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. …
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Ah! 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 …
Read MoreWHAT IS YOUR FUCKING PROBLEM? BRITAIN ASKS IMF
This is reprinted with grateful acknowledgment to the selfless patriots who publish The Daily Mash – but whose language I find deeply shocking. Nevertheless, I feel we should know these shocking fascts THE government has written to the International Monetary …
Read MoreDon’t just worry about the banks: watch the insurance firms
My friend Michael Rhodes just pointed out that a piece in Management Today suggests the reason for the blatant greed and lack of apology from the procession of bank bosses questioned by parliament. It sems that, like Stalin and Hitler, …
Read MoreThe great Denny Hatch explains it all
If you want to know a) whose stuff I always read b) why the world’s economy is up the spout – explained in simple language anyone can understand, here’s the answer to both questions in two words. Denny Hatch. Go …
Read MoreA rather neat analogy
People regularly send me ideas for this running sore on the face of literature, most of which are very good and which I try to use, but often place carefully in my mind’s lumber room to use later – then …
Read MoreAt last! I got something right in Washington
If you were thinking with some relief that you hadn’t heard a peep out of me, your good times are over. I’m back. I came over to Washington where an absurdly clever and unfeasibly successful young man called Yanik Silver …
Read MoreWhy the world is in shit – one possible reason
Too much overpaid energy devoted to trivial things. This is a list of the people it was thought necessary by JWT in New York to make one wanky full-of-pointless-special-effects TV commercial for (what a surprise!) a firm of investment advisers. …
Read MoreThe Misunderstanding, or Love’s Sacrifices. Act 1, Scene 1, The Jowls household
Enter left, with Mediterranean tan, smirking, bearing a plastic bag full of souvenirs of Italy, Mr. Jowls: “Guess what I found quite by accident in the toilets at Silvio’s?” Mrs. Jowles: “What is it, my masterful legal wizard.” Mr. Jowles: …
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