It seems that on Wednesday, our Chancellor of the Exchequer, with the usual soulless string of cliches, will castigate the guilty. “Bank boardrooms have to be the first line of defence against future failures and they should not use the …
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Department of Parliamentary Bollocks and Misrepresentation: Interim Report
How utterly, boringly, bloody predictable. Within days of promising to mend his ways the Toadasaurus announces an enquiry into the shameful Iraq disaster. This, in keeping with the great Bliar’s promise of “Open Government”, the usual tripe about “transparency” and …
Read MoreMal’s career ambition – and more emetic management drivel
My Ocker pal Malcolm Auld, the toast of Manly, just sent me his reaction to my aside about catastrophe calculations: Regarding where they get the £100 million figure, in my next life I’m going to come back as a “Disaster …
Read MoreUncle Dray’s Slimeball of the Year Award
32 years ago one of my old lovers, Mad Ange, had a brilliant idea which she should have acted on, but didn’t. (I think I wrote about her and her loopy antics when I started this epic of inconsequence – …
Read MoreYour chance to win a painting (worth £2,500) – and see the artist in action.
More years ago than I care to think I employed two beautiful young people who – as beautiful young people do – got married. Then as beautiful young people increasingly don’t, they stayed married. One, Chris Jones, is a partner …
Read MoreSigns of the times – today’s jokes
This morning there’s no underground here in London. The union is on strike. The strike was almost called off, then reinstated because the wretch in charge, Bob “The Vulture” Crow, wanted two people reinstated. One is accused of stealing. The …
Read MoreHe is not alone in the weird parallel universe that is politics
Did you read El Gordo Grande’s reaction after being told by his colleagues and the country to fuck off, take his richly unmerited pension** and leave us all alone? “But you have to stick with policies and make sure they …
Read MoreYee-ha! A bank with a sense of humour
http://www.redneckbank.com/ My friend George Machun, pillar of San Francisco State University sent it to me – and it’s a a real bank. Check it out. I’ve seen many banks try to seem human – and nearly all have failed – …
Read MoreSo why IS McToad so useless? A guide for the nonplussed
This morning I read this from the late Adolf Hitler, patron saint of the BNP. “The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence”. The Lost Sporran is not an evil man, like Hitler. …
Read MoreMr. Smug smirks again
Who is Mr. Smug – even though he doesn’t deserve to be? No, it’s not David Cameron, hugging himself as he sees the Bloated Toad’s government and party fall apart. It’s meeeeeeee. It’s because our little business school, EADIM, looks …
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