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TJM is owned by Harry Redknapp, a chap who likes to have a bet. I suspect TJM merits a bet in the 4.00 p.m. Cheltenham and therefore advise readers to have a go at 4/1. Written by Simon Cawkwell, March 2026

It is a fact of human life that the majority of men enjoy handling a woman's breasts. However, such activity has to be with the free consent of the lady in question. Failing this a crime has been committed and the law can take its course. But what this has to do with working as a fund manager I cannot begin to imagine. Anyway, this coming week sees the commencement of a prolonged court action between Crispin Odey and the FCA. I hope that Crispin wipes the floor with the FCA.

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. Written by Simon Cawkwell, March 2026

SRT is hugely profitable and its order book keeps climbing. Written by Simon Cawkwell, March 2026

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. Written by Simon Cawkwell, February 2026