So now for an assessment of anything we can salvage from Marx**. Firstly, he is clearly right that capitalists often seek to establish mon...

May 2018 is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx.   Not so many years ago, just about the only mention you’d find of the man was ...

That is quite a hit, an Australian outfit called Westfarmers buys the place for £340 million two years ago and has now sold it for £1 to Hil...

Marks and Spencer have had a shocker. Marks & Spencer has reported a sharp fall in annual profits as it revealed a deterioration in...

So the good news is that in April, Government borrowing fell to £6.2 billon, down from £7.3 billion the year before. Okay so as a percentage...

The Capitalists are rather busy just now, so here's a pot-boiler for y'all.  One of the all-time classics from Pete 'n' Dud....

The BBC sub-title writers have a theory.   "Doria looks beautiful in a hat ... © 2018

Not sure what to do with yourself, there is a plethora of things to do..which do you prefer? 1. Watch a Wedding on the Telly 2. Watch...

Great article here by Royal London, posing as a news article in the Evening Standard. I guess the pension company PR think they are pushi...

Where do you work? At my place of work the col thing to do is to walk around and say let's get oodles of data on stuff and then analyse ...

Along with the laughable Co-op document , something else that dropped through the letterbox this week was a newsletter containing a fulsome ...

It is quite interesting, perhaps more to those not au fait with financial markets, how America can use its power to end trading relationship...

After all the effort and pain of many years campaigning for a referendum, the deed itself of voting, the developments of the last week show ...

A good number of years ago I ran an arm of a software company.  One of our biggest clients was a German utility and I was visiting their HQ ...

One of my most treasured possessions is an old 78 of Rhapsody in Blue , Paul Whiteman's orchestra with Gershwin lui-même at the keyboar...

As always these are a bit 'meh' - really who cares about some gal getting a non-paying job in a village the other end of the country...

There is really no end to Brexit and the stress it is causing our Government. The EU are playing crazy hardball , the new Irish leader, Le...

We've previously had occasion to recommend the wit & wisdom of Dilbert author Scott Adams.    Adams is ( inter alia ) a trained hy...

  The gender pay gap is something I have never experienced. I know it exists. I witnessed it all the time. Yet it definitely is not t...

Well, this big story has been rumbling for a few days. It has gone down very well with the Sainsbury's share price. Not surprising reall...