Edwin Hayward
@edwinhayward
Author and commentator. Book: 'Slaying Brexit Unicorns'. Busy AI coding. Topics: AI & fun geeky stuff, Brexit & UK politics. Expect facts & stats, sarcasm and gallows humour. Handy tools: Me:
What's the difference between my tiny Stocks and Shares ISA portfolio, and a multi billion dollar hedge fund run by a 24-year old whizz kid? I bought my shares using actual money not borrowed margin, so I didn't have to dump everything at the very bottom yesterday. Up 21% today.
Could one reason for the declining birth rate in the UK be the huge cost of raising a child, which seems to be from £200,000 to £300,000 by age 18? That's a vast chunk of change to find at a time of constrained earnings and huge cost of living pressures. (AI data below.)
Beware of scam ads that send you to fake websites designed to trick you. The scam ads can be embedded in normal apps or websites. They look superficially innocuous, but hijack your click and send you to the scam site. Example: this fake Apple warning. Probably wants to install a virus.
Final Starmer u-turn coming? Go out as he came in, by disappointing people. And why not. It's not as if he can polish the turd of the last two years with days to go until his departure. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Storm in a teacup, or the real deal? Will we finally be rid of the scourge of Farage?
Claude Fable is amazing. The summary below is the result of a long session it spent deep diving into some code for me. Opus 4.8 and ChatGPT-5.5 had failed to spot any of the residual problems. Fable went through them like a chainsaw through butter.
Compounding is magical! £1,000 invested in the MSCI World Index when it was created 56 years ago would be worth £266,000 today. After inflation, £1,000 in 1969 is £14,948 today. So your return above inflation would still be over £250,000. Invest while you're young. Future you will thank you.
Alf Dubbs is half right. Mahmood deserves to be in a different party, not in a different cabinet role. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Starmer goes out with a dog whistle on immigration. A premiership bookended by "islands of strangers", and "migration has long been a cause for concern" has been an absolute gift to Reform. Good riddance. Let's hope Burnham's got his head screwed on right. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
My best recent performing stock is an Austrian company I rarely see being discussed on social media. This isn't meant as financial advice btw. I genuinely find it interesting that there's immense chatter around other stocks, and yet some rockets go almost completely overlooked.
The special relationship continues to pay dividends for Starmer. It's so lucky he granted Trump an unprecedented second state visit.
Claude Fable 5 is extraordinary. The AI coded this Nebula Strike space shoot-em-up in a single pass. Multiple distinct waves and enemy types, a swathe of different weapons, challenge stages, boss fights, and much more. Try it for yourself at the link below... aitest.neocities.org/nebula-strike
Imagine accidentally buying Neste stock instead of Nestle a year ago, then losing track of it. What a great surprise that would be!
This is the most extraordinary one day move I've seen a non-penny stock make in the 3 months I've been investing. It's a combination of a new partnership with GlobalFoundries, and a potential near future US stock listing.
This is not just theory. I've experienced the heat. (I realise now that I'd have done even better just buying the two ETFs I mentioned, but I wanted to try my hand at picking individual AI and space sector stocks as well. Still, I'll never complain about 44% returns!)
Spent a productive couple of days rearranging my Stocks and Shares ISA portfolio into thematic pies in Trading 212. Researched each of the sectors, moved relevant stocks I already owned into the right pies, and decided which other stocks to hold in them. Rebalancing's primed for tomorrow.
It's one of those days where there's not a lot of green to be found. Hope your own portfolio is faring better!
Hamish de Bretton-Gordon has written the most ignorant paragraph I've seen from any Telegraph writer this year. Where does the paper find these oxygen thieves? In reality an estimated 100,000 people died of the effects of radiation after the two bombs were dropped. archive.ph/H376D
ATX (AXTI) is an extraordinary stock. Up over 8000% this year. That's eighty times! Up close to 100% in the last month. Every time you think it can't go higher, it manages to. (Purely FYI. Not investment advice. All things MUST end eventually. Don't risk money you can't afford to lose. etc.)
Starmer has finally come to the same realisation I have been warning about for years: if a Labour government lets in Reform at the next election, that will be deemed an unforgivable error. Essentially the end of the Labour party if it happens. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
If you've not been paying attention today, Labour's losses have mounted as more council results came in. They're now down by close to 1,500 seats, very substantially worse than the picture last night when many councils still had to declare.
Catherine West, who just declared she will challenge Starmer for the leadership if he's not ousted by next week, was once fired by Corbyn for trying to keep the UK in the single market. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-poli...
I wrote this article in 2023, a year before the last general election. It's even more relevant now. medium.com/@edwinhaywar...
That pesky EU, forcing farmers not to poison their crops... Where's the commonsensical British freedom to give consumers as much cancer as they like? www.theguardian.com/environment/...