Conor Sewell

Conor Sewell

@ccsewell.bsky.social

Associate Director at Flint Global. Macro, financial services, digital assets. Views my own. Ex-BoE, Treasury. Big on sports, rugby referee, go Raiders. Bi and autistic.

1,272 Followers 597 Following 1,219 Posts Joined Oct 2023
12 hours ago
The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said. "The only thing prohibiting transit in the straits right now is Iran shooting at shipping," he said. "It is open for transit should Iran not do that."

It’s been posted to death, but I still cannot get over this.

Genuinely a top 10 all time quote. Just unimprovable.

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1 day ago

There are so many reasons I feel deeply disappointed by this Government and its betrayal of what Labour should be.

This is one of the most pointlessly cruel.

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2 days ago

The British public fucking love animals (at least, in concept).

This is borne out both by the BoE’s consultation and just, you know, everything else *waves hands*.

Deeply bizarre culture war for the right to try and manufacture.

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3 days ago

My economic anxiety!

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3 days ago
Meme
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3 days ago
Screenshot from linked article

Not gonna lie, this seems like a dream job:

www.bankofengland.co.uk/news/2026/ma...

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3 days ago

Jokes aside, if this persists it does highlight the critical risk of the McSweeneyist approach

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4 days ago

Mike Tapp would be my (hotly contested) pick for Minister Who Most Badly Needs To Log Off

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5 days ago

Ah yes, the 2024 Packers DL - a position group everyone was desperate to replicate

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5 days ago

It’ll return for the other type of London sun (holy fuck this city isn’t build for 35 degree heat I’m going to melt on the tube)

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5 days ago

In the context of midterms in 8 months which are already look pretty catastrophic for the Republicans, the Iran situation is a fascinating case study in “what if I punched myself in the mouth as hard as possible”.

Unfortunately, we all get decked too.

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5 days ago

Welp here we go again

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5 days ago

LinkedIn?

Guess she’s placing an emphasis on Connecting with the electorate (sorry)

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6 days ago

At least they’ll have all the great memories of…



Any ideas anyone?

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6 days ago
Happy after the finish line!

Finished the Paddock Wood half marathon in 1:44:19 (new PB!) but, more importantly, my incredible fiancée smashed the 2 hour mark in her first race of any distance ever, finishing in 1:53:45! 💖

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6 days ago

Get ready to be annoyed when petrol prizes go up and a) a bunch of politicos declare the government's poll ratings have gone down because Starmer didn't go in with the US on Iran and b) a bunch of politicos who support the war blame the government for increased energy costs.

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1 week ago
Apology template meme

On behalf of all Scottish rugby fans

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1 week ago

This is one of those positions where I’m fairly certain that more people in the media support it than the entire rest of the country put together

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1 week ago

Ah yes, you literally cannot walk down the streets of Hartlepool or Hull without being stopped by people clamouring for the days of the Shah

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1 week ago

Pointless cruelty to migrants is both against the values which Labour is supposed to be built on, and doomed electorally.

It is deeply depressing to watch a Labour government pursue policies which won’t work and which its voters despise, in pursuit of those who will never vote for them.

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1 week ago

That’s what I’m telling myself!

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1 week ago

Crushing realisation that last time I saw this meme I was The Young Bisexual but I have since turned 30

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1 week ago

What I will never understand is....Twitter was *never* a good gauge of public opinion! I genuinely cannot understand the people who have clearly been using it as a measure of something other than 'internal leadership contests' (where it was genuinely useful' or 'ways to discover cool links'.

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1 week ago

I’m sorry but the empirically best thing for fiscal, ethical and humour purposes is these folks all being desperately stuck at Heathrow

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1 week ago

Spec Ops: The Whine?

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1 week ago

No no no no no no no no

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1 week ago

Instagram has decided to start throwing nauseating ads for AI girlfriends at me.

The most disgusting part is how heavily they lean into two things:

1. That you have complete “ownership” of these chatbots
2. That they can’t say no

Which seems like it will teach very dangerous lessons to young men.

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1 week ago

Pleased and gratified to see that if we continue to expand at the current rate, 100% of young people in the US will be bisexual in my lifetime.

Now that’s what I call productivity!

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1 week ago

Adventures with the US Air Force

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1 week ago

“The U.S. Government invents a cult centred on the worship of a misspelled Chiang Kai-Shek as an unstoppable warrior with the Mandate of Heaven” wasn’t on my 2026 bingo card

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