It is my profound conviction that you can put most if not all of the world’s troubles down to sheer pig-ignorance. This was brought home to me for the zillionth time when I watched (under extreme duress, because my partner …
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Uncle Dray’s Electoral Follies, Part 2. Another free webinar
The 18th century was famous for corruption. So how much has changed? Here is part of what is going on in this Hogarth picture. Images of bribery abound … in the foreground a shower of gold flows from the Treasury …
Read MoreIntroducing new, miracle “Super Nanny” marketing
Sorry. I only put in that ludicrous heading because nowadays everything on the damn web is miraculous and mind-blowing – so I thought I’d join the hustlers. Frankly this is not miraculous OR mind-blowing. It’s actually very simple, but it …
Read MoreYes, it’s true folks. They really ARE a bunch of wankers
You’ve long suspected it. I’ve long suspected it. The custodians of righteousness are a bunch of tossers. According to a report by the Associated Press, “Senior staffers at the Securities and Exchange Commission spent hours surfing pornographic websites on government-issued …
Read MoreYou just can’t beat a stupid government if you want big profits
Here, a miraculous recovery is explained in The Daily Reckoning. “When it converted into a bank holding company back in 2008, Goldman became eligible to borrow cheap money from the Fed’s discount window. Morgan Stanley did the same thing. As …
Read MoreA world policed by half-wits
As you can imagine, nobody is keener on the protection of birds than I am. But some friends we can really do without, as I was reminded when I read the following by that great scourge of buffoons, Richard Ingrams, …
Read MoreThanks, Gareth – and whoever thought this up
The Goldman Sachs Caper Hi – I have this car that I want my friend over here to sell you. I’m pretty sure the brakes will fail and when you hit something, the petrol tank will explode, because the car …
Read MoreWhere do the intellectual sweepings of the gutter end up?
Are all bank systems designed by cretins, or is it just Lloyds’? Yesterday they refused me cash, no doubt because their sophisticated multi-million-pound computers, worried about fraud, haven’t noticed I visit the US 5 or 6 times a year and …
Read MoreThis man puts me where I belong: at the end of the intellectual line
Someone once said to Churchill that his socialist opponent, Attlee, was a very modest man. “He has much to be modest about”, growled the old man. That is rather how I feel when contemplating my latest client, Tony Buzan, who …
Read MoreAsleep on the job? Surely not.
After a bracing few days pontification at Ken McCarthy’s System Seminar in Chicago, I’m back in Brooklyn to find I have become a grandfather again – though I’m very worried, as young Rowan Drayton is 2 months premature. So we …
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