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The Dave Porter Blog
Saturday 18th January 2025
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7th time lucky!
When you are 21, you are not thinking about retirement, not at all. You are thinking of making some money so you can go out and party with your friends. Retirement is for old people, retirement is light years away, and anyway you only have enough money for a pint of...
What is wrong with these people?
I refer to Intu - the shopping centre people. They have just gone belly up! They own a number of well known UK shopping centres, like Lakeside in Essex and the Trafford Centre in Manchester. They also own two here in the North East of England, Eldon Square in...
No, I think the message is very clear
It's been an extraordinary few days and an even more extraordinary few weeks. Today is Tuesday 12th May 2020, and it's day 50 of the total lockdown of the UK, a result of this terrible Covid-19 pandemic. Like most countries in the world, the UK has been in lockdown...