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We are now all or virtually all aware that Blair's plan to educate the youth by getting later generations to pay has fallen apart. As it was bound to. What interests me is that nobody seems to have the answers. Surely some bright spark can emerge to allow his appalling mess to be contained and then tidied up. Let's be having you.

SRT is hugely profitable and its order book keeps climbing.

Before WW2 an American collector of Italian masterpieces decided to cut out Bernard Berenson and go to Rome. Here he found a dealer who agreed to sell him a Titian. However, the dealer also pointed out that Italian export controls would cause trouble and that it would be best to have a painting of Mussolini applied over the Titian. This was fine since the dealer mentioned a firm of picture restorers in New York who would remove the Mussolini. Which procedure the collector sou

I nicked this from the DTel readers letters page partly because I think it is funny and partly because the DTel letters page is usually appallingly boring: Sir, Sir Edwin Lutyens was indeed witty. As the architect of the Catholic cathedral in Liverpool he became friendly with the diocese's archbishop. At a clerical dinner various priests gave toasts. Lutyens got up and declaimed: "Here's to the happiest years of our lives/Spent in the arms of other men's wives." The nervous c

For those who enjoy salivating I now pass on a Regulatory News announcement which emerged last night in Canada: https://ceo.ca/@newsfile/bp-silver-intersects-bonanza-grade-silver-at-the-cosuo BPAG finished up 0.38 Can dollar at $1.20.

LDG have today announced TNAV of 26.7p which confirms that LDG's share price of 16p offer is a screaming buy for patient long term investors

This novel, just published by Faber and available from Amazon at £15, is a terrific read. And I say that despite having only got as far as page 70. Hurry now if only to assess the mechanics of the young lady in a slinky silver dress at about page 50.