Workers in the City's Finance Sector are reported to have been responsible for the disappearance of steak from the shop floor of Finsbury Pavement's M&S., the flagship branch in the Square Mile. The manageress recently posted a notice which told shoppers that it had'removed steak from the shop floor' and directed them to ask the information desk for 'help' in purchasing steak 'owing to the large amount of theft experienced.'

Fillets filched by light-
fingered hedge-financiers. No fun
for Finsbury 's Fortnums.

The stakes are high when
hedge-funders hit the the trading
floor to lift their shares.

6th Aug. 08. Britain will no doubt struggle up the medals chart at the Beijing Olympics. In one or two sports( water sports perhaps?) we may clean up though. We've already made our skidmark with an obscure yachting sport called Yngling.

We haven't an yngling
what it's about but at least we
got a gold for it.

12 09 08.The Today programme on Radio 4 discussed the phenomenon of writer's block with two fellow sufferers, one of whom was the Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion.

Andrew's having a
hard time sitting on his stool
waiting for motions.

Andrew's having a
hard time sitting on his stool
forcing emotions.

After a 20 year reign at the helm of the Tate Galleries, 'Sir' Nicholas Serota, whose contract was about to expire has been made a 'permanent employee.'
Trustees took advantage of a change in employment law to push through the permanent appointment on the quiet.The appointment does in fact have to have the approval of the Prime Minister.A 'source' from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport said the department 'does not know anything about this, as far as I am aware' some thirty minutes after the trustees
took the decision.
Critics like Bevis Hillier had sent a petition calling on Gordon Brown to veto the appointment but it was ignored.
Serota has championed (controversially) Damien Hirst and the 'Modernist' artists and broke a charity law by buying a work for £600.000 by Chris Ofili, who was a trustee at the time.
Earlier this year too, the Tate stood accused of boosting the careers of its trustees in buying
paintings by members of the Board.


Contradiction, cool
conning but no contrition or contest
in so-called contract.

'A Nicholas is
for life, not just for Christmas.'
(Serota, that is.)