The Drunkbirder (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Not when he’s on about the economy… I have no idea what he’s on about on that front. I wouldn’t recognise a derivative from a toxic loan if you hit me with the fuckers. No I agree with him on TV programmes of all things. Peep Show is brilliant, the Swedish Wallander is superb and [...]
TalkCarswell.com (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
According to the BBC's Robert Peston , the financial crisis was "caused by the mis-pricing and misallocation of capital by the free market on a magnificent scale." It doesn't seem to have occurred to him that it was central banks that caused that misallocation when they kept interest rates too low, for too long. It was state officials, not markets, that "mis-priced"...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 09/27/2009
Cancer / Oncology NewsWilliam Hague And Vince Cable Turn The Tables On Natasha Kaplinsky And Robert Peston, Cancer Research UK Research UK hosts its tenth annual event on Monday 19th October, giving politicians the opportunity to interrogate journalists and help raise essential funds for cancer research in the process. The lunchtime event will place two of the UK's most popular journalists...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
At last! The moment we have all been waiting for – or, at least, the moment many a Treasury minister would have given their eye-teeth for: the chance to see Robert Peston squirm. In public.
UK Libertarian Party (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
Read this Government press release blog post by Robert Peston on Shriti Vadera... No member of the government is closer to Gordon Brown than Shriti Vadera. The former banker was an adviser through his many years as chancellor and has been a minister since he became prime minister. In a way, she's his personal investment banker - the woman who co-ordinated last year's rescue of Britain's...
The Third Estate (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... Cityphilia, It’s Finished, Cityphobia and Bankocracy are much easier than slogging through Robert Peston’s blog. Booker winner Anne Enright’s diary, ‘Disliking the McCann’s’ drew tabloid opprobrium when published but was funnier than the satire I saw in the comedy clubs at the time. It will make you cackle, then it will make you feel guilty and persuade you to go and do something...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
By the look of her publicity shots she's more accustomed to the powder room than the classroom but Maria Bartiromo CNBC's answer to Robert Peston is going back to school.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
A typically insightful post from Robert Peston on the BBC's site highlighting the differences between the Adair Turner prescription for dealing with a destabilising financial sector (more effective regulation) and that espoused by Mervyn King (break up the banking empires)
The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
*The BBC's shrinking violet business editor Robert Peston took to the stage yesterday for a grilling by Lib Dem favourite Vince Cable as part of Cancer Research UK's Turn the Tables event. Pandora readers were given the chance to enter questions, of which the following was chosen: "Which best describes your delivery style: 'ragged and querulous', 'strangulated' or 'excruciatingly hard...
Rupa Huq's home on the web (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
... unemployment among other things. When someone asked whose fault it all was the man who along with Robert Peston has been hailed a hero of the recession (at least until mansion tax-gate) answered “Well I don’t think organising a lynchmob to go round Gordon Brown’s house would be very productive”. Right on. Most memorable quote for me was “In Teddingdon the big issue is parking, even...
Mark's (we)Blog (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
In my previous post about last week’s Microsoft Partner Network 2009 event, I mentioned that the London Evening Standard’s Anthony Hilton (who claims that he helped the BBC’s Robert Peston start his career and says that “he was an irritating little s*d even then”) gave a very interesting talk on why recession is not necessarily bad [...]
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
... will feature in a Radio 4 programme called Entrepreneur's Wound, presented by BBC business editor Robert Peston and inspired by his observation that a 'staggering number of entrepreneurs have lost a parent when growing up or been exiled from their homeland'.Others who reflect on how early trauma shaped their lives are property developer Vincent Tchenguiz, whose family was exiled from...
Brockley Central (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
... packet of crisps in the draw - but we like to imagine that it's some sort of satirical point about Robert Peston's undue influence on the markets, or something. Nick Cobb whittles plastic bottles in to anthropomorphic figures and places them in cardboard streetscapes. Normally, his work only appears in photographs but seen in 3D, you can appreciate how clever and minimalistic his...
The Third Estate (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
... chirpy adverts featuring Adam Hart-Davis (who’s going to replace him this year? My money is on Robert Peston) and that ‘hospital ward green’ headed notepaper (which is its official name on the Dulux colour chart). Yes it’s HM Revenues and Customs tax return. As usual this year I have been scrupulously fair with my expenses. I’ve even calculated the percentage of orange M&Ms per packet...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
... who watched himself being portrayed by an actor as a leading character in the drama, and the BBC's Robert Peston, who did not, having been neglected in favour of his colleague, Paul Mason. By the following day, being an FOH – Friend of Hare – was the latest City ego trip: one very senior banker assured me he had talked to Sir David at length, but hadn't been included the...
