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Thus Passes the Glory of the World

They built a seat for weary feet, Upon the Isle of Lundy. They built a path, they built a cafe. Sic transit gloria mundi.

All Banks Are Completely Incompetent

It won’t have escaped your notice that UK banking is in a sorry state. My personal experience of domestic banks over the last forty years is that they are singularly incompetent at everything they do. I won’t bore you with a catalogue of woes, but I will share my latest experience with you. My partner and I have a joint mortgage with Halifax. The other day we received a letter as follows:    Dear Mr Dobson & Miss Jordan That’s it! That is the entire letter. See the scanned image. The only manipulation I’ve done is to blur out our postal address.