Archive for December, 2007

Who’d be Northern Rock’s Adam Applegarth?

The boy wonder who devised British mortgage bank Northern Rock’s catastrophic business model of borrowing billions from the money markets every few weeks to finance ever-increasing numbers of mortgages – which has landed the British taxpayer with a bill for …

Now Sophie gets stung by the News of the World – but it’s a bit much when it’s on video

‘Lingerie’ model and arm candy to the not quite famous Sophie Anderton has been stung by the News of the World, like many before her.But this time, as she snorts cocaine and offers her services to our man who’s about …

Branson faces his biggest challenge

Richard Branson’s attempt to take over Northern Rock has been described as ‘cheeky’ by one shareholder, and indeed it is.Essentially Branson’s Virgin is putting in £200m for a business which, if it survives, will be worth billions.

Branson’s USP (Unique Selling …

Harry complains of police-press collusion – and so do we!

Blameless Portsmouth manager Harry Redknapp complained today that, when police came to arrest him over whatever’s happening in football (they haven’t told us yet) Mrs Redknapp was rudely awakened from her slumbers to find the boys in blue and a …

What is it about football agents?

With European football body UEFA admitting that a large number of matches might have been fixed (so far involving only our poorer Balkan cousins) and the City of London’s fraud squad leaving its hobnail prints all over Portsmouth manager Harry …

For Labour it’s a Gibbon-esque ‘Decline and Fall’

Who would have believed that the contest for the Labour Party deputy leadership, a non-job if ever there was one, would have caused so much trouble?

The winner, Harriett Harman, is toast because she took a donation from our friends of …

The Times they are a’changing

The Guardian thinks Times editor Robert Thomson is off to Rupert Murdoch’s new toy the Wall Street Journal and a new editor may be in place by the end of the week.Business editor James Harding is said to be the …

The England football manager debate

Gets us nowhere of course.Affable Football Association boss Brian Barwick (former head of ITV Sport, er what football was that?) has apparently been consulting the great and good about who the next England manager should be.

So he’s been talking to …

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