SNP delegates eye public transport
An email arrives from the Scottish National Party with thefollowing proud title: "Big turnout for SNP conference event". Theevent in question turns out to be a fringe meeting where StewartStevenson, the former SNP transport minister, was talking about "theimportance of developing skills in the passenger transport sector".No doubt Mr Stevenson is a fascinating speaker, but what does it sayabout the SNP's confidence in the electorate that so many of itsconference delegates want to hear more about being bus or traindrivers?
Trump ahead of the game on Libya
Donald Trump didn't wait for a United Nations mandate to targetMuammar Gaddafi. The US property mogul reveals that he skewered theLibyan leader a couple of years ago when Gaddafi came to New Yorkand needed somewhere to pitch his tent. "I rented [Gaddafi] a pieceof land - he paid me more for one night than the land was worth fortwo years, and then I didn't let him use the land," Trump explains."That's what we should be doing. I don't want to use the word'screwed', but I screwed him."
Buffett in hiding from Goldman
What does Warren Buffett think about the announcement by GoldmanSachs that it may call in the preferred shares the great man boughtwhen the investment bank needed a cash infusion at the height of thefinancial crisis? That he's going to take the phone off the hook andhide, that's what. "I'm going to be the Osama bin Laden ofcapitalism - I'm on my way to an unknown destination in Asia whereI'm going to look for a cave," Buffett told reporters. "If the USArmed forces can't find Osama bin Laden in 10 years, let GoldmanSachs try to find me."
An easy way to scale the paywall
As a newspaper that remains resolutely free on the Internet,we're happy to plug an article that ran in the Toronto Global Mailyesterday, explaining how to circumvent newspapers' online paywalls.Go to the paper in question's home page, copy the headline of thearticle you want, paste it into the search engine of your choice andthen sit back and enjoy unmetered access. The tactic works for theWall Street Journal and the FT, but not The Times, sadly.
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