gas plant (they weren’t even involved).
Trump has eased sanctions on Russian oil too. Giving Russia more money to fight Ukraine and help (with China) arm Iran to fight America!!!
Trump is also saying he now wants to invade Cuba, while Russia are sending oil ships to Cuba to help with their energy shortage, as they are besties, remember that whole Cuban Missile Crisis? Trump doesn’t seem too.
Thank fuck Europe has side stepped this one (so far).
Covering up the files well
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I really feel this war will be the downfall of trump.
Oil prices in US up 30%. When average Americans feel the pinch they expect change.
There’s certainly going to be some heavy global repercussions though.
Pretty happy a lot of thr EU and other countries have not jumped at getting involved.
The israeli goverment deserves s good slapping too.
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The price of petrol is everything in the US. Agree this will not be good for him. Or anyone else except maybe Putin
His actual nazi war minister guy scares me. Starship Troopers vibes
3 hour compilation a few Johnny Harris videos on the Middle East. They’re really good. Haven’t got all the way through yet, so I’ve no idea if there’s any mention of Said Qutub who was the original anti-US / anti-western Islamic extremist, featured in The Power of Nightmares, as that’s an important parallel story.
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Thought it was a Chuck Norris joke at first… RIP.
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Yep, we were fucking fucked now!
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His book ‘Milestones’ is worth reading.
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A fairly clear explanation of the situation
5 year fixed is up on the mortgage in August and reading up on everything it feels like we it’s gonna be a shit show getting our next fixed rate.
Yeah bleak, we got stung when Liz Truss torpedoed the market.
Think you can fix in your renewal up to 6 months in advance - may be wrong tho.
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Yeah you can, gonna start looking sharpish!
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A fixed rate is always a gamble. Two or three years down the line interest rates might be higher and if you’ve fixed now you could be quids in. Or rates could be lower and you’ll be paying over the odds until the end of your term.
Weird take. Its literally the opposite of a gamble. You’re making an informed decision that you factor into your budget and outgoings for 5 years. Id much rather fix (and have done for the last 15 years Ive had a mortgage) than wonder what my monthly payment will be when a walking petri dish of gonhorrea and fake tan is tanking the global economy and fucking oil prices sky high with every tweet
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Agree with @BDF
They are a little more expensive but that’s the price you pay for certainty.
Also if interest rates are at 4%, they could go down to 3%. The most them go down to is, what, 0.1%? But what about the other direction? I remember when they were at 6%, and in 91 they were at 15%!
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It’s an informed gamble.
You pay a little extra and you get 5 years of certainty.
But if rates drop, as they have in the past year or two, you end up paying a lot more than you otherwise would.
Against that, if rates rise, as they might do if the Middle East situation escalates, you’ll be glad you fixed.
The banks will have their analysts making predictions so that they stand the best chance of not losing profits with the fixed rates they offer. But no one really knows for certain whether you’re going to win or lose by fixing your rate now.