Category: Business

Tomato Catsup

In 1876 Henry Heinz started selling Tomato Catsup – it sold well but the name didn’t catch on. Does anyone make ketchup better than Heinz?

Daydream Believer

Quentin Letts is a prolific journalist; he’s been at it for more than thirty years. These days his mainstays are as a theatre critic for The Sunday Times and parliamentary sketch writer for The Times. Both jobs require much the same skills.

A Towering Mistake

While King Street, Hammersmith, could not be mistaken for the Champs-Élysées, 8th arrondissement Paris, Hammersmith and Fulham council do a good job looking after the tree-lined streets of our mostly Victorian borough. It’s just their idea of planting a twenty-three storey tower block outside my bedroom window that seems ill-conceived.

A Call to Palms

The price of palm oil was strong over Chinese New Year this year. From lows of $500 in August last year it rallied above $850 – then the virus came, it went back to $500 but now is above $700. There are further developments …

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Keep Safe

A small squidgy parcel popped through the letter box yesterday. It contained four face masks adorned with the Bellew arms: sable, fretty or.

Boohoo

Boohoo, or crying all the way to the bank?

My Assets

Walking to Richmond last Friday, I had time to think about my portfolio and how it could be made less volatile while capturing most of my annual Capital Gains Tax allowance at the same time.

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Sweet Memories

Forty-four years ago I rented a room in the house next door to my present home, where I have lived since 1984.