Ever wondered how U.S. lawyers are able to extract lunatic sums of money for the smallest injuries? Why do supermarkets put the booze at the last aisle? How could Eurostar have saved a few billion – and made passengers wish …
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Well, fancy that! What I found in yesterday’s Evening Standard
I wonder what the late Lord Beaverbrook would have thought of what they run nowadays in his old paper, The Evening Standard. I think it’s probably the best paper around today, full of interesting stuff. For example on page 36 …
Read MoreSad falling-off in the quality of horseshit
This is how Cameron is going to create a thriving, flourishing Britain. See if you can make a word of sense out of it. By which I mean what is he going to do exactly? “First, using all available policy …
Read MoreDid your parents “scrimp and save”
My father never tired of telling me how he and my mother had “scrimped and saved” to send me to good schools. I ran away from the first and hated the second. But I would like to thank the ghost …
Read MoreThe state we’re in – which is unlikely to improve
It’s 5 am-ish here in Chelsea and I hear outside the usual drunken oafs lurching their way home – as I do any morning around this time. When the Great Bliar came in to wreak his magic 14 years ago …
Read MoreThe triumph of the Know Nothings – same old, same old
Here’s a coincidence. Seth Godin wrote the other day: “Many people in the United States purchase one or fewer books every year. Many of those people have seen every single episode of American Idol. There is clearly a correlation here.” …
Read MoreWhose country is it anyway? How the British are giving up – and other thoughts
A lady running a cafe in Stockport has been told by council fuckwits to stop serving bacon because it might cause offence to Muslims next door. It is “unacceptable on the grounds of residential amenity”. I cannot say that Stockport …
Read MoreAt last! Crap creative makes its entrance, a good joke from Slovenia – and a quick preview for you
My colleague Carol, who has put up with me for over a decade now, has an eagle eye for the ludicrous. So I must thank her for showing me this example of how not to advertise. As so often the …
Read More“You there in the back row, pay attention. You are at the magic crossroads”.
I just got an email from not one, but two of my old clients, making a big mistake. It read: Tell Us What You Think At American Express, we want to know what you think of our service – and …
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