@aliunwin

Fund Manager at Polar Capital. Views my own.

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Joined March 2009
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With an announcement on Finnish NATO membership expected today, here's my piece from Helsinki on their astonishing levels of preparedness telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/05…

Inside the nuclear bunkers that will protect Finland’s citizens from war

We take a tour of Helsinki’s fortifications with an eye on a possible Russian invasion as it prepares to join Nato

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Estonia has the best education system in Europe, according to the OECD. I went to Tallin to find out why. This is my piece for @TimesMagazine @TimesEducation #EducationCommission thetimes.co.uk/article/want-…
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The poet for “these times of fear / This melancholy waste of hopes o’erthrown” amp.economist.com/prospero/2…

William Wordsworth was the supreme bard of nature and solitude

Two hundred and fifty years after his birth, he remains a poet “of blessed consolations in distress”

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Fair seed-time had my soul, and I grew up Foster'd alike by beauty and by fear; Much favour'd in my birthplace, and no less In that beloved Vale to which, erelong, I was transplanted. Happy birthday William Wordsworth, born 7 April 1770, 250 years ago #OnThisDay
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PSA for @TheTerminal users. Country-by-country COVID-19 cases, deaths and recoveries are now available on the Bloomberg. 430 indices in total.
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Why has Italy proven so much more susceptible to corona epidemic? Fascinating hypothesis of @kuhnmo that problem is number of middle-aged people stuck living at home with parents due to economic stagnation -> more intergenerational transmission which is disastrous with #COVID-19
Moritz Kuhn@kuhnmo13 Mar 2020
Replying to @christianbaye13
@christianbaye13 & me have been thinking about the big differences in mortality rates so far during the corona outbreak in Europe. The differences in case-fatality rates are humongous. Italy has one of 6% while countries like Norway, Denmark & Germany have rates still close to 0.
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📅 25th December 2019 🏷 @Holly_Williamss
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Hunters in the Snow (Winter) by Pieter Brueghel the Elder 1565 Oil on Wood (Kunsthistorisches Museum) #iceandsnowpainters
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Bello: Latin America’s second “lost decade” is not as bad as the first economist.com/the-americas/2… via @TheEconomist

Latin America’s second “lost decade” is not as bad as the first

The 2010s have seen stagnation, but not all is gloom

economist.com
This story was fairly hideous to write. Please read, share and above all donate... dailymail.co.uk/news/article…

ROBERT COLVILE lost his wife to a little-known disease five months ago

ROBERT COLVILE: More than £100,000 has been raised to study autoimmune hepatitis after his wife Andrea Colvile died from the disease in February and left her family heartbroken.

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General Election polling is a bit of a dog's dinner. Poll watchers much better off waiting until 31 October until drawing firm conclusions on what might happen....
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Quite a chart
Ali Unwin retweeted
Ed Cumming@edcumming5 Sep 2019
Adam Nicolson's book on Coleridge and Wordsworth is madly good theguardian.com/books/2019/m…

The Making of Poetry by Adam Nicolson review – when Coleridge met the Wordsworths

This investigation into the birth of the Romantic movement is the perfect marriage of poetry and place

theguardian.com
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Pleased to see such as thing as the 'Golden Peacock Award for Risk Management' exists
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This seems unlikely?
scientificamerican.com/artic… do Whales and Dolphins Sleep Without Drowning? via @sciam

How do Whales and Dolphins Sleep Without Drowning?

Bruce Hecker, director of husbandry at the South Carolina Aquarium in Charleston, S.C., provides an answer that gives new meaning to the expression "half asleep."

scientificamerican.com
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In which I introduce my first ever podcast and, in the way of these things, speak far too fast and with emphasis in weird places. Broadcasters, you earn all your money
Teatulia UK@TeatuliaUK20 Aug 2019
Our brand new podcast is live! Our 1st series kicks off with a Q&A with actor Tilda Swinton. We'll be releasing a new episode every week, so keep an eye out for the next one! Listen on Spotify: bit.ly/TeatuliaPodcast Also available on Apple Podcasts. Don't forget to subscribe!
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