Archive for February, 2009

Plane crashes and recession - any connection?

Posted on February 27, 2009 in Other stuff

It might be just Mr Blatherskite but is there a connection between the current spate of plane accidents and the recession?

Most airlines live on the brink of bankruptcy after all and it must be tempting to cut a few corners …

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Now it’s bums against the environment

Posted on February 27, 2009 in Advertising, Business

American ones that is, which seem to have developed a liking for three-ply, hand cream-soaked (why?) toilet tissue, 98 per cent of which comes from ‘virgin’ wood (it produces fluffier paper apparently).

Industry leader Kimberly-Clark, which spends $25m a year advertising …

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Benitez bounces out Rick Parry

Posted on February 27, 2009 in Sports

Say what you like about Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez (and sometimes we do) he has few masters in the murky art of football politics.

He’s been scheming, increasingly publicly, against Liverpool CEO Rick Parry all season and now Parry has announced …

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Does Fred have a pensions case?

Posted on February 27, 2009 in Business, Media, Politics

Mr Blatherskite can detect the noise of his loyal readers loading brickbats even as he asks the question.

But here goes. Last autumn Sir Fred Goodwin, CEO of Royal Bank of Scotland, agreed to resign and forgo his bonus (ridiculous obviously, …

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Princes to earn ‘drinking wings’

Posted on February 27, 2009 in Celebrity

We knew that the RAF was a bit short on helicopters but to get your ‘wings’ for drinking, well it beats working I suppose.

But would-be chopper pilots Princes William and Harry are about to embark on this crash course, William …

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Fred says, I’m hanging on to my pension

Posted on February 26, 2009 in Business, Politics

Fred ‘the shred’ Goodwin, former boss of cocked-up bank Royal Bank of Scotland, says he’s hanging on to his £650,000 a year pension (which he’s now taking aged 51) despite an invitation from chancellor Alistair Darling to give the money …

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Sex at least 365 million years old

Posted on February 26, 2009 in Media

Among fish anyway, according to that learned scientific journal the Sun newspaper.

Apparently scientists used to think that fish of this vintage were fertilised externally with a mixture of sperm and water (ugh!) but now they reckon some pelvic claspers on …

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£325bn of ‘dodgy’ assets, so what are they?

Posted on February 26, 2009 in Business, Politics

We taxpayers are to insure £325bn of dodgy Royal Bank of Scotland assets, or 90 per cent of them anyway, in return for £6bn of non-voting B shares.

Doesn’t sound a very good deal does it?

But what exactly are these ‘assets’?

We don’t …

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Fred the ’shred’ gets £650k a year pension

Posted on February 25, 2009 in Business, Other stuff, Politics

Disgraced former Royal Bank of Scotland boss Sir Fred Goodwin is to enjoy a £650,000 a year pension, which he can draw now apparently despite being aged only 50.

And this is from a company that will announce in the next week that …

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Fergie on points but Rooney lets him down

Posted on February 25, 2009 in Sports

Wayne Rooney didn’t get on the pitch until the 83rd minute in last night’s Champion’s League match between Inter Milan and Manchester United but he still managed to get himself booked with successive lunges at two Inter players.

United won on …

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