One incensed Scots reader has objected to my comparing The Great Toad to an excellent dish – the Haggis – which has unlike the the Toad brought pleasure to millions. So I will say nothing about haggis. But The Bloated …
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Seamless bollocks: real life versus corporate life
Twenty years or more ago, David Ogilvy sent me the draft of a speech he was planning to make in France. It contained more or less the following. “Our world is divided into two warring camps. Those who have no …
Read MorePM overtakes Becks as dullest speaker
Thanks to Georgia Kennedy of Western Australia for passing this one on. I knew it, but never knew everyone else agreed. A new poll rates Gordon Brown as Britain’s most boring speaker, ahead of footballer David Beckham and actress Kate …
Read MoreSome curious paradoxes – and one moral
I am not quite old enough to remember the days when the German Mark was so devalued that you needed a wheelbarrow-full to buy a loaf of bread. But I do know that it all started with printing money – …
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Read MoreAvert your eyes, sensitive readers
My ex-partner Glenmore Trenear-Harvey is an intelligence expert who appears fairly regularly on screen . Here he is on Russian TV, looking as though someone had just made an excessively obscene suggestion. To me, though, his most agreeable speciality has …
Read MoreSo what are you REALLY doing now?
Yesterday I had lunch with my partner in a firm that runs events in a few countries, together with a lady friend he wanted me to meet. The excuse was to discuss an idea she has had for an online …
Read MoreTwo drunks at the trough?
The blotchy face and even blotchier activities of The Speaker of the House of Commons, Michael Martin have managed to bring that position into unparalleled disrepute ever since the the Bliar broke with predeent by plonking him in the job. …
Read MoreAh! Just as I suspected …
A while ago I wrote that I thought that the Gen Sec of Unite was probably mainly interested in furthering the rosy glow on his cheeks.
Read MoreAs Britain gurgles down the drain, who’s to blame?
Last Tuesday morning I lurched off the plane from New York and whizzed off to the City to make a speech for the Market Research Society. This was not deliberate; just bad planning by this old fool. I began by …
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