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The BBC recently announced that the UK Economy has ground to a halt. It hasn't. The car may have slowed but it is still moving.
View ArticleCan Barack deliver where Bill Failed?
Barack Obama may have trounced Hilary in the primaries, but his campaign for the White House owes the Clintons a great debt.Like Bill Clinton in 1993 he is promising change. Like Bill, Obama is in his...
View ArticleThe case for McCain
We are in a bit of a mess at the moment, and the next President of the United States will need to sort it out. Like it or not, American policies will determine how long the global economic downturn...
View ArticleIs a Bull Market so called because it is based on Bullshit?
In the first week of October the UK Stock Market lost £250 billion. Think about that number. It's as if every person in the UK lost a wallet or purse containing £4,237 - in the same week. The longest...
View ArticleGraduates shouldn't despair, the jobs are there
The newspapers may sound apocalyptic but the business world is still turning, albeit more slowly, and graduate recruiters are still recruiting.Employers hit hardest by the downturn are likely to cut...
View ArticleDoth Georgina Baillie protest too much?
Am I the only one who feels slightly uneasy about Georgina Baillie taking money from the Sun whilst calling for the heads of Brand and Ross? She seems to be making the most of her moment of fame.
View ArticleThe Brand & Ross furore is about more than as prank call gone wrong
Beneath the wave of indignation directed at Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross lies a deeper issue, one that should concern all reasonable thinking people. There is a strain within the BBC that thinks...
View ArticleStrictly come dancing is not the Olympics
So week nine of strictly ended with the judges in a spin and the contestants in tears. Judge Len Goodman didn’t even try to hide his contempt for the public decision and dancer James Jordon pleaded...
View ArticleThe joy of hotels
Don’t believe business types who complain about nights far from home, spent in hotels.To me, hotels are blissfully anonymous places. The barman pouring my drink calls me by name, but it is a name that...
View ArticleWinter is great
Isn’t it grand that Winter is here. No more sweltering on the tube, the dawn-chorus alarm has turned itself off and the pavements are blissfully tourist free.Where did the summer go people moan. What...
View ArticleStressed by the tube? Get out and walk
Stupidly, I once took the tube from Leicester Square to Covent Garden; the ticket seller laughed at me. Ever since, I’ve made an effort to walk if I’m moving about Central London.How many commuters...
View ArticleA quick coffee stop
The Parma AC shield stuck to the pillar, the barista shouting food orders along the glass and brass counter in a thick Italian accent, the San Pellegrino lemonade sitting alongside the Coke cans - the...
View ArticleMy parallel lives
Parallel me had better be having a bloody good time of it. Because if there is not a parallel me maxing out on supermodels whilst saving the world – christ, I hope he’s not like Bono – then what on...
View ArticleStaw portrays himself as a Doubting Thomas
Did Jack Straw burnish or tarnish his image at the Chilcot hearings yesterday? One the one hand he described doubts that most of us hope our senior politicians have when making the gravest of...
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