Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A Times correspondent advised that during a trip to the post office for some purchases, when paying with his credit card he also produced five nuisance pound coins and asked the young female simpleton serving him to exchange them for a five-pound note. “Can’t
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com By the time you read this, I’ll be in Istanbul for the election, notwithstanding the pre-ordained result. Still, the fervour of such events is always entertaining. My favourite faux democracy event was in rich and corrupt Azerbaijan a few years ago when a government
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Reading the wonderful quality newspapers still available by dint of population numbers in Britain, I’ve drawn a clear conclusion about financial market columnists. What they amount to in a nutshell, is poor people (journalists) telling rich people (the large corporate bosses etc), how they’
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com I was amused to read that the Irish comedian Dylan Moran was “incoherently drunk” in his debut show in Christchurch, New Zealand. He’s hardly the first to find such consolation before performing. The all-time champion in this well-travelled road was Dylan Thomas. In the
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Students of social and economic history will see ominous signs reminiscent of 1929 currently in America. After the boom 1920s, seemingly overnight it all fell apart leading on to the Great Depression of the 1930s. From the President downwards, initially, numerous commentators, all, as subsequent
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The “Stuff” newspaper chain, bought for a dollar by a woman under whose management has seen a massive collapse in readership, must be the most incompetently run organisation outside of some government departments in our history. Ten days after I pointed out its website’s
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com I’ve been in Scotland in recent weeks looking at some buildings for sale and was an unintended bemused TV spectator of the coronation, a farcical Gilbert and Sullivan event overlaid with some Verdi flippery. All week, Britain’s best newspaper, Rupert Murdoch’s The
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The Times ran a fascinating article from a medical expert after Barry Humphries shock death, re hip fractures following falls by elderly folk. To the layman a hip fracture sounds like a nuisance rather than a death sentence, but apparently not so. In Britain, 10%
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A British animal protection outfit PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) has begun an electronic billboard campaign showing a smiling butcher holding up a dead cat then the image changes to show the butcher holding up a fish. The message over this asserts
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Ever since socialist ideology was buried in the 1980s by the near universal adoption of market economies, culminating at the decade’s end in the Soviet Union’s collapse, embittered left ideologues have resorted to language reinvention to mask their personal inadequacies as ongoing collective
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com I recently blogged about Argentina’s near century long record of appalling economic management. A nation, once believed to be destined to become the richest in the world, has instead been a non-stop disaster. The Financial Times report that the Argentinian central bank is about
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A month ago, Wall Street giant J.P Morgan ordered its senior staff back to their desks five days a week. Why the senior staff only? Analysis shows over and over again that the menial staff, allegedly working from home, are in fact doing no
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com “Bowels: The Secret to Empty them Entierly” The above, a Stuff site heading, reproduced twice ironically just below their bragging item of employing 400 journalists (which I don’t believe). Nevertheless, this boast would impress more if they employed less purported journalists and a few
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Like most folk I was shocked to read of the death of Barry Humphries given the earlier report that he was in hospital wise-cracking away after breaking his hip. I confess I never found his Dame Edna skit funny but there’s no doubt it
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com I’ve never met him but I have enormous admiration for Bruce Moon, a man with impressive academic credentials (Google him and see). Now in his 90s, plainly outraged by the blatant lying about the Treaty, he is devoting his remaining years to fighting this
