By John J Kelly I made a rare visit to my bank last week, and was reminded why. I needed to send £62.00 to Switzerland. After a lot of wasteful form filling, I was charged £20.00 for this ‘service’, which will take 4 working days to process. The exchange rate is likely to operate on [...]
Category Archives: retail
RBS, HBOS, B+B, Northern Rock all owe us a huge debt. Give them a hard time.
November 30, 2008 – 1:42 pm
The wonder of Woolies is that it hasn't been nationalised
November 27, 2008 – 1:56 am
The latest nightmare recession headline is that Woolworths is about to go bankrupt (again) with the loss of more than 30,000 jobs and 860 store closures across Britain. Have the government thought this one through? Where are we going to spend the windfall cash bonanza that Gordon and his elves have earmarked to save the [...]
Wobbly fruit is OK again
November 15, 2008 – 12:00 am
Over 20 years ago Brussels had decreed that henceforth fruit and vegetables needed to comply with ideal standards of shape, size and colour. Vegetable eugenics was a boon to Europhobes, supermarket buyers and agrochemical manufacturers alike. It accelerated the demise of smaller arable farms and prompted a growth spurt in plastic cloches, despite the best [...]