Gordon Brown

Rewarding failure

November 27, 2011
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Once again, I see people fulminating about “top execs” being “rewarded for failure”. As someone who has had some exposure to the processes behind executive compensation in several small corporates, I feel slightly more qualified to comment on this than many of the armchair critics. The truth of the matter is that firstly, of course, [...]

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What the XXXX factor! – Fixed

September 12, 2011
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As most readers will be aware, the TV behemoth that is “The X Factor” has returned to the Saturday night slot (with repeats and add ons such as “The Xtra Factor” spread over most of the week). Of course, with my quite literally first class mind honed by a classical education (Latin, Greek, Rhetoric and [...]

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Ed Balls in Fantasia

June 17, 2011

Thanks to Fraser Nelson for pointing out a world-class piece of carpet-bagging by Ed Balls MP, the Shadow Chancellor. In his “Speech for the Alternative” the Sorcerer’s Apprentice Economic Wizard showed how he was resolute when he was running the economy in the late 1990s: I would say that: – setting out tough fiscal rules [...]

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With apologies to Kylie Minogue

May 31, 2010

La la la la la la la la La la la la la la la la La la la la la la la la La la la la la la la la I just can’t get you out of my past Boy your cockups are all they think about I just can’t get you out [...]

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++ Exclusive ++ One last lie…!

May 13, 2010

He just couldn’t resist it, the habit of the last 13 years clung on to the end. The lies, the false statements, the backroom briefing, the attempts to influence the media and the electorate, had too powerful a hold on him. Gordon had to utter one more big lie before he walked out of Downing [...]

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Parasites that are very difficult to dislodge

May 9, 2010

Ticks are blood-feeding parasites that are often found in tall grass and shrubs where they will wait to attach to a passing host. Physical contact is not the only method of transportation for ticks. Ticks can’t jump or fly, although they may drop from their perch and fall onto a host. Some species stalk the [...]

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Blowback in the Weegie Sewer.

April 17, 2010

I have for some weeks been regaling southern readers with the hitherto hidden tales of corruption, lies, graft, drug taking and gangsterism in the murky depths of Labour’s Glasgow heartlands. It has seemed a fruitless task at times. The Scottish newspapers have been terminally reticent in their reports of the efforts made by the SNP [...]

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