Well, here comes another royal wedding, with the usual cartloads of nauseating pap from the arse end of the media. As usual, Murdoch’s people are doing their best to burrow as far as possible into the slime. Yesterday’s headline in …
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Oh dear. Rumblings in the internet jungle. The cash-flood is drying up – and here’s why
Before the first great British share crash – the South Sea Bubble in 1720 – investors were falling for the most outrageous scams. The best known, perhaps, was “a company for carrying out an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody …
Read MoreEnter the dragon who escaped – with a bit of fun for you,
Do you watch Dragon’s Den? Here’s a reminder. I do occasionally, but am not that keen. It’s not as absurd as “Lord” Sugar’s proving ground for illiterates – which I always see as a humiliating demonstration of the failure of …
Read MoreOnce again, Tom Fishburne hits the bull’s-eye
Here’s yet another rib-tickling insight from Tom into the vast yawning chasm between the catatonic moon-gazing in marketing departments and real life. Tom has this extraordinary ability, week after week, to make cartoons that pin down the lunacy of what …
Read MoreThe Brand Doctor did the trick – with the help of an orange monkey and Pavlov’s dogs
If you want to know how not to manage events, I’m your man. But even by my own demented standards I thought I’d blown it with the branding seminar we just finished. So just in case you ever want to …
Read MoreThe Brand Doctor did the trick – with the help of an orange monkey and Pavlov’s dogs
If you want to know how not to manage events, I’m your man. But even by my own demented standards I thought I’d blown it with the branding seminar we just finished. So just in case you ever want to …
Read More“You Can’t Help Some People” A joke sent by a friend in Afghanistan
A fleeing Taliban, desperate for water, was plodding through the Afghan desert when he saw something far off in the distance. Hoping to find water, he hurried toward the oasis, only to find a little old Jewish man at a …
Read MoreMy favourite messages of the last 24 hours – my goodness, they could really make you rich
Those of you who cherish the out-pourings of the shit-for-brains creeps who infest cyberspace will like this. I think perhaps the most illiterate attempt ever to rip me off came half an hour ago. Even in its over-exploited genre it …
Read MoreDo you sincerely want to be rich? Then watch out for the three card trick
This is provoked by three things. First, the daily torrent of lies from people who claim in various ways that they think of nothing, night and day, but making me rich and successful – and I won’t have to pay …
Read More“It’s all our fault” … “Cool Britannia” … and other dumb ideas
A few things I wonder. Is it even remotely intelligent to go one of the most corrupt countries on earth where the man in charge is called Mr 110% (I wonder why?) and dish out oceans of cash that you …
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