
Into the Wild! Yes, dear reader, we are going where no man ever went before... into the wild. All around us is virgin territory. No one has ever been here before. But watch out, these virgins are vicious amazons. In this wild place, you can forget living it up. ...
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Unemployment at 80%. No one has a job except for government employees, railway workers and the handful manning the few remaining shops. Children are malnourished, disease is on the rise. This could describe any number of nightmare scenarios, in any number ...
Having left Professor Roundabout last week to the tender mercies of Dr Susan Swings, it was no surprise to see a change in his demeanour when I bumped into him on Oakthorpe station. ‘It is alarming. Really very troubling,’ he began. ‘Of course one never knows what ...
Wow! There’s been a lot of interest in our pound-euro play. Frank Hemsley has more on this below, where he takes a technical look at the currency market… Now, as part of my job I’m required to undertake a set number of hours Continuing Professional Development ...
What a difference a recession makes. Six months ago the nation’s prime concern was inflation. When Mervyn King, Governor of The Bank of England, revealed inflation at 3.3 per cent in May it was a national crisis. The fear was palpable when levels hit 5.2 per cent ...
London, England Poor Mountain House, California. The town is underwater, reports the International Herald Tribune. Nine out of ten houses are worth less than their mortgages. There are some 1,856 mortgaged properties in the zip code area of Mountain House. Only ...
London, England Today, on the 11th day of the 11th month at precisely 11am London fell silent. We were asked to remember our war dead. This moment marks the time 90 years ago when the guns ceased firing on the Western Front. Soldiers on both sides hesitated... ...
"I can’t see that happening. It would cause mayhem in the stock market and that’s not what the Bank wants." I was replying to colleague Theo Casey’s "off the wall" suggestion yesterday morning that the Bank of England could cut rates by 200 basis points. We were ...
A pal of mine lives in a council house. He was moaning last night that his place is going to be virtually uninhabitable over Christmas. "How come?" I asked. "The council are doing a load of work," he said. "They’re putting in new radiators, a new boiler system, ...
You get a different perspective on holiday. You talk to people you don’t usually talk to. You read different things, and ignore some stuff to which you’d usually pay attention. I’ve met a few old friends recently, people I’ve not seen in a while. Knowing what I do ...
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