Month: February 2008

Downgrade at Derbyshire possible

Says the FT. Hmm, maybe I wasn’t spouting b.s. after all. How do BSs raise more capital, pray tell?

For starters, the Yanks don’t have the term “negative equity”. I tried to tell them by commenting on this CNN

There was an excellent Cambridge Energy Forum (CEF) meeting on aviation yesterday. As someone said there, it’s astonishing that flying

This is positively my last post on Northern Rock. I’ve recently taken to listening to Radio 4 in the mornings.

I’m using BS to stand for Building Society, and b.s. for a more vernacular phrase! One amusing cameo during the

…for micro-generation of solar power, geddit? Here comes the sun… oh, forget it! Is the Guardian trying to piss me

There are voices of sanity out there. Tim Congdon has written several sensible pieces on the Rock affair in the

Wunch, n.: a population suddenly expert in a highly technical domain in which the vast majority have no qualifications whatsoever.

They’re so well-meaning, our Government, but clearly arrogant and stupid. They seem to think they have come up with a

Here are two letters to the Guardian editor. What’s the difference, do you suppose? (1) “I agree with Nils Pratley