Category: Business

Steady Eddie

Strange, I can have the windows cleaned and Bertie can have a haircut but I will have to wait until 12th April to visit Geo. F Trumper in Curzon Street.

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Through the Roof

That wet party, the Lib Dems, so small its MPs could meet in a ‘phone box if they were vying for a place in The Guinness Book of Records.

Counting Eggs

It’s encouraging to see the first green shoots of recovery in Marks and Spencer shares.

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Brooding

There’s plenty of bad news around in the UK, EU and globally. Much closer to home, my home, there’s mostly good news.

Fools’ Silver

Shareholders are often victims of Stockholm Syndrome – I’m no exception.

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Pick and Mix

The young man at the newsagent caught Covid so The Times doesn’t get delivered until lunchtime, when his manager closes the shop and makes the deliveries himself.

Be Debonair

“You must never confuse genius with a bull market.” (An Englishman’s Commonplace Book, Roger Hudson)

Zoom Zoom Zoom

Ira Gershwin was prescient when he wrote these lyrics for the 1937 film, Shall We Dance. His brother George supplied the music and Fred Astaire and Dudley Dickerson  (I thought you’d need help with Dudley) did the rest.