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 …
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Tax 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 …
Read MoreOn that basis, why not give a knighthood to Bin Laden?
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 …
Read MoreSeamless 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 …
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