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It’s in the Post

I have written a cheque this morning – my first this year – worthy of a cuckoo letter to The Times?

Yesterday I made a short-term investment with Paddy Power. Why is a turf accountant called after two popular brands of Irish whiskey, doh!

Socrates, Plato and Aristotle lead the field in the Greek pantheon of philosophers but don’t forget Thales of Miletus and Pythagoras.

I’m not an AGM junkie but I know the breed.

When picking fund managers there are hares, tortoises and of course sharks.

I have been a shareholder in MP Evans for more than forty years.

Infrastructure is one of those long words like perspicacity and marmalade.

As you know, the Royal Family do not carry money.

Safe as houses and money in the bank are expressions unfortunately linked.

In the last decade many investors gambled on tech stocks and private equity, myself included.