A 15-year-old boy was fighting for his life in hospital today after he was shot several times. Although he has returned from trips abroad with trinkets, he has never been questioned before about the prices at which he has taken personal possession of his holiday presents This could land him in trouble. For he has [...]

The stock market, as Keynes observed, is a bit like a beauty contest in which the secret of success is not to pick the most beautiful contestant, but to try to guess which contestant everyone else will think is the most beautiful.The managers of most actively-managed funds are engaged in this game, which is why [...]

A feeling has got around that every time the shares progress towards a more realistic level the price will be hit as they press the sell button.Former director Michael Wilmott, who is now living in Canada, appears to be the major culprit. At one time he had 56 million shares, around 20 per cent of [...]

I think that’s probably come out [in the writing].”Might the new book’s accomplishment and his (as we shall see) productivity have something to do with Irvine Welsh’s domestic circumstances? Previously he was in a relationship that he very successfully kept under wraps. Hogg’s Justified Sinner, Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde, Wilde’s Picture of Dorian Gray most [...]

When he returned home, Lollo and Eva duly jacked in their advertising business, bought the farm and set up Sweden’s first proper Western ranch.Not that Lollo is your typical cowboy. Though he has the requisite weather-beaten face and bandy legs, he also displays a telling preference for low-alcohol beer and spends much of our time [...]

Babylon Heights imagines what might have led to this alleged tragedy.”It’s a good metaphor,” says Welsh “They are the little guys in Depression America. Of the many legends surrounding the film, one has it that you can see his body hanging in the woods in the scene where Dorothy and Scarecrow first encounter the Tin [...]