Don't know who's on Question Time . Web page has nothing. Must be someone pulling out. Show comes from Sheffield so will be anti-De...

That is one new prediction from me on the markets for this year. My original prediction was we would end up at 5750 or so, but with the succ...

Letter from Germany - It isn’t just in Germany that I’ve found myself for lengthy stretches of business: in the mid ’90s it was Russia for ...

Can the coalition learn anything from the USA mid-terms? Probably not. The situations are different and the proposed solutions are differe...

Lloyds Bank have today, football style, poached an up and coming foreign manager for their new CEO position. Antonio Horta-Osorio is curre...

MIchael Fallon had some good fun today at the expense of a particularly useless poiticking institute . The CIPD exists to serve the needs of...

So exactly a year ago (how time speeds by) I wrote a short article on Gulf Keystone Petroleum, a bizarre small oil stock that was full of a...

Letter from Germany . A public holiday here today, & time for reflection... The German lawyers I negotiate with bemoan the paucity of ...

Arghh. Just as the Airline Industry had taken a stand against the over zealous policing of security at airports, we get this news of ink car...

Here we are, October is done as a trading month. Through September and October the FTSE and US markets have continued a rally. it has weake...

Question time rolls around again. Bit harder this week, only a few firm news stories and its from Glasgow, which usually means a very differ...

For the decade of 1997 to 2007, buying a house was a surefire way to get rich. Lots of people did it, older people had already bought in and...

This nice semi in desirable Camberwell. Or this under £400 gets you this lovely townhouse in Denmark Hill. Or How about Battersea - a ...

Really pleased to see Martin Broughton (scourge of some Americans) come out today to rail against the excessive security checks we have to g...

On the BBC's radio 5 program this morning was Stephen Haseler, professor of government at the London metropolitan university. He was ask...

… you will never get rid of the pillaging hordes. This subsidy business is getting right out of hand. In the beginning, various players in ...

First day back from hols so need to be a bit quick today. So here is a post for those interested in my trading for the year to date. The las...

After a not very relaxing but quite enjoyable holiday, I am back. I managed due to poor connection to not even look at a computer screen for...

A historical post . skip it if you hate the whole 'lessons from history' thing.. Within about 5 days of the German's May offensi...