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RBS: doing Fine, not Time
Today RBS report losses of over £5.2 billion and bonuses of £600 million plus. 2011 RBS fined for ‘Mis-Selling Insurance’ – fraud. 2012 RBS fined for ‘Mis-Selling PPI’ – fraud. 2013 RBS fined for ‘Mis-Selling Rate Swaps’ – fraud 2013 … Continue reading
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Tagged bankers, criminals, drug dealers, money laundering, RBS
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Troublesome models
An old friend recently sent me a link to an article he had written about Megalithics in Ogbourne Saint George, Wiltshire. He points out that some local sites, referred to as ‘Castles’ were more likely to be simply meeting points … Continue reading
Royal Celebrity Promo
While living in France, I was struck by how often the same item of news would appear, on the same day, in both British and French media. And not just international headlines but local news. For instance on one occasion … Continue reading
Boiling the Lance
William Banzai gives another slant on the Lance Armstrong saga by putting the peddle pushers crimes in context, when he writes the following: “Let’s put the lying and rule braking (pun) aside for a moment shall we. What great sin … Continue reading
Boson Brains Rules
You are probably aware that most computers use binary digits (bits) to do their thing. Each binary digit is either a 1 or a 0 – a bit like a light bulb, which is either on or off. The picture … Continue reading
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Tagged boson, liberatory technology, love, quantum, rules, viral
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Journey through a riotous mirror
A rather profound comment, by Karl Lokko in the Independent, provides some fresh insights to what was going on under the surface of last year’s riots in England, and kicked off an internet linked journey for me. The riots were … Continue reading
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Caring for life
Are you a caring person? Would your friends describe you as ‘touchy, feely’? It would be entirely predictable for the answers to these questions to be ‘yes’ and ‘no’. Does that mean you are deluded? No. It is simply the … Continue reading
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Tagged Care, Kevin Kingsland, NHS, Spectrum Theory, terrorism
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Not everyone for tennis?
We British are not normally given to challenging authority – we are taught early on to ‘know our place’! At the highest level that place is either on our knees or backing away from some royal personage to whom we … Continue reading
A banker lie? Unthinkable!
In today’s Independent, regular economics columnist Hamish McRae considers whether Paul Tucker, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England told Bob Diamond of Barclays to lie about inter-bank lending. His conclusion? “Unthinkable”. We are faced with an extremely serious situation. … Continue reading
A cynical ploy
Well, there’s a co-incidence. Three days ago Royal Bank of Scotland (owner of NatWest) were downgraded by Moody’s and suddenly their computer systems went down. The effect of the systems failure was that money could be received by RBS but … Continue reading
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Tagged bankrupt, cashflow, cynical, faud, Hester, NatWest, RBS
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