I was so busy fulminating about general roguery this morning that I forgot to remind you that: 1. You don’t have to pay to get in to see Mark Eurich performing live tonight and tomorrow (some people asked if there …
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Texas billionaire arrested: strange similarities
Your heart goes out to crooks, it really does. “Sir” Allen Stanford has been arrested accused of orchestrating a $9.2 billion Ponzi fraud in which new investors’ money has been stolen to pay profits to existing clients. The poor bugger …
Read MoreNo shit, Sherlock
I’ll explain what that pic is doing there in a minute. But first, the crap they write in the papers never ceases to delight and amaze. The Times, which under Ruthless Rupe has probably done more to debase the standards …
Read MoreThree Gold Stars for unabashed hypocrisy, Darling
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 …
Read MoreDepartment 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 …
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