Evil Knievil

The Evil Diaries: “The great Corbyn joke goes on”

The Evil Diaries: “The great Corbyn joke goes on”

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The great Corbyn joke goes on. I haven’t tried it myself but it is possible to join the Labour Party several times over as one’s contribution to Conservatives for Corbyn. More reports please. ***** My nephew Thomas stuck his head in yesterday. He lives in California about twenty miles from San Francisco and works for…

The Evil Diaries: Foxtons, Pets At Home and Globo

The Evil Diaries: Foxtons, Pets At Home and Globo

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You could knock me over with a feather. As soon as I went through today’s half year RNS from Foxtons (FOXT) I decided that the share price would go straight down through 200p. But, instead, at the time of writing, it is hovering around 240p. It is true that I do not like the cut…

The Evil Diaries: The BBC, Lord Sewel, Polo and Gold

The Evil Diaries: The BBC, Lord Sewel, Polo and Gold

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As is well known the BBC is fairly left wing and therefore has great difficulty understanding anything to do with business. Take the term ‘secretive’ as in secretive companies. The idea of an off the shelf company run by a lawyer in an offshore jurisdiction being secretive is risible. This is because a company cannot…

The Evil Diaries: “head for the funny farm”

The Evil Diaries: “head for the funny farm”

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Apparently the miners capitulated on Friday evening. If so, punters should write Glencore (GLEN) puts (that is what the chairman has been hard at) and hoover up miners at a discount – Polo (POL) springs to mind – OK, yawn if you wish. Another highlighted last week was GRIT – OK, hold your nose as…

The Evil Diaries: Beximco Pharma, Madagascar Oil and Globo

The Evil Diaries: Beximco Pharma, Madagascar Oil and Globo

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Beximco Pharma (BXP) reported this morning on the half year to 30th June 2015. They are a really strong set of figures. As has been noted here many times before the GDR’s, now 20p, enjoy underlying earnings of 4.3p p.a. At the GDR price BXP is capitalised at £75m as against tangible net assets of…

The Evil Diaries: Apple, Mothercare and Totally

The Evil Diaries: Apple, Mothercare and Totally

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The chairman told me about Apple (AAPL on Nasdaq) before the results and that he was short. The chairman has scored. This morning’s DTel’s John Ficenec considers the proposition that Apple may have become too successful for its own good. He is an elegant writer and I suspect, having been a a couple of years…

The Evil Diaries: “Strange but true”

The Evil Diaries: “Strange but true”

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It really is this simple. Even if you, dear reader, are national chairman of Attila The Hun is Tops party you can contact the Labour party and, for just £3, join the Labour party and therefore vote in the Labour leader competition. You then vote for Jeremy Corbyn and, BINGO, the Labour party is out…

The Evil Diaries: Greek Travails, Home Capital Group and Pantheon

The Evil Diaries: Greek Travails, Home Capital Group and Pantheon

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Goldman Sachs declare that from hereon Greece’s travails will not influence markets anything like as much as they have in recent weeks. I wonder. The fact is that all this toing and froing for meetings has done virtually nothing to bring down the 50% unemployment rate amongst Greek youth. Therefore the next development will be…

The Evil Diaries: “Plus ca change”

The Evil Diaries: “Plus ca change”

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The starting salaries of some British workers: Soldier £17,900, Firefighter £21,500, Nurse £21,700, Teacher £22,000, Policeman £23,300 and, finally, London Tube driver £49,600. It is little wonder that the union is protecting the last figure with the desperation of a cornered rat. When an organisation turns in on itself and engages in absurd poses, death…