Yesterday some experts from a large publicly-owned organisation a few of whose workers spend a lot of time in the pub down the road, sometimes discussing their next withdrawal of labour, visited our basement to tell us how to improve …
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Q: Why is this poor chap going to jail? A: Because he’s not a member of parliament
Some poor bloke who ripped off his employer for half a million quid to keep his wife happy has gone to jail for 4 years. Why? He’s paid the money back. Anyhow he worked for KPMG, the monster accountants. I …
Read MoreUnmistakable signs of a society going round in circles up its own arse
A wise man once said something to the effect that if you wish to judge a society, you should look at how it treats its old, poor and defenseless. I think we could safely say that a good place not …
Read MoreA pleasant change from the threat of riots from our far-sighted workers’ champions …
I woke this morning to be greeted by the news that the charmless thugs who run the public servants’ unions are threatening riots if some of their people look like losing jobs – a prospect the rest of us, who …
Read MoreWatch out: crackpots about
The lovely Kate, our new amanuensis, just sent me a message headed: You think maybe these people have too much time on their hands? A research company has been paid to find out which biscuit is most likely to cause …
Read MoreLatest poll results
Switzerland has the world’s most competitive economy, according to an annual index from the World Economic Forum. America came in second place for the first time since 2004, when the WEF began compiling the data in their current form. In …
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I sent out an email last week to about 9,000 people to find out whether they had any interest at all in my ramblings or just signed up in a drunken moment. The message was not my best, and I …
Read MoreWhy didn’t you get rich quick – or even slow? Uncle Dray’s Agony column
Over the weekend Daniel Eigenmann of Perth, Western Australia sent me a couple of questions – and some of you might be interested in my answers. He asked my views on websites designed like long sales letters (without any navigation …
Read MoreVulgar commerce – or, oh, what a deal!
You will have noticed – because like all my readers you are exceptionally observant – that greed for gold rarely, if ever, soils these pages. On the other hand, you may be disturbed by my lack of business sense. Am …
Read MoreBad language
The picture is of my father, George, one of his sisters and a niece. Handsome, isn’t he? He was also a man of the most sublime eccentricity, and I suspect I am getting more and more like him. He was …
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