At the beginning of August 1976 I started working as a trainee for the august sugar house of Czarnikow. Today, 39 years later, I am leaving the City having been an oil futures broker since 1981.
The Price of Fish
Someone Else’s Granny
Too Big To Fail?
Bounce
Salmond Fishing in Westminster
This Post is Potty
Serious Money
Nombre de Vingt-Quatre
All About You and Heaven
Last week veteran BBC cricket commentator, Jonathan Agnew, was reprimanded for not wearing a tie when making a broadcast from the pavilion at Lord’s. This prompted Times journalist and P G Wodehouse Society member, Patrick Kidd, to recall a Wodehouse short story in which Lord Plumpton thinks he is being stung by wasps. His companion… Continue reading All About You and Heaven