Category: Books
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Just Eat
I’ve been catching up with more old contacts in the outsourcing world and all the old bounders are decidedly perky. While business owners are shedding backside bricks in their silvery wake, there are only tears of joy for many managers. Furloughed but earning to the max. Absolutely creaming it. The scams are vanilla, even wafer-thin,…
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Furlough Blows
Cometh the hour, cometh the charlatan. And in business, coronafraud is not just confined to online ads by individual twicers for non-existent supplies. It’s becoming part of corporate policy. As most will know, the UK Government has stepped up to the plate and will pay 80% of an employee’s salary, up to £2,500 per month,…
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Bug Chasing
Tom Hanks has become the highest-profile person to confirm a COVID-19 diagnosis, so it’ll be fascinating to see him as a man battling a stigmatising disease. Mind you, he’s already survived World War II, Vietnam, a plane crash, being cast away on an island, being stranded in space, jumping into a volcano, and a kidnapping…
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McLovin It
In Paraguay, former Brazilian football megastar Ronaldinho has been arrested for entering the country on fake documents. Yes, this is one of a handful of the most recognisable people on the planet, and the said document was in his own real name. It’s stratospherically wacko. In fact, this was no border incident per se, and…
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Scum On Down
Writing can be a thankless task, particularly when you have a penchant for getting down and dirty and hitting it from the left-field. So many are institutionalised within approved echo-chambers that their independent thought processes no longer function correctly – if at all. Add to this an omnipresent reluctance of those in the know to…
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Honour Marks, Get Set…
I’ve never been one for awards and medals – I sussed out the scam while a mere lad at school. After penning a superlative account of the Ayatollah Khomeini’s return from exile in France, I was awarded a coveted gold star. Emerging triumphant and euphoric from the headmaster’s office, I encountered the class dunderhead –…
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Unfurling the Freak Flypaper
Earlier this year, Boris Johnson’s chief adviser launched a recruitment campaign ‘seeking weirdos and misfits’. He’s patently never worked in the recruitment sector, because that is indeed longhand for ‘launched a recruitment campaign’. Every campaign attracts weirdos and misfits – it’s one of the rules. The modus operandi of the switched-on is that such weirdness…
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Fact If I Know What I’m Talking About
Commenting about the UK being post-fact seems to have garnered some outrage. You might think that it was a position that people would be keen to understand and, if proven, to rectify. Apparently to talk ‘post-fact’ or ‘post-truth‘ is to talk through one’s porkie-pie hat. To the naysayers, our current ills are driven not by…
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Two’s Company…
While I was largely expecting the lead stories of the last few days be about President Trump’s acquittal or even more coronabollocks, the throbbing headline bulging through the copy of most organs centred on another celebrity-out-of-the-closet disclosure. And that’s newsworthy? I’m straining to find a shit to give. But before the woke and throbbing mass…
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