Evil Diaries

The Evil Diaries: Churchill Mining and Circassia Pharma

I first encountered Jacob Rees-Mogg about fifteen years ago when he, his father and I were speakers at an investment…

The Evil Diaries: Tesco, Poundland, Purplebricks and Mulberry

Getting on for forty years ago Tesco (TSCO) decided to offer its customers something along the lines of Fresh Start…

The Evil Diaries: Fevertree and Purplebricks

One of the weekend's colour mags featured a photo of a lush valley somewhere and said to contain the quinine…

The Evil Diaries: Mitie, Avesco and Watchstone

Talk about furious paddling: not a day passes when Mitie (MTO) does not announce a further buy back of several…

The Evil Diaries: Watchstone and Fevertree

Dominic Chappell seems to me to have behaved criminally at BHS. It'll be interesting to see if HMG gets round…

The Evil Diaries: Petro Matad and Pantheon

It is daily becoming clearer that Cameron has made a colossal blunder since even if he wins the Brexit vote…

The Evil Diaries: “I hardly know where to begin”

Well, I hardly know where to begin on the accounts to December 2015 published by Watchstone (WTG) today. But the…

The Evil Diaries: Pets at Home, Petro Matad and Molins

In recent weeks I have been delayed in being called to supper on Wednesday evenings such that I start watching…

The Evil Diaries: Watchstone and Avingtrans

The Watchstone (WTG) IR department tell me that the December 2015 results should be out by 31st May. If I…

The Evil Diaries: Watchstone

I bought Watchstone (WTG) again last week, this time at 220p. The PR people, Tulchan, remark that WTG has always…