Chariot: the opportunity opens up
Chariot (CHAR) have just announced a successful placing at 1.4p to raise $20m. The directors came in for $2.7m. This is bullish and wise punters will scoop up loose stock.
2 hours ago1 min read
The AM-W Schemozzle
I suppose the intellectual lightweights who dominate mere news dissemination rather than analysis will persist in claiming that the Schemozzle is a crisis. But I doubt it. For it is a pity where the fact that proceedings are in hand means that the monarchy will emerge stronger than it has been for many years. I have started reading Andrew Lownie's book Entitled. Andrew and Fergie are basically just silly people.
2 hours ago1 min read
REA (RE.)
Today's subdued RNS has knocked RE.'s share price by 19p. This is a mistake and has been caused by the Robinows' caution. Buy RE. at 115p.
1 day ago1 min read
Checkit (CKT) in
Today's RNS is positive. Cash flow has gone positive and CKT is rated far below its American peers. This is therefore a screaming buy at 20p.
1 day ago1 min read
Trafficking is unclear to me
Commentators classify ladies who arrive to link with customers as trafficked. But, surely, trafficking means compelling the lady in question to act against her will when she has been paid a handsome fee for a few hours' work which she, and she alone, has decided to undertake. Written by Simon Cawkwell, February 2026
2 days ago1 min read
Starmer and the local authority elections
As liars go, Starmer is amazingly incompetent. It seems never to have occurred to him that confining the cancellation of elections to Labour-controlled councils would be immediately obvious to everybody and therefore palpably phoney. Given that, on top, this swindle could be challenged in the Courts, one has to wonder whether he is essentially lunatic. Written by Simon Cawkwell, February 2026
3 days ago1 min read
Ramanujan and Taxi 1729
Ramanujan, a handsome fellow, was employed in the depths of Indian railways as a clerk. But he took the view that he was a sound mathematician and wrote unbidden to GH Hardy a mathematics don of Trinity College Cambridge. Hardy did not immediately respond but finally realised just how clever Ramanujan was and therefore invited him to Cambridge where his genius came to be recognised. Some years later Hardy visited Ramanujan in hospital and remarked that his taxi number was 172
4 days ago1 min read
