I never do very well at this, least year worse than ever. Perhaps I should stop. But since when have facts and logic ever prevented me...

Yes, a Happy Christmas to all our readers and excellent commenters, perhaps we shall meet a few more of you over a pint next year. And ...

At this point in the calender some poor hack on every newspaper is set on to write a review-of-the-year, but this year it writes itself.  Ca...

No more UK deep-mine underground coal production, then.  Momentous, in its own way.  Yonks ago I advocated moving to the new coal-burning te...

'Tis the season to be, errr, jolly - and Santa Rally or no, the Capitalists like a drink as much as anyone.  If loyal readers would care...

In the style of one of those Hollywood Award ceremonies where they pay tribute to those that have passed away this year.... The high profi...

Further to Timbo's prodding, it's time to wheel out the old oil-price graphic - recalibrated for the remarkable current turn of ev...

Lots of press coverage over the last few days about UK attitudes to the EU referendum. All of these show that one way or another, thin...

Our longtime commenter Timbo614 chided me over not posting a new 'falling oil-price' piece, it having fallen clean through 40.  And ...

Stock markets are funny things, they give the right record of the state of the economy until they don't. They rise and fall on s...

Well beard or no, he's obviously not the messiah and there's every indication he's a very naughty boy.   But the burgeoning ra...

Sometimes things are not as they seem. The world business news is full at the moment of the news that Yahoo is to sell itself, or split it...

  An inquiry into the Glasgow bin lorry crash has found that the tragedy in which six people died could have been avoided if the driv...

I try to keep abreast of all the euro-referendum theology via the diligent Dr North , that arch scholastic feuder and splitter of hairs.  Bu...

So whilst I was in the far East last week, quite a big fuss was made on the news agenda there about this debate that was happening in the UK...

The big political news after UK declaring war..terror attack in the USA .. Oldham success for Labour .. Momentum thuggery ..etc ..was that C...

In the post World War one world, airforces were the new big thing. Inexpensive, by conventional navy and army standards,the airmen off...

The usual rule of thumb about articles ending in a question-mark is that the answer is 'no'.  (Nice Grauniad example today : "...

"BHP Billiton has lost 41% of its market capitalisation this year. Anglo American has shed over 66%" Seeing this morning's c...

COP21 is not a new accounting standard (!) - it is the latest round in the protracted series of climate-change boondoggles, this year to be ...