That lawyers among other professionals can charge exorbitant hourly rates for their work is nothing new. But what the three law firms representing Richard Tornetta, the Tesla-investor who while holding 9 shares only in 2018 successfully sued the company over Elon Musk’s $56 billion compensation package now claim is nothing short of outrageous! In total […]
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Banana Republic
Anyone observing from the outside the British isles what is currently happening in British politics must be appalled! After Boris Johnson resigned in shame in July, Liz Truss, his successor as Prime Minister, nominated by the members of the Conservative party, lasted a mere 44 days in her job before being forced to resign over […]
Wine and Cheese
Now I am really about to blow a fuse! And big time! What does the gathering on the photo below look like to you? A drinks reception with wine and cheese? Or a work meeting? By the way, this gathering took apparently place in May 2020, when the rest of the British population was in […]
Brexit: Not such a good deal after all
A Brexit deal was clinched at the last minute, but it turns out now that it is not all it was meant to be. And while prime minister Boris Johnson was congratulating himself and his government for this outstanding achievement (I am being sarcastic here!), he forgot to tell us about some of the minor […]
Weirdos and misfits
As if the Brexit saga wasn’t already strange enough, it just got a bit more absurd of late when Dominic Cummings, adviser to the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson invited in his blog ‘weirdos and misfits’ to apply to join the British civil service. And so Uri Geller of spoon bending fame has announced that […]
The grumpy older man 