With Christmas and New Year well and truly over, it seems like a good time to remind you that we are holding an in-person event in Cambridge on 28 February 2026, which is now open for booking.
The booking link is here.
Bookings are going well: we're covering direct costs now. However, we still have plenty available if you're interested in coming from 12.30 to 5.30, with three sessions: one on the current state of the economy, another on how bond markets work and why we need them, and a final session called "Ask me anything (within reason)".
There are three things to emphasise:
- The discounted rate for young people is £30. They are those aged 18 to 24.
- People under 18 can only attend with an adult for safeguarding reasons.
- There is a discount for those of retirement age or on benefits, but please only use it if it is appropriate.
I look forward to seeing you there.
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This feels like very good timing as we slide into ever more difficult times.
It will be good to be amongst people of like mind.
I know many people who protest “against” but few who have solutions, and I also feel rather surrounded by people who cannot face looking at the reality of where we are, let alone do anything about it, even at a personal level…gaily using Amazon, buying ridiculous cars etc, etc – people who otherwise are caring, intelligent, concerned, kind. People who don’t want to engage because they find it too depressing….understandable that they wish to protect their mental health so I don’t wish to judge….
Many, of course, are so pressed just keeping everything together that they don’t have the bandwidth for anything else.
I’d be the first to admit that I’m a hopeless campaigner, especially alone….much better with co conspirators!
I’m sure that for many of the community on this blog it will be beneficial to spend time with people who do want to engage and who knows what might come of this!?
Looking forward to it!
Thanks.
See you there.
You may have the shortest distance to travel.
with regret and apologies, as a student of life (I’m in my 80s), and living in north Derbyshire, I will not attend – I will ask you in advance how do I counter old age?’ – my answer would be that your blogs keep my mind active.
Thanks and 🙂
Hello again Richard. Judith B’s comment about the pleasures of meeting like-minded people prompted me research transport options between Glasgow & Cambridge. Unlike Judith, my journey would be far… and also far from easy. But, my Which Magazine alerted me to a National Rail Sale happening this week ‘which’ may be of interest to any readers contemplating a less convoluted travel plan than mine. Valid for travel up to 25th March, supposedly my ticket between Glasgow & Manchester would cost £8.30. ( https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/great-british-rail-sale/ ). I gave up trying to buy at that bargain price after being redirected to a bewildering choice of 31 ‘retailers’, with only 1 making refrence to the National Rail Sale (TrainLine.com). Also, that ticket price was ONLY for the 04:50AM train. I’m an early riser… but NOT to catch a train that ungodly hour! I’ll try and find a human in Central station to help me.
My experience with those websites brought to mind your post last week ‘Older Consumers are Rejecting the Market’. Like yourself Richard, I drive a second-hand Volvo, now 23 years old, and at 120-thousand miles, just run in. Even although it’s dual-fuel is LPG (clean & cheap thanks to lower excise duty), I doubt it’s 76 year old driver could withstand the 650 mile round trip to Cambridge.
Like Clive Parry, my all-time favourite car was a Triumph Herald Convertible which my wife & I named Genevieve. ‘Jenny’ took us on climbing trips all over Scotland… back in the days when long-distance driving was not a problem. Again, like Tim Rideout, nowadays I have my bus pass (courtesy of ScotGov) and use it to visit various Apple stores, where they try to teach me the rudiments of technology. Btw, I highly recommend their training !
If I do find my way to your Conference, I’ll be sure to sport my 45-year old Rohan Bags. Those trousers travelled the world on me when I was a slim young man. Happily I kept them, and now they still clothe the skinny old Friend that I’ve become. Between those times, I’ve stuck with the Rohan brand, mainly because it is very quick-drying in our rainy Scottish climate. Expensive… but they LAST!
Happy bird watching this weekend. I too take great pleasure in feeding and watching our garden birds. Judith B is right about readers of your blog being like-minded.
I am 8n Edinburgh on 21 March. Details to follow….as a guest speaker.