Andy Burnham, the UK Premier in waiting, has laid out his vision and plan for the UK. It didn’t scare the horses and contains some interesting ideas. What it didn’t answer about some of the big issues and “courageous” spending decisions is worrying. But the idea of moving the centre of UK political gravity out of London is inspired. Who knows… it might even work!

Poor old Sir Keir Starmer. Wrong man in the wrong job. So much hope now squandered. But its important not to over-think or over-worry what comes next. In Gilts there is truth and the 10-year yield is still south of 5%. Andy Burnham needs to prove himself a leader and demonstrate ideas and action. Is that too much to ask?

Reform has persuaded UK citizens their dismal lives are due to immigrants, but the truth is far more prosaic. The quality of life in the UK’s big cities is tumbling due to chronic under-investment over decades, while the plight of young workers in finding accommodation security to build careers and families is the real policy failure.

As the Dow pokes 40K, markets remain exuberantly frothy! Labour produces a list of 6 priorities designed to reassure voters they aren’t rampaging social-communist revolutionaries intent on overturning everything, (Keir Starmer? really?) demonstrating instead their intent to be better Tories than the Tories. Disappointing. They missed the critical issue, Housing, from their list.

The unaffordability of housing and rents is a warning the West is heading for a Crisis of Inequality. While the rich get richer on booming markets, workers increasingly struggle with debt, taxes and accommodation – something has to give.  

The widening gulf in the outlook for the US and UK economies is stark. UK housing and the mortgage markets are a rising threat – but maybe we are looking at the all the wrong things as the Climate Crisis (oh, yes, remember that) comes back into focus.

It wasn’t Kwasi’s fault. It was the pinko Media that crushed sterling, The Bank of England and these nasty Remoaners murdered Gilts – says the man shorting sterling… If it wasn’t so serious it would make a brilliant comedy. Perhaps it will.