Guardian lite

I was a bit puzzled when I picked up what appeared to be a Guardian at M&S yesterday, with the usual front page being replaced by ladies' football. 

A bit cross when I got home to find that the first four or five pages were all ladies football, to be followed by several pages about dark deeds done by people mixed up with Edinburgh University in the 19th century - maybe more than a century and a half ago. For which see reference 2. Headline below.

A woke too far? Woke overreach? From where I associate to the overreach of the heritage people.

And then, a lot of the content which followed would not have disgraced the 'Metro', a freebie from which you do not expect better. Pay peanuts, get monkeys as they used to say.

While the snap at the top of this post is the start of Bing's offering on the clue 'ladies football today'. I think the 'today' bit was pasted in by Copilot and I did not notice in time to delete it. Pasting in which is sometimes helpful, sometimes irritating.

Moving on, I was interested to read about fancy derivatives called RTPFs (Range Target Profit Forwards) in the piece at reference 1. But, not much the wiser about what they actually were, I asked Bing, who was not very helpful. Google's Gemini was a lot better - although I would not pretend to know enough now to tell anyone else about them. That sort of thing is best left to the quants who made them up in the first place.

One wonders how much valuable energy is burned up on this kind of thing: a long way from making pork pies or brewing beer, products which are actually useful to the men and women in the street.

References

Reference 1: UBS orders bankers to scale back sale of complex currency products: Swiss bank has told advisers to stop pitching foreign exchange derivatives to many clients after losses - Mercedes Ruehl, Financial Times.

Reference 2: https://www.ed.ac.uk/about/race-review.