I just saw this internal e-mail from “Jamie” Dimon who is the boss of J.P. Morgan Chase, the bankers. He must be the same “Jamie” who is responsible for the banks multi-billion dollar losses through crappy sub-prime paper, but who …
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Do you like music?
Go and have a look at: http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=ITd_Y1inZoU. It features my daughter Martina singing, and my son Nick playing. All my life I’ve loved music; I have absolutely NO talent for it. But they have. I’m not sure whether this is …
Read MoreNew dogs, old tricks, I see
For decades connoisseurs of municipal folly could confidently rely on the loopies at North London’s Camden council for a few laughs.For 30-odd years these corrupt incompetent rogues managed to combine the highest taxes in Inner London with the most abysmal …
Read MoreHelp! Where are we? Who knows? Not the bus driver
It’s all go here in London, believe me. This evening I had an experience which has never come my way in nearly 47 years of living here. My bus driver got lost. I had just left my partne, who is …
Read MoreWill Maurabella go to the ball?
This is a true story that really cheered me up after the barrage of tripe in the media about celebrities or sub-celebrities, many of whom seem pretty trashy people, inculcating worthless values. Maybe you will like it too. My partner’s …
Read MoreDenny Hatch supplies the last word on MBAs
Thanks for the comments, especially the funny ones, but special thanks to the most relevant one from Denny Hatch, who simply sent me the following, which came as a glorious confirmation of many long held suspicions. Tuesday, march 21, 2006Are …
Read MoreTo Amanda, because I’m an idiot
No, this is not a loving message – just a confession, and a suggestion. Although I can read your comments (and really appreciate them) I can’t or don’t know how to reply, so the confession is that probably I’m an …
Read MorePoltergeists and animal crackers
Logorrhea, I was told at school, is the word for people who can’t stop talking. I’m afraid I have the literary equivalent; just can’t stop writing. For a while I was banging out a good 6 columns a month for …
Read MoreThe growth of a silly new Christmas game
White Christmases are rare and church visits in pagan Britain rarer still, but every year I notice a new yuletide tradition burgeoning. You see the first signs in the newspapers around the 18th of December. As regular as clockwork headlines …
Read MoreA London Christmas for you
Well, I had an idea last week – always a mistake. I commissioned a photographer to bring a fresh eye to the London I love at Christmas – which she certainly has. See what you think. Just go to http://www.draytonbird.net/xmas/xmas.html… …
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