That’s an old acronym from the computer business you probably recognise. It sprang to mind not in the context of the mountain of half-truths concocted by the G20 cronies to kid us they are doing anything as a result of …
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What are you lot so pleased about?
Well, George Orwell put it best in Animal Farm. “Some animals are more equal than others.” They are all pleased because we are all paying. They are all pleased because they will achieve the square root of fuck all at …
Read MoreWhy is this man still being paid? And other scandals
The man with the visionary expression and the weak chin is “Rick” Wagoner, in charge of running General Motors into the ground for the last nine years. The photographer had a tough job making him look anything but a wanker**. …
Read MoreOne law for them; one for the rest of us?
A friend sends me pretty good jokes at regular intervals. He is what they now call “gay” but used to call all kinds of things. The line under his last one read: Kentucky, five million people, 15 last names. That’s …
Read MoreHe must be spinning in his grave
This is John Maynard Keynes, the great economist, whose most famous put down may have been, “When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, Sir?” Of course, if he’d been talking to the Gordian Twat the …
Read MoreSee the world’s most watched clip – and rejoice
Bloody hell! I go away for five days, come back yesterday – and nothing’s changed. Yet another Minister is found to have been been fiddling his expenses. An article reads “Cameron talks of the pain of losing his son” which …
Read MoreAt last! Ready-made advertising drivel. One small lurch backwards for mankind
Do you get my helpful marketing ideas, dear reader? I know many of you do, and I am not trying to sell them to the rest of you, as they cost nothing. Anyhow, one of the joys of sending them …
Read MoreWhy so many marketing studies don’t pay off – and what to do
Several people commented on my last piece, and I agreed with much of what everyone said. God, what a spineless creature I am. In that piece I also meant to comment on what Rezbi wrote in his blog where with …
Read MoreTax the bastards or not?
I’m still in Brooklyn, but it’s not snowing. Just cold. So that’s my twittering out of the way. (Do you think twittering is a good idea? I’m not sure I really want to know the deeply dull minutiae of other …
Read MoreHere’s a great idea. Tax the bastards
I’m in Brooklyn, where it’s snowing. But I was cheered up by seeing that Congress here has passed a bill taxing the bonuses of the thieves in firms that were bailed out by 90%. Why not in the U.K.? And …
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