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Thanks to Paul Penrose for pointing me to the BBC website where they have not just one, but two pages of jokes about the credit crunch.  Here’s a few that made me laugh:   An elderly lady receives an e-mail from the son of a deceased (but wealthy) African general, asking whether he could transfer…

For those interested, you can hear UK Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, talking about our banking crisis on the new Downing Street podcast service (4 MB download) or you can read the transcript. Here are a few extracts: "I know you’ll be anxious about events of the last few days and weeks – and worried about…

I went to an interesting conference this week . The numbers were down on the organiser’s expectations, and the audience spent more time using their Blackberries to read the news headlines than listening to the presentations, but there were some interesting aspects that cropped up. For example, the fact that the organiser had given everyone…

I went to an interesting conference this week . The numbers were down on the organiser’s expectations, and the audience spent more time using their Blackberries to read the news headlines than listening to the presentations, but there were some interesting aspects that cropped up. For example, the fact that the organiser had given everyone…

Rory Bremner’s sketch from earlier this year seems even more appropriate today:

As a starter for ten. Gordon: "Alastair, do you think you could find another 10 billion of those?"

As a starter for ten. Gordon: "Alastair, do you think you could find another 10 billion of those?"

I promise to stop doing this soon but after seeing the inspiration of Monty Python earlier this week, and how it energised our community, I thought I would try one more before moving on.  Today, it’s a bed-time story for all of you bankers and technologists out there who are finding it hard to get…

I promise to stop doing this soon but after seeing the inspiration of Monty Python earlier this week, and how it energised our community, I thought I would try one more before moving on.  Today, it’s a bed-time story for all of you bankers and technologists out there who are finding it hard to get…

I dedicate today’s blog to all those people who remember Monty Python’s Parrot sketch with affection. The scene begins with a customer entering a bank. Customer: “I wish to make a complaint.” Teller: “We’re closing for lunch.” Customer: “Never mind that, I wish to complain about this account what I opened not half an hour…