My ‘journey’ to full grumpy old man status is helped immeasurably about the use and mis-use of language. I have annoyingly put journey within quote marks because that word now seems to have become a word that describes the path that reality TV stars appear to take to… become slightly less bad singers/dancers or less/more [...]
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Do us Brits enjoy recessions?
I consider myself pretty lucky to have dodged the experience of a full blown recession during my working life. In the last one of the early 1990s I was largely drinking watered-down lager and sat on a couch in Liverpool, with not even the worry of student fees to bother my rather addled mind. So [...]
Credit meltdown
It’s hard to avoid the dramatic developments unfolding by the minute in Wall Street. Experts are now comparing the string of events over the weekend, sparked by the collapse of Lehman Brothers, with 1920s for level of meltdown in global markets. So our much-maligned chancellor, pilloried for his gloomy assessment of the economy last month, [...]
