Johnston Press plc is the second largest publisher of local newspapers in the UK with about 80 titles. Unsurprisingly, it has not been doing well over the last few years. In mid 2007 its share price started to collapse from around £4 and has recently been around 25p (giving it a market cap of around [...]
Phil Jones of the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia has been much in the news over the last week. Hackers broke into the CRU servers and downloaded a large number of emails and other documents. When I was writing this, a zipped 60MB file containing the stolen material was still [...]
David Miliband gave a speech to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Edinburgh yesterday. The PA is a warm feelings body. It has no power or responsibility, but “fosters mutual understanding among Alliance parliamentarians” by meeting twice a year. It has 248 delegates from 26 NATO members. It seems to have a subsidiary role as jollies [...]
34 year old Andy House of Lufkin (about 100 miles N of Houston) owns a company that restores damaged luxury cars for resale. Last month he had paid £0.75M for a Bugatti Veyron from a dealer in Arkansas and was driving it alongside a saltwater lagoon near the coast. He seems to have been on [...]
SEX DISCRIMINATION LITIGATION Am I alone if thinking Miss Wimmer’s suit is bizarre? I noticed it in yesterday’s Metro, but failed to keep a copy. The Metro, previously the market leader in the free newspaper market in London, is suffering now that the Standard is free and wisely merged with London Lite in July. However, [...]
