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Do I hear a bid of £1?

Better still would be a buyer for the entire Arcadia group – provided the price is right. Anyone want to lend that bankrupt stiff currently in jail a stamp to make the offer?

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Isn’t this just a shocker?

Its parent company, Taveta, had been run, it found, “as a personal fiefdom by a single dominant individual”. Given that Taveta is owned by just the one person this is, we might think, how it should be...

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What a sneaky bastard Zuckerberg is

Zuckerberg met Hancock as he faced heavy criticism for failing to appear before a committee of MPs investigating the issue of fake news. He is recorded in the minutes as saying Facebook was...

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An American weirdness

“Instead of competing on the merits, Facebook used its power to suppress competition so it could take advantage of users and make billions by converting personal data into a cash cow.” How can they...

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If only Wirecard were still around

Mastercard and Visa said on Thursday they would block their customers from using the credit cards to make purchases on Pornhub following accusations the pornographic website showed videos of child...

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Apparently some people really are this stupid

“WHAT. We lied?” “… Alls we do is lie.” So ran an exchange of texts between colleagues at the building materials company Kingspan , after it began marketing one of its insulation products, Kooltherm...

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More stupidity

Why is Dior still using the actor Johnny Depp to advertise its bestselling aftershave, Dior Sauvage? …. Perhaps more salient is the fact that sales of Sauvage went up after Depp lost the libel case....

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Oh dear Chris Giles, Oh Dear

Lets take the Harrods own brand retailing part first (The £1,040 turnover). Clearly that is not value added – it’s turnover. So go to the profit and loss account for the operating profit – its £257m –...

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How disgusting, eh?

The family of Sir Philip Green are in line to pocket £50m from the sale of Topshop, as 10,000 Arcadia pension fund members face a haircut on their savings after his empire collapsed last month....

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But 5 year olds can’t drive

Mercedes reinvents the car dashboard with its Hyperscreen Mercedes promises this full-width screen can be mastered by five-year-olds in no more than 10 minutes And, if a 5 year old can master it then...

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Weird numbers

The Department of Health and Social Care spent more than £75 million on transporting ‘Moonshot’ tests from China that could miss up to half of coronavirus cases, The Telegraph can reveal. A total of...

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Naah, let ’em go bust

Eurostar is on track for a financial collapse that risks cutting off a vital link to the Continent as the pandemic subsides, business leaders and MPs have warned the Chancellor. Rishi Sunak is also...

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Any fish importers around?

Silly question, but among the readership, anyone that imports fish? Biden’s going re-enter the Iranian nuclear deal. This means a lifting of at least some of the sanctions on the country. I know some...

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That’s one old joke dead then

Not that I can recall what it was, but the one about if Microsoft made cars we’d all have to restart them all the time…… Microsoft has entered into a long-term strategic relationship with GM and Cruise...

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Well done that man, vry well done

The Bank of France’s governor has said that Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union has driven almost 2,500 jobs and “at least €170bn in assets” to France. That’s, erm, half a percent off the top...

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Tips for Enhancing Your Creativity

Whether you want to spruce up your living space, inject more innovation into the meals you make, or really push a writing, music or painting project, you might be looking for ways to enhance your...

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These people are fun, aren’t they?

Joe Biden has not hidden his disdain for Silicon Valley. Months before extremists stormed the Capitol, he warned that Facebook’s laissez-faire attitude to misinformation could “corrode our democracy”....

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Well said that man

Eurostar “is not our company to rescue”, the Government has said, insisting France must take responsibility for the bailout of the struggling Channel Tunnel operator. Grant Shapps, the Transport...

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Sounds good

Tesco has discontinued some of its own-brand products after an investigation found that they are the exact same items as cheaper alternatives. The Creamfields and ‘Grower’s Harvest’ product ranges are...

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Acid really does show you reality

The Post claimed that the Reddit user behind the TSLAInsider handle is a 24-year old German political science student named Hendrik. “If you want to know the truth: I am a young German guy and I was on...

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