So this government is finally going to bite the bullet and privatise the Royal Mail. For those who aren’t old enough, that was how we used to send email. Now it’s only how we send blueys, brithday cards and junk mail. If you ask your grandparents, they may well recall […]

Saw this and liked it. Why can’t you get smilies that are this accurate? Especially an animated one…

Three things which always hold true – death, taxes and people don’t vote against their own interests. So, when their own interests involve keeping their government job, they’ll vote for a party of big government. That’s why at the General Election the payroll vote will bolster the core Labour vote, […]

It was said to be a privatisation too far…the one Baroness Thatcher backed away from, and the one which couldn’t be done. Why? For several reasons. The postal unions were and they remain very strong, and a great deal of political capital would need to be invested in a struggle […]

Hmmm. Jonah McDoom goes missing, just like Macavity, for a month. Over a month, the FTSE100 rises by 9% Coincidence?

Some said it would never happen, some said it was inevitable, but most said whoever tried it first would be toast before others followed. NewsCorp, which has been losing money like a drunk man at a poker table (£2bn last financial year if you believe their figures) has announced that […]

Zut alors! Did you read that French workers are barricaded inside their bankrupt car parts factory after threatening to blow the plant up with gas canisters unless they receive a bigger pay-off. “Are we capable of blowing up the factory?” asked CGT unionofficial Guy Eyermann during a meeting of about […]