Evil Diaries

Mitie’s highwire act

Mitie (LON:MTO) continues its highwire act even though the wire has been seriously lowered. This business has gone wrong and…

The £3.5m record remains intact to attack

My best ever investment has been Golden Prospect perhaps twenty years ago where I was urged on by my pal,…

Over to the girls

It's been a giddy few days trading currencies and I decided to cash in on my JPY short. It's quite…

Funny money out East

GCM (LON:GCM) has announced a Memorandum of Understanding with some Chinese concern to accelerate its Bangladeshi coal opportunity. This is…

God help me

Every time the doorbell goes I fear that it is a courier-sped P45 from the chairman. For I it was…

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune: I won £80,000 on Almandin last Tuesday in the Melbourne Cup but had…

Pension deficits: Are things really all that bad?

I had a very interesting conversation with David Cowen, FD of Molins (LON:MLIN), yesterday. For as readers may recall I…

Tesco takes it on the chin

Today's press carries the item that a group of some 125 Tesco (LON:TSCO) shareholders are claiming £100m+ damages as a…

The Uber judgment is nonsense

I was surprised by the Uber judgement. After all, the taxi drivers put up their own capital and work their…

MP Evans: Another bid seems to be the proverbial no-brainer

Perhaps ten years ago I first considered the Far Eastern plantations covering palm oil - MP Evans (LON:MPE) in Malaysia…