The Delta-Virgin marriage: made in heaven – or tears before bedtime? Delta recently bought the 49% of Virgin the Great Smiling Silver Beard doesn’t own. Delta is quite liked by investment analysts as they have been busy cutting costs better …
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Pink pigs will fly before I invest in Aviva, no matter what the experts say
If you want to know how good a business is, try being a customer. Then ask if they’re running things for their benefit – or yours Recently I transferred my paltry assets to a new home, mainly because the people …
Read MoreA diabolically bad video for Christmas – but I loved every second
The Blues is alive and well at 34th Street, New York city I saw this pair as I was going to catch the A-train a couple of weeks back. (And I can’t help adding that I saw Duke Ellington’s orchestra …
Read MoreWhy do I suddenly turn black? Blame Apple
Do you use an iSomething to open my emails when I post? If so, you might have wondered why the emails have gone black. Me. too. Especially as quite a few of you have pointed out (rather gleefully) that for …
Read MoreMore beer for the two drunks in Downing Street!
What’s really happening to your money? And how are we really doing compared to those poor souls in Europe? “Giving money to a bank is like giving a gallon of beer to a drunk. You know what he’s going to …
Read MoreAn obscenity-free open letter to the manager of Lloyds Bank, Covent Garden
As you know many firms block swear-words so as not to offend their staff, who have never heard them as they never watch TV or go to the movies. So you may not have seen the original of this, which …
Read MoreA Christmas Love Story
With grateful thanks to that incorrigible romantic, my old partner Glenmore A couple was Christmas shopping at the mall on Christmas Eve and the mall was packed. As the wife walked through the mall she was surprised to look up …
Read MoreAn open letter to the manager of Lloyds Bank, Covent Garden
May I explain why I – and I bet quite a few others – would like to blow up your head office after chopping your grasping, witless directors into tiny, blood-stained morsels? I should confess now that the title of …
Read MoreToday’s best jokes: a slogan, a question – and there’s one born every minute
In jocular mood as I prepare to head off for a break in New York As you may have noticed, I think nearly all slogans are a waste of space and money, but I must thank whoever sent me the …
Read MoreWhy the wrong people thrive like maggots: a 51 year old lesson
No need to go to Canada to get it wrong. We have plenty of our own screw-ups, thank you An excellent editorial in Money Week – Britain’s leading and best financial magazine – discusses the new boss of the Bank …
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