Yesterday David Cameron spoke out about stopping the “slow motion moral collapse” that is happening here. Which collapse was he referring to? Was it poverty-stricken little him getting a mortgage which cost taxpayers £21,000 a year? Didn’t his £2 million …
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What do internet suckers and the British rioters have in common? Mental disability
You can learn a lot about human nature if you study crooks and their marks. For example I did a webinar a while ago analysing the brilliant copy of a U.S. TV “Bishop” who extracts money from gullible poor folk. …
Read MoreCall this a riot? A mere squabble compared to what our glorious ancestors got up to
Since history is no longer taught in our schools few will be aware of the Gordon Riots back in the 18th century which lasted for a week. In the summer of 1780 a mob of up to 60,000 people destroyed …
Read MoreDo you have to win no matter who suffers? Plus Bird’s Last Hurrah
This is fair warning. In November I’m coming to Australia. Leave before it’s too late. It is exactly 40 years since I first visited, in a desperate state after my business had gone down the pan. I spent six weeks …
Read MoreHow I saved nigh on £2,500 on THE most important commodity in business – with an opportunity for one person reading this
I’ve told this story before, but I was reminded because of a favour an old client asked of me. The most important commodity in your business once you’re more than a one man band is people. You can’t do it …
Read MoreA free marketing lesson – just a short walk away
I’ll explain why I wrote that heading in a moment, but it’s about why some businesses thrive and others flop. First, let me ask: do you ever find yourself being infuriated by something stupid? I do, all the time. It’s …
Read MoreStartling glimpses of the ludicrous and incompetent
During the time of the South Sea Bubble, Britain’s first great financial collapse, people would fall for anything. My favourite example which I recall from my school-days was a scheme to import jackasses from South America. This was not necessary …
Read MoreToday’s news: one remarkably stupid statement and one indefensible waste of public money
Pretty much everything that can be said has been said about what happened in Norway and poor Amy Whitehouse. Apart from the fact, in the latter case, that drugs should be legalised. In Portugal hard drug use (alarmingly high when …
Read More“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.” – Karl Marx
Karl Marx was a much misunderstood man whose teachings have probably been responsible for more deaths than anyone in history, but that remark of his occurred to me when I spotted the front page of The Daily Star half an …
Read MoreWhat did you do in the Great War, Daddy?
That question is one of the best examples of the shameless – even shameful – use of emotion I can recall. It shamed many thousands to their deaths between 1914 and 1918 in one of the most pointless, bloody wars …
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