David Sullivan - sex charges
David Sullivan is another one of these curious fellows who can be disclosed as interested in sex. The lady who complains has declared that she was propositioned by David Sullivan but declined the offer. What's so amazing about that?
17 hours ago1 min read
Denby in fact
The pottery firm, Denby, is closing down. Perhaps its designs are not appealing. I do not know. But it is certainly true that UK energy costs are much higher than elsewhere around the world. This looks to be another Ed Miliband destruction move.
17 hours ago1 min read
Oliver Irwin
Oliver died about ten years ago, aged 95 or so. He was remarkable. His mother disliked the English (she was Irish) and Oliver was born in South Africa. He crossed the Limpopo and made his way to Lusaka. Deloittes dominated auditing since they had both of the major mining groups as clients. But Oliver set about competing and brought a swaggering arrogance to his competitiveness. Young men flocked to his style. Independence in 1964 brought opportunity after opportunity and he s
3 days ago2 min read
More from the bastards who govern us
The Bank of England was advised by a market research consultancy to remove Winston Churchill from bank notes for being “divisive and elitist” and Alan Turing for being “imperialistic”. The Bank was also advised against the inclusion of Jane Austen, the White Cliffs of Dover and Victorian houses.
4 days ago1 min read
Hubris and nemesis
In October 1987 Hoare Govett and its MD, a Richard Westmacott, had agreed with HMG that HG would underwrite a rights issue for BP. All was going well when disaster struck in the US. The issue was left with HG and far far too much of it fell on the shoulders of HG. HG had to ask its 30% shareholder Security Pacific, an American bank, to divi up. Which they did and moved their shareholding up to 80%. All the directors, barring Westmacott, were sacked. This was a remarkable case
4 days ago1 min read
Quiz of the day
What makes you think that Albert Manifold, formerly of BP, is an exhausting fellow?
5 days ago1 min read
Fiddler Reeves is at it again
UK citizens should be aware that this mendacious cow is trying to revive Gordon Brown's Private Finance Initiative of twenty years ago through her getting NHS trusts to borrow privately. For some reason indebtedness thus contracted does not show on the national balance sheet when in fact it remains in practice a liability of the state. It's very expensive finance and our children and their children will have to sort out the mess.
5 days ago1 min read
