
Well, how about that? No sooner do I write a nice positive article last Thursday about training group Xpertise than it attracts a take-over bid and the shares gain 85%! Since when, with a long weekend away from the thrills and spills of the small company world, I ...
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You are on page 1 of 7After two weeks on holiday it is time to catch up on the economic situation and to whom better to turn than my old friends Dr Susan Swings and Professor Roy Roundabout. I don’t think you have met these two, so let me give a few introductions. I have known both ...
In my student days I took a holiday job in a building which, as my mother accurately described, ‘would have looked out of place anywhere.’ Looking like one shoe box perched on top of another this example of post war British architecture was a pub in Downend, where ...
This week your Penny Sleuth has been visiting the European City of Culture, Liverpool. My short walk from the station took me past the most wonderful second hand junk shop, a drunken old lady swaying from side to side and holding tight to her bottle of cider, ...
I find myself stuck in a traffic jam, in Ruislip. I can imagine Ruislip was quite a pleasant little place fifty years ago. Happy schoolchildren played in the streets, housewives paused to exchange pleasantries with the butcher and the baker, and occasionally a ...
I don’t know which football ground was described by just-retired John Motson as ‘a football stadium in the truest sense of the word’, but John Teeling might very well be described as an Irishman ‘in the truest sense of the word.’ This twinkling, sixty-two year ...
It was June 20th and Andrew Brian was ‘delighted.’ He had just announced a deal whereby Darwen Holdings, of which he is chief executive, would acquire Jamesstan Investments, the holding company for the Optare coach-building business. By combining Optare, with ...
How Pringles Make the Lawyers Fat The taxpayer has been stung again… The lawyer4s are extremely happy… Isn’t there a better way to do this..? Dear Reader, Mr Justice Warren has made a decision. It was not easy. Only after endlessly pacing his chambers to and fro, ...
"Let my voice be heard by all of you, my people. I am going in quest of Wisdom and Learning. My spirit impels me to go and find them out where they are to be had, for I am smitten with the love of Wisdom and I feel myself drawn as though by a leash toward ...
Why is it that every time I read a policy document from this government of ours I have an overwhelming urge to buy a one way ticket to New Zealand? Could it be the patronising tone, the underlying assumption that ministers know what is good for all of us, the ...
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