They’ve literally got the Shell logo on their kit. And you don’t need to scroll to the bottom to see them on the list of sponsors: https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/partners
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Sustained French?
I re-watched recently. The first season is pretty bad. The familiar formula only really starts in the second season, and it’s comedy gold from there on.
I mean, it’s possible you could be put on a terror list after getting your EITAS or you could murder someone on the way to the airport, so there’s never a guarantee that you’ll be allowed entry.
The most powerful passports in the world in 2023
- Japan (193 destinations)
- Singapore, South Korea (192 destinations)
- Germany, Spain (190 destinations)
- Finland, Italy, Luxembourg (189 destinations)
- Austria, Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden (188 destinations)
- France, Ireland, Portugal, United Kingdom (187 destinations)
- Belgium, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, United States, Czech Republic (186 destinations)
- Australia, Canada, Greece, Malta (185 destinations)
- Hungary, Poland (184 destinations)
- Lithuania, Slovakia (183 destinations)
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/01/world-s-most-powerful-passports/
The risk of not being approved isn’t changing. The difference is that you can now find out before you buy a plane ticket and arrive in the EU.
Banking isn’t really similar to other industries. Banks are licensed by the government and much more tightly regulated. They’re required to actively monitor and prevent money laundering, and regulators expect them to do this competently.
The practice of debanking potentially risky customers that may be more expensive to monitor is a known phenomenon and one that’s frowned upon by regulators, precisely because it reveals a poor approach to risk management. Banks also abuse these rules to debank potential competitors, like digital banks and payment firms.
Here’s one regulator’s view: https://www.fca.org.uk/firms/money-laundering/derisking-managing-risk
This type of debanking is a failure of risk management, not a consequence of it. Many banks’ systems aren’t measuring risk in a sophisticated way, they’re just applying a bunch of crude rules.
You could make the chilli.
Just call ‘em steers. Cows are for milkin’ n breedin’.
Not sure. It might be that Fitch’s figures are based on its own estimates and a slightly different interpretation of the underlying data (perhaps to be more comparable internationally).
William S Burroughs wrote about this in Junky.