Schadenfreude-tastic Ah. Nothing wards away the back-to-work winter blues like finding out that your old company is being delisted from the Nasdaq after its failure to file its accounts this week and its decision to launch an enquiry into its expense accounting over the last four years. [According to this report, assisting them in their investigation will be “forensic accountants” from Deloitte & Touche. Wow! Forensic accountants! Do they like take fingerprints of old documents,…

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Enduring Love, Actually It occurred to me, watching the closing credits of Richard Curtis’s latest steaming turd of a movie on Saturday night, that it was rather ironic, actually, that a film whose central message was that, hey, love is all around, actually, guys, in fact filled me with a sense of bilious hatred the like of which I haven’t experienced in some time. I’m not sure what it was I hated most about the…

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