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He has been criminally convicted as the result of his placing a bet on the date of the 2024 General Election - he was close to Rishi Sunak. But how the Gambling Commission are involved I do not know. After all Craig never gambled - or so we are led to believe. Anyway why should he not have had a bet?

When the average Brit deploys the word 'adage' he invariably declares it to be the old adage. This is silly since 'adage' must have been around for a time. Written by Simon Cawkwell, June 2026

THRU's results to 31st March 2026 came through this morning. Clearly the outlook is much improved and, as a result, the shares are a screaming buy at 1.0p or better. Written by Simon Cawkwell, June 2026

Last week’s men’s tennis tournament at Queen’s was “bereft of top ten players”, says The Wall Street Journal. Australia’s Alex de Minaur, world number six, was there, but the rest were honing their backhands at a nothingy tournament in Germany. The reason? “Britain’s baroque tax laws.” UK winnings are taxed as normal income, and the government demands a cut of global endorsement deals, depending on the number of days spent in the country. If a player comes for the summer seas

For some reason I still harbour a new high for gold - i.e. $5,500+. So greed keeps on informing me. Anyway, I paid $4,120 earlier today and have so far been rewarded by the prospect of a loss.

is very difficult to predict. But I think we can make a start by chucking all these programmes that are so boring and, as so often, unreliable. That would save a lot of money.

Curiously, Jeremy Bowen thinks it unreasonable for Israel persisting in bombing Hezbollah where Hezbollah precedes this response by bombing Israel. However, the Israelis are very sensible. They know that Hezbollah is simply an arm of Iran who have many times declared that they wish to drive Israel "from the river to the sea". Why do the BBC do this? They must know their stance is foolish.