Letter published in @financialtimes.com - life achievement unlocked. (Or proof that I’ve too much time on my hands - must start on a new book.)
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Translation?
may 23, 2025, 1:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Hilarious that the FT felt it had to headline your letter with "ironic". Was that just for the US readers, do you think?
may 23, 2025, 11:02 am • 1 0 • view
Come to Cambridge and help sort out our traffic problems and #Localgov structures! 🙂
may 23, 2025, 12:12 pm • 0 0 • view
😂🤣
may 23, 2025, 1:04 pm • 2 0 • view
The monied elite always try to bamboozle us lesser mortals...with cryptic, vague, ethereal nonsense ! Money is spoken of in hushed tones, kept in lofty vaulted safes, protected, guarded and entry is members only...
may 23, 2025, 9:33 am • 4 0 • view
"CARD READER" something something boutique something cheque
may 23, 2025, 9:10 am • 1 0 • view
Geneva* 👌
may 23, 2025, 9:34 am • 1 0 • view
And is the headline on your letter another crossword clue?
may 23, 2025, 7:13 am • 11 0 • view
Minute Cryptic would stand you in better stead than wordle for practice at this game. Minute Cryptic - 23 May 2025 "Two women briefly take wedding vow when one's husband is late" (5) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 I scored: 2 under par www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s...
may 23, 2025, 7:30 am • 7 1 • view
Peak merriment - very dark!
may 23, 2025, 9:06 am • 1 0 • view
Ooh, thanks! I got that!! Off to look for it.
may 23, 2025, 7:38 am • 2 0 • view
I agree fully. Most headlines are incomprehensible today, or worse, irrelevant to the story.
may 23, 2025, 7:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Huh? lol.
may 23, 2025, 4:03 pm • 0 0 • view
With advent of social media getting published in legacy media is a meh
may 23, 2025, 9:42 am • 1 0 • view
“Peter, you’ve lost the news! What have you got to say?”
may 23, 2025, 11:57 am • 2 0 • view
I once saw a newsvendor board saying "SOCCER STAR ASSAULT QUIZ" and for a moment thought what a tasteless promotion
may 23, 2025, 12:01 pm • 9 0 • view
may 24, 2025, 8:02 am • 2 0 • view
Am I sad for having understood that headline (but it stood out…)
may 23, 2025, 11:54 am • 2 0 • view
I believe the answer is "bankruptcy" ...
may 23, 2025, 10:20 am • 4 0 • view
Go you!
may 23, 2025, 10:09 am • 0 0 • view
"You can’t say that stuff. You can only type it." --Harrison Ford to George Lucas regarding the dialogue in "Star Wars."
may 23, 2025, 3:14 pm • 2 0 • view
A sequel to Sophie's journey is a wonderful place to start
may 23, 2025, 12:26 pm • 3 0 • view
my eyes are spinning at the headline! Did you get the answer?
may 23, 2025, 8:15 am • 5 0 • view
🤣 🤔 The answer must be forty-two.
may 23, 2025, 11:37 pm • 2 0 • view
I can now spend an hour finding the answer. I mean there is one surely?
may 23, 2025, 8:51 am • 9 0 • view
So, let's say the required answer is defined by "boutique lenders power". There was (due to Brexit) no real recovery post-Covid so the setter wants us to ignore this part. Then taking "deals" as an anagram indicator we get "inescapable quenck" as the boutique lenders' power 😄.
may 23, 2025, 9:45 am • 6 0 • view
Hey we all have to adjust...
may 23, 2025, 9:48 am • 1 0 • view
It takes a good West Ealing man!
may 23, 2025, 9:30 am • 0 0 • view
OMG! That's a hilarious letter. Wonderful!
may 23, 2025, 1:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Twisted flax, please ...
may 23, 2025, 1:44 pm • 4 0 • view
I've got Computer Weekly, FT, Guardian, New Scientist ... that will do me for now !
may 23, 2025, 1:40 pm • 0 0 • view
This headline letter reads like my grandfather has been reincarnated
may 23, 2025, 12:14 pm • 0 0 • view
I agree. I thought the same.
may 23, 2025, 9:20 am • 0 0 • view
However the Letters editor achieved some revenge in the header to the letter: 'ironic'
may 23, 2025, 7:18 am • 2 0 • view
The answer is "exegesis", as I'm sure most people spotted immediately. 😬
may 23, 2025, 9:27 am • 19 0 • view
I thought it was hermeneutics!
may 23, 2025, 4:39 pm • 0 0 • view
I can see why you thought that.
may 23, 2025, 5:06 pm • 1 0 • view
I was off by one letter.
may 23, 2025, 12:26 pm • 2 0 • view
🤣
may 23, 2025, 1:24 pm • 4 0 • view
Of course I tried to solve it. Lost me at Spac deals though. A British-ism perhaps?
may 23, 2025, 12:01 pm • 0 0 • view
For anyone curious what this means: “Small lending firms are fueling post-COVID growth through blank checks for scams” I’m not going to explain what a SPAC is, but it‘s…a ponzi a lot of the time
may 23, 2025, 10:50 am • 15 1 • view
Plus a candidate for the missing words round on Have I Got New For You.
may 23, 2025, 4:23 pm • 1 0 • view
Headline writers paid by the word I guess.
may 23, 2025, 4:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Is there a prize for suggesting a suitable answer?
may 23, 2025, 7:26 am • 2 0 • view
Do cryptic crosswords all the time and I can't figure out that headline either.😂
may 23, 2025, 4:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Good letter!
may 23, 2025, 2:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Well done. I’ve had several letters published by The FT.
may 23, 2025, 7:43 am • 0 0 • view
Nicely done!!
may 23, 2025, 12:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Points to you just for using the word "bamboozled."
may 23, 2025, 8:05 am • 6 0 • view
I believe that "flummoxed" would have worked equally well.
may 23, 2025, 9:44 am • 3 0 • view
Nice 👏👏👏
may 23, 2025, 10:17 am • 1 0 • view
Millennials who used teletext a lot use it often
may 23, 2025, 8:07 am • 8 0 • view
Good old Bamber!
may 23, 2025, 9:01 am • 0 0 • view
I am the liker of the beast for this post. I am sort of proud of that.
may 23, 2025, 8:38 am • 10 0 • view
I am gobsmacked
may 23, 2025, 8:42 am • 3 0 • view
How many letters is it? “spac deals” suggests, the letters SPAC are part of the anagram…
may 23, 2025, 11:41 am • 5 0 • view
may 23, 2025, 10:18 am • 38 0 • view
Can we get more details on this?
may 23, 2025, 1:07 pm • 5 0 • view
WTF?
may 23, 2025, 11:04 am • 3 0 • view