Normally when I’m on holiday, I’m far more inclined towards trash TV than anything remotely brain-taxing, but this Christmas I’m going to tune into a Radio 4 special about the economy (Today programme, 31 December).
The fact that this particular radio show is being edited by Jarvis Cocker – who I’ve seen in concert, oh, about [...]

Poor old Phil Spencer. It turns out that even he’s been a victim of the all-encompassing credit crunch, and has been forced to downscale his property business empire. Poor lamb.
Okay, that’s maybe a bit harsh.  And I actually really like Phil. There’s something very endearing about him, I think.

But is it cynical of me to [...]

Cadbury’s recently bucked the trend of most other businesses when they announced their profits were up by 11 per cent over the last quarter.
There’s got to be a connection between that and the general gloom that’s going around, surely?
We might not be able to heat our homes anymore but goddammit, we can still afford the [...]

The brilliant Bird & Fortune explain the credit crunch…
Bird: … all the milk is standing around and gets rancid and hardens, and then when you get hard milk what do you get?
Fortune: Cheese.
Bird: No, no, no, no, no. It’s more like a jelly. It wobbles, you see.
And at this point the man in the [...]

Last week I asked whether it was time to start buying again. Among those who responded 65 per cent said no, the market has further to fall and 35 per cent said yes, we’re over the worst.
My own view is this: the market does have further to fall, but yes, we are over the worst [...]

What would happen if the head honchos at our high street banks had to pitch to the fire-breathers on Dragons’ Den?
iBallTv reckon it would run like this …funny, sharp, and all too true…

News reaches us of harsh happenings over at The Shire. The Hobbits, it seems, are facing an enemy of truly awesome proportions.
Not the demonic Lord Sauron with his Cradle of Filth threads; not the bad ass Black Riders; not even the plug ugly Orcs with their anger issues and gross dental hygiene …
Nah, this is [...]

I’ve just discovered what happens when you finally pull the cork from a bottle of pent up housing market fury. The results are colourful, to say the least.

At first I was rendered speechless (and nearly blind) by this teletext-inspired nightmare – a creation, I suspect, that was fuelled by late night Pro Plus binges with [...]

With the credit crunch still in full swing and the whole sub-prime debacle continuing to generate gloomy headlines, a little light relief might be no bad thing.
And who better to cast a witheringly hilarious eye over the whole subject than Bird & Fortune?
Below is a piece they did for The South Bank Show, and it’s [...]