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We all popped into Hereford today, to buy some creosote to get over my clothes and into my eyes and also to some extent on our ricketty backyard fence. Also, I planned to visit the Hereford HSBC branch while we were there. My old Mum was kind enough to send me a cheque for my recent birthday, scraped together out of her meagre pension, . . . → Read More: Radio HSBC  It has been a very interesting experience making the programme for Radio Four about the North/South divide. As I followed the line across England on the map drawn up by Prof. Danny Dorling of Sheffield University, I became convinced that the divide, unsurpisingly really, has some substance. Mostly, though, I was struck by the fact that many of these divisions have roots deep in . . . → Read More: Us (us us us us) and Them (them them them them) I think this blog is going to be about economics. I’m not an economist. But since they seem to know bugger all anyway, I don’t see why any entirely unqualified bloke-in-the-pub shouldn’t chip in, and make just as little sense as anyone else.
The global economy is almost five times the size it was half a century ago. If it continues to grow . . . → Read More: HSBC and the virtue of profit. I like very much the idea that the Chinese are to be invited to put a few bob into Europe’s hat in order to solve the ‘Eurozone’ crisis, and have an image of what the meeting where they decide whether or not to chip in might be like. One of the members of the commitee stands up and says, (in Chinese, obviously), “Lads, I’ve . . . → Read More: What it says on the card… This is Sir Michael Darrington. If anybody knows anything about growth, it’s him, because for over 20 years he ran Greggs, to whose products I owe a great deal of my personal growth – and I don’t mean that in any spiritual sense. I heard him today on ‘Any Answers’ on Radio Four. He was just a punter, a caller-in, but he made so . . . → Read More: Greggs vs. Growth. |
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