As readers of Friday's blog will testify, my irritation levels are about on a level with the English football team's world ranking, or Alastair Cook's batting average. I could continue with the hammering of the English until I realised that the captain of the Welsh Commonwealth Games team has been given the heave- ho for failing a drug test (well done son, the home country is proud of you, you £$^* ), so...
July 2014
I admit that in these warmer climes my irritation with the human race does increase on a par with the mercury. There is a lot to be said for the winter; am I alone in thinking it a little uncouth to be wandering along the pavement shirtless? (I'm specifically talking about the male of the species; ladies, if you would like to form an orderly queue outside 10 Chapel Street....). Back to matters...
...Slim (Hula - to give him his full title, no relation to Fat Boy). The aforementioned gentleman was and has just returned to being the richest man in the world. He first held the title in 2010 and only relinquished his crown to a certain Mr Bill Gates when the value of his stock in his primary companies, Telmex and America Movil, dropped as a result of the Mexican government announcing new...
... the small print taketh away. This was one of several hackneyed phrases that sprung to mind (see, there's another), when I was reading the Money section in last week's Sunday Times Sunday 6 July 2014. The headline, "New Websites open Door to Wealth of Property Data" revealed how Adrian Black-former head of technology at Goldman Sachs, (that well known estate agent..) has joined forces and intellect...
The jury is still out (unlike those in the William Roche, Rolf Harris and Rebekah Brooks court cases: how much have they cost us dear public?), as to whether Mark Carney is the smoothest of smooth operators or more akin in characteristics to an "unreliable boyfriend". The latter was levelled at him last week by parliamentarians who were unimpressed with his seemingly faltering attitude towards interest...
