4 hours ago

As Pride Month gets into full swing the thing no one in the media dares mention about rocketing syphilis and gonorrhoea cases

The STD numbers are rocketing we discovered yesterday. in 2022 there were 392,453 diagnoses of new STIs among England residents, an increase of 23.8% compared to 2021. Cue howls of anguish from all corners but – as Pride month kicks off there is one matter nobody in trhe media dared to mention.

4 hours ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Some sanity from Ireland, madness in the UK and why I smell and the Mrs suffers

I start with the domestic issues caused by the lack of gas and how the Mrs is the real victim after my 18 mile walk yesterday. Think of her sleeping next to a smelly me yesterday, her suffering and then donate to Rogue Bloggers for Woodlarks HERE. In the podcast I discuss Chill Brands (CHLL), [email protected] Capital (SYME) now valued at almost £100 million, Bidstack (BIDS), Eden Research (EDEN) and Lansdowne Oil & Gas (LOGP).

4 hours ago

Alexa, please show me the ugly face of Karma

For shareholders in Versarien (VRS) sitting on losses of up to 99.5%, here you go with a story from 2011 ( Conman left me penniless).

5 hours ago

David Lenigas you old spoofer: Vinanz is going to get a dual OTC US listing, rampity ramp!

Vinanz (BTC) The sub scale bitcoin miner which does crazy deals with pals of its founder David Lenigas listed on the Aquis lobster pot at 3p. Its shares are today, despite Lenigas personally hoovering up any (loose but wise) sellers, still just 3p to sell as nobody is buying the Lenigas bull. Since Lenigas and his pals like Richard Poulden got in at 0.25p they don’t care but instead the company serves up another bullshit spoof.

5 hours ago

BREAKING: Photo article: Chill Brands and its UK distributor – Ray Ingleby calls me!

On Saturday, Ray, the owner of The Vaping Group Ltd – the new UK distributor for Chill Brands (CHLL) nicotine free vapes – sent various messages about how he wanted to talk urgently. After 4 onerous hours of family chauffeuring duty, I called back and we had a long chat. It was most illuminating.

5 hours ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Can I find a volunteer for a daring mission who lives near Blackpool?

If so, and it concerns the Chill Brands (CHLL) expose earlier HERE, drop me an email. Then I turn to Avacta (AVCT) and my earlier comments HERE. Then it is onto [email protected] Capital (FRAUD), Cineworld (CINE), Amigo (AMGO) & Purplebricks (PURP), four horseman of share price madness. Then onto the impending collapse of Wildcat Petroleum(WCAT) and to Fusion Antibodies (FAB). Finally I might even have to show a picture of Brokerman Dan’s grots if you do not donate HERE 

5 hours ago

Where is my I hate Harold Wilson T-shirt? Meet snowflake ignoramus Cailin McCaffery

I have read a couple of books about Harold Wilson and I remember my late Uncle Christopher Booker and my late father agreeing that there were some good reasons to regard the former Prime Minister dimly. The pound in your pocket is worth the same today as it was yesterday said Wilson having just devalued the pound so it was patently worth less. The White Heat of Technology was the sort of vapid nothingness that served as a blue print for Blair’s Cool Britannia.  But I was just two when Wilsonwas evicted from office the first time, by the even more useless Heath. The second time around I was eight. But i still have no real memories of what he did and I certainly never had cause to hate the man.

5 hours ago

Photo article: rogue Bloggers 18 mile training walk to wonderful waterfall but disaster back at the Welsh Hovel so article problems

As I left the Welsh Hovel this morning I thought that I smelled gas at the top of the street. I thought little of it for an 18 mile training walk was planned and I had left early without any procrastination. I pressed on.

6 hours ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Shell faces up to the idiots at the Church of England, here's my solution

Tomorrow is an 18-20 mile training walk for Rogue Bloggers for Woodlarks. Please do think of how that will hurt, and to avoid more about Brokerman Dan’s underwear donate HERE. Then I look at the Chill Brands (CHLL) Blackpool spoof after today’s shocking expose HERE and why this can only happen on the Sub Standard List on the FCA’s watch ( no sniggering at the back!) Then woke campaigners like the wretched Church of England, Shell and light beers ( two of them).

6 hours ago

Essentra – AGM trading update, an improving trends Buy

Industrial components company Essentra (ESNT) has issued an AGM trading update including noting distributor destocking but that it “is seeing improved trends since the start of the second quarter”.

6 hours ago

BOMBSHELL WINNILEAKS EXPOSE: Chill Brands and its new business partner Ray Ingleby – he was in on the John Story ramp too

I am not finished with the ramptastic release from Chill Brands (CHLL) last week about its UK distribution deal with The Vaping Group Limited which is owned and controlled by a Mr Ray Ingleby. The morons think this will be transformative but I have already shown that Vaping is a loss making smaller company HERE and that it operates from a small business unit in Blackpool HERE. But there is far more to come on this…

6 hours ago

The real sex scandal in British Media is not Phil Schofield but Nick Cohen with the FT, The Guardian and Private Eye among the “guilty men”

Yes, Schofield and the cover up at ITV is a real scandal and there is a double standard there in that had Schofield been shagging a 17 year old junior female employee he’d have been out three years ago. As he today takes to the airwaves to accuse his critics of being motivated by homophobia there is a humungous double standard. This is the Kevin Spacey defence “Look I am gay so ignore the huge power disparity between me and that teenage boy I shagged but if a male executive shags a female intern he is exploiting a power gap and must be crucified. I so support #Metoo.” I discussed the ITV cover-up of Phil and how everyone knew HERE. However…

6 hours ago

UPDATED: Avacta – valuation is surely still bonkers

I am a perma bear of Avacta (AVCT). I don’t rate its management and am sure the feeling is mutual. But the valuation is bonkers. I was bearish ahead of the placing in December in which Avacta tried to raise £15 million but raised only £9 million. I think the acquisition of Launch financed by a death spiral was crackers but for a while I was whistling in the wind as the shares were ramped to 183p. They are now back at 113p but that is still a nutso valuation.

6 hours ago

Photo from Blackpool, the offices of the Vaping Group - do you still buy the Chill Brands spoof?

Yesterday shares in Chill Brands (CHLL) raced ahead as it signed a distribution deal with The Vaping Group Limited. I called it a spoof now here is a photo which rather makes my point.

6 hours ago

Up the Bens Creek without a paddle

The FCA always tells us, when not lecturing us on climate change or the need of the financial services industry to employ more lesbians of colour, that past performance is no guide to the future. But the thing is that it very often is an excellent guide to the future. And that is one of the reasons why I have always regarded Bens Creek (BEN) as an accident waiting to happen.

7 hours ago

Mattioli Woods – a value and income BUY

UK wealth and asset management company Mattioli Woods (MTW) recently announced an initial £8.78 million and up to £15.048 million acquisition of one of the largest financial planning and wealth management businesses in Northern Ireland, Doherty Pension & Investment Consultancy. This is expected to be earnings enhancing in the first full year of ownership and looks to add to an attractive value and income position here.

7 hours ago

Imperial Brands – interims, still income value

Imperial Brands (IMB) has announced results for its half-year ended 31^st March 2023 and that it is “on course to meet… full-year guidance, with improving returns in line with five-year strategy”.

7 hours ago

Photo article from the Welsh Hovel - trying my hand at Ginger Beer making

An early childhood memory from Butterwell Farm ,was of hearing a series of loud explosions as one of the bottles of ginger beer my parents were making, exploding and setting off a chain reaction among the other bottles. In those days we only had glass bottles.  I have never tried my hand at this before but, with the elderflower champagne and cordial season and nettle beer season now almost upon me, I thought I’d also give it a go. I am now working on my ginger bug plant as you can see below.

7 hours ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast:Tory sleazebag David Williams of Avanti does it again - now 98% vindicated on Arqit

Faking a product demo to gain funding is fraud and Williams boasted about doing that so the Tory scumbag should not threaten me, as he has threatened others, with a lawyers letter for calling that out as an act of fraud. I discuss his antics at Avanti (AVN) and then Arqit Quantum (US:ARQQ) about which I warned at $37.41 on December 3 2021 HERE and at $5.65 on 17 June 2022 HERE. Its shares are now 73 cents but the company is still valued at $90 million. My target is zero. I discuss in detail. Then it is onto IQE (IQE), Mirada (MIRA), Future (FUTR) whose £1.06 billion market cap is a joke. I looked like a right prat on this one for a while but you cannot defy gravity forever. Which brings me to Cineworld (CINE), Cellular Goods (CBX) and today’s total spoof from Chill Brands (CHLL) which the morons have fallen for hook, line and sinker. Do they never go to Companies House? Finally: it is 30 days to Rogue Bloggers for Woodlarks and less than 4% of you have donated. I repeat the Brokerman Dan underpants threat, please do make a donation HERE

7 hours ago

When’s the next bailout placing at Voyager Life – spoof operational update

Chaired by Eric Boyle of disgraced Stanford Rook ( Stanford Crook to its pals), Voyager Life (VOY) has been a disaster for investors since its listing in June 2021 at 58p. I have managed to get the shares suspended once and exposed this red flags laden, rogue-run, POS more than once. If “old” Liam Murray at Cairn had any sense at all he would quit as its Aquis adviser. Instead we have another spoof RNS operational update designed to pump the shares, now just 11p to sell, ahead of the next bailout placing, needed within weeks to avoid bankruptcy.

7 hours ago

£30m bailout at 20p for IQE after catastrophic results and a warning: its shagging all the sheep yet again

Last night, after hours, Cardiff chip maker IQE (IQE) published its results for calendar 2022 and a warning about how dismal trading has been since. With its borrowings ballooning it also announced a placing at just 20p which has completed today raising £30 million. Warned of the dire consequence of the funding failing – and assuming that there will be few takers for a £3 million Rex retail offer – misguided existing backers such as Lombard Odier scurried to more than stand their corner. You cannot say that I have not warned you often enough. Those who ignored my numerous warnings, the sheep, have yet again been shagged by the Welsh. 

7 hours ago

BREAKING: Mirada…. And another one bites the dust

Despite the presence on its board as a NED of Matt Earl, the Dark Destroyer, the 15 year AIM sewer career of Mirada (MIRA) is almost at an end. Unable to raise finance on the Casino and disappointed with its share price, though its inability to generate cash and its mountains of debt might just have something to do with it, the Spanish-based media software group is going to delist.

7 hours ago

The AIM sewer shrinks yet again in April, now back to 2003 levels

After some delay, the AIM statistics for the month of April have emerged. Ignoring 2 RTOs, there were 2 new additions and 4 departures for a net decline of 2 companies. For the year to date that is net drop of 11 companies down to 805 companies.

2 days ago

Photo Article - an apology to the Mrs, lucky West Ham shirt found no grounds for divorce

Well i say lucky, I am pretty sure that i was wearing this shirt for the 2006 FA Cup Final in Cardiff, the less said about which the better. Anyhow, despite it being somewhat ragged it seems the Mrs has not thrown it out which would, I am sure you will agree, have been grounds for divorce. Thus, as you can see below, I can now wear it for tonight’s match where I shall be joined at the Raven in Farndon by another attendeed at the 2006 match, albeit a scouser. He promises not to mention events of 17 years ago and to become a Hammer for the evening.

2 days ago

Photo Article from the Welsh Hovel - my olive trees from Greece are all alive!

You may remember that I brought five edible olive trees ( as opposed to olive oil, olive trees) back from Greece in my car last year. I planted them at the top of the top field which goes from the new orchard up to the graveyard. I had feared that a cold Welsh winter had killed them off. But….

3 days ago

Preparing to be the only Hammer in this village tomorrow night

The last time West Ham were in a cup final (2006), I was there. The less said about that match the better. The only bar we could find afterwards near the ground in Cardiff not packed with joyful Scousers, in which to drown our sorrows, was a gay bar. We had real sorrows to drown.

9 days ago

Photo Article from the Welsh Hovel - the last 2022 jam slips away

I made a stack of jams last year: strawberry, blackcurrant, gooseberry, damson and marrow & ginger. And now we are down to the last jar. The fruit trees and bushes are looking good for this year and the strawberry crop is going to be absolutely enormous. But we are now down to our last pot of jam, as you can see below.

9 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: the world's greatest musicMagpie expert opines

I start with domestic woes and legal opinion on the claims of the IRA man. In the main body of today’s podcast I look at Purplebricks (PURP) and the role of Neil Woodford and Link. I cover Microsaic (MSYS), Deepverge (DVRG), Pantheon Resources (PANR), Asimilar (ASLR), Argo Blockchain (ARB) – placing at 6p?. I also relay the thoughts of the world’s greatest living expert on musicMagpie (MMAG) and why it is doomed. If you hurry and book a seat at Sharestock – where less than a third of seats are still free - you can meet the expert, who was also a great Quindellologist – on September 23. You can book HERE

9 days ago

BREAKING: Purplebricks business sold for £1 to Strike – shareholders to get just 0.65p next year! (or less!)

Oh dear, oh dear. Shares in the online estate agency Purplebrcks (PURP) once traded at more than 500p as Neil Woodford filled his boots (with other folks cash) and commentators such as the shop worker Paul Scott gushed about how disruptive the cash guzzling company that ripped off its customers by taking payment even though most properties were not sold, was going to be. Today the business, nearly all the assets (bar £5.5 million of cash) and the liabilities are being sold for just one quid to SPV Strike. What will shareholders get? If they are lucky 0.65p in Q1 2024.

9 days ago

Letter to the FCA – how can it allow Canadian Overseas Petroleum to deceive investors in this way?

Yet again I have written to the FCA about how, as the regulator of the Standard List (no sniggering at the back), it MUST intervene as Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL), a company facing a massive cash crisis, has deceived investors in the UK yet again.

9 days ago

Pantheon fund raise massively oversubscribed: the triumph of hope over experience & proper analysis says Peter Brailey

The big call from Brailey at Sharestock 2022 was to short Pantheon Resources (PANR) at 121p. Yesterday evening the company announced a placing and Primary Bid offer to raise a minimum of $10.5 million at just 17p. It was hugely oversubscribed and $22 million was raised. But Brailey warns that those ponying up will also lose much of their hard earned. Here is why:

9 days ago

129 days to go, but already almost TWO THIRDS of seats gone for Sharestock on September 23, BOOK NOW!

It is still 129 days to ShareStock 2023 but already ALMOST TWO THIRDS of the seats for September 23rd are booked out. If you attended the first ever Sharestock event up at the Welsh farm where my family live you may know why this will be sold out well before the event. If not, let me explain why this years show will be even bigger and better than that in 2022 and so why you should book your seat early.

9 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: The IRA man has another go at me again as Proactive disgraces itself over Canadian Overseas and its N-N-N ouzo time!

I start with my latest run in with my neighbour, the IRA man. Then it is onto Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL). I discuss it deceiving investors, how the shares are a 100% slam dunk sell and also a shocking article about it ( see below) on Proactive not, as I said, by my pal Ian Lyall but by another pal Jon Hopkins. Hoppo should be ashamed. Then I look at Anglesey Mining (AYM), Zephyr Energy (ZPHR ) – hard cheese Cliff – Powerhouse Energy (PHE), Boohoo (BOO), where there is no ouzo for Ouzo man, and nanosynth (NNN) which has gone bust so meaning a vindication ouzo for me tonight and more shame on penny share grifter, brown envelope man, Zak Mir.

9 days ago

Canadian Overseas Petroleum and another bombshell it is hiding? Why?

Today’s results announcement is a disgrace, omitting a clear and explicit warning that Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL) may go bust. I shall flag this up to the FCA which, no sniggering at the back, regulates the Standard List. I doubt it will act but you never know. Meanwhile there is another non-disclosure which should alarm investors.

9 days ago

Alpha Growth - Minority Buy Out: do the maths dummies!

Yesterday Alpha Growth (ALGW) announced the buy out of its 5% minority in its life insurance operations in exchange for shares in the listed group.

9 days ago

BREAKING: Canadian Overseas Petroleum announces First Quarter 2023 Financial Results – guess what bombshell it is hiding?

Natch Canadian (COPL) does not publish the full document but just its self-selected highlights omitting the really bad stuff. It says the full report is available on its website. That’s a lie, it is not. But you can find it at SEDAR and there you see what it is hiding.

9 days ago

TechCast: your 12 part guide to AI - part 2 Artificial Intelligence and cyber security

Thanks to the sponsorship of Sure Valley & Pires Investments (PIRI) we are expanding the number and quality of speakers and are able to offer up more fun and games at Sharestock this year - as you can see HERE. In this episode I chat to Brian Kinane of Sure Valley but mostly to Ronan Murphy who is the founder of both Getvisibility and Smarttech247 about AI and cyber security.  Enjoy.

10 days ago

How Modern, post 2014, #Ukraine actively venerates the countless Jew killing Ukrainian Nazis from WW2 - Forward.com

https://forward.com/news/462916/nazi-collaborator-monuments-in-ukraine/

10 days ago

The vile Guardian & loathsome FT & Private Eye and how they covered up the #MeToo scandal of lefty Guardian sex pest journalist #NickCohen: NY Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/30/world/europe/me-too-guardian-financial-times-madison-marriage.html

10 days ago

Surviving WW2 Veteran Recounts Harrowing Story Of The Lack Of Trans Representation On D-Day: Babylon Bee

https://babylonbee.com/news/surviving-ww2-vet-recounts-harrowing-story-of-the-lack-of-trans-representation-on-d-day

15 days ago

Rumours of two placings FWIW

I have been bearish on both stocks and have no proof but in both cases the companies could do with some other people’s moolah to spaff. Hence the placing rumours which merit a statement in both cases are:

15 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: If you don't want me to talk about Brokerman Dan's underpants...

You know what to do HERE. After discussing that subject linked to sock wearing techniques on long walks, I look at Wood Group (WG), Scotgold (SGZ), Eurasia Mining (EUA), Pembridge (PERE) and at the wise words from that clever fellow Evil Banksta which convince me  after yesterday’s bearcast HERE  that Tullow (TLW) is in fact a stonking short. Sorry Malcolm.

15 days ago

Wandisco warns it might go bust in July, results delayed and that an equity fund raise might be at a 400p or (much) lower!

Oh dear, oh dear, the bad news just keeps on coming at the $1 billion AIM fraud Wandisco (WAND). But before we get to the bad news I invite you to read the 2022 report on corporate governance read by now ex CEO pompous Dave Richards MBE HERE. Did he believe this shite or just publish it anyway to allow ESG investors and woke FCA employees to get an easy jerk off. Anyhow back to the fallout from the fraud.

15 days ago

David Beckham backed Cellular Goods – another related party red flag vicar?

Last week I discussed how the purchase by Cellular Goods (CBX) of start up Singapore based seaweed to net carbon zero POS company King Tide Carbon PTE. I showed how the transaction made no strategic sense and will accelerate the already disastrous cash burn ensuring that the Fat Lady is gigging well before Santa rewards all the good little boys and girls while handing lumps of coal to the directors and promoters of Cellular. But it gets worse, far worse.

15 days ago

If you aren’t a raging bull of Canadian Overseas Petroleum you are a paedophile (irony!) – more confetti vicar?

Another day dawns and yet again Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL) has issued yet more shares. This is a death spiral on steroids but of you do the maths you must be a nonce. I am kidding. But at least some of the morons who own the stock are not. Let me explain.

15 days ago

BREAKING: To which spiv has Chill Brands bunged £60,000 for ramping its shares?

It is a simple question and one that I have put to Chill’s (CHLL) financial adviser, Mr. Nick Harriss at the fine firm of Allenby Capital. Oddly Nick has declined to reply but as 1.5 million shares were issued at 4p ( a nice discount to the 6p share price) surely investors have a right to know who has been paid £60,000 for what? The statement reads:

15 days ago

Ooops I did it again – another screwup from Gerry Brandon at Microsaic

Having committed fraud at Deepverge (DVRG), (publishing bogus numbers just before a placing) as well as breaking AIM Rules about non-disclosure of price sensitive information ( a move from profit into loss) just before a placing, Gerry “the arse” Brandon is clearly not fit to run a public lavatory let alone a public company. Yet amazingly AIM Regulation sees fit to allow him to continue to run Microsaic (MSYS) into the ground. Worse still…

15 days ago

Mr. Percy Thrower Reporting back after a 16 mile Rogue Bloggers for Woodlarks training walk

There were three reasons to procrastinate about starting a training walk this weekend. The first is that if you were lying in bed next to a gorgeous younger wife would you want to get up? The second is that walking a long way by yourself, up and down a main road to Wrexham, is not that interesting. You can think about various things but there are only so many things you can think about or talk to yourself about. My training walk, avoiding the killer cows of years gone by is dull. The third reason…

15 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: a deep dive on Tullow, Bidstack red flags and painful feet

There will be more on the painful feet later but suffice to say please donate to Rogue Bloggers for Woodlarks HERE. Then a really deep dive into Tullow Oil (TLW) where Malcolm is a fan but I explain why I am not and how he should be looking at it. Finally Bidstack (BIDS) and a growing red flag regarding its missing results.

15 days ago

SkinBioTherapeutics – SkinBiotix additional formal studies, a short-term delay but enhanced outlook: STRONG BUY

SkinBioTherapeutics (SBTX) has announced on its AxisBiotix-Ps (psoriasis) product that it has commenced sales in Spain aided by the launch of a regional website and on its skin care active ingredient SkinBiotix that partner, cosmetics business of FTSE-100 Croda (CRDA), Sederma has noted ‘exciting’ additional benefits which means delays in monetisation. Is that good news or bad?

15 days ago

Video: Rick Rule on the Moral Crisis of ESG Imposition on Mining Companies

I think you know my views on the ESG mania. Legendary investor Rick Rule is in the same camp.

15 days ago

BREAKING: Lenigas - Strike Off at Companies House

Okay, it is just a little joke of mine as the sun shines and I prepare for a weekend of training walks and gardening. Please do sponsor me HERE.

The strike off is not Big Dave himself but Lenigas Limited a company he set up and has not found a bandwagon to jump onto with a public listing

15 days ago

" target="_new">Celadon Pharma is on a nutso valuation, it is dangerous but surely it is a short

Back on March 23 I did a bearcast on Celadon Pharma (CEL) HERE which initially saw the shares marked lower from 125p to c105p. But the company fought back with private briefings. It did not draw attention to my well founded misgivings by issuing an RNS “refuting” what I said. That was a smart move. Instead someone roped in the serial liar John Story to do a mass new media spam pushing the shares, the CEO also did a Proactive interview and, for a while it worked. The shares hit 180p. Ouch. But then they started slipping.

15 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Which is more diverse, the Lionesses squad or the THG Board? And who bloody cares?

The reference to the England women’s soccer team is explained HERE. I talk about Mike Lynch of Autonomy and why it is right that he has been extradited, THG (THG), nanosynth (NNN) ICG Longbow (LBOW), Aquila Energy Efficiency Trust (AEET), and Predator Oil & Gas (PRD).

15 days ago

Carr’s Group – interims, still a ‘strong prospects’ BUY!

Agriculture and engineering group Carr’s (CARR) has announced its results for its half-year ended 4^th March 2023 and that it “anticipates full year adjusted profit before tax of c.£10m and remains confident in the prospects of both divisions in the medium term”.

15 days ago

Macfarlane – solid trading update, still a value Buy

Packaging designer, manufacturer and distributor Macfarlane Group (MACF) has issued a trading update headlined “Solid start to 2023 – on course to meet full year expectations”, so what does that mean relative to a now 114.5p share price, £181.3 million market cap?

15 days ago

Predator Oil & Gas - more cans of worms vicar?

An insider dealing director, directors who troll journalists on twitter or who threaten critics, these are never good signs. But worse is the determination of Predator Oil & Gas (PRD) to avoid issuing a prospectus when issuing shares. For the second time it has found a loophole to dodge making disclosures. Just what is the company hiding?

15 days ago

Disgraced Cenkos Knobheads 0 – The sheriff of AIM 1 (o.g Longbow). Can I play you every week?

It is another ouzo day here at Sheriff Towers as my bear dossier published on January 13 this year about ICG-longbow Senior Secured Uk Property Debt Investments Limited (LBOW), is now vindicated. The snivelling response on January 16 from Longbow and its advisers at Lagos Securities is now exposed for the fiction it always was. The shares were 51 before the dossier, they are now 36p, down 12% today.

15 days ago

Blackbird – just when will Malcolm admit that this is a dog?

For almost two years my old friend Malcolm Stacey has been recommending that you buy shares in Blackbird (BIRD). Back in May 2021 the shares were c35p. Today – after more bad news – they are 7p. I warned explicitly HERE that Malcolm should walk away, I still think that he should.

15 days ago

BOMBSHELL EXPOSE: Roquefort Thereapeutics – more red flags than a May day Parade in Moscow

Roquefort (ROQ) was a Standard List shell brought to market by the scumbags at Optiva as s shell in March 2021, raising a Bernie at 5p - I did warn folks about it HERE. Its shares are now suspended at 6.75p as it could not get its accounts out on time. But the history of the main player, CEO Ajan Reginald should be telling you that this is a monumental bargepole and everyone involved, from the FCA downwards should be highly concerned.

15 days ago

BREAKING: Lawyers Harcus Parker slams FCA Link Woodford deal as grossly misleading and inadequate in Private Letter ( which we publish natch!)

The FCA claims that its £235 million deal with Link, the administrator of the Neil Woodford funds, secures a 77.5p in the pound return for investors. Lawyers Harcus Parker claim that is a lie and, acting for thousands of victims, says it will fight on. The private letter making this claim has fallen into our hands and we publish it in full below.

15 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast - madness at the Dublin Marathon, why has Ariana hired a second broker and what does Andrew Bell really earn?

In today’s Bearcast i start with madness at the Dublin marathon. I then cover Red Rock Resources (RRR), Skinbiotherapeutics (SBTX), Cellular Goods (CBX), where the seaweed shite does not add up – Marechale (MAC) and Ariana Resources (AAU). 

15 days ago

Will David Beckham’s Cellular Goods still be selling (very little) CBD shite by Christmas? I think not & here's why

The reality is that after numerous claims of an imminent big ramp up in sales, CBD company Cellular Goods(CBX) is still selling almost no product. It seems that folks will not hand over three or four ponies for a small jar of potion even if it has the endorsement of a man who was once good at kicking a football.

15 days ago

Video: The Interest Rate Wrecking Ball

As we prepare for another rate rise in the UK today, do you wonder what the effect will be? Asset manager Tavi Costa of Crescat Capital has an explicit warning.

18 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Postcard: Fortress Bakhmut has fallen to Russia - how long are you happy to be lied to and to give a blank cheque to Ukraine?

I preface this by condemning the Russian invasion and President Putin. I am no apologist but I am a realist. I ask you to consider the real and proportionate scale of losses in this war, if you are happy being lied to by Ukraine as well as Russia and if you are happy to keep writing blank cheques. Finally I offer a scenario by when after a few more blank cheques and much more bloodshed, the West forces Ukraine to cave. Will you consider that money and blood well spent?

21 days ago

Ooops Red Rock did it again: - Andrew Bell needs to explain a suicidal value destruction as he places once more

I told you all to sell but have kept my shares in Red Rock Resources (RRR) as a reminder of what a prick I can be but perhaps also so that I can attend the AGM and give boss Andrew Bell the roasting he deserves. Gold is at a near all time high. The last time gold was at today’s levels, Red Rock shares were at a consolidation adjusted c400p. Today Bell has placed, yet again, at just 0.1425p. Bell makes excuses but there can be no excuses for such an abject performance..

21 days ago

Sylvania Platinum – Q3 report and share buyback, value and income Buy

Platinum group metals producer from South Africa, Sylvania Platinum (SLP) has followed third quarter of its year results with that it intends an up to $10 million share buyback programme.

21 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: as Eurasia tells a palpable half truth or outright lie, the 2 shares I bought today

My two share purchases are discussed at the end of the podcast. Before that I discuss Eurasia’s (EUA) latest porky, Guild ESports (GILD), Cellular Goods (CBX), retail inflation especially relating to cat food, and then Asos (ASC) – in detail.

21 days ago

David Beckham’s Guild Esports Interims – company looks forward with confidence but it is actually technically insolvent

I guess it is 2023 so one can identify as whatever you want. Today I have decided to be a German lesbian. And David Beckham’s Guild Esports (GILD) has said that “the Board looks to the future with confidence” after publishing interim numbers that show it to be technically insolvent. Whatever.

21 days ago

Drowning in #FBPE #BoycottSpoons tears as JD Wetherspoon reports record sales and heroic Tim Martin lashes out at the political class

Do you remember the #BoycottSpoons campaign, “nice” middle class folks who could not accept a democratic vote urging us to boycott the JD Wetherspoon chain with the aim of hurting it hard, something which would have seen a stack of working class people lose their jobs? Wetherspoons is run by outspoken Eurosceptic Tim Martin and free speech is a crime for some folk. Well I guess twitter mobs do not always work. Today JD Wetherspoon (JDW) has served up a Q3 trading statement. Wokesters prepare to weep:

21 days ago

Carole Cadwalladr has always been a fraud, tonight she may be bankrupted but should she now be charged with fraud?

I have covered the career of left wing journalist Carole Cadwalladr on this website for many years, starting with her bogus claims of achieving success despite educational disadvantage, moving on through all the hoax stories which earned her an Orwell prize and then onto her libel case with Brexit bad boy, Arron Banks. Today Cadwalladr faces bankruptcy as she has been ordered to pay 60% of Bankski’s costs plus 100% of her own costs plus some damages as well. If she cannot find more than £2million she should be made bankrupt. Hooray. For Cadwalladr is a dangerous and unpleasant fantasist.

21 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: taking the good name of Dominic Frisby in vain & 6 lessons from the collapse of Purplebricks

I start with discussing how my late Dad would have been fired had he still been a lecturer at Warwick University today. I am sure that I’d be getting a P45 in the corporate world in the wake of a new survey on workplace alcohol use. Then I move onto Frisby, a star speaker & also singer at ShareStock 2023, and Argo Blockchain (ARB), Versarien (VRS), UK Oil & Gas (UKOG), [email protected] Capital (SYME) and in depth lessons from today’s collapse at Purplebricks (PURP), one I did get right. I also discuss the weather and, in that vein, urge you to donate to a great cause HERE.

21 days ago

Eurasia Mining: Cash now almost exhausted, no bidder – time for a full fess up statement, £82m market value a total joke

During the past three years, Eurasia Mining (EUA) has pretended that it is in receipt of serious bid interest for its cash guzzling insignificant PGM assets in Russia, assets where the cost of mining is, per oz, greater than the price metals are sold for. Using this ruse to push up the share price it has managed to get away three placings at share prices which are a multiple of where the shares trade today. But now the money has almost run out.

21 days ago

KERBOOM: Ouzo at Sheriff Towers – it is essentially game over at Purplebricks

Neil Woodford and Thirsty Paul Scott took the knee at the disruptive potential of online estate agent Purplebricks (PURP). In latter years the deadwood press blew smoke up the arses of the CEO and CFO as they were both women. Girl Power! More ESG vicar? Of course, the numbers never stacked up and the fundamental business offering was dire so shareholders and customers both got screwed. Those of us who do actually look at how a business runs and at hard numbers may be sexist old dinosaurs for doing so but we have another win. Today’s fess up from the birds in charge is grim.

21 days ago

Photo article - back on the Rogue Bloggers for Woodlarks training walks - fun in the Welsh rain

II have let the training slide after that Greek Easter holiday. But the 34 miles Rogue Bloggers for Woodlarks walk is coming up fast (June 17) and so this morning there was no alternative. I procrastinated a bit but, in the end, donned an anorak and headed off into the rain. The photo below is of the track behind the back of the village where I live to Frog Lane.

21 days ago

Union Jack Oil – why not be more transparent Mr Bramhill?

Say what you like about David Bramhill, the man who as CEO of Union Jack Oil (UJO) spaffed shareholders cash on hiring spooks to investigate both journalists and his own shareholders, but Dave does like to issue RNS statements as often as possible. It is a classic sign of a penny share promoter.

22 days ago

Do we really want to shove up taxes so that a junior doctor can come off strike and buy a million quid home

UK Government borrowings are now at almost 100% of GDP. That should be a sort of ceiling if we do not want to go down the Greek path to bankruptcy. So if the state wants to spend more it must raise taxes which are already at a 70 year high. One group of public sector workers who think they should earn more, paid for by folks who – on a mean average basis – earn far less than them paying more tax, are the junior Shipmans. Meet James who is 28 and explains his financial woes to this week’s Investor’s Chronicle as you can see below.

22 days ago

Video: 2023 Could be as Bad as 2008 for a banking crisis

Economist and Wealth Advisor Jonathan Davis believes that we could be repeating the 2008 banking crisis. He says that central bankers make incorrect statements about the future and have their own agendas often connected to politics and that the Fed is surrounded by incapable academics and often behind the curve.

22 days ago

Castings – anticipates full-year “ahead of market expectations”, Buy

Iron castings and machining operations company Castings (CGS) has announced it now anticipates year ended 31^st March 2023 performance to be ahead of market expectations and that forward demand schedules continue to reflect strong order books across its customer base.

22 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: I was wrong, PL is right, should you fill your boots with Fox on Tuesday

To be fair, I was urging folks to buy shares in Fox Marble (FOX) last week but it seems I was a bit wrong about the maths and our in-house BB savant PL was right. Does that make Fox a raging FYB buy on Tuesday? I then look at ScotGold (SGZ) and yet another scandal and finally at Flip Flop’s Kavango Resources (KAV) as per my earlier piece HERE. Tomorrow I really am on a training walk so please, as I aim to do 15 miles, consider a donation to Rogue Bloggers for Woodlarks HERE

22 days ago

Tintra and its bust up with its death spiral provider: yet more red flags for you vicar

On the Friday before the Coronation, mid morning so that fewer folks would notice, came a bombshell from Tintra (TNT), an apparent bust up with its death spiral provider.

22 days ago

BREAKING: Karma hits Flip Flop Ben Turney, Kavango Action Group want him out & slate his troughing

You live by the sword….

22 days ago

J Sainsbury – full-year results, trading great momentum?

J Sainsbury (SBRY) has announced results for its year ended 4^th March 2023 and said that it’s starting the new financial year with great momentum.

22 days ago

Macfarlane – another acquisition, still a value Buy

Packaging designer, manufacturer and distributor Macfarlane Group (MACF) has announced the acquisition of A & G Holdings, owner of Gottlieb Packaging Materials – a North-West of England-based supplier of protective packaging products to customers across a wide range of sectors.

22 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: sheer madness

In today’s Bearcast I discuss: Aptamer (APTA), [email protected] Capital (SYME), Tintra (TNT), Versarien (VRS), Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO) and Colin Bird’s Bezant Resources (BZT).

22 days ago

The Versarien Bailout Placing (natch) prize sweepstake result. And the winner is...

Now approaching a month ago when the shares closed at above 2.5p, it was clear that Versarien (VRS) required a bailout placing and we launched a prize sweepstake to name the placing price and, as a tie breaker, the price the day before the placing – with the prize 500ml of Tom’s Greek Hovel olive oil. Versarien duly obliged earlier this week at a massively discounted (natch) to the prior closing 2.0625p share price, 1.25p. And the winner is…

22 days ago

DS Smith – full-year trading update, a growth and income Buy?

Packaging company DS Smith (SMDS) has issued a trading statement noting “strong growth in profitability and financial performance”, in line with expectations, and that it is well positioned entering its new year.

23 days ago

Flag Flyer is a term of abuse in Britain unless it's this flag!

I noted the other day how those in the liberal political and media elites have, for years, sneared at anyone flying the  Union Flag. Indeed, I think, the term flag waver actually became a term of abuse at some point amomng those who tend to have #FBPE in their twitter handles. But at least the UK does not spaff taxpayers cash on a “Flags team.” Unlike …

23 days ago

Eden Research full year numbers – countdown to next bailout now underway

In the c25 years since Eden Research (EDEN) has – as well as committing numerous frauds – managed to send £43.3 million of other folks cash to money heaven. Apologists say that this is an early stage growth company and it is all about the jam that will arrive tomorrow. They have always said that. After a quarter of a century Eden is clearly not early stage and it is not really growing much either. Today come results for calendar 2022.

23 days ago

BREAKING: Scotgold – Now the Tree Huggers go on the attack flagging up environmental and financial risks of non-compliance with Restoration Bonds

We are yet to hear from Scotgold (SGZ) or, other than an acknowledgment of complaint, from regulators considering apparent deception of investors ahead of the £3 million 40p placing earlier this year either as a result of the dynamite leaked spreadsheets HERE or the allegation that investors were spoofed by fake news given to the BBC, HERE. But now enter stage left the environmentalists at Parks Watch Scotland flagging up another massive financial issue which also poses clear environmental threats.

23 days ago

Advanced Oncotherapy – share price death & directors grabbing the assets postponed by a few weeks

Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO) has raised another £1.37 million via the issuance of secured convertible loan notes. Great. £6.345 million of such CULS have now been issued but such is the profligacy of this abomination of an investment that this money will last for only a few more weeks. By the end of May the Fat Lady could well be singing. So who would benefit from that?

23 days ago

Cellular Goods – shocking interims – guess when the cash runs out?

David Beckham backed disastrous CBD play Cellular Goods (CBX) has today served up truly disastrous inters which – whatever the oafs in charge insist – indicates very clearly that the company will run out of money. The level of delusion is just mind numbing. Take this comment on sales since the February 28 half year end:

23 days ago

I almost fell for the scammers pretending to be Barclays

Looking back on this I was a bit of a prize chump. But unlike the Mrs who handed over her bank details to some phone scammers a few years ago allowing them to clean out her account, I did not fall for it. I am a chump for not spotting this one straight away.

28 days ago

BBC Radio 4 Women’s Hour on the distressingly white England Women’s soccer team and why the most lesbian packed sport needs more diversity

The starting XI of the Lionesses which won the European Championships last year was all white. There were folks of mixed race or of colour in the Squad but not the starting line up. And this is just unacceptable say those in the liberal media establishment.

28 days ago

Techcast No 1 - Your 12 part guide to AI

Thanks to the sponsorship of Sure Valley Ventures and Pires Investments (PIRI) there are more big name speakers, entertainers and more free beer and wine at ShareStock on 23 September. And, as of tonight, almost two thirds of the seats are already bagged so to grab yours and to find out more go HERE. Also as part of this deal I shall be recording 24 podcasts between now and the year end. 12 of those are on AI, Artificial Intelligence. Number 1 in this series is with the surprise star of last year’s Sharestock Brian Kinane. Enjoy.

28 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Main Bearcast: The 4th May not be with Argo Blockchain

I am still celebrating Star Wars Day and discuss Tintra (TNT), Argo Blockchain (ARB), Deepverge (DVRG), Microsaic (MSYS), the madness at Mosman Oil & Gas (MSMN) and the black hole at Bidstack (BIDS), hence its delayed results

28 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bonus Bearcast: May the 4th be with you - was and is Versarien a fraud or just a pointless company?

On Star Wars Day I look in detail at whether Versarien (VRS) is or was a fraud or just a pointless & worthless AIM sewer penny share promote?

28 days ago

Letter to Marcus Stuttard at AIM Regulation – the BBC dobs Scotgold in, surely this is criminal?

I have dropped a note to my old pal, the bogus Sheriff of AIM, aka Mr. Marcus Stuttard, head of AIM Regulation, aka the Oxymorons. It seems to me that the BBC has dobbed in Scotgold (SGZ) for serving up a material untruth which saw the shares zooming to 70p to allow a £3 million placing at 40p to proceed. Either the BBC is lying or this is criminal deceit on the part of Scotgold. I have urged the Oxymorons to act…

28 days ago

From a 4 day week to a P45 in six months – life for a worker at the $1bn AIM fraud Wandisco

It was just six months ago that smug bien pensant Davie Richards MBE was boasting that putting his staff on a four day week but paying them for five days had seen sales rocket. Then it emerged that most of those booked sales were completely bogus, booked by one rogue saleperson. As CEO, Richards, and his hapless CFO, had not bothered to call any of these big new customers, had not verified the contracts indeed had done nothing even as bills were not paid. Richards was too busy being one of the “great and the good.” Today, the price of Richards’ ineptitude became clear as Wandisco (WAND), battling to stay solvent, has started mass layoffs.

29 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: It's oooooooooooooooooooo-uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuzo time!

In today’s podcast I start with a few words on the Wrexham victory parade then discuss Versarien (VRS), Kefi Gold & Copper (KEFI), Mirriad Advertising (MIRI), Braveheart (BRH), Solgenics (SGN), Tern (TERN) and UK Oil & Gas (UKOG).

29 days ago

BREAKING: The BBC admits the sordid truth about Scotgold’s pre placing ramp, surely this makes Scotgold's action criminal?

Scotgold (SGZ) has yet to comment on THESE LEAKED SPREADSHEETS which suggest that it misled the market about output at Cononish in January ahead of a £3 million placing at 40p. But there is now worse evidence of what it was up to ahead of that placing. I refer to the BBC article about a new vein appearing at the mine which saw the shares puffed up to 70p. I had assumed that the BBC was flying solo in bumming its readers.

29 days ago

VINDICATED YET AGAIN: Versarien bailout placing fails to hit targets, death postponed by only 2 months (at most!)

This is so simple that even the most moronic or Bulletin Board morons or spiv, Scouse, penny share grifter, share promoters should get it: companies do not set out to raise £531,624 (gross) in a deeply discounted placing. They go for a round number. A company running on vapours raising a non round number and way below what it had the authorities to raise is a sign that only forward sellers and flippers were interested. I refer to Versarien (VRS). Its latest placing is a disaster.

29 days ago

BOMBSHELL EXPOSE: Alpha Growth results – wholesale breaches of IFRS, FRC should be all over this!

Alpha  Growth (ALGW) published its accounts for the year ended 31 December 2022 on Tuesday. The FRC should be all over this one as the breaches of IFRS rules are material and on an industrial scale.

29 days ago

The Bunting stays up – an enormous fuck you to the liberal establishment

The Coronation weekend is over but as I drive around the villages around Wrexham and Chester I am struck by how much of the celebratory bunting and flags stay up. Even here on the Welsh side of the border, the red white and blue of the United Kingdom cannot be dodged. My Indian born parents-in-law, old enough to have been born under British Rule, still fly their Union Flags as do so many others.   But for years flying such flags was expressly frowned upon by the liberal establishment that runs the media, academia and most of the political class.

29 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: The numbers from Lenigas run PennPetro stink, it is near as damn it bust but covering that up with changed year end

First up I have extended the deadline to enter our latest prize contest to 7 AM tomorrow - please do enter HERE. The I make a plea to Brian Kinane and then look at Chesterfield (CHF), Wildcat (WCAT), the fraud [email protected] Capital (SYME) then, in detail, the latest David Lenigas promote PennPetro (PPP). Finally the get out of jail card that stinks of cover-up at Bluebird Merchant Ventures (BMV).

29 days ago

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Prize Competition: The Cliff Weight Appreciation six of the best shorting contest

In the bad old days ShareSoc was run by a fellow who read about a German short seller planting a bomb and concluded that this was a sign of the desperate measures we bears might undertake to satisfy our vile greed. Bears bad – Globo good. These days Cliff Weight is in charge and he is far more enlightened and based on a 2021 portfolio he ran , we have a new prize contest ( prize 500 ml of Greek Hovel 2023 olive oil). Readers SIX OF THE BEST means a portfolio of SIX NOT FIVE, HINT IS IN TITLE!

29 days ago

EXPOSE: Seed Capital Solutions an ESG IPO play for Malcolm Stacey & Chris Bailey: it surely takes the piss

Seed Capital Solutions (SCSP) was incorporated in December 2017 but only joined the Standard list – just before new tighter rules came in to play – on 12 April this year. It is a cash shell looking to make an ESG Acquisition. And today Rolf Harris has just been appointed head of the NSPCC. Sorry, I meant to say that Seed Capital has a new CEO

29 days ago

Peel walks away from its jv with Powerhouse – will force financial restatement, accelerate cash crisis

You may remember that when Powerhouse (PHE) first got into a joint venture with FTSE 350 giant Peel Holdings to build a waste to Hydrogen plant half an hour up the road from me in Deeside, it was Peel that owned the joint venture and would fund it as it. Then it was “mutually agreed” that Powerhouse would fund it via loans. Then it was “mutually agreed” that Powerhouse would look to buy a 50% stake while Peel might inject more capital via a warrant exercise. Today….

30 days ago

Bluebird Merchant Ventures, 10 million share trade reversed – an admission of insider dealing?

I flagged up HERE that shortly before disappointing news from Korea a block of 10 million shares in Bluebird Merchant Ventures (BMV) went through at below market prices. We know, thanks to a TR1, that the seller was Southern Gold and I know, thanks to a party close to the company, that its executives had been made insiders. Now the trade has been reversed. Surely that is an admission of guilt?

30 days ago

John Zorbas and Uru Metals – disastrous news from Zeb, it's almost bust and has been caught telling porkies

Oh dear, oh dear. Uru Metals (URU) – as Nigel has pointed out is technically bust. By now net current assets will be cMINUS $2.25 million while cash will be down to just a few hundred thousand dollars. Its supporters flag up that it owns 78% of TSX-V listed Zeb Minerals. Today URU flags up two bits of news from Zeb without going into detail. I bet you cannot guess why? First up Zeb has been caught lying or, as Uru puts it, it has “issued a clarifying press release”

30 days ago

David Lenigas spoof or share support or both? Another red flag vicar?

You would have thought that if you really wanted to buy more shares in your company you would not be ramping the arse off it to try to push the share price up? That brings us to David Lenigas and news today that he has bought 400,000 shares in his Aquis listed bitcoin promote Vinanz (BTC). This stinks and is a sell signal.

30 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: By Jove I reckon Malcolm Stacey may be right about something

I start with bad weather news from Wrexham, then consider international workers day and how experts change their minds. Then onto Malcolm’s three top picks outlined earlier. I dismiss two but the third really might be a winner. What am I missing regarding City of London Investment Group (CLIG)?

30 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Being flamed on Twitter by Trans activists, what a nightmare

Okay I lied about doing a training walk today for Rogue Bloggers for Woodlarks. I offer two excuses and will do an extra two miles tomorrow. Please do donate HERE. Then I discuss why you should never mention anything critical of transgender folk or even, as did I, ask a question, as you will be flamed all day as I have been. Then I discuss Versarien (VRS), [email protected] Capital (SYME) and the morons who own the shares.

30 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: the ouzo is on Fox Marble and Malcolm is mad

I start with Malcom Stacey’s latest bout of insanity HERE. Then it is onto woke nonsense and boardroom quotas at Colin Bird’s African Pioneer (AFP), the great news from Fox Marble (FOX) and my thoughts, such as they are on Deutsche Bank buying Numis (NUM) for £410 million. Finally, tomorrow sees me back on a training walk for Rogue Bloggers for Woodlarks. To the 95% of you yet to donate, how about you hand over a tenner ( or more) HERE. 

30 days ago

Video: Nowhere near the mania part of the gold mining cycle

When we get there sell all your gold shares but we are nowhere near that now, says Jeff Clark, author of anew book “PayDirt”. He started outlining the book during Covid, with the goal of making it entertaining and engaging, yet simple and straightforward. Sixteen other experts from the industry also contributed to the book.

30 days ago

Fresnillo – Q1 production report, still a growth and recovery from 2022 challenges Buy

Metals producer from Mexico, Fresnillo (FRES) has issued a first quarter of the year production report including that it is “well on track to meet our full year production guidance”.

30 days ago

EXPOSE: Deep Dive into [email protected] Capital’s Results – it is insolvent and the company’s £22m lies are exposed

Announcing result at 2.51 PM on your self-imposed deadline day is a massive sign that something is wrong. Did I say “something?” Everything is wrong! Calendar 2022 results from the fraud [email protected] Capital (SYME) show how management has deceived investors over tens of millions of pounds and that the company is insolvent. And that is just for starters..

31 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: where are Bidstack's results and what is it hiding?

I end with my wife volunteering me and the kids for enforced community jollity as she heads off for a night on the lash. It is a good job I am such a progressive husband. I start with a personal finance tale and mortgages then look at how the FCA could be culling a raft of Standard List dogs at a stroke within months. Then I look at [email protected] Capital (SYME), Argo Blockchain (ARB), Pensana (PRE) and, in detail, at Bidstack (BIDS).

31 days ago

Why the hell should Versarien issue a statement?

Given that shares in Versarien (VRS) have collapsed from 3p at the start of the week to just under 2p at the close yesterday, some folks are demanding that it issue a statement. Why?

31 days ago

David Lenigas and Vinanz do some classic Leni-maths to bail out bromance partner Richard Poulden

The David Lenigas run bitcoin miner Vinanz (BTC) has announced its first deal since its IPO on the Aquis lobster pot: “ Bitcoin Mining Processing Power Increases 650% with New BTC Miner Order”. This is classic Leni-maths and the beneficiary is Big Dave’s bromance partner Richard Poulden. Let me explain.

31 days ago

[email protected] Capital – where are the results promised for today? Tick Tock Tick Tock

The fraud [email protected] Capital (SYME) promised on 24 March that it would get its results out in late April. In case you have missed it there is a bank holiday on Monday and thus today is the last working day of April. Yet…

31 days ago

Wandisco – the $1 billion AIM fraud updates us all on independent whitewash, oops I mean investigation

I guess we will have to wait for the FCA enquiry as the internally driven enquiry by FRP Advisory does not address the key issues at Wandisco (WAND), until recently a $1 billion Unicorn. It appears to be a whitewash.

32 days ago

Another spoof from Wishbone Gold, when is the next bailout placing?

I still own some of these shares as a reminder to myself of how bloody stupid I can be. Every time I look at the share price it is an act of self-flagellation, a self-administered punishment beating at the hands of Wishbone Gold (WSBN). Whack, whack, that is for being so bloody moronic! Today we have another statement which is so much bullshit. It uses a template much favoured by the best friend of Wishbone boss Richard Poulden, Mr David Lenigas.

32 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Harry Adams of Kefi, well done you old dog but is woke miner Pensana "fecked" and a short?

In today’s Bearcast I look at Kefi Gold & Copper (KEFI) on what is a great day for we loyal shareholders, Wildcat Petroleum (WCAT), Graft Polymer (GPL) – should that be Grift Polymer – and MGC Pharmaceuticals (MXC). Then it is onto Versarien (VRS) and the Neill Ricketts payoff and bailout placing and Pensana (PRE) which must by now be at death’s door: a £55 million market cap looks full in the circumstances and a statement is needed. Finally, that old scallywag Lenigas of Pennpetro (PPP) has doubled down after my earlier expose. He would not dare behave like this in America. 

32 days ago

Letter to the FCA re David Beckham's Personal Money Mine Guild Esports (again)

Yet again I find myself writing to the FCA in its capacity as the regulator (no sniggering at the back) of the Standard List about Guild Esports (GILD), the penny share hustle company that has transferred almost ten million pounds from mug investors to Mr David Beckham. I believe that it has sinned again. Last time I complained, the FCA forced Guild to restate its issued annual results. So here we go once more.

32 days ago

EXPOSE: The disgraceful chatroom antics of David Lenigas regarding UK Oil & Gas and Pennpetro

Advisers to both companies must be tearing their hairs out IF they are aware of the antics of penny share hustler David Lenigas in a private Telegram chat group on UK Oil & Gas (UKOG). Well, as of the publication of this article, they cannot claim NOT to be aware. Big Dave created the cash guzzling monster that is UK Oil and has now seized control of Standard Listed Pennpetro (PPP), immediately signing farm in deals with his old gopher Lyin’ Steve Sanderson of UK Oil & Gas regarding Horse Hill. How cosy.

32 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: The 2 Sheriffs of AIM head to head on ScotGold — sadly it's the bogus one in charge of regulation

In a long podcast today I consider: Alien Metals (UFO), [email protected] Capital (FRAUD), ScotGold (SGZ), Itsarm (ITS), Versarien (VRS), Microsaic (MSYS), Cellular Goods (CBX), Persimmon (PSN) as a buy and the pathetic bogus Sheriff of AIM, Mr Marcus Stuttard.

35 days ago

Tomorrow’s coronation is the first since 1911 where my great grandfather is not officiating, I'll be with the vegetables

I am pretty sure that I will not be watching the coronation. That is partly because I am a lifelong Republican but largely because I am in charge of my two year old daughter Jaya this weekend and she would describe it as a “boring daddy programme” and demand loudly and repeatedly that we switch over to Peppa Pig. So as my neighbours are glued to the goggle box, Jaya and I shall be planting rhubarb, broad beans and carrots in the garden which she greatly enjoys.

38 days ago

KPMG and an ex partner already put out to pasture get another pointless FRC fine and nobody cares: it's sham justice

Your starter for 10: How long, before today, is it since KPMG was last reprimanded and fined by the FRC? Monk (Oriel College Oxford): Eight days! Correct! You now have three questions for five points each on lies told by Caracal Gold (GCAT). Today’s fine for KPMG is, of course totally meaningless but relates to the audit of The Works.co.uk (WRKS) for the year end 26 April 2020. KPMG really fucked up here and to reduce the fine admitted so very quickly.

38 days ago

Andrew Monk is taking the piss – Caracal Gold and its “Corporate Governance Review”

After the resignation of PR adviser St Brides which refused to put its name to any more disingenuous RNS releases, it must by Andrew Monk’s VSA Capital (VSA) that takes the blame for crafting the quite delusional statements issued by Caracal Gold (GCAT). Monk may have been educated at Oriel College Oxford, as he reminds us on an almost daily basis, but where did he learn to talk such cock?

38 days ago

BREAKING: I am sure that Scotgold didn’t lie in its RNS but these spreadsheets look awfully genuine to me

It is listed on the AIM sewer so Scotgold (SGZ) cannot have told porkies in its Q4 trading update published on January 19 2023. However…..

38 days ago

BREAKING: Fraudster Leslie Grayling convicted yet again but he knows he can act with impunity

As you can see in the court docket below, Leslie Greyling was yesterday yet again found guilty of massive penny share fraud in the US. But Leslie lives in Britain and, thanks to a bonkers decision by the then Foreign Secretary Jack Straw in 2000, is free to carry on fraud with impunity.

38 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: the 2 Probes the FCA should be launching into Beckham's Guild ESports today

I start with a personal financial question: my SIPP – for reasons I shall explain – has a wodge of cash. Should I stay in cash, invest in a safe 4%+ yielding FTSE 100 stock or add to holdings in Skinbiotherapeutics (SBTX) or Jubilee Metals (JLP). Then to economics. the chart below is pinched from Guido and I discuss what it means for UK PLC. Then I look at the 2 matters the FCA should be investigating at Guild ESports (GILD), at Tern (TERN) and at strange matters at BlueJay Mining (JAY), a perma-dog, IMHO, which is always a short.

38 days ago

UK Oil & Gas – No delight in Turkey, bad news from the drill bit

It seems like just yesterday when that penny share grifter David Lenigas was berating me on twitter for my lack of faith in UK Oil & Gas (UKOG). Oh yes, it was yesterday! Today we have bad news. For UK Oil & Gas, Turkey is bringing no delight.

38 days ago

David Beckham’s Guild ESports – did it break Exchange Rules (again) as it loses key sponsor ( but gains another) as cash crisis weeks away?

Not for the first time I sit pondering whether cash strapped Guild Esports (GILD) – which has proved such a money spinner for David Beckham and such a disaster for mug punters – is playing fast and loose with stockmarket rules that you have to announce price sensitive information as soon as possible. Let me explain.

40 days ago

Brilliant Satire: The Diversity Officer Employment Aptitude Test - ZH

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/saturday-satire-diversity-officer-employment-aptitude-test

43 days ago

The global warming myth from Lake Vyrnwy – will the MSM GroupThink apologise now?

You may remember that last August the Mainstream Media flocked to Lake Vyrnwy, here in North Wales, to show an old village (Llanwyddyn) appearing as the waters fell and, as one, warned that this was a portent of things to come thanks to man made global warming. With data and a site visit I have shown several times on this site what total tosh that was! Now we have the latest data from United Utilities and, well, guess what?

44 days ago

A fool and his money are easily parted: Prince William and the global warming coral reef grifters

If you believe in the bogus religion of global warming there are a few chants you must break into if you meet someone like me, a sceptic or, put another way, someone who looks at actual data. You must chant that “the Maldives is drowning” (of course they are is not), that water shortages in South Africa are caused by global warming (they aren’t), that Pakistan is seeing more flooding ( it is not) and, say it loudly, that the Great Barrier Reef and other corals are being destroyed by warmer seas caused by man made global warming. Among those shouting about corals the loudest is Prince William.

44 days ago

Dont tell Prince William and the global warming loons: Just 3% of Australians Are Aware That the Great Barrier Reef is at a Record High - Daily Sceptic

https://dailysceptic.org/2023/04/25/just-3-of-australians-are-aware-that-the-great-barrier-reef-is-at-a-record-high-survey-finds/

44 days ago

Jubilee Metals – Q3 update, still a risk reward Buy

Jubilee Metals (JLP) has issued a third quarter of its year update, including stating that it “remains on track” and emphasising various routes to growth potential.

44 days ago

Canadian Overseas Petroleum – yet more death spiral vicar?

It is only seven days since the last time that $400,000 of death spiral bonds were converted into shares after a good bout of forward selling. But Arthur Millholland of Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL) is king of the shareholder dilute so here we go again. At this rate we might get a similar announcement once a week for 83 weeks before we are done. What do you reckon the share price will be by then?

44 days ago

Tern – disaster at investee Konektio: a portent of doom elsewhere

The nuclear winter in small, cash guzzling, low grade, tech stocks continues and an admission today from Tern (TERN) shows just why its NAV is going to be crushed.

44 days ago

Matt Earl’s new short – big news at the Sunday Times this weekend: Meet him in person on September 23

The Dark Destroyer has built up a sizeable short in ASOS (ASC) the Sunday Times blasted yesterday. Perhaps he’s been reading ShareProphets as we’ve been bearish for a long while. I discussed this in bearcast yesterday. But would you like to meet Matt in person as he is a lead speaker at ShareStock on September 23. There is more.

44 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: time to buy more Jubilee Metals & for Ben's Creek to make a statement

I start with an event, Offshore Alert, which is so whacky in terms of its first two sessions, this is 2023. I then look at Pineapple Power (PNPL), Asimilar (ASLR), Ben’s Creek (BEN), Kefi Gold & Copper (KEFI), Wildcat Petroleum (WCAT) and Jubilee Metals (JLP).

44 days ago

Pineapple Power and the £120m RTO with Sir Vince Cable – you is “avin” a Turkish!

I flagged up the complete and utter joke that was Pineapple Power (PNPL) when it listed as a (sub) Standard List cash shell back in December 2020 and the sordid pond life penny share grifters involved. Its first proposed RTO went tits up. Now it is back with another – Element 2 – which it claims is worth £120 million. This deal drips with more red flags than on a May Day Parade in Moscow. It stinks.

44 days ago

Genflow and the results release that was not

Genflow (GENF) the company created by pump and dump penny share fraudster Ron Bauer and his known associate Adrian Beeston announced at 7 AM that it had released its annual results. Natch, the RNS contained no results at all but referred you instead to the website. And at 8 AM when I rang the company’s brokers, Clear Capital, the results were not up on the website either. They are now. So what is Genflow trying to hide?

45 days ago

Valereum Blockchain - more death spiral vicar?

“Oh dear, oh dear,” as my old friend Old Mother Mike Walters would have said as he apologised for yet another duff loss making, cash guzzling share tip ‘fessing up to bad news. I am surprised Mike has not tipped Aquis listed Valereum Blockchain (VLRM) it is right up his street. Shares in this company were peak ramp 64p, thanks to the efforts of Zak Mir and David Lenigas. They are now 5.5p as yet more confetti is issued. And the worst is yet to come….

45 days ago

More ouzo for a vindicated Sheriff as Asimilar admits to £36m loss, has no cash and says is leaving the AIM sewer: Told y'all

Oh dear, oh dear. At least Asimilar (ASLR), of which I have often warned, is back from suspension having belatedly published its annual results. But the numbers are, though disastrous, still not credible, there is almost no cash and the company says it wants to quit the AIM sewer. It will be no loss to the sewer.

45 days ago

Centamin – first quarter 2023 report, a good start and further potential: BUY

Gold producer in Egypt Centamin (CEY) has announced “a good start” to 2023 and that it “look forwards to reporting later in the year on several additional projects which will deliver growth and underpin returns”. Good news from a current 105.3p share price?

45 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: I've been an Asos bear for longer than I can remember but is Matt Earl right to be short at 783p?

I start with Matt and the other speakers at ShareStock. It is exactly five months away and – as of today – 60% of the seats are bagged so book yours now HERE. Then it is onto house prices and the affordability issue and why the entire media and political class just don’t get it: Government is the problem not the solution. Finally is Matt right about Asos (ASC). I fear it is a high risk trade at this juncture.

45 days ago

Video: The Fed Can’t Control Inflation without Bursting All Asset Bubbles

Asset manager Michael Pento compares the huge increase in debt leading up to the 2008 financial crisis and the current debt bubble. It is not something for the squeamish.

45 days ago

Confronted with evidence of his greed, David Lenigas and his bromance partner Richard Poulden take to twitter with a lying smear

Yesterday I pointed out the rapacious greed of David Lenigas and Richard Poulden in allotting themselves shares in Vinanz (BTC) at 0.25p two weeks before mug punters, roped in by salesmen charging 8% commission, paid 3p ahead of the Aquis IPO. Unable to deal with the awkward facts, Lenigas took to twitter yesterday to tell lies, with Poulden loyally retweeting every smear his master posted.

46 days ago

Imperial Brands – half-year trading update, still value and income attractive?

Imperial Brands (IMB) has issued a trading update emphasising that it is on track to meet full-year guidance including growing revenue and operating profit after first half robust tobacco pricing and stable aggregate market share across its top combustible markets against a strong comparator and a step-up in ‘next generation products’ launches.

46 days ago

Tom Winnifrith bearcast: dog shit from my neighbours at the Welsh Hovel special

I start with the dog shit tales. I end with reflections on this website turning 10, Pirate Pete Landau’s legal threats after 1 week and where he is now and more. In between I look at Ben’s Creek (BEN), the job of a CEO as a promoter, Zephyr Energy (ZPHR), UK Oil & Gas (UKOG) and the fraud [email protected] Capital (SYME).

46 days ago

Scotgold: bailout placing but will it be the last?

Scotgold Resources (SGZ) the miner of jam tomorrow, oops I meant pitiful amounts of gold, has said that its move to long hole stoping may well produce more jam tomorrow but, pro tem, it is passing the hat around yet again at just 15p. For those falling for the spoofing c/o BBC Scotland and buying the shares at 44.5p just two months ago, this will be a painful lesson in getting bummed by fake news from Pravda

46 days ago

Video: The Fed Cannot Stop Inflation, Gold will Shine

Newsletter publisher and investor Adam Hamilton claims there is a seasonality in gold but there is also an overwhelming bull case which merits buying now.

46 days ago

The Truth is the first casualty of war – try two twitter searches: #Bakhmut and #Artemovsk

Here in Britain, we are constantly fed the narrative that Ukraine is on the verge of winning, spring offensive, just another billion bucks in aid and some Chieftain tanks yadda, yadda yadda.  From what I can see the jury is out on that narrative and the media, in war – even when it is not your war – is always wrong. So, try out this twitter search and see what you think.

46 days ago

Vinanz IPO - the stench of the unacceptable greed of David Lenigas, Richard Poulden and their gimp crony capitalists

Where there is a bandwagon to jump on, Big Dave Lenigas will jump on it. The stench is everywhere at the Aquis lobster pot as Lenigas has made a, very unwelcome, return to the UK IPO scene. As ever the stench is of greed. Vinanz (BTC) is ostensibly a sub scale bitcoin miner.

46 days ago

BREAKING WINNILEAKS EXPOSE: Julie Meyer: does the liquidator of Drive know about your invoices to a Greek Bank account?

Drive Software was once described by Julie “Lingerie on Expenses” Meyer MBE as “Tesla meets Fitbit.” In fact, it Turned out to be The Space X Starship meets Enron and, after numerous exposes on this website, it finally went bust with a liquidator appointed on 27 January 2023 with Companies House noting this on 16 February 2023.

46 days ago

Neil Woodford’s Equity Income Fund - £235 million compensation but surely the real villains should hand over £100 million more

The FCA yesterday announced that subject to investors in Neil Woodford’s Equity Income Fund agreeing and to ACD Link making planned disposals then in due course punters would be receiving £235 million in compensation.  That will claw back some of the losses folks suffered and I am sure that investors will welcome the news and support the package. But, the real villains are still sitting on £100 million of ill gotten gains.

46 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast - spending the morning with the Old Bill

I start with that morning with the Fuzz regarding Operation Cassady which was fascinating. Then it is onto Wandisco (WAND), bitcoin, Argo Blockchain (ARB), Online Blockchain (OBC), Deliveroo (ROO) and Manolete Partners (MANO).

46 days ago

Video: The Crowd is Just Waking Up to the Gold Trade

Trader and commentator Greg Weldon is an unashamed gold bull..

48 days ago

BREAKING: FCA swoops on the $1 billion fraud Wandisco

Wandisco (WAND) already has an internally driven enquiry underway into the industrial scale fraud, c/o FRP Advisory. But marking your own homework is not good enough in a case like this and now the FCA had stepped in. For ex CEO Dave Richards and ex CFO Erik Miller, who were resigned on April 3 this is not good news.

48 days ago

Wood Group – shares up as now talking to Apollo re. takeover: what to do?

Previously writing on 155p offer price July last year tip Wood Group (WG.), earlier this month with the shares at 200p we noted that, although the share price suggested that the market did not believe takeover proposals would succeed, it looked to us like the major shareholders were open to a deal and that anyway there looked medium term upside so continue to hold. Now there’s been a further announcement on the possible takeover from the group – and the shares are up to above 226p.

49 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: ouzo tonight as Deepverge forced to fess up, next up Tern: about that placing?

In today’s podcast I look at Deepverge (DVRG), another triumph, Amigo (AMGO), Cineworld (CINE), the spoof at Genflow Biosciences (GENF), Wildcat Petroleum (WCAT) and Tern (TERN) where a statement is needed.

49 days ago

Procook – Q4 update , predictably piss poor: so much for all those boardroom share buys

I explicitly warned folks about Procook (PROC) ahead of its 145p per share IPO in November 2021. I have warned again repeatedly. CEO Daniel O’Neill and other directors have spoofed folks with share purchases all the way down. And here we are, after another piss poor update, and the shares are just 27p. Well done to those fund managers who gobbled up almost £40 million of shares dumped by the founders at IPO.

49 days ago

Photo article: First guests raving about the Greek Hovel - now just 2 weeks in May and October left free to rent

The first guests are completing their stay at the Hovel today and are gushing with enthusiasm. Then after a week’s break the next ones are due and from then it is pretty fully booked up until late September. The pool will be warm by May and will stay warm until late October so the smart holidaymaker still has six weeks of off peak bookings available and here are direct flights to Kalamata throughout that period.

49 days ago

So Gary, still, reckons Audioboom is a growth stock? Q1 update & I’ve got a bridge to sell Mr. Newman

I start by referring you to the smelliest nest of vipers bearcast of September 2020. Three of the four interconnected players (Dev Clever, Asimilar, All Active Asset Management) have in various ways collapsed. The fourth is Audioboom (BOOM). My esteemed colleague Gary Newman and other supporters of this company claim that it is a “growth story” and should be valued accordingly. Today’s dismal Q1 update suggests otherwise. Big time.

49 days ago

Letter to AIM Regulation Regarding Deepverge’s latest deceit of investors

Deepverge (DVRG) published a trading update on 17 April in which it admitted that more than half of the calendar 2022 sales boasted of in its previous update were, in fact, fiction. That might be praised as an honest ‘fess up. But following an update from Microsaic (MSYS) on 18 April, it is clear that Deepverge deceived investors. I have written to the Oxymorons.

49 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Drowning in white collar crime

If any investor in both Eden Pharma and also one or both of One True View or Appbox Media is listening please get in touch. Then I move onto the appalling new scandal at Deepverge (DVRG) and also at Microsaic (MSYS), then the insider dealing at Bluebird Merchant Ventures (BMV). Then Amala Foods (DISH) and the chancers at Caracal Gold (GCAT), Andrew Monk’s pals. Finally Tern (TERN) is starting to unravel ahead of a bailout placing which is needed ASAP.

49 days ago

KPMG in the FRC dock yet again – but does anybody care?

Your starter for 10: When was audit firm KPMG last fined and reprimanded by the accountancy watchdog, the Financial Reporting Council (FRC)? The answer is: Five days ago. The previous slap on the wrists was last July. And today we learn that another enquiry is under way, into the 2021 audit of Carr’s Group (CARR). As far as I can see KPMG has a season ticket at the FRC but does anyone care?

49 days ago

Advanced Oncotherapy and those dreaded words: Strategic Review

Over the the past decade Nigel Somerville and I have warned folks about this dog with fleas, almost as many times as I have had inappropriate thoughts about Cheryl Cole. With the shares in the minus 99% club, I guess we are already vindicated but today comes yet more bad news for Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO). As Old Mother Mike Walters, who is the sort of man who would have tipped this cash guzzling POS which has deceived its investors on a serial basis, would have said as he apologised for another duff share tip: “Oh dear, Oh dear” We start with the dreaded words “strategic review.”

50 days ago

Microsaic & Deepverge: the curse of Gerry Brandon, it gets far worse for BOTH companies

Yesterday it became apparent that Gerry Brandon had committed fraud by reporting bogus numbers for Deepverge (DVRG) before its last bailout placing. Brandon still runs Microsaic (MSYS) and you would have thought that advisers Singers and Turner Pope would have said that he had to go. How can they act for a proven fraudster? Quelle surprise, a retainer is worth more to these scholars and gentlemen than doing the right thing. But today, comes a shocking statement from Microsaic.

50 days ago

Canadian Overseas Petroleum – more worthless confetti vicar?

Another day and another 50,998,285 shares in Arthur Millholland’s doomed Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL) have been issued to soon join the rest of the worthless confetti trading on the sub Standard List. Now for a maths lessons for the morons.

50 days ago

Off to mow the ShareStock lawn - more than half the seats for September 23 now booked, here’s why!

The grass on the elevated lawn above the river is looking green but too long. So today I start work on getting it under control for the shares event with a difference. It is still more than five months days to ShareStock 2023 but already more than half the seats for September 23rd are booked out. If you attended the first ever Sharestock event up at the Welsh farm where my family live you may know why this will be sold out well before the event. If not, let me explain why this years show will be even bigger and better than that in 2022 and so why you should book your seat early. As was the case last year the whole day will be irreverent, relaxed and fun! In fact with my new guest speakers it will be even more irreverent and controversial. That I can promise.

50 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bonus Bearcast: Insider dealing at Bluebird Merchant, IMHO no question mark

I start with a lesson on the scale and nature of a civil war for parody poster Magna Carta, ref Kefi Gold & Copper (KEFI). Then a chat with Lucian on whether to short gold and the second banking crisis he predicts. Thirdly I discuss a big share trade in Bluebird Merchant Ventures (BMV) last week. I have spoken to the company and would bet the ranch, for reasons I explain, that it WAS insider dealing. I do know who the seller was. Finally, Microsaic (MSYS): will Turner Pope and Singer be found morally wanting? So far it is a YES!

50 days ago

Omega – another piss poor trading update

“Oh dear, oh dear” the catchphrase of Old Mother Michael Walters as he apologised for a warning from yet another of his duff share tips. And a cash burning POS like Omega Diagnostics (ODX) is just the sort of POS company that he would have tipped. Today it warned just how bad its results for the year end March 31st would be. Luckily it talks of lots of jam arriving soon. Plus ca change.

50 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: who should go to prison and which Nomad ( a man) should be booted off AIM?

In today’s Bearcast, I discuss Deepverge (DVRG), Microsaic (MSYS), SUPP (WPCT as was), Wood Group (WG.), Wildcat Petroleum (WCAT), Kefi Gold & Copper (KEFI) and Bluebird Merchant Ventures (BMV).

51 days ago

Guess which country in Europe has most refugees from Ukraine?

The table below has the answer. We all know, becuase the media Groupthink and the politicians all tell us, that Russia is pure evil and the Ukrainians are white than the drven snow that President Zelensky is alleged to have rammed up his nose. So…

51 days ago

BREAKING: Deepverge & the curse of Gerry Brandon who should be in jail– up to 50% of promised 2022 sales were fiction

Surely now there must be a full regulatory investigation into Gerry “the arse” Brandon, former boss of Deepverge (DVRG) and still the BSD at AIM sewer posterboy Microsaic (MSYS). Deepverge has admitted that the revenue guidance given on 9 January was pure fiction. The clear implication is that interim numbers were also fiction and given that Gerry raised £10 million in a placing on the back of those bogus interims surely he should be going to jail. Here is the timeline of what looks to be clear fraud and a tweet from Brandon which is a real source of pride. For me.

51 days ago

Kape - small shareholders screwed by current rules

A shareholder in Kape Technologies (KAPE), currently the subject of a takeover, reckons that current rules can see small shareholders screwed in such situations and should be changed. He has written to me. I agree and so here is what he says. I shall be passing this article to TPTB asking that it be considered.

51 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: is the buy to let bonanza going to cause a house price crash?

As you know I read the Mail on Sunday so that you don’t have to. Today it has an interesting, if predictably inaccurate and vile, article on buy to let and problems it faces. This I discuss.

51 days ago

Amaroq Minerals – completes strategic minerals joint venture, Strong Buy

Amaroq Minerals (AMRQ) has announced that all resolutions have been met meaning its Strategic Minerals joint venture transaction with GCAM has now closed, with approval from the Greenland government. An “exciting milestone”?

51 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: A day of amazing bravery and triumph for me at the Greek Hovel

Happy Good Friday from Greece. I describe my amazing triumph and then go on to discuss Carnival (CCL), Superdry (SDY), Minoan (MIN), Mirriad (MIRI), Ince Group (INCE), how companies that admit they are failing end up in a vicious circle and more. There may not be a Bearcast Saturday, it all depends on what time I make it back to Wales.

52 days ago

Tom Winnifrith postcard: As Kosovans stand trial, a few lessons about Ukraine, the Western Media and political GroupThink and war crimes

I am NOT a Putin apologist, or a Serb apologist or a denier of Russian war crimes. But in light of what is finally happening with regards to KLA actions in Kosovo 20 years ago and how the media covered that horrible war, might you not think twice about how what is happening in Ukraine is presented?

52 days ago

Ben’s Creek – more evidence this is ONLY about making money for MBU and Adam Wilson

Another day and its another red flag from loss making and debt laden Ben’s Creek (BEN). The vicar has now got an enormous collection of Ben’s red flags but would he like another? In response to the shares spiking to 19.5p yesterday Ben’s has put out a statement saying that there was no reason for the share price rise except….

52 days ago

Video: Negative Real rates mean inflation ahead, in fact stagflation so buy Gold

Author Adrian Day starts by discussing the lag in economic consequences as a result of rate hikes and changes in monetary policy. Adrian notes that the impacts vary depending on market sector, and that the overall economic effect has yet to be felt.

52 days ago

Mirriad statement – it is totally screwed: Told y'all! Ouzos all round at Sheriff Towers

On 20th January 2023 serial dog Mirriad (MIRI) put itself up for sale. Guess what? Absolutely nobody is interested. Well knock me down with a feather. Anyone wanting to buy the technology that has spunked so much cash over the years only need wait for administration.

52 days ago

Red Rock - another day another share issue and punishment beating for we dumb shareholders, Cheryl sums it up poetically

Gold has surged to more than $2000 oz yet shares in Red Rock Resources (RRR) languish at 0.18p. I am down by almost 70% over three years, those who bought the shares the last time gold was at this level are more than 99% down. So gold “unch” over 14 years, Red Rock shares almost 100% down. The reason is, simple:

52 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: World Chess another disgrace from Novum this is a £75 million insanity

I start with a few words about how we are trapped up at the Greek Hovel. Then it is onto World Chess (CHSS). Finally the curse of Sir Tony Baldry, the slug like ex Tory MP, is – I sense- about to fall yet again on Westminster Group (WSG). 

53 days ago

Photo article from the Greek Hovel: global warming report dedicated to Christopher Booker

In years gone by, almost my first phone call when arriving at the Greek Hovel in spring was to my late uncle, Christopher Booker, to discuss the state of global warming in the area. This year my uncle and godfather would have been especially delighted as you can see below.

53 days ago

Nanosynth – is it cash shell material? Yes. But should you buy the shares….here is a rescue plan that will work

With it having admitted before Easter that it will go bust in June, shares in nanosynth (NNN) have collapsed to a current 0.061p. The good news is that it can be rescued. The bad news is that it might be rescued at 0.01p. Here is how this should work.

53 days ago

KPMG and Stuart Smith sanctioned by the FRC for a second time! Of course it makes no difference

Today’s sanction sees KPMG fined £1.25 million, discounted to £875,000 for pleading guilty to its crimes, and getting another severe reprimand/ pointless slap on the wrists. The fine is peanuts and since all the big 4 get regular reprimands nobody cares any more. This time KPMG sinned by screwing up on the calendar 2016 accounts of Luceco.

53 days ago

Video: On the Cusp of a Mega Bull Run in Gold

Of course as a bullion dealer, James Anderson of SD Bullion to the show is talking his own book. But maybe he is right?  James discusses the recent surge in gold demand due to problems in the banking system, with some depositors buying up gold out of concern. He says his firm has  seen record volume which has prompted it to place temporary minimum order limits, as it is difficult to increase staffing levels to meet this sudden demand.

53 days ago

Socialist Grifter Avaaz lies about Elon Musk’s tax rate of 3% AND that of a Ugandan rice trader as it demands a billionaire tax to save the planet

It is hard to know where to start with today’s utterly lie packed email rom the grifters at Avaaz – highly paid individuals who want to soak the rich, that is not them but entrepreneurs like Elon Musk. Now Musk is right now, a bit of a hero, for his utter destruction of a BBC reporter as you can see in the video below.

53 days ago

A bad week for all things Ince – ouzos all round for me

It has not been a good week for all things Ince. First up, Mr Paul Ince, once the Guv’nor, was fired as manager of Reading. Like all West Ham supporters, a P45 for Judas, is, for me, a good start to the week. Better still, yesterday afternoon, Ince Group (INCE) announced it was going into administration.

53 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Armies of Carbon Neutral lesbians of colour will not save you if you are drowning in debt

In today’s Bearcast I discuss olive harvesting, Vast Resources (VAST), the shocking record of Colin Bird at Bezant (BZT), nanosynth (NNN) and finally Carnival Corporation (CCL) whose CEO and chief climate officer really is a clown.

53 days ago

Photo Article from the Greek Hovel - looking up to the taygetos mountains, pink in the evening light

This is the view down the track leading from the Greek Hovel to, er… more tracks, heading through the olive groves towards snake hill and the descent to the dry river. taken just as the light was fading the bare rock of the higher taygetos mountains above the tree line really do look pink.

53 days ago

Why not go to Master Investor this Saturday to ask Sean Smith some questions he cannot answer?

I have not been to London for almost four years and rather cherish my status as a badly shaven recluse in the boonies so will not be heading to Islington this Saturday as my old pal Jim Mellon holds his annual Master Investor show. As it happens, I am travelling and will have two noisy kids with me and so attendance is impossible. But the ever-entertaining Jim will be speaking as will Evil Knievil so if you are in the hell hole that is London there are far worse things to do this weekend. You can still grab a free ticket HERE. And if you do go, can you do me an enormous favour?

53 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: I do hope Cliff Weight bailed at peak ramp

In today’s Bearcast I make you a great offer on olive harvesting then discuss Cineworld (CINE), MGC Pharmaceuticals (MXC), Versarien (VRS) and Zephyr Energy (ZPHR), please don’t take offence Cliff as ShareSoc is so much better under your watch than in the bad old days of you know whom! Finally I discuss my knee, my next training walk to the newly famous Marford and back, and ask you to consider donating to Rogue Bloggers for Woodlarks HERE

53 days ago

Carr's Group – full-year results emphasise strong prospects, a Buy?

Agriculture and engineering group Carr’s (CARR) has announced delayed results for its year ended 3^rd September 2022, emphasising it is “now focused on higher-margin, differentiated, international Speciality Agriculture and Engineering businesses with strong growth prospects” and its shares have been restored to trading.

53 days ago

The Next Versarien Bailout Placing prize sweepstake

We all know that Versarien (VRS) will be running on vapours by June so its only hope is a bailout placing. Soundings must already be underway. As I prepare to bring 5 litres of Greek Hovel olive oil back to Wales you can win 500 ml by winning this contest

53 days ago

New broker, same old story – pump and dump at dog with fleas MGC Pharmaceuticals

The word on the Street is that the scholars and gentlemen at broker Turner Pope actually did act like scholars (researching my numerous exposes on this website) and gentlemen and so refused to raise any more cash for worthless POS MGC Pharmaceuticals (MXC). But some folks would raise cash for the Wiping Saddam Hussein’s arse company. Step forward Peterhouse Capital.

53 days ago

Black Sheep Brewery – “review of strategic options”: Uh Oh!

Based in the truly delightful North Yorkshire town of Masham, which I visited a couple of months ago, the Black Sheep Brewery PLC, is an unlisted PLC and today it has served up the phrase all shareholders dread to hear: “strategic review”. Whatever you say CEO and Chair Charlene Lyons.
Founded by the Theakston family who still dominate the board, this brewer of real ales says that “The Board is currently considering all options, one such option being a merger or an acquisition of the Company, in whole or in part, if such a solution offers the best outcome for shareholders and other stakeholders whilst providing a stable base for the future of the business.”

53 days ago

Cineworld – a third warning that its shares are worth nothing at all yet there are still buyers

There is another update on Cineworld’s (CINE) debt for equity swap and its hopes of emerging from Chapter 11. I wonder what sort of moron is buying the shares today, for some morons are buying.

53 days ago

SHOCKING: Ouzo time in Greece: All Active Asset Management admits £150m raised on AIM in June 2021 is – effectively – up in smoke

I warned folks repeatedly that this would end in tears indeed in one bearcast on 1 September 2020 noting that this was a major part of “the smelliest nest of vipers on the London market”. I did not hedge my bets. All Active (AAA) raised £150 million and then delisted in the summer of 2021. Today it admits that the cash has all gone and that – as an unlisted entity – it needs an open offer to shareholders to survive. The guilty men who I shall name do not even apologise.

56 days ago

Iconic Labs Plc – hits an all time low since relisting, but still 100% overvalued

Shareprophets repeatedly warned that Iconic (ICON) was a dog that should be avoided prior to it achieving its relisting. As ever the Bulletin Board Morons knew better and there was an Artificial Intelligence RTO due imminently which would see them make money.

56 days ago

J Sainsbury – targeting comfortably above a 300p share price and some decent dividends

J Sainsbury (SBRY) recently concluded its financial year. However, there look to be good reasons to look forward to the 27^th April-scheduled numbers and beyond with confidence with the resilient nature of its core business in a currently highly uncertain macro environment.

56 days ago

BREAKING: Tintra Plc – revised Tintra Acquisitions accounts emerge but are they still materially inaccurate

On 29 March Tintra Acquisitions ( now renamed Indomanager), the former intermediate holding company through which Richard Shearer formerly held his stake in for Tintra Plc (TNT) filed amended full accounts for the period from incorporation to 31 March 2022.Unfortunately….

56 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Happy Easter to one and all with a few bearish thoughts as it is Love Hemp that enjoys a resurrection

I wish you all Happy Easter as Love Hemp (LIFE), not Jesus, rises from the dead. I then offer a few bearish thoughts.

57 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: I disagree with Gary on Parkmead and question Nigel's faith in gold and gold juniors

Whether you believe or not I wish you a Happy Easter tomorrow. It is because of the death and resurrection of Jesus we all get a four day break. FACT. So Happy Easter. Then I explain why I would not touch Parkmead (PMG) with a bargebole – I speak as as a vindicated critic – then discuss gold and gold juniors and why, on this matter, I question the faith of Nigel Somerville.

57 days ago

Photo article from the Greek Hovel - even Jaya loves "doggy"

Normally little Jaya is rather frightened of dogs but the stray now spending most of her time up at the Greek Hovel has won over even my young daughter and her, normally hard hearted, mother as you can see below. “Drat”, I said as we returned home today after lunch, “I forgot to buy more dog food.” “Fear not” said the Mrs, “give her more ham.” I have.

57 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Go woke go broke with Dylan Mulvaney, the Nike sports bra and Bud light

I start with the madness of using Dylan – who is the sort of “woman” you might think twice about dating – to promote sports bras or beer. I enter the quagmire of the Corporate Equality Index. Then it is on to the CBI, not asking if it is now fit for purpose but whether it ever was. Finally an ouzo moment as nanosynth (NNN) shares slump HERE but this episode begs massive questions for its advisers and AIM Regulation about how dumb morons were duped.

57 days ago

nanosynth another failing for AIM Regulation as it fesses to financial crisis

Back in August of last year nanosynth (NNN) announced, in a grossly misleading way, that it had signed a death spiral with Lanstead “to raise £2,942,500”. I warned at the time that this was fantasy, that nothing like £3 million would be raised and that those responsible ( PR firm IFC Advisory) should be hung, drawn and quartered while AIM Regulation should force a restatement. Nothing happened. IFC told me I was talking tummy rot, the Oxymorons did nothing. And on Thursday afternoon, nanosynth admitted that it faced a financial crisis and its shares collapsed.

57 days ago

BREAKING: Mosman Oil and Gas bailout placing – all smoke, mirrors and porky pies

At 3.56 PM on the last trading day before the Easter Break, 34 minutes before no-one is watching O’Clock, Mosman Oil & Gas (MSMN) announced yet another bailout placing as I had predicted HERE just a few days ago. But the statement is all smoke, mirrors and porky pies.

57 days ago

Video: More Turmoil to Come in the Banking Sector

Writers Lee Adler and Bob Coleman warn that the banking crisis is not yet over.

57 days ago

Photo article from the Greek Hovel – pondering the December 2023 olive harvest

I hope that heroic T will be back for his third harvest with me this December but I am still looking for up to 4 other volunteers to join us. Free accommodation at the hovel is provided for any volunteer prepared to harvest for about a week. We dine in Kambos and it is fun. Honest.

57 days ago

Wood Group – Apollo slightly increases possible offer, stating this its “Final Proposal”

Writing on Wood Group (WG.) last month we noted a Takeover Panel extension until 5pm on 19^th April including the group stating “following engagement with shareholders” suggested to us that the major shareholders are open to a deal. Now a ‘Final Proposal’ announcement from private equity bidder Apollo and a response from Wood Group.

57 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Horse manure update

I start with the horse manure and then I move onto Andrew Bell and Red Rock Resources (RRR), Kefi Gold & Copper (KEFI), the fraud [email protected] Capital (SYME) and then Gear4Music (G4M).

57 days ago

Video: Generalist Funds have about 0% allocation to gold - guess what that means?

Asset manager Bob Thompson is bullish on all things mining but especially gold.

57 days ago

Rosslyn Data Trading statement - it is almost nine years of woe and nothing changes

On 29th April 2014 Rosslyn Data (RDT) raised £10 million at 33p as it joined the AIM sewer. As I demonstrated on this website, the prospectus prepared by Cenkos Securities (CNKS) was grossly misleading and it has been downhill ever since. Cenkos is still there as Nomad and broker after numerous (lack of) profits warnings, a CEO who forgot about his involvement in the porn industry, numerous bailout placings and other fun and games. I wonder how much coke & hookers money Cenkos has made over the years. The shares are now 0.725p after another awful trading statement today.

57 days ago

Photo Article from the Greek Hovel: The Mrs wants us to know how “brave” she is

The next guests at the hovel, c/o Airbnb, insisted that the pool be opened up for them from Saturday. And so it is. I have warned them it will not be warm. In fact it is very cold indeed but they insist that they are hardy souls.

57 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast - hemmed in by horse manure at the Greek Hovel

My late father, whose birthday it would have been today, would have enjoyed this tale of life in Greece and also the idea of his grandson torturing his father by demanding a swim in a pool which would make Penguins freeze to death. After that I cover Tingo Group Inc (US:TIO) – which is shortable and should be shorted not least because of the social media posting below from Lyin’ Chris Cleverly – Genflow Biosciences (GENF) and Scotgold (SGZ) 

57 days ago

David Lenigas has a new bitcoin IPO and Richard Poulden’s undeclared related party deal

No this is not a five-day late April Fool. David Lenigas really is on the cusp of listing a new bitcoin mining company on the Aquis Lobster Pot, Vinanz. Aquis today announced that First Sentinel is the advisor without any moral qualms and it has applied for a listing. But there is already one red flag flying here and it concerns Richard Poulden’s Aquis listed joke company Valereum Blockchain (VLRM) which we have exposed on this website numerous times.

57 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Driving bad actors out of town this time it is Okyo Pharma

I start with travelling to Greece news. Boy I am tired. Then the latest knob sending me a lawyers letter. Then Okyo Pharma (OKYO) and Argo Blockchain (ARB).

57 days ago

Photo Article from the Greek Hovel - wildlife diversity

As Joshua and I bought snake repellent canisters on our first day here, we were assured that the snakes were still asleep. So far, we have seen a few lizards and a pine martin but that is more or less it in terms of wildlife diversity. Apart from what you see below.

57 days ago

Video with Rick Rule: Gold & Natural Resources About to Outperform other Asset Classes

Of course the legendary investor Rick Rule is talking his own book but with gold at $2,000 maybe he is right at last?

57 days ago

Tingo - is the English Football League mad enough to allow Dozy to buy Sheffield United... more red (corner) flags

On Sunday in bearcast I started the case against Dozy Mmobuosi, the man behind Tingo, being allowed by the English Football League to but championship high flyers Sheffield United. Dozy says that all of his wealth is in Tingo Group listed in the USA. I now take it further with some monstrous accounting red flags which even the EFL must pay attention to.

57 days ago

Supermarket Income REIT – interims, still a value income Buy

Grocery property REIT, Supermarket Income (SUPR) has announced results for its half-year ended 31^st December 2022 and that it is on track to deliver a full-year 2023 target dividend of 6p per share. That sounds good with a current 85.6p share price.

57 days ago

Wood Group – 2022 results, trading and possible offer potential?

Wood Group (WG.) has announced results for the 2022 calendar year and that the “transformed” group is already delivering – noting it has “started 2023 with good momentum… order book for delivery in 2023 is up 10%”.

59 days ago

Reports from the Greek Hovel: Served supper by the village murderer

Olive harvester T has expressed great concern about the Kambos taverna which was once Miranda’s after its owner but was then run by not so lovely Eleni and finally by the very lovely Barbara and her two young sons until they threw in the towel last month. As of Saturday, it is now open again and under new management. I have good news and bad.

59 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: another disaster from the Oxford man who thinks 107 years of history will not be repeated

I start with a warning that travel may interrupt play tomorrow as I am off to Greece overnight. Then I look at the tossers at Reabold Resources (RBD), [email protected] Capital (FRAUD), Cineworld (CINE), Versarien (VRS), VSA Capital (VSA) – where is the frigging lack of profits warning? And then one of the many disasters spawned by Andrew Monk’s VSA, that is to say Tungsten West (TUN).

59 days ago

Lawyers Letter from Reabold Resources – everyone says everyone else is a liar: I am too old for all of this

At 4.46 PM on Monday 14 March I ran an article stating that Reabold Resources (RBD) had received a takeover approach. The next morning Reabold sort of ‘fessed.

59 days ago

Chill Brands still won’t admit to its last deception, so here’s another

Pump. Dump. Pump Dump. And so it goes again and again. Today’s its another dump as Chill Brands (CHLL) has raised £2.6 million just one trading day after a vape-tastic,ramp-tastic RNS with no numbers natch. But before then rewind to the last pump and dump smash and grab on 16 March.

59 days ago

Canadian Overseas and the damning auditor warning it is hiding from mug punters

Arthur Millholland and his colleagues at Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL) treat the morons who own shares in the company with undisguised contempt, hiding from them some very bad news indeed. The old shyster, Charles Goodwin at Yellow Jersey PR and in house PR Cathy Hume should be ashamed of today’s effort it is a disgrace. Even by their own lowly standards. The headline is “COPL 2022 Financials Results and Operations Update.”

59 days ago

Cineworld Chapter 11 update, again confirms shares worth 0p – just who is buying?

This website has been warning folks that shares in Cineworld (CINE) were worthless for far longer than I can remember. But today, for the second time, Cineworld itself has explicitly stated the same. The shares are down by 24% on the news at 2.2p but that still values the company at £31 million. Out there in Moron land, some folks really still are buying the shares. Maybe they are chartists or followers of Doc Holliday. I don’t know. Words fail me. Anyhow CEO Mooky Greidinger seems happy. Screw the plebs.

59 days ago

PowerHouse Energy – Peel’s feet getting colder and colder

In the beginning Peel Holdings was to own and fund the Protos Facility just up the road from me at Deeside but would license in the (wholly unproven) technology from the shysters at Powerhouse Energy (PHE). Then it was decided that Powerhouse would have to put up the cash. On September 5th last year it was announced that Powerhouse w as in talks to take ownership of 50% of the jv. Today…

59 days ago

Wandisco CEO and CFO “resigned” as scale of the fraud at this $1 billion unicorn confirmed

Having boasted how putting his staff on a 4 day week had seen sales rocket, pompous Dave Richards MBE was forced to admit on March 9 that all of that sales growth at Wandisco (WAND) was bogus. Today the company confirm the scale of the fraud and Richard and CFO Erik Miller have walked the plank. Quote right: they were not involved in the fraud but the lack of oversight defies belief. Miller and Richards have gone because events suggest they are utterly incompetent.

60 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: My first lawyers letter for more than a year & even the chaps at Sheffield United don't deserve a Tingo backed takeover

I discuss that lawyer’s letter c/o the fools at Reabold (RBD) and will respond tomorrow. Thanks to a big donation I shall post pictures of Andrew Bell’s imaginary g/f who we hope will join us on Rogue Bloggers for Woodlarks. To see more please donate HERE. Then to the takeover of Sheffield United by a man in bed with proven scoundrels and whose US listed company’s finances stink. I called this out at ShareStock last year and they stink even more today. If the soccer authorities allow this deal to go through they are bonkers.

60 days ago

What Godless times we live in - time to ban the Easter story?

What you see below is not an April Fool from the Irish Times it is real. How would my ancestors from Donegal feel about the secular, Godless elites now dominating the media and Government of Ireland? I think that I know the answer to that!

60 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Andrew Bell insists his imaginary g/f is no April Fool

Did you spot my April Fool story today? I start with that and end with Andrew Bell’s imaginary g/f. If Donations to Rogue Bloggers for Woodlarks (currently £2605 + an unbooked £500 pledge) go above £3,000 by Sunday, I will publish photos of her supplied by Bell and she is a looker, if perhaps imaginary). Donate HERE. In the main bearcast I discuss at length UK Oil & Gas (UKOG), the stench of David Lenigas related party deals and the lies of Lyin’ Steve Sanderson plus, in detail, the bailout of Genedrive (GDR) at 6.32 PM last night

60 days ago

What is UK Oil & Gas hiding in its after hours results release? Why does it deceive investors again?

Over the past couple of weeks there has been a debate about the financial health of UK Oil & Gas (UKOG) between a fat Aussie penny share grifter and a man who did actually train as an oil equities analyst with the City’s top rated team across all sectors. At 4.45 PM on Friday after everyone had buggered off to the boozer, UK finally snuck out its annual results for the year to 30 September. Guess what it was hiding?

60 days ago

Essentra – 2022 results, a trading resilience and growth Buy

Industrial components manufacturer and distributor Essentra (ESNT) has announced its results for the 2022 calendar year and that it considers it has now laid the foundations to capture exciting growth opportunities.

60 days ago

Total Market Solutions - gosh this is low grade ramping, yes its Versarien again

The tweet below is the latest pathetic attempt to ramp shares in Versarien (VRS) so that it can get away one last placing before June and avoid insolvency. In pushing the fantasy that the company will soon be awash with grant money David Burton of Total Market Solutions fails to mention a number of critical points.

60 days ago

Iconic Labs – an insolvent shell company needing to get an FCA approved Prospectus published and to issue bucket loads more confetti to survive

Iconic (ICON) published its interim accounts for the six months ended 31 December 2022 at 1.59 PM on Friday allaying some of its shareholders concerns that it might miss the 31 March 2023 publication deadline and have its shares suspended again.

60 days ago

I really hate dates but I am going to Tesco to buy some from Israel

Listen to what these “activists” say in the video below as they desecrate and hide Israeli dates in Tesco. Words like genocide are the sort of words which mark the “activists” out as full blown jew haters. I really don’t like dates much but I shall be heading to Tesco to buy some fine Israeli dates as soon as I can and I suggest that you do to. 

60 days ago

BREAKING: Neill Ricketts selected as Conservative candidate for Tewkesbury & Gloucester

With time on his hands, many have wondered what Neill Ricketts, the founder and former CEO of Versarien (VRS) will do next. I can exclusively reveal that at a meeting of Tewkesbury & Gloucester Conservatives this morning, Mr Ricketts has been selected as the Parliamentary candidate in what is one of the Party’s safest seats.

60 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: No Giles McDonogh falling house prices is good news

I start with a slam dunk political bet in the wake of Donald Trump’s looming arrest – a clean sweep for the Republicans in 2024, as I explained a couple of weeks ago HERE. Then onto why house prices falling at the fastest rate for 14 years ( a misleading headline) are to be welcomed but not if you are long Purplebricks (PURP) or the housebuilders. Not that I’d necessarily go short either. Today’s ouzo is sponsored by Asimilar (ASLR). I also cover Genedrive (GDR) and the placing it will not ‘fess to although it is clearly underway. Then I look at Pensana (PRE) where yakking on about climate change and hiring stacks of lesbians from Islington seems not to have prevented a bit of a looming cash crisis. How, I wonder, do folks in London N1 describe a fat lady in a woke way? Hey Magna Carta, guess what I forgot to mention today? HERE is a clue

60 days ago

Tintra – Dr Lyske Buys Again, curiouser and curiouser

On 30 March 2023 Tintra (TNT) announced that Dr Joe Lyske, the Company’s Chief Science Officer, had purchased a further 47,207 ordinary shares of 1 pence each and now holds 108,002 Ordinary Shares (equivalent to 0.67% of the issued ordinary share capital). The aggregated information reveals that the average price was 106.7 pence per share making around a £47,000 investment.

60 days ago

Ben’s Creek - yet more cash goes to Adam Wilson and MBU, another red flag vicar?

There are some folks out there who think that Ben’s Creek (BEN) was established to mine coal in America, albeit from an asset which was last economic back in the 1940s and had sent its two previous owners bust. If you are one such believer I have a bridge to sell you.

60 days ago

Genedrive – why the delayed results?

With a hat tip to reader T I want you to consider the following sequence relating to Genedrive (GDR) and its very clear implication.

60 days ago

Photo Article from a Greek Easter at the Hovel - I did not starve the family of chocolate

You may have worried, after my earlier piece, on a Welsh Easter in Greece, that I had starved the family of chocolate. As you can see below, I caved into consumerism and unhealthy living in a big way. The Mrs is hiding her chocolate Easter Bunny, Jaya was more excited about the pink wrapping than the actual egg.

61 days ago

Photo Article from the Greek Hovel - the start of Easter Day

The Greek Easter is next week when we will be in Wales. Welsh Easter is today when we are in Greece. So it was a mixed celebration.

63 days ago

High School Runner Not Feeling Great About Her Chances Against The Girl With The Beard: BabylonBee

https://babylonbee.com/news/high-school-runner-not-feeling-great-about-her-chances-against-the-girl-with-a-beard

65 days ago

Video: Central Bank Buying & Looming Recession Both Great for Gold

Academic Steve Hanke Professor of Applied Economics at Johns Hopkins University has a stark message which will delight gold loons such as our own Nigel Somerville..

65 days ago

Chill Brands – as the last spoof is proved to be a spoof, time for another one

Before we get to today’s spoof from the rogues at Chill Brands (CHLL), let’s look at the last one from a fortnight ago.

65 days ago

Would you want to invest in a company borrowing money at a 100% rate of interest?

I would suggest that any company paying five times credit card rates is almost certainly well and truly fecked. Yet there is one and it is listed on the Aquis lobster pot.

65 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: there are worse hobbies than raising a quarter of a million quid for a great cause like Woodlarks

But reader Magna Carta says that you all want me to stop mentioning what he terms my “hobby”. Matthew’s Dog and Catriona will be delighted that I think he can go feck himself, please do feel free to donate HERE. Nearly all of the podcast , as ever, is about companies and I cover: Inland Homes (INL), Moonpig (MOON), Caracal Gold (GCAT), VSA Capital (VSA) and its revenue recognition and the odd company that is Kelso (KLSO). PS did you know that Andrew Monk who runs, what he terms, Very Sexy Andrew, went to Oriel College Oxford? He does mention it now and again.

65 days ago

Onward Opportunities IPO – more coke & hookers cash for the crony capitalists but a duff investment

Thanks to Nomad and broker Cenkos (CNKS) and Dowgate Wealth management, the AIM sewer has a new recruit, a totally pointless investment company, Onward Opportunities (ONWD). This is not capitalism it is crony capitalism. The City boys will make £1.1 million in fees over the first 12 months. Even with inflation that will secure the services of many Ukrainian young ladies and buy stacks of Colombia’s finest. Meanwhile shareholders will almost certainly lose money.

69 days ago

Back to Lake Vyrnwy, the parched Welsh lakes & The Guardian warning of dried out rivers – anyone guess the latest data?

Back in August of last year the sight of a parched Lake Vyrnwy in the hills about an hour from where I live was a posterboy for those predicting more and more droughts thanks to man made global warming.  As someone who remembers my local reservoir drying up in 1976 but refilling very quickly the next year I thought that this was media bull at the time and with data from United Utilities and a site visit I have demonstrated a number of times that I was right and the MSM was talking GroupThink cock. But the mainstream media has not apologised, indeed over at the Guardian they have doubled down.

69 days ago

Amaroq Minerals – prospective debt financing and Iceland Nasdaq main market listing, upgrade to Strong Buy

Gold and strategic metals development and exploration company in Greenland, Amaroq Minerals (AMRQ) has announced that it has agreed heads of terms for $49.5 million of financing to enable trial mining, processing and production of gold doré at its flagship Nalunaq project and we’ve subsequently spoken to CEO Eldur Olafsson.

69 days ago

Wildcat Petroleum lies as forced by FCA to restate numbers but it is still making a mistake!

This morning (sub) Standard Listed Wildcat Petroleum has told a blatant lie, not its first of course, as it has restated its interims. Worse still it has still made a howling schoolboy error! Let us start with its latest porky pie.

69 days ago

In the minus 99.99% club, Mosman Oil & Gas Interims – why is it not admitting to insolvency?

At the top of the results statement covering the six months to December 31, serial dog Mosman Oil & Gas (MSMN) yaks on about how there will be lots of jam, sorry oil, tomorrow. That will please the morons. I doubt they will look at the hard numbers for they are awful and show that this company is already, to all intents and purposes, insolvent. And then there is an explicit warning from Mosman itself

69 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast - an amazing apple from Wales

I start with a few ramblings on turning the Welsh Hovel into a homestead and an apple I have just eaten. I end with a reminder that 98% of you have yet to donate to Rogue Bloggers for Woodlarks. I am sure that you can each afford a tenner, please do donate HERE. Then I look in detail at Strix (KETL) and explain why Versarien (VRS) really is screwed. Unless you have dealt with banks when running a struggling company – as I have – you just won’t get why. I also look at BSF Enterprises (BSFA), Wishbone Gold (WSBN) and Inland (INL).

69 days ago

Okyo Pharma – after the pump and dump now its a share support operation ahead of next bailout fund raise just weeks away

Heaven knows why this US based POS maintains a dual listing on the (sub) Standard List. It really is a cash guzzling crock as we have pointed out on numerous occasions HERE. In the first part of this year Okyo Pharma (OKYO) managed to pump its shares up to 5.5p with a series of spurious and ramptastic RNS’s. Then as the Bulletin Board Morons took they trousers down, whoosh, a $5.5 million funding arranged by the company not its brokers, came in at just 1.85p. Ouch. And double ouch. One hopes that the morons had lubed up.

69 days ago

Which gender are you asked the local Shipmans and gave me my options

It is the first survey since 2017 by the local GP practice, the one just over the river among the infidels in England. Suffice to say I was damning in my assessment but the last question caused particular comment “With which gender do you most identify?” My choice was: Female, Male, Non Binary, Other or Prefer Not to Say.

69 days ago

Mirriad – update on Formal Sale Process, next update April Fool’s Day?

Once again we are watching the death throes of a company where Steve Moore and myself have warned you for years as you can see HERE. On 20th January Mirriad (MIRI) announced those words no shareholder wants to hear “strategic review.”. In plain English, we are fecked and the Fat lady is checking her diary.

69 days ago

Versarien AGM statement – car crash, 0p target now in sight

Oh dear, oh dear, as the disgraced share tipster “old mother” Mike Walters used to say when one of his many disastrous share tips collapsed. Versarien (VRS) is just the sort of blue sky company churning out lies and issuing new shares whenever it could that would have attracted Walters, like shit attracts flies. That even Walters did not tip Versarien tells you something. Today we have an AGM in Cheltenham and the statement from chair Diane Savory has just been released. It is dire. Everything is for sale, it is cash crisis ahoy!

69 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Catriona and Matthew's Dog will love it: Tortilla Mexican do the maths while FYB with Skinbiotherapeutics

I start with Tortilla Mexican Grill (MEX) where, as is his wont, young Steve Moore was far too generous yesterday in calling at an avoid. I do the hard maths and it is in deep merde. Then it is onto UK Oil & Gas (UKOG), Pennpetro (PPP), Predator Oil & Gas (PRD) and the bloody useless FCA. Finally Skinbiotherapeutics (SBTX) before, principally to annoy poster Magna Carta, a few words on why I ask you to donate today to Rogue Bloggers for Woodlarks - you can do so HERE

69 days ago

Versarien: sorry to be a pedant but it is breaking AIM Rules again

I guess with a looming cash crisis and possible insolvency as soon as June, the clowns running Versarien (VRS) in the post Neill Ricketts era probably have more to worry about than breaking AIM Rules. They may, like Ricketts himself, regard rules as for little people and as such view what follows as pedantry.

69 days ago

Defamatory Bulletin Board Moron of the week: beinthelead on the LSE Asylum, re Skinbiotherapeutics

It is hard to know where to start with this utter cretin. But for starters I do not post on BBs in my own name or as Truatnt2tb as this fool alleges in a defamatory manner.

69 days ago

Photo Article from the Greek Hovel - Very Good News and Bad News

In four days time, the advance party, myself and Joshua will be in Greece ensuring that a third proper loo is fitted at the hovel and that the last bad bit of road on snake hill is mended. We will take out a few more books although the library there is extensive and have to buy some loungers for the pool before the arrival of the Mrs and Jaya. The house is then, near as damn it, complete. There may be a picture or two to take out and hang and a few more books and DVDs but it is a place I could now live in all year round. I wish. There is good news and bad news from Kambos.

69 days ago

UK Oil & Gas farms out Horse Hill – a sign of the cash crisis David Lenigas pretends does not exist

Just a couple of weeks ago shamed Aussie penny share promoter David Lenigas was suggesting on twitter that I could not do my sums and there was no cash issue at UK Oil & Gas (UKOG), one of his babies now 96% down over 5 years at 0.06p. Today comes news which should see the old rogue sending me a case of Metaxa by way of an apology. Not a placing but a massively dilutive farm-out of Horse Hill.

69 days ago

Video: Gold is Winning Against All Fiat

Trader and writer Francis Hunt of “The Market Sniper”  argues that you ain’t seen nothing yet for gold and that silver will do even better when things really heat up.

69 days ago

Iconic Labs –- an illustration of the dangers of death spiral finance

In today’s RNS Iconic (ICON) announced that it had received a “Conversion Notice was dated 27 March 2023 and provides for 50 Convertible Notes to be converted into 1,315,789,473 ordinary shares of £0.00001 (“Ordinary Shares”) in the Company at a conversion price of £0.000038 at the aggregate principal amount of £50,000.” With the issuance of another 1,315,789,473 new shares, the Company’s issued ordinary share capital is now 43,106,916,660 shares. Yes that is more than 43 billion shares in issue.

69 days ago

BREAKING: The £250m tech blow-up Dev Clever – what is it hiding now?

On 16 December after almost a year of suspension on the (sub) Standard List, Dev Clever (DEV) announced that it was to delist, lying to investors by saying that it could not raise cash on that market. Of course it had been offered cash by Riverfort so that was a demonstrable lie from a company whose serial lies this website had exposed so often. It now gets even murkier.

69 days ago

Avacta - CEO pay, losses and shares in issue, an unsurprising correlation

Alastair Smith has been running Avacta (AVCT) for 16 years and after 16 years he has yet to launch an actual product. So on what basis are his pay increases calculated?

70 days ago

A bit of reality - Why Ukraine may HAVE TO embrace China's peace plan whatever the US says: Asia Times

https://asiatimes.com/2023/03/why-ukraine-may-embrace-chinas-peace-plan/

71 days ago

South West Trains and its gay train: a far greater priority than offering an affordable and reliable service

You need to take out a second mortgage to afford a train fare these days. There are constant strikes by greedy and overpaid workers disrupting passenger travel. So what is the priority of the industry? Of course paint a train in rainbow colours and staff it with members of the LGBTQA+ community. How very 2023 in the decadent West. Virtue signalling, as you can see below, is so much more important than offering a cost effective reliable service. I wonder how many Diversity Officers at South West Trains it took to come up with this wheeze?

73 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: six little small cap piggies

I end with a discussion about myself, Andrew Bell, his imaginary marathon running g/f and Cheryl - please donate to Rogue Bloggers for Woodlarks HERE. Before that I look at six piggies filling me with despair, are there no rules or basic morals at all any more: Braveheart (BRH), Nanoco (NANO), Caracal Gold (GCAT), Wildcat Petroleum (WCAT), ScotGold (SGZ) and Andrew Monk’s VSA Capital (VSA). Has Andrew told anyone today that he went to Oriel College Oxford?

73 days ago

BREAKING: Zamaz – Misleading trading update from the b*stard cousin of the fraud [email protected] Capital

In today’s trading update, Zamaz (ZAMNZ), founded by Supply’s Dr Frankenstein, Dominic White, provided a trading update under the following caption “Bella Dispensa reports over 30-fold calendar 2022 revenue growth”.  The RNS also indicates that “These subsidiary results are being announced as they will shortly be in the public domain in Italy and are price-sensitive.” 

73 days ago

ScotGold misleads on (genuine) leaked email warning of cash crisis…but warns of cash crisis

Scotgold (SGZ) claims that its directors emails have been hacked and that “specious emails sent in their names to numerous people.” The clear implication is that the email I published on Saturday, HERE, discussing administration and a cash crisis is bogus. It is not it is genuine. The “specious” emails referred to were, according to my source, sent to employees, not insolvency lawyers at Fox Williams. Even its death throes it seems ScotGold dissembles and, in mentioning the Police paints itself as the victim. It is not the victim shareholders are. The company is in its death throes because it has fessed to as much today causing the shares to, as I oft predicted they would, crash. Told y’all! What follows is grim.

74 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: The Rogue Bloggers are now 8 (+2 fantasy women) & the wooden floor that protects female failures like Sharon White & La Willingham

I start on journalist ethics, that is to say not selling shares before advising readers to and a chap called Magna Carta who reminds me of the weeds in my strawberry patch. Then onto Rogue Bloggers where Andrew Bell says he is joining us and bringing a fantasy woman. I shall bring Cheryl. Please donate HERE. Finally, referring to Sarah Willingham and Dame Sharon White of John Lewis infamy (see the Daily Mail article I refer to HERE) I suggest that a glass ceiling for women in business has been replaced by a wooden floor.

74 days ago

The Mail on Sunday blows off Sarah Willingham again with fake news - would a man get this treatment?

Not for the first time the Mail on Sunday is doing PR for Sarah Willingham of Nightcap (NGHT). As usual it gets its maths hopelessly wrong.

74 days ago

Tintra – unfortunately timed Director purchases and more red flags in Indonesia

On 17 March 2023 Tintra (TNT) announced that:

74 days ago

Photo Article: Third Rogue Bloggers for Woodlarks Training Walk

Instead of heading straight to the petrol station on the Wrexham Ring Road and back, I took a diversion from just inside the village boundary, a walk across the fields to Frog Lane, something advertised as ½ mile. My plan was to do the walk and back on both legs of my walk to the petrol station so adding 2 miles to last week’s nine miles. Plans, plans, plans.

74 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: is Inland totally 100% fecked?

I managed my 11 mile training walk for Rogue Bloggers for Woodlarks. Actually I reckon it was twelve. Anyhow I am back and weeding the strawberries. No rest for the wicked. If you sense the pain in my legs please donate to this great cause HERE. Then I discuss Inland (INL) and more red flags. It is either the cheapest stock on the market or a zero and I know what my money is on.

74 days ago

BREAKING: Is this email genuine? Is Scotgold preparing for administration?

The email below, apparently from a senior staffer at Scotgold (SGZ) to lawyers at Fox Williams, presumably Richie Clark and Paul Taylor (Partners) or Paul Osborne (Senior Partner), appears to show that the company, which only raised £3 million just the other day, is in a right old financial mess and is preparing for administration. Either its real or its fake, but its “doing the rounds” so one way or another ScotGold, a perma dog IMHO, needs to issue an RNS first thing Monday AM. 

76 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: The next Prime Minister gives a kiss of death to Ceres Power

Tomorrow is my third training walk for Rogue Bloggers for Woodlarks. I am targeting 11 miles and will post a picture of the service station on the Wrexham roundabout which is my turnaround point if we can get donations well above £1,000 before I leave. I can’t say fairer than that, please donate HERE. In today’s podcast I discuss Deutsche Bank ( the next Credit Suisse?), the fraud [email protected] Capital (SYME), nanosynth (NNN), Kefi Gold & Copper (KEFI), Ceres Power (CWR), Genflow Biosciences (GENF) and Celadon Pharmaceuticals (CEL) and lock in expiries in a thin market.

76 days ago

Christmas 2020 at Versarien with Neill Ricketts and these tweets which sure aged badly

Pride, they say, comes before a fall. Welcome to Neill Ricketts on twitter just before Christmas Day 2020 celebrating the “first ten years”. Then look at the wretchedly sycophantic replies. I wonder how many of the 2020 sycophants are now, as Versarien (VRS) faces insolvency by June, still in the fan club?

76 days ago

[email protected] Capital – the Tradeflow rats jump and the implosion of the fraud is underway

This may not be the end of this fraud. But it is certainly the beginning of the end. The unravel is underway, the rats are staring to abandon the ship now lurching lower and lower in the water under a growing weight of red flags. Anyone now holding the shares is completely insane. 

76 days ago

Celadon Pharmaceuticals – a correction and a lockin issue, welcome back John Story

Just as I highlighted yesterday HERE, all the reasons why Celadon Pharmaceuticals (CEL) was ludicrously overpriced, a co conspirator was one of hundreds if not thousands of folks receiving a whatsapp message on the very same company, a mass spamming by the disgraced John Story. Remember him?

76 days ago

Genedrive – I smell a placing underway

You can just smell it. All the signs are there and the company has stated that it will be placing before its year-end which is now just over three months away. At 40.75p, the market cap is £36.7 million and if you can short Genedrive (GDR) you should. So here’s why.

76 days ago

The curse of death spiral provider Negma - re the fraud [email protected] Capital

A co-conspirator sends me a list of companies that have used death spiral provider NEGMA for funding and there share price performances since taking out the facility. Missing from the list is the fraud [email protected] Capital (SYME) on which more later after today’s disastrous news of the great unravelling.

77 days ago

The #BBC's Phoney War on Disinformation by Kathleen Stock at Unherd

https://unherd.com/2023/03/the-bbcs-phoney-war-on-disinformation

77 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: And today's big new shorting idea is...Celadon Pharmaceuticals

I start with a grumpy old man rant about standards in public and corporate life covering a lying Boris, Wildcat (WCAT) and Osirium (OSI) before moving onto the missing £20 million and the fraud [email protected] Capital (SYME). I cover Amigo (AMGO), Versarien (VRS) and the liquidity trap, Inland (INL), Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO) before I turn my fire on Celadon (CEL). Finally I urge you to donate to Rogue Bloggers for Woodlarks as I outline my third training walk on Saturday. C’mon you can afford a tenner HERE

77 days ago

DS Smith – Q3 update, a continuing to trade well Buy

Packaging company DS Smith (SMDS) has issued a Q3 trading statement including that “the positive trends in profitability experienced in H1 have continued” and “positions us well for the remainder of the year and into our next financial year”. So what of a recently falling share price?

77 days ago

BREAKING EXPOSÉ: A £20m loss [email protected] Capital boss Zamboni tries to hide

If anyone out there cannot see the forest of red flags surrounding the Standard Listed fraud [email protected] Capital (SYME) they need to be heading down to SpecSavers sharpish. And here is another one, a £20 million one.

77 days ago

The fallen mighty: Two drunks propping each other up, Nomad and broker Cenkos merges with Finncap

It’s all an all share merger of equals, each side getting 50% of the enlarged equity, with every Cenkos shareholder getting 3.19420647 New FinnCap Shares for every one Cenkos held. A marriage of equals you say? That is to say two businesses that have been equally disastrous investments. Merge two bad companies and what do you get?

77 days ago

Versarien AGM & share issuance power, it really is screwed

The AGM of Versarien (VRS) will be held on 29 March, just 6 days time in Gloucester. If there was anything good to say, chairwoman Diane Savory would be giving a long talk. But there will be nothing to say so we will not be told if odious ex CEO Neill Ricketts has been paid off and if he has, at what cost. Critically you can bet the ranch that Versarien will not ‘fess up how little cash it has left. Put it this way…

77 days ago

Amigo – the bears are on the pitch, they think it’s all over…it is now!

We bears, well all of us apart from Simon Cawkwell, aka Evil Knievil, have been ready to celebrate the demise of loan shark Amigo (AMGO) for so, so long. Today comes that ouzo moment, Amigo (AMGO) itself admitting that shareholders will lose everything. It is a zero. It is official.

77 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: I just don't understand what Malcolm sees in Blackbird?

I start with more ranting about Beechwood Nurseries. Then it is on to: Kefi Gold & Copper (KEFI) – more blood pressure issues - the Silverwood (SLWD), VSA (VSA), Andrew Monk and Lush scandal, Wildcat Petroleum (WCAT) MGC Pharmaceutics (MXC), Fevertree (FEVR) and then Malcolm’s strange love affair with Blackbird (BIRD) which I cannot fathom at all.  

77 days ago

Fevertree – its all about cash for me

The market seems to like today’s full year numbers from FeverTree (FEVR) but then expectations had already been muted. Under-promise and over deliver as the old adage goes. Me? I am an old fashioned sort of chap who does not like companies funding not only their entire ordinary dividend but also a special not from earnings but simply by running down cash. Is that long term smart in this uncertain world?

77 days ago

Jubilee Metals – some interims disappointment, but improvement from here?

Jubilee Metals (JLP) has announced results for its half-year ended 31^st December 2022, noting impact from South Africa and Zambia power outages and water disruptions but arguing that it has now taken actions to address these.

77 days ago

BREAKING: The £216.8m Lush scandal: Silverwood Brands – advised by Andrew Monk’s VSA Capital: has it twice breached the Companies Act

The FCA and Aquis Regulation are already investigating this scandal and so, with a hat Tip to in-house BB genius PL, I post the question as to whether on two counts, VSA Capital’s (VSA) star client Silverwood Brands (SLWD) has twice breached the Companies Act. If it has, surely VSA’s CEO Andrew “have I mentioned that I went to Oriel College Oxford, Monk needs to issue a profits warning.

77 days ago

Wildcat Petroleum and Ross Andrews of Guild Financial Advisory – Letter to the FCA

On Friday 17 March 2023 Wildcat Petroleum (WCAT) of the Standard List sewer published its half year numbers. On Saturday in two articles HERE and HERE I detailed the EIGHT material errors within those statements which meant the P&L, balance sheet and cashflow statement were all wrong. I alerted advisor Ross Andrews to those articles on Saturday morning suggesting a Monday morning restatement was needed.

77 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Time for Eurasia to come clean on cash crisis, lack of bid and placing situation

In today’s podcast I look at Optibiotix (OPTI), Eurasia Mining (EUA), Jubilee Metals (JLP), Caracal Gold (GCAT), British Honey (BHC), Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL), Genedrive (GDR) and Oxford Nanopore (ONT)

77 days ago

Wood Group – Takeover Panel extension, including “following engagement with shareholders”

Wood Group (WG.) has announced that it has requested and been granted an extension from the Takeover Panel until 5pm on 19^th April for Apollo to announce a firm intention to make an offer or not.

77 days ago

Video: The World is Functionally Bankrupt

Gold bugs will enjoy this podcast. Writer Robert Moriarty explains where the money is really coming from to bail out the recent failures in the banking system, noting that the $200 billion figure has ballooned to $2 trillion. Bob says that the Federal Reserve has effectively committed to printing $2 trillion in a week, which is unprecedented.

77 days ago

Another Question for Andrew Monk about the £216.8 million Silverwood deal now under FCA scrutiny

Smug stockbroker Andrew Monk has, probably, today already several folks about his education at Oriel College Oxford but is yet to respond to the issue of him misleading the market with regard to revenue recognition re Silverwood Brands (SLWD) so here is another question for the Monkey.

77 days ago

Meli and Ouzo on my cornflakes – British Honey goes bust

Three years and five days after listing on the Aquis lobster pot after raising £4.25 million at 110p British Honey (BHC) has today gone bust and appointed administrators. I warned that it was “uninvestable” when the shares were 114p in October 2021. Today it is game over. As I consider honey and ouzo on my cornflakes, the list of warning signs were there for all to see. Natch folks knew better than Old Tom.

78 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: PILOW talk

In today’s podcast I discuss PILOWs and Agriterra (AGTA), Jubilee Metals (JLP), Zak Mir’s Lift Global Ventures (JOKE) and Versarien (VRS), and Kefi Gold & Copper (KEFI). I also mention my second training walk for Woodlarks on Saturday as described HERE. Please consider how I suffered tedium if not pain and donate to this great cause. So far just 4 of you have donated, I am sure more of you can afford a tenner. Please donate HERE

78 days ago

Peter Tatchell define unanimous as in 75% - it is not drag that offends anyone, it is overtly sexualised shows in front of kids

I see my hero Peter Tatchell is tweeting a headline from the Pink News on how Britons “unanimously reject calls for bans on drag shows.  Tatchell thinks that those who oppose drag shows are “far right” and a tiny minority. I sense some fake news and a fake poll here. And I am right.

78 days ago

My Frog ain't great but these documents from the Congo look very bad news for Zenith Energy - time for an RNS?

My Frog is not that good but the documents below sent to Winnileaks seem to suggest that Zenith Energy (ZEN) has been totally booted out of the Congo. That would surely be bad news for this long term dog with fleas and surely a clarifying statement is needed. Suffice to say, anyone holding these shares, now a paltry 0.4p to sell, is bonkers 

78 days ago

Morally bankrupt old man Alan Green & Justin the Clown blow off Neill Ricketts, taken down only by “character assassination”

This is a hoot. Old Greenie and the Clown discuss Versarien (VRS) and why it is such a hot investment. Alan Green should be cold shouldered by all for being such a deceitful scumbag and worse.

78 days ago

Canadian Overseas secures new financing – almost certainly a death spiral but it deceives

Doesn’t the FCA have rules that cover this? If not it should but I suspect it does and if its staff can take a few minutes out from reading ESG porn they should force Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL) to ‘fess up to how it is, again, deceiving investors regarding today’s additional financing.

78 days ago

Video: Bank Crises, Fed Pivots, and The Hard Landing Reality

Chris Irons is a podcaster whose language is worse than mine. His Quoth the Raven podcasts are spikey but he is usually correct. Irons says he is surprised by the lack of fear in the markets, which, he says, is questionable considering the current circumstances.

78 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: could the US regional banks implode & why hasn't Sharon White been sacked by John Lewis?

I start with a discussion on share buybacks, then turn to the woes of John Lewis and finally look at the US regionals with the charts below wondering whether the banking crisis could, notwithstanding UBS buying Credit Suisse, roll on.

78 days ago

Britain sending depleted uranium shells to Ukraine should be a war crime – Russia is right

In these Russiaphobic times many will see this article as proof that I am a Putin apologist. I am not. The invasion of Ukraine was wrong, and I am sure that, while both sides have committed war crimes in this war, Ukraine as well as Russia, it is the latter whose sins are greater. But that is not a reason for Britain to supply depleted Uranium tank shells to Ukraine. Iraq and the Yugoslav wars show just how horrible these weapons are.

78 days ago

Centamin – 2022 results, growth and dividend upside potential: BUY

Centamin (CEY) has announced its results for the 2022 calendar year and that it maintains a current year gold production guidance range of 450,000-480,000 ounces and remains on track to consistently return its Sukari mine in Egypt to production levels towards 500,000 ounces per annum from 2024.

78 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: The Rozzers want to interview me

In today’s Bearcast I discuss Genedrive (GDR), Wildcat Petroleum (WCAT), UK Oil & Gas (UKOG), David Lenigas and – to delight the morons – why the City of London rozzers want to interview me. 

78 days ago

Wildcat Petroleum interims, it gets even worse – Omission of material uncertainty over going concern

Earlier today I showed you 6 schoolboy errors in the interims from Wildcat Petroleum (WCAT) which meant that the P&L, balance sheet and cashflow statement were all wrong and must surely be restated on Monday morning. But it gets worse, much worse.

78 days ago

Severfield – agreement to acquire Voortman Steel, Buy

Structural steel company Severfield (SFR) has announced an agreement to acquire Voortman Steel Construction for a net €24 million, emphasising it will provide it with further market and geographical diversification and is anticipated to be earnings-enhancing in its first full year of ownership.

78 days ago

EXCLUSIVE: Wildcat Petroleum – 6 schoolboy howlers leave interim P&L, balance sheet and cashflow statement all wrong

I noted yesterday the discrepancies in the Wildcat Petroleum (WCAT) interims released that day around the share issue proceeds. A more detailed review reveals 6 schoolboy errors in its cashflow statement and another elsewhere. The interims should be restated to correct the numerous material errors. Or maybe putting out utterly fake numbers is okay these days?

79 days ago

Buy 3 get 1 free said Beechwood Nurseries so I did and didn't

I am ordering a stack of Discovery apple trees to create a colonade along the path by the river. I am not sure how they will do in what is a flood meadow but I shall stake them firmly and see. The stakes I put up by the river with some oak saplings last year have survived even if the oaks have not. And the trees I have ordered are already 5 foot high so I hope they will flourish.  My orders were divided as my normal supplier had only nine trees left and so I had to use Beechwood Nurseries for the rest. Buyer beware: Beechwood are shysters!

79 days ago

Fresnillo – full-year results, a growth and recovery from 2022 challenges Buy

The world’s largest primary silver producer and Mexico’s largest gold producer, Fresnillo (FRES) has announced results for the 2022 calendar year and said that it is excited about its growth pipeline.

79 days ago

Macfarlane – “earnings enhancing” acquisition, remains a value Buy

Macfarlane Group (MACF) has announced the acquisition of A.E. Sutton, including that the move is being funded from the existing bank facility and will be earnings-enhancing.

79 days ago

The second training walk for Woodlarks – a boring nine miles

The river Dee is still outside of its banks and I am still rather worried about the killer cows and thus on Saturday morning, for my second Rogue Bloggers for Woodlarks training walk, I opted for the most boring of walks: my house to the service station on the Wrexham ring road and back.

79 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: the dash to trash

I start with a discussion of St Patrick’s day and drinking. I shall not be doing that today but after another training walk for Woodlarks early tomorrow I might have a few while watching Ireland, I hope, trounce England. Please feel free to donate to Rogue Bloggers HERE as you conisider my 10 mile walk to Wrexham and back tomorrow. Then I look at Bidstack (BIDS), Versarien (VRS) and Genedrive (GDR).

79 days ago

Wildcat Petroleum bonkers interims with 2 sets of numbers – can anybody out there read a balance sheet?

At 1.1p Wildcat Petroleum (WCAT) is capitalised at £26.4 million. Its results for the six months to 31 December are out today and are – as you might expect – piss poor. I wonder if anyone owning shares in this Standard Listed dog can read a balance sheet?

79 days ago

Predator Oil & Gas discounted placing as Novum finds a loophole to circumvent prospectus rules: swivel FCA!!!!

I pointed out a few weeks ago that Predator Oil & Gas (PRD) run by the troll Lonny Baumgardener and the share dealing just ahead of a placing whizz Paul Griffiths was pumping its shares ahead of an inevitable discounted bailout placing. Call me Mystic fecking Meg. So today Predator has raised £2 million at just 5.5p. But this is not just a straight placing. It stinks. With a hat tip to Evil Banksta let me explain.

79 days ago

Verditek Swedish SPOOF – Next up bailout placing

Every year since its IPO Verditek (VDTK) has announced a big new contract win, spiking its shares, and allowing to get a bailout placing away to keep the Fat Lady at bay for another year.  Then it admits that the contract has come to nowt. With its cash set to run out by June it has today announced a new contract. Is this the boy crying wolf yet again? Or is there a real wolf this time.

79 days ago

BREAKING: Caracal Gold – its management accused of dishonesty on another deal

Andrew Monk of VSA Capital (VSA) is off on another jolly, this time in Dubai, and tweets today “Very easy to forget the worlds problems in this place – they really are in a completely different place!” Sadly for the graduate of Oriel College Oxford ( has he told us about his education yet today?) the problems for the insider dealers and fraudsters who run Caracal Gold (GCAT) – adviser VSA – just ratcheted up another three levels.

81 days ago

The liberal left goes Lineker + and weaponises Auschwitz against Suella Braverman

There is a photo out today of Ms Braverman laughing on a trip to Ruanda. With hindsight that might have been unwise as she claims to be tightening the UK’s immigration system. I shall believe that when I actually see it. However, there can be no excuses for the tweet below from the leading anti Brexit campaigner Steve Bray photoshopping the laughing minister in front of the entrance to Auschwitz.  He also removes from the origonal picture two laughing Rwandans either side of Ms Braverman. 

81 days ago

Chill Brands placing to an institution – my arse it is.

At 2.45 PM yesterday Chill Brands (CHLL) announced that it had raised £560,000 at 3.5p. It claims that this “followed the receipt of an unsolicited offer from the financial institution concerned.” Hmmm so at c6% of the enlarged equity we will see a Tr1 soon? There is more chance of Cheryl Cole wandering down my drive in her Birthday suit demanding my sole and undivided attention.

81 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Forgive the rant, at least it is data based & does not involve money trees

The Mrs broke the picket line yesterday. Actually there was no picket line, University Lecturers on strike are too lazy to do even that. So I start with a data based rant on greedy and lazy and deceitful public sector workers. Then it is onto DFS Furtniture (DFS), Amigo (AMGO), Wildcat Petroleum (WCAT, Pineapple Power (PNPL) and the fraud [email protected] Capital (SYME)

81 days ago

And another thing about Supply’s new NED….

I showed earlier what a total lightweight Alexandra Galligan was. I find it hard to be too beastly about the new NED at the fraud [email protected] Capital (SYME) as on Saturday we will both be cheering on the same team in the rugby. However, back to the charity where she is a trustee. The one that is 1135 days late in fling accounts. A co-conspirator has flagged up something else. This is not exactly Cancer Research…

81 days ago

BREAKING: One rule for Gavin Burnell of the Globo fraud infamy, another for the plebs in the Elephant oil IPO like Andrew Bell

Mr Andrew Bell of Red Rock Resources (RRR) – Eton and Oxford – may be unused to being called a pleb, certainly by a ghastly little oik like Gavin Burnell of the Globo (GBO) fraud infamy. But it seems that in the float of Elephant Oil in the USA, there are two classes of investor and Red Rock is very much the lower class while the frightful Burnell is king of the castle.

81 days ago

[email protected] capital morons obsess about Shareprophets tax avoiding ( er we don't!)

Just for a hoot I visited the [email protected] Capital (SYME) thread on ADVFN (AFN). You should try it, it really is a laugh, rarely have I encountered such moronic fantasists. There is almost no discussion of fundamental analysis of Supply yet still plenty of dreamers wondering what colour Ferrari they will buy when it all comes good. That the shares are down by almost 50% over the past year and by almost 90% since peak ramp is, according to many posters, down to one thing:

82 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Postcard: If President Donald Trump is arrested on Tuesday put your bets on a Republican clean sweep in November 2024

The Donald reckons he will be arrested over alledged payments to porn star Stormy Daniels on 21 March 2023. I discuss that case, the sad weaponisation opf the law in American politics and what it all means for the 2024 elections in this podcast.

83 days ago

Letter to Aquis Regulation re Andrew Monk and VSA Capital – misleading trading statement?

Not only does Andrew Monk and VSA Capital list shitcos on the Aquis Lobster Pot but VSA itself is listed on Aquis too. It listed at 21p on 9 September 2021. Its shares are 49% down so far this year and can now be sold for just 10p. But has the Monkey legged over investors with a misleading trading statement. I think the graduate of Oriel College Oxford (has he told us about his posh education yet today?) has and have written to Aquis Regulation suggesting it force VSA to clarify.

83 days ago

S[email protected] Capital NED jumps after 9 months, replacement is a joke

It is yet another red flag at the fraud [email protected] Capital. NED Andrew Thomas says he wants to pursue other business opportunities one hopes non criminal ones, and is jumping ship after just nine months. Supply bigs up his replacement Alexandra Galligan but if you life up the skirts of her CV…

84 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: forward selling at Versarien & Verditek, lying by Reabold and the countdown to insolvency at [email protected] Capital

I start pondering retirement, then look at Credit Suisse and Gary vs Chris on buying shares right now. Then it is onto Versarien (VRS), Verditek (VDTK), lying by Reabold (RBD) on its takeover bid, Cineworld (CINE), Ben’s Creek (BEN) and that scumbag Adam Wilson and the fraud [email protected] Capital (SYME)

84 days ago

Oxfam's 92 page suicide note

My father and mother were in Oxford in the 1960s at a time when Sergeant Morse arrived in the City and when Oxfam was set up and they were – like Morse – almost, lifelong supporters. They paid over a monthly direct debit even when they could not afford it and would order Christmas presents from the third world via the Oxfam catalogue. But in his final years I finally persuaded Dad that sending his cash to an organisation which covered up for paedophiles in the field was not a good idea.  We discussed the bloated salaries of the administrative staff in Oxford and how Oxfam was now opining on areas well outside its original remit of fighting famine. He could not argue and one glorious day I answered a begging call for a Tom Winnifrith from the aggressive sales team at Oxfam, and, with the consent of my father, ( also called Tom) told them to bugger off and to stop the direct debit.

84 days ago

A few thoughts on retirement

84 days ago

The Versarien placing at 3p – another black hole needing plugging? The Brian Berney law suit?

Why do such a fund raise now folks ask? Because it can is the reason, thanks to thuggish share plugging involving bent journalism and forward selling, Versarien (VRS) has an extra £275,000 net cash. Versarien says it is going to be spent on growth opportunities and working capital but that is obviously a lie. Some may go on funding ongoing losses. It could go on giving Neill Ricketts a £197,000 payoff. Or….

84 days ago

Versarien raises a paltry £318,000 at 3p – why the rush?

You want to know why Berenberg quit as joint broker yesterday as Versarien (VRS) also fessed up that Neill Ricketts was still a director earning £16,500 a month despite “resigning as CEO” a week ago? It will be when it discovered that, enabled by the bent journalism of Ian Cowie at the Sunday Times pumping the shares, SP Angel was doing a smash and grab deeply discounted placing to raise a paltry £318,000.

84 days ago

Breaking EXCLUSIVE - Reabold has received, but not disclosed, a bid approach

Since fighting off a sack the board GM in November, Reabold Resources (RBD) has seen its share price slump from 0.28p to just 0.19p. But there is good news.

84 days ago

Pray for Caroline Kenyon for her #BrexitDerangementSyndrome is one of the most severe cases ever seen

As an assistant to the leader of the Lib Dems in the house of Lords we might not be too surprised that poor Caroline has caught a case of #BrexitDerangementSyndrome. One imagines there is a lot of it going around in the offices or Lord Newby. Whoever he is. But we should not mock Caroline but should pray for her as her level of sickness is off the scale.

84 days ago

BREAKING: Versarien: Ricketts smoked out by the Sheriff of AIM – loathsome Neill is still a director and on full pay

You thought Ricketts had gone, he had resigned. Today’s bombshell expose HERE seems to have forced the hand of Versarien (VRS) and it has now ‘fessed up. Ricketts and the associated stench has not left the building after all..

84 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Virgin Wines will surely wither and die - another IPO disgrace from 2021

In today’s podcast I look at Credit Suisse and the banking crisis, bitcoin, gold, Argo Blockchain (ARB), Online Blockchain (OBC), Mode Global (MODE), Okyo Pharma (OKYO), Virgin Wines (WINO) and Versarien (VRS) in light of the bombshell here earlier today.

84 days ago

BOMBSHELL: Versarien – did Costain really approve the RNS reach and why is Neill Ricketts still a director?

What on earth is actually going on at Versarien (VRS)? Sources within the company suggest that those who think loathsome, ex CEO as of 10 March, Neill Ricketts has left the company are very wide of the mark.

84 days ago

Silverwood Brands muddies the water on the £216m Lush scandal – will Andrew Monk’s VSA still book its fees?

Shares in Aquis listed Silverwood Brands (SLWD) are almost untradeable. That did not stop pompous Andrew Monk boasting that his fees for Silverwood buying a stake in Lush from Silverwood’s directors for £216 million (in shares) would ensure that VSA would make a profit this year, having been loss making to the tune of almost a Bernie at the interim stage. Today there is another update from Silverwood showing what utter crap VSA has told investors.

84 days ago

When you owe the bank $1 you are in trouble – when you owe it $42m the bank’s in trouble: Canadian Overseas covenant waiver, more death spiral vicar?

Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL) continues to breach the banking covenants on its $42 million of senior debt. But what is the bank meant to do? Call in the debt and try to flog Canadian’s shite assets in a market meltdown to try to get its cash back? Really?

84 days ago

Spotting "winners" with the next Chancellor, Labour's Rachel Reeves

I have already demonstrated that Rachel Reeves MP is perhaps the most economically illiterate person in Halitosis Hall, and that takes some doing. An obsession of politicians is always “picking winners” in the private sector. And so, yesterday, Ms Reeves joined the man who did not prosecute Jimmy Savile, visiting a company I have covered many times before…

84 days ago

Medcaw - is it ashamed about Charlie Wood and if not why not?

Medcaw (MCI) listed on the disgraced Standard List just before Christmas as an investment vehicle looking to make an acquisition, yadda, yadda, yadda. Yesterday its shares collapsed by just over 60% to 2.5p as one punter decided to make a sale on a day of market turmoil. There is no liquidity, no demand and maybe this is why.

84 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Another disaster from Andrew Monk and an excruciating video from the disgraced broker

I start with a few thoughts on getting old as Olaf suffers her last ever Oxford tutorial. Then it is onto SVB, an apology to Euro loon Jonathan Price – let this be the last – and a few words on Aferian (AFRN). Then, after today’s ouzo moment as the fuzz arrest a fraudster whose company I have exposed, onto the disaster that is Tungsten West (TUN). This company was IPO’d by the Monkey and VSA to monetize and asset first discovered in 1867 and which has flopped more times since 1916 than Monk might care to admit. I discuss its financial woes, VSA’s research coverage and bring you a video featuring Monk dressed as a road builder and celebrating the endorsement of Liz Truss. It is excruciating. Then I cover Ariana Resources (AAU), Condor Gold (CNR) and Chesterfield Resources (CHF) and how some disposals are just so misleading.

84 days ago

BREAKING: Who have the City of London Police arrested in raids on the frauds Eden Pharma and Aries Robotics, its ouzo time again at Sheriff Towers!

I have repeatedly warned about Eden Pharma. The folks targeted by boiler rooms pushing it and Aries were also targeted by folks raising £65 million for One True View and Appbox Media. As you can see below in a letter sent out to Aries and Eden investors the fuzz have swooped on multiple addresses and arrested one 40 year old.

84 days ago

Chesterfield Resources – another joke asset sale does not nudge the cash crisis dial more than a fraction

Chesterfield Resources (CHF) is in a pickle and is running on vapours. A hugely discounted placing is surely imminent and a recent disposal announcement is all smoke and mirrors and does not nudge the cash crisis dial more than a fraction.

84 days ago

Nightcap – schoolboy accounting error: interims should be restated

I admit this is not a huge error and you may call me a pedant. I have been called worse. But if you are going to release results you might as well get the numbers right even if the overall picture, as is the case with NightCap (NGHT) today is one of a cash guzzling shit show facing a financing crisis. Sadly Sarah Willingham’s Nightcap has made a schoolboy error and should issue a correction.

84 days ago

Photo article: Just one week in July, 3 in May, 1 in April and 4 in October left un-booked at the Greek Hovel in 2023

Next year we must do something special as the Greek Hovel will be 100 years old. Maybe I shall build a stone wall as an add on up by the house. I shall consider my options. This year, between the start of April and the end of October, the place will be busy.

84 days ago

NightCap Interims – more smoke and mirrors in your £12 cocktail vicar?

Naturally Dragon’s Den Has-Been Sarah Willingham gushes about how brilliant these numbers from Nightcap (NGHT) are. Only a self-promoting twit like La Willingham could describe declining like for likes and surging net debt as “a fantastic half year.” Who is she trying to fool: herself (easy) or dumb investors in this hopeless company ( by definition even easier)?

84 days ago

Letter to AIM Regulation & SP Angel – did Versarien lie about its CEO resigning?

On Friday 10 March Versarien (VRS) announced that its disgraced CEO Neill Ricketts had resigned. It said it would determine the management structure going forward and Ricketts was not listed as a contact. But was that true?

84 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Neill Ricketts and the £200,000 scandal & will SVB's demise whack Yourgene and Aferian? Which other listed companies are vulnerable?

I start with Versarien (VRS), the potentially £200,000 scandal and Neill Ricketts. Then to the demise of Silicon Valley Bank, a bubble blow up with associated crime and the wider ramifications: which listed companies could it screw up?

84 days ago

Dishonest journalism or bad journalism or both: Ian Cowie of the Sunday Times on Versarien

At least Cowie, one of Britain’s most senior personal finance journalists, is honest that he is a poltroon, admitting to buying shares in Versarien (VRS) at 177p. They closed Friday at just 3.5p although in his column today where he explains why he is hanging on for a bounce, Cowie says the shares are 5p. But the dishonesty of the journalism is epic.

84 days ago

Versarien may have sacked loathsome shyster Neill Ricketts but he is still lying!

There seems some uncertainty among some investors as to the departure of the loathsome Neill Ricketts from cash strapped Versarien (VRS). Some still think he remains as a consultant or in some other role. Au contraire. He has left the building. And others seem to think he actually resigned. Again no, he was forced out by the board. I have been in contact with advisers on the subject of apologies, meanwhile Ricketts carries on lying.

84 days ago

Tintra – more and more questions vicar? This stinks to high heaven!

Even Stevie Wonder can see the red flags waving here. And you don’t need any sense of smell to detect the stench at Tintra (TNT). It continues to raise money at a massive premium to its current mid share price of 150 pence and to an ongoing death spiral conversion. The RNS issued on 10 March indicates that another unidentified investor is paying 1178 pence per share as set out below:

84 days ago

The fraud WANdisco – it was always a dog

Yesterday we learned of the mammoth fraud at Wandisco (WAND) which may well sink it.  Bulls always pointed to huge forecast earnings but while the FCA always tells us that the past is no guide to the future it often is. We perma bears pointed to the actual numbers.

84 days ago

BREAKING: So how many patents does Versarien actually have? 130? What do you think?

Now that Neill Ricketts has been resigned as CEO of Versarien (VRS) the board and its PR advisors need to get to grips urgently with some of the outrageous claims made by the loathsome old barstool. For only when investors are told the ghastly truth can disgraced Nomad SP Angel consider allowing a bailout fund raise. And, as I pointed out in bearcast, a string of apologies are also needed to show that the culture has changed at Versarien and is no longer toxic. In terms of the truth, we might start with Ricketts’ claims about IP.

84 days ago

Video: Recession and Higher Rates – The Mega-Risks in 2023

Analyst and investor David Hay recently released a new book “Bubble 3.0” which is a warning about the investment perils we all face but which most folks opt to ignore.

84 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: TW is a total bastard

In today’s Bearcast, I discuss Power Metal (POW), Versarien (VRS), including why Dianne Savory OBE should be publicly apologising to my wife today, Verditek (VDTK), Victoria Oil & Gas (VOG), Aferian (AFRN) and Argo Blockchain (ARB)

84 days ago

And another AIM sewer CEO walks the plank – Paul Johnson ramper in chief at Power Metal Resources is gone

The cleansing of the Augean stables that is the AIM sewer has seen loathsome Neill Ricketts fired, oops sorry resigned, today but there is another high profile ramper walking the plank, Paul Johnson of Power Metal Resources (POW). Johnson’s departure is buried at the bottom of a release about a “strategic business update”. Whatever…I smell bull.

86 days ago

So farewell then Neill Ricketts, EJ Thribb has a Poem in your honour

The nation’s greatest poet has stepped up to the plate as loathsome Neill Ricketts has abandoned the sinking Versarien (VRS) ship.

86 days ago

BREAKING: Ding Dong Ricketts has Gone – Versarien surely toast

There was no thanks offered up by his fellow board members for his tremendous services to Versarien (VRS). Just an acknowledgement that loathsome charlatan Neill Ricketts has resigned with immediate effect. Did he resign or was he resigned?

86 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: The $1 billion AIM fraud, IQE & Atlantic Lithium merit lots of ouzo tonight as the teachers disgrace themselves

I start with the fecking stay at home in the face of sod all snow teachers, who are a disgrace as I explained HERE. Then it is onto Ben’s Creek (BEN) as disgraced Peter Shea emerges from under a stone, then IQE (IQE) , Wandisco (WAND), Atlantic Lithium (ALL), BSF Enterprises (BSFA) and Hammerson (HMSO).

86 days ago

Put your workers on a 4 day week on full pay and watch revenues rocket: pseudo capitalism it is so easy when your sales are pure fiction!

A pilot scheme where workers got full pay for doing just 4 days a week was recently hailed by those organising it as a triumph and among those wheeled out to boast of its success was David Richards MBE of Wandisco (WAND). claiming his company’s sales had rocketed seven fold and productivity was up 25%. In fact…

86 days ago

What an awful day at the office for Invesco, specialist investors in tech

We are always told by some folks that you should follow the professional fund managers as they know what they are doing and we private investors are just mugs, Today there have been two enormous blow ups in the tech space both of which we have warned about repeatedly. IQE (IQE) and Wandisco (WAND). Both have a big institutional backing as you can see below.

86 days ago

The last Endeavour was awful – I’m so thankful it is all over

I have watched every episode of Inspector Morse, Lewis (the sequel) and Endeavour ( the prequel). Many episodes I have watched many times.  It is fair to say that I am a fan but after a quite appalling last ever Endeavour, I now welcome the end. Morse is left hanging as a Sergeant in 1972 with a 15 year gap until he comes back to Oxford after a spell in the Met in 1987.

86 days ago

IQE – another shocking warning, more ouzo justified in North Wales, but its cabbage water time in South Wales

For years supporters of IQE (IQE) such as thirsty Paul Scott and our own Malcolm Stacey argued that it was a tech play and this justified fancy doo-dah valuations. I argued that it was simply a manufacturer operating in a cyclical commodity space and a not very good one at that. Today comes another dire lack of profits warning which will be enough to turn the bulls to drink and is a good reason for this sober bear to enjoy a small ouzo tonight.

86 days ago

Wandisco – a $1 billion fraud blows up on AIM

If I had a quid for every time I warned that shares in Wandisco (WAND) were at a bonkers valuation based on reported revenues, I’d be able to buy a season ticket at Wrexham. But today we discovered that most pf those reported revenues were made up and that the size of the emerging fraud was big enough to bankrupt a company which, at £13.10, was capitalised at £863 million. Now the shares have been suspended as investors face calamity in AIM’s biggest scandal for years.

86 days ago

Iconic Labs –- the over hyped artificial intelligence RTO

On the LSE Asylum, the Bulletin Board Morons are frothing with excitement about a potential reverse takeover of Iconic (ICON) involving Livento Group. Given that Iconic has no effective business any acquisition is likely to be a reverse takeover as indicated by Iconic in the RNS of 2 February 2023 below:

86 days ago

Atlantic Lithium “refutes” THIS bear dossier from Blue Orca – jury still out

At 4.15 PM yesterday shares in Atlantic Lithium (ALL) were suspended, having crashed thanks to the bear dossier which I publish in full below. The reason – a pending statement. That statement is now out and trading in the shares resumes. Atlantic says it “refutes” the dossier which means that it denies it. But how convincing is the denial?

86 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Atlantic Lithium collapsing on Blue Orca bear dossier

I start with a rant about the fecking GPs and the bloody teachers as approx. 0.0 inches of snow accumulates and my father in law has to go to hospital again. I am so bloody angry about both. Then it is onto the collapse in the share price of Atlantic Lithium (ALL) – about which I explicitly warned you all just under four months ago HERE – after a bear dossier was published: see below. Then I look at Red Rock Resources (RRR), some of the #IWD jokes including one from Jeremy Corbyn and one from Guild Esports (GILD). Finally it is ouzo o’clock as musicMagpie (MMAG) serves up dire results and warns of tough times ahead. Footnote: at 4.15 PM Atlantic shares were suspended “pending an announcement”

86 days ago

The Britain Bashing Guardian celebrates what we are good at: Loving abortion, supporting Prostitution, Divorce and casual sex

Normally the Guardian does it utmost to talk down Britain. Especially after Brexit, we are just shit at everything. But today it celebrates the fact that we are in the top 4 globally for our supportive attitudes to: abortion, divorce, casual sex, prostitution, LGBT rights and “assisted dying.” We are not quite up their with Canada in terms of killing off the disabled or those who can;‘t hold down a job but we are top 4.

86 days ago

PWC and two partners fined by the FRC over Babcock howlers but Boatman Capital says its just not enough

And Boatman, which exposed the accounting howlers at Babcock (BAB) in its March 31 2017 and 2018 accounts is dead right. The fines and censures handed out today will deter no accountant at all from enabling fraud.

86 days ago

Versarien and its 130 claimed patents and trademarks part 2

Conflating the number of patents and trademarks is a bit like myself conflating the number of times I have drunk ouzo and the number of times Cheryl Cole has seduced me. They are both pleasurable just as patents and trademarks are both IP but they are different things. It is not common for people to act in both disciplines; either in respect of IP or pleasure.

86 days ago

Bulletin Board Moron of the week squire0077 now jokes about Tom Winnifrith being shot

I flagged up this impoverished long and strong of Versarien (VRS) poltroon the other day HERE - he has altered his posting name by one digit but it is the same idiot.

86 days ago

Pete Brailey warns mug punters about Pantheon again

He called this as a slam dunk short at 122p on September 10. Shares in Pantheon Resources (PANR) are now 26p. So where next?

86 days ago

Buy Supermarket Income REIT

Wanting some secure income with some future upside potential? How about inflation-linked, long income from grocery property? This and a share price currently down below 90p suggest to us that shares in Supermarket Income REIT (SUPR) are a Buy.

87 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Victoria Oil & Gas, the Foo-man, and Administration

Young Steve is not well so it really is just me holding the fort on a day when childcare and the Young Mum’s Group curtail my own hours. Notwithstanding that I bring you thoughts on the late Victoria Oil & Gas (VOG), Revolution Beauty (REVB) and Boohoo.com (BOO), Genflow Biosciences (GENF), Wood Group (WG.) and Pantheon Resources (PANR)

87 days ago

Canadian Overseas Petroleum – more death spiral shares vicar?

The real risks are that Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL) either cannot secure additional; finance within the next five weeks and so goes bust or that the owners of $42 million of senior debt get cold feet, call in their loans and the company goes bust. That would shaft 100% anyone daft enough to own the shares but also the providers off all the convertible loan notes, death spiral providers.

87 days ago

Odd One out contest for #InternationalWomensDay thanks to LGBT+ Labour

 Naturally we all celeberate the achievments of many wonderful women on #InternationalWomensDay and as part of that can you pick the odd one out in the “women” being celebrated by LGBT+ Labour. Hint: this woman might have to shave her facial hair a bit more than the other “female patrons” and unlike the other female patrons has a penis.

87 days ago

BREAKING: Versarien and the 130 claimed patents Part 1

In the abjectly bad results for the 18 months to 30th September one of the proud boasts of loathsome and porcine CEO Neill Ricketts was “We have secured IP with over 130 patents and trademarks.” I have now engaged with a specialist IP lawyer to examine that claim. This may be a long series, but here is an appetizer….

87 days ago

What’s Argo Blockchain hiding in its latest monthly update?

At the start, the February update from Argo Blockchain (ARB) looks like all the other monthly updates up until December. It gives the number of bitcoin mined, an excuse for why it is a piss poor number and then the number of bitcoin equivalent held at the period end. And then…

87 days ago

Cizzle Biotechnology – what looks like repellent corporate greed is really just bad timing

The share price of Cizzle Biotechnology (CIZ) at the close yesterday was 4.55p. The shares have plunged today to 3.75p after the publication of a share option scheme which, superficially, looks like obscene boardroom greed and a total piss take. Far be it from me to defend small (£13 million) biotech plays but for once I shall.

87 days ago

There will be another treat later today for this Versarien shareholder on the ADVFN Asylum: meet impoverished moron squire0076.

Old squire0076 has been long and strong all the way down from almost two quid to today’s 5.15p. The bad news for him and other bulls in the last redoubt at Versarien (VRS) is that I have yet another expose coming later today, the start of a new series. But squire does not care, this is his analysis of the situation yesterday:

87 days ago

Cineworld and the last rites, no need to close shorts yet

This column has been calling Cineworld (CINE) as a short for absolute ages. It hardly seems credible but three years ago the shares were 170p. Today they are 2.9p and so anybody who has gone short as we advised all along has done well. You know where to send the “thank you” bottles of ouzo.

87 days ago

Video: The Everything Bubble Collapse – 25x More Capital Into Gold

Broadcaster Michael Maloney details how modern banks simply imagine money into existence with loans. This is NOT real money.

87 days ago

And folks wonder why State schools lag… trivial snowfall stops play (in state schools only)

Here in the last village in Wales the snow has been falling for a couple of hours. On the grassy bank outside my kitchen there is, perhaps, half an inch of global warming. On the road down to my house and other roads in the village it is yet to settle at all. But, quelle surprise, the village school has already cited ef ‘n’ safey reasons for a full shutdown.

87 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: what to think about 3 gold miners? Has the curse of Chris Cleverly struck again?

Today I look at Conroy Gold & Natural Resources (CGNR), Ariana (AAU) and Bluebird Merchant Ventures (BMV). Then at Pantheon Resources (PANR) and at ADVFN (AFN). Finally Evil Banksta has sent me this Bulletin Board post below on Technology Minerals (TMI). I have always been bearish on this stock as any company in any way linked to Chris Cleverly is always a dog with fleas. The post below looks to be kosher, thought it may not be, so, I suspect, does not alter the bear case and my target remains 0p.

87 days ago

A question for Genflow Biosciences – who owns your shares?

Just over a year ago Genflow Biosciences (GENF) raised a gross £3.7 million at 8p and joined the Standard List. Much of that cash will by now have gone up in smoke but, with the shares now just 1.95p, the big question is “who exactly owns the stock?”

87 days ago

UPDATED: Versarien: another spoof RNS Reach, can you smell the desperation yet?

The funder of the lifestyle of disgraced, porcine CEO, Neill Ricketts, that is to say Versarien (VRS), will run out of cash and still have debts of almost £8 million by April or May. It has been knocked back on its big grant application to Innovate UK – as revealed here – and so must get a placing away PDQ otherwise the Fat Lady and the Fat Man will be singing a late Spring duet. Can you smell the desperation? For the second time in five days, we have an RNS Reach.

87 days ago

Ouzo for Pete Brailey and the bears, another Pantheon disaster as its cash rapidly runs out!

The big bear call from Pete Brailey at ShareStock 2022 last September was Pantheon Resources (PANR) at 122p and its shares are now 31p after another disastrous operational update. To have presented such data if you were drowning in cash would be alright, but Pantheon is not, it is rapidly running out of other folks moolah.

87 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Ariana Resources sins on Friday, buy sell or hold?

Putting out an RNS at 3.59 PM on Friday is not something I like. But should buy, sell or hold shares in Ariana (AAU) with the stock down to 2.8p.

93 days ago

Howling at Radio 4 as it serves up fake news on Gary Lineker

The Mrs switched on Radio 4 then left the room.  By the time she returned it was the news at 9 and the state broadcaster was reporting that Tories were angry about £1.35 million a year BBC presenter Gary Lineker saying that new immigration plans were “beyond awful”. The Mrs could not see what the Tories were complaining about and snorted. That is because the BBC News did not report in that bulletin the really offensive thing that Lineker said, comparing the Tory policies to those of the Nazis in 1930s.

93 days ago

Photo Article - The reason no articles yesterday, my first training walk for Rogue Bloggers for Woodlarks, schoolboy errors

I had hoped that Darren would have added all the photos I sent him from the top of Moel Famau, a large hill the other side of Mold. But, he is not a Good German and I shall sack him later. Instead you can see me below with my chunky two year old daughter Jaya on my back and try to imagine views, stretching miles and miles, out into the Irish sea.

93 days ago

[email protected] Capital – 65% of Alessandro Zamboni’s holding secured against loan

On Friday, [email protected] Capital (SYME) published the following TR1 RNS about Alessandro Zamboni’s holding in the cash strapped fraud The TR1 was described as a “Voluntary notification following the issuance of the exercise of open offer warrants, issues of equity and total voting rights RNS by [email protected] Capital plc on 02/03/2023.” Given the percentage holding changed from 22.51% to 22.50% some Bulletin Board Morons questioned the need for the disclosure.

93 days ago

How do you know that UK Oil & Gas is about to do yet another bailout placing?

Well for starters, look at the last interims, do the maths on historic cashburn, commitments and year end cash and you know that UK Oil & Gas (UKOG) will run out of other folk’s moolah very soon. But there are other hints for the non-maths experts out there.

93 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast - 1 new Warwick abuse victim comes forward already

This is a good start to the day and my decision to run a slight legal risk HERE yesterday looks to have paid off as I try to force my old school to deal with historic abuse. After that I look at Ben’s Creek (BEN), Conroy Gold & Natural Resources (CGNR), Eurasia Mining (EUA), Argo Blockchain (ARB) and Vast Resources (VAST).

93 days ago

Ben’s Creek moves the goalposts in yet another stinking related party deal

How do you know if a Ben’s Creek (BEN) spokesman is lying? His lips start moving. I know it is an old joke but in light of today’s latest stinking related party transaction with MBU, it is apposite.

95 days ago

Video: Being Ready for the Chaos in the Markets

Writer Tony Greer from the Morning Navigator is a cheery fellow.

95 days ago

BREAKING: Eurasia Mining faces dodgy Russians in Court – why no RNS?

And still, after three years, there is no bid for, rapidly running out of money, Eurasia Mining (EUA). There are already more red flags fluttering here than on a May Day parade on Moscow. And talking of dodgy Russians is there any reason why Eurasia has not illuminated us about a court case against some of Putin’s boys?

95 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast - distracted by Warwick School matters

I refer to this. Then I discuss Totally (TLY), Versarien (VRS), Metal Tiger (MTL), Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO), Wandisco (WAND) and Flip Flop’s Kavango (KAV)

95 days ago

#BoycottHershey – go woke go broke on #InternationalWomensDay

One good reason to boycott the America chocolate company and all its teeth rotting products is that it fired workers in the US who refused to take a covid vaccine. But today its International Women’s Day (March 8)  Canadian operation has served up another. Meet Fae Johnstone who has been appointed and paid to be one of its five women ambassadors on this day. Remember this is the socialist, woke hell hole that is Canada. Have you guessed yet?

95 days ago

Letter to AIM Regulation – Versarien’s self confessed breach of AIM Rule 11

As it struggles to remain solvent, Versarien (VRS) has, in effect, admitted breaching AIM Rule 11 in its annual report. I have written to the Oxymorons asking for formal censure of the company and its loathsome CEO Neill Ricketts.

95 days ago

Letter to FCA – market abuse by Howard White regarding Powerhouse Energy

Following up on this expose HERE regarding the dumping of shares in Powerhouse Energy (PHE) by Howard White and his two sons I have written to the FCA asking it to investigate whether Mr White is guilty of market abuse as a result of market manipulation. I believe that without any doubt, he is.

95 days ago

Inland Homes from bad to worse

The stench at Inland Homes (INL) just ratcheted up to top gear with the shock resignation of all three of its non exec chairman Simon Bennett, Carol Duncumb and Brian Johnson as a stack of undeclared related party deals have emerged. That may well be one of the reasons why, yesterday, Inland warned that there would be a delay in the publication of its annual results.

95 days ago

Suicide, white privilege and the patriarchal hegemony – ONS data out, DO NOT discuss the facts

Were it to emerge that women were, as my mother, one great aunt and one of mum’s cousins did, far more likely to kill themselves than men, the BBC’s Women’s Hour would be all over it demanding that action be taken. Were it to emerge that black and Asian people were far more likely to kill themselves than whites, all the usual grifters would be out demanding public enquiries, Government spending and suggesting that this was a legacy of colonialism. David Lammy, Priyamvada Gopal et al would be all over the papers and outr TV screens crying and demanding action. As it happens, the ONS has published data on suicides today.

95 days ago

Tom Winnifrith BONUS bearcast: Advanced Oncotherapy, 9 weeks from death & now a full blown death spiral in place AFTER today's £5m financing

Was there any insider dealing before a mid afternoon financing update from Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO). A 32% share price fall suggests that the Pope is also a Catholic. I discuss the new £4.975 million financing which still leaves Advanced only 9 weeks away from running out of cash and the full blown death spiral which cheats its way around par value rules but which will crush the share price.

95 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: it is not Sunny in Wrexham it really is post industrial grim

On this St David’s Day myself and little Jaya went to Wrexham and I describe just how grim it is. Do not believe the hype.  Then it is onto Cellular Goods (CBX), Guild ESports (GILD), Anglesey Mining (AYM), Versarien (VRS), Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL) and Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO) where events have overtaken me requiring a follow up podcast which I shall do now.

95 days ago

BREAKING: Advanced Oncotherapy shares collapsing – statement needed asap as the Sheriff vindicated yet again

The shares are now just 4.25p, down another 32% today. The bare facts are that Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO) is running on fumes. If it does not raise fresh funding asap the Fat Lady will be called in for an emergency gig very soon indeed. The problem, as we have noted many times, is that par value is 25p.

95 days ago

The delayed Versarien annual report part 2 – more heroic assumptions on the non graphene businesses

Finally the delayed annual report arrived yesterday allowing us to see what exactly cash strapped Versarien (VRS) was hiding in its abridged annual results. Yesterday I showed the wholly unrealistic claims regarding graphene which were made to avoid huge intangible writedowns. Now to the non-graphene businesses which is almost as ludicrous.

96 days ago

Peter Tatchell proclaims the end of "heterosexual dictatorship" but , as has happened before, his maths dubious

The great civil liberties campaigner Peter Tatchell is, as I have noted before, not the greatest maths guru on earth. But Tatch is delighted with a new poll from America which, he argues, shows that the dictatorship of we straight folk over the oppressed LGBTQA+ community is drawing to a close. Well er… not really Tatch. Lies, damned lies and statistics and all that.

97 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: surely this is straight to jail, do not pass Go, do not collect £400

On the jail tack I refer to the clear market abuse scandal at Powerhouse Energy (PHE). I also discuss Ocado (OCDO), clearly a stonking short, Versarien (VRS) and the latest utter cobblers and tripe from Ben Turney’s flip flop Kavango Resources (KAV). Ben, at least, provides a platform for some inappropriate Cheryl Cole analogies.

97 days ago

Versarien Annual Report out: what it was hiding part 1 – the heroic Graphene growth assumptions supporting nil impairment

Finally, a week after publishing dreadful results Versarien (VRS) has published its full annual report for the 18 months to 30 September 2022. When this company goes bust, what it was hiding will be used to drag it and auditors BDO through hell and back, via the FRC. The main issue is goodwill and the balance sheet but there is also the pay rise loathsome  Neill Ricketts was given.

97 days ago

BREAKING: Powerhouse Energy – surely this is cut and dried industrial scale market abuse

Not revealing shareholding changes via a TR1 in a timely fashion should be a criminal offence but is not. It is – in my view wrongly – treated rather like picking your nose and swallowing the bogies in public, as naughty but not serious. And thus, the rules are widely ignored and abused. Yesterday Howard White and his two sons ‘fessed up to ignoring the rules with regard to dumping Powerhouse Energy (PHE) shares. But old Howard is also guilty, in this case, of market abuse. This is black and white and the FCA really should act.

97 days ago

BREAKING: Canadian Overseas Petroleum - the unexplained collapse in January output it is NOT telling you about

The bear case as outlined here is already compelling.  But the table below from the Wyoming Oil & Gas Commission serves up data on Canadian Overseas Petroleum’s (COPL) January output and that suggests an alarming decline which cannot be explained solely by bad weather.

97 days ago

The cost of smoking by country - there are some great smuggling arbs here

A pack of 20 costs 25.43 Euro in Australia. Who on earth can afford to smoke down under. Given that a packet of 20 is only 2.11 Euro in Indonesia I can see a great arb if you have no qualms about breaking the law. I bet there is a roaring trade in “under the counter” fags in Oz. The table below is fascinating.

97 days ago

Review Of The 2022/23 Winter In England ( norra lot of climate change) -

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2023/03/03/review-of-the-2022-23-winter-in-england/#more-62588

99 days ago

Trying to confront the paedophile masters at my old school Warwick: No 1 the music teacher

Just over a month ago, I headed to Scarborough to confront a former music teacher at Warwick School who is a paedophile. Warwick covered up for him, ignoring complaints, and allowing him to head off to give private piano lessons in his own home after he left. Heaven only knows what went on in his front room in Scarborough. If you are an Old Warwickian (OW) who was at the old place in the last two decades of the last century I beg you to forward this article to any OWs you know for reasons I shall explain.  The music teacher is one of at least 6 paedophile masters at Warwick from my era. There may have been more.

99 days ago

One last time, Rogue Bloggers for Woodlarks Annual 34 mile walk – we are on!

This will be the sixth walk and we have agreed the last. Maybe Lucian and I will do something different next year, maybe not. The old boy did turn 60 last year. The date is now set for June 17 and we will walk the 34 miles from Winchester to the Woodlarks camp. So far those signed up are:

101 days ago

Heroic campaigner #ArronBanks defeats crazy cat lady #CaroleCadwalladr on appeal - time for the old bag to hand back her Orwell prize

https://order-order.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Banks-v-Cadwalladr-2023-EWCA-Civ-219.pdf

101 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast - the problem with sacking people, the 3 xs

No this is not a reference to Darren after the glitch on the earlier bullcast. It is a reference to Versarien (VRS). I explain why today’s Umbro based ramping video is just so much hooey and a sell signal not a buy one. Then it is onto young journalists and the problems they face, Jamie Nimmo eulogising Dan Wagner with some PR puffery in the Sunday Times. Finally why Avacta (AVCT) is such a compelling short.

101 days ago

Forward Partners – a 2021 IPO dog or a very cheap AIM stock?

The last time I looked at Forward Partners (FWD) , an investment company specialising in unlisted tech plays was on the first anniversary of its AIM IPO, that is to say in July 2022, when I, not for the first time, poured scorn on the enterprise HERE. At that stage the shares had slumped from 100p to 45p. Today after a dismal trading statement the shares are 37p – a £50 million market cap. The 2022 year end NAV was 71p so is this a chance to buy?

101 days ago

Tom Winnifrith podcast share tip

This is a bonus podcast. This tip is a share which I expect to more than double within a year and could be a five or even ten bagger on a three year view. And of course I mean the 27th not 25th.

101 days ago

Vast Resources explicitly warns yet another placing needed: only 1?

With the last placing just 21 days ago, serial AIM dog Vast Resources (VAST) has today warned that it will be doing another placing. This is a company that has done more placings over the years than I have had inappropriate thoughts about Cheryl Cole. Yes! That many! And that is one reason why its shares are 98% down over 16 years.

101 days ago

Guild Esports – explaining a material uncertainty statement as it spoofs ahead of the bailout placing

Another day and another ramptastic announcement from Guild Esports (GILD). Of course it is nothing news but that is not the point. As it tried so hard to hide from investors, until I flushed it out on January 31, the company is running on vapours and needs to do a placing pronto (indeed it lied to its auditors and said one was already underway to get audit sign off) to avoid a duet with the Fat Lady.

101 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: At what point does Flip Flop admit he has failed? Prepping for a Bluebird Meeting

I start with a bit of macro-political stuff but that does relate directly to a) Gary’s tip today and b) my muted enthusiasm for UK PLC shares. Then it is onto Kavango Resources (KAV), seemingly moving goalposts to avoid accusations of failure. Finally Colin Patterson of Bluebird Merchant Ventures (BMV) popped in after this recording. FWIW, after the meeting I conclude that the shares are a VERY STRONG BUY.

101 days ago

Rio Tinto – 2022 results, how ‘resilient’?

Mining major Rio Tinto (RIO) has announced its calendar 2022 results emphasising “despite challenging market conditions, we remain resilient”, but what of a now 5983p share price?

101 days ago

Warren Buffett warns on CEOs who are economic illiterates or silver-tongued demagogues

The latest report from Berkshire Hathaway is out and, after a good 2022, Warren Buffett does not hold back. Enjoy.

101 days ago

Macfarlane – 2022 growth ahead of expectations and 2023 confidence, BUY

Protective packaging group Macfarlane (MACF) has announced results for the 2022 calendar year which are ahead of both the prior year and market expectations and that it expects to deliver further growth in 2023.

101 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: My SIPP buys shares in xxxx as Lucian's twitter account is hacked

If you see Lucian tweeting out #COYS or Buy Cineworld (CINE) you know what has happened!. I start this podcast on the subject of home made apple juice then cover Cineworld, Alien Metals (UFO), Skinbiotherapeutics (SBTX) and Jubilee Metals (JLP)

101 days ago

Canadian Overseas Petroleum – why not tell us the conversion price?

An RNS is meant to inform, to give clear information allowing we investors to asses exactly what is going on. Of course, Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL) thinks that an RNS is just an excuse to muddy the waters even further, hiding the trouble that it is in. Today we have another effort of this genre. It is to do with the issue of death spiral shares.

101 days ago

Wood Group – rejected possible offer proposals highlight the prospects we noted, what now?

Re-recommended at a 155p offer price in July after we previously banked a more than 40%, less than 7 months, offer-to-bid gain on the shares, Wood Group (WG.) has noted “recent speculation” and confirmed that it has received three possible cash offer proposals from Apollo Global Management, the most recent of which was at 230p per share and unanimously rejected by the board as it considers it “significantly undervalued the repositioned group’s prospects”.

102 days ago

Cineworld explicitly spells it out for dummies – the shares are worthless

I told y’all that this would happen numerous times and explicitly a couple of days ago after the latest Court hearings in the USA HERE. Today Cineworld (CINE) has stated, in no uncertain terms, that its shares are worthless under every scenario. Amazingly the shares are down by only 23% at 3.05p. Yes some folks are buying the shares!

102 days ago

Bulletin Board Moron of the week - natch a Versarien shareholder: day 4 of the annual report watch

It is now day 4 of the Versarien (VRS) Annual report watch. There is still no sign of the document. Even the PR is being kept in the dark as to what is happening and what loathsome Neill Ricketts is so keen to hide. Hint. SMTM. With Versarien shares now 97% down from all time highs who is to blame?

102 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Should Angus Energy, Union Jack Oil and IGAS merge?

Of course they should. But I explain why they will not. I start with Julie Meyer and urge you all to write to the Forfeiture Committee today. Then I look at Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL), Caracal Gold (GCAT) , at Wood Group (WG.) and at Spiritus Mundi (SPMU)

102 days ago

Caracal Gold Caption Contest sponsored by Andrew Monk's wine collection

A bottle of NZ Pinot Noir at £15? A fine choice sir to add to your collection but with clients like Caracal Gold (GCAT), still not paying outstanding fees of c£100,000 are you sure you can afford it? Oh, the FCA Enquiry into Caracal hotting up you say, the shares collapsing to just 0.225p, the Silverwood debacle a bit of a £1m pain: you need to drown your sorrows? I understand perfectly. To win nothing at all how, post your caption to respond to Andrew Monk’s latest crass ostentatious display of his wealth in these times of austerity, in the comments section below.

102 days ago

BREAKING BOMBSHELL: Julie Meyer screws 3 more ex employees at Drive

Oh dear , oh dear, the woman awarded an MBE for services to business by Mr Vince Cable, the man who attacked we bears for being nasty to the king of the fraudsters Rob Terry, has shown, once again, what a horrible piece of work she is. I bring you three more employment tribunals concerning Drive Software, the insolvent Tesla meets Fitbit outfit controlled by  Julie “Lingerie on Expenses” Meyer.

102 days ago

Sylvania Platinum – interims, still a value and income Buy

Platinum group metals in South Africa company Sylvania Platinum (SLP) has announced results for its half-year ended 31^st December 2022 and that it has increased its full-year production guidance.

102 days ago

Chill Brands – shares sliding, 2+2 = 4 ( that is to say a bailout discounted placing)

Shares in Chill Brands (CHLL), pumped by a spoof-tastic announcement the other day, are now sliding fast. 2+2 =4. The first 2 is that attempted ramping.

102 days ago

Versarien Annual Report watch – day 3 ( Versarien not even telling its own PR)

HSBC (HSBA) published its 500 page annual report on the same day as announcing its full year numbers. But it had nothing to hide. Almost all companies do exactly the same but three days after Versarien (VRS) published its full year numbers there is still no sign whatsoever of its annual
report. I have now had a response from the company’s PR team. It is hilarious.

102 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Could Cineworld be a zero by the end of next week?

I end by thanking the kind reader whose gift of a bottle of Metaxa has just arrived. The Mrs says thank you as well. Elsewhere I chat to Lucian Miers and discuss Cineworld (CINE) – after yesterday’s legal hearing – and Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL). then it is onto Tern (TERN), Bluebird Merchant Ventures (BMV) and what Versarien (VRS) is so desperate to hide. The references in that section are to the great film Zulu.

102 days ago

BP – Q4 & full-year 2022 results, how much upside remaining?

BP (BP.) has announced a fourth quarter $4.8 billion underlying Replacement Cost profit, a 10% increased quarterly dividend per share of $0.0661 and that it sees “tremendous opportunity to create value”.

102 days ago

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The word on the Street is that the level of boardroom greed at MGC Pharmaceuticals (MXC) is causing increasing unrest among some of those hitherto supportive of the company. Meanwhile the share price continues to tank and I think that we can all guess why. The shares were 2.25p, valuing this crock at £70 million, on January 11 2022 when I published this extensive bear dossier HERE. Today they are just 0.475p, off another 15% today and valued at just £13.7 million.

102 days ago

Canadian Overseas Petroleum – Liquidity has gone, the shares can only go one way

A two million share trade went through at just 5.5p earlier. Natch the Bulletin Board Morons saw this as great news, arguing that a big stock overhang had gone and that the shares would now rocket. To be fair they have bounced back but this just shows what happens when Liquidity is gone and we know that there are massive sellers coming at almost any price.

102 days ago

Why is the Versarien annual report still not out & what is it hiding?

Yesterday we had an abridged version of the 18 months to September 30 from Versarien (VRS) published. We had the P&L, balance sheet, cashflows and notes 1 – 10. But much we still do not know and a day later Versarien has yet to publish the full accounts. What is it hiding?

102 days ago

BOMBSHELL: The FCA & AIM regulation fail to act on Versarien lies as Superdry deal shown to be a nothing

I now have it double sourced that the supposed deal between Versarien (VRS) and Superdry is just bull. It is dead. Not that it was ever alive. What is even more shocking is how the regulators have treated this allegation that Versarien has lied to investors.

104 days ago

When the Left wing media backs a double killer to bash Ron DeSantis, maybe its time to climb aboard the DeSantis express?

Just how low can the liberal media, specifically the Huffington Post stoop?  Yesterday it was eulogising a man executed in Florida just because this wretched killer, Donald Dillbeck, was attacking Ron DeSantis the State’s Governor and possibly America’s next President.

105 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast - ouzo on my pancakes as its Schadenfreude day at the Welsh Hovel!

The images below should amuse you. Together with the discussions about getting my wife sacked and me killed, Versarien shareholders – egged on by the vile Neill Ricketts – have given it to me in spades over the years. Natch, today is a good day for me. I discuss many lessons learned and where next. 0p. I also look at Okyo Pharma (OKYO) and Kefi Gold & Copper (KEFI).

105 days ago

BREAKING SHOCKING EXPOSE: Versarien results - what Neill Ricketts is not telling you about Innovate UK

In today’s, utterly dreadful, results from Versarien (VRS) the auditors make it clear that the company will go bust if it cannot get a material cash injection from grants, loans or share issues. There is something Versarien is not telling investors about that. I wonder if it has told auditors BDO or its hapless Nomad SP Angel.

105 days ago

Versarien Results – Neill Ricketts says graphene is a growth business, the numbers don’t lie – he does

Earlier I showed the looming cash crisis at Neill Rickett’s failing Versarien (VRS). Ricketts is trying to pump the shares claiming that graphene is a “growth business”. He is ‘avin’ a giraffe.

105 days ago

Versarien results - the game is almost up despite a dubious audit: Part One

The results for the 18 months to 30 September from Versarien (VRS) are shockingly bad and contain an explicit warning about its perilous financial state. When, not if, it goes bust auditors BDO will have big questions to ask about this sign off for its work is very poor, there is almost no professional scepticism.

105 days ago

When opening the window at 11 AM and playing this appropriate music is a revolutionary act

The Government of Britain issued a diktat that we should all observe a minute’s silence at 11 AM today to mark a year since the, wholly wrong, Russian invasion of Ukraine.  Britain is not at war. British young people are not dying in the trenches yet the Government has appropriated a symbolic gesture at a symbolic time to justify our acts.

105 days ago

And the best use of a corporate twitter account award goes to ........drumroll.....Caracal Gold

105 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Surely Moonpig is a short? What am I missing?

I start with half term trespassers of whom there seem to be many here in Wales. Then it is onto Verditek (VDTK) and why AIM Regulation’s failings matter, Audioboom (BOOM), Versarien (VRS), questions about revenue recognition at Andrew Monk’s VSA Capital (VSA) and finally Moonpig (MOON). The prize Versarien contest mentioned is HERE

105 days ago

A man whose firm is paid to act for a company run by insider dealing market abusing crooks lectures a pious and ethical business on ethics

I have commented HERE on the scandal of the £216 Lush blow up involving Andrew Monk’s VSA Capital (VSA). That is the VSA which is happy to act for the crooked insider dealing market abusers at Caracal Gold (GCAT).as it finds itself under a full blown FCA Enquiry. So who better to lecture, in the tweet below, the ethical chaps at Lush on corporate ethics than Mr Monk? What next? Nadhim Zahawi lecturing us all on why we should pay more tax? Matt Hancock on the sanctity of marriage? David Moyes on how to manage a football club? 

105 days ago

BREAKING EXPOSE: Andrew Monk, Silverwood, VSA and Lush – that’s another fine £216 million mess you’ve got yourselves into

Andrew Monk of VSA Capital (VSA) has yet to come clean on whether anyone at his firm has been interviewed by the FCA as part of its formal enquiry into wholesale insider dealing , market abuse and investor deception at his client Caracal Gold (GCAT) but now there needs to be an enquiry into share dealing at Siverwood Brands (SLWD) and this time VSA is directly involved. This is the £216 million Lush blow up.

105 days ago

Verditek breaks AIM Rules yet again but will the bogus Sheriff of AIM, Marcus Stuttard, EVER sanction a company run by a Tory Toff?

If a company is sitting on price sensitive information as an AIM listed Company then the rules of the sewer regulated by Mr Marcus Stuttard and the Oxymorons at AIM Regulation, notably rules 10 & 11, dictate that, the company must disclose it at once via RNS. But when your company is chaired by a Tory Toff like Lord David Willetts I guess that rules just do not apply. Rules are for little people.

105 days ago

Kanabo pumped in the Mail in the Proactive Column - surely this is just dishonest "journalism"

Once a week the investment hookers at Proactive pen a small cap column for the Mail on Sunday. This week’s effort is flagged up below. Nowhere on the column is there any disclaimer to admit that Proactive is paid by companies to publish research. So, readers of the tabloid will assume that this is just good honest impartial journalism. Of course it is anything but. Take this week’s effort below…

105 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: I agree with Warren Buffett not Malcolm Stacey

Having wrongly called the stockmarket as a bear, Malcolm is again an uber bull as the Footsie hits record highs, today telling us that Warren Buffett has got it all wrong. Malcolm seems to be driven by FOMO and I explain all sorts of reasons why you might not want to bet the ranch on his call.

105 days ago

Shocking behaviour by Anglesey Mining - for once twitter has it right

Anglesey Mining (AYM) appears to be trawling for followers on twitter. with a claim that it has “material value not currently in the share price”. That sort of activity for a company now running on vapours is a massive red flag. At least some of the responses show folks calling out this spoofing by charlatans for what it is.

105 days ago

B.P. Marsh and Partners – full-year trading update, continuing positive performance: BUY

Early stage financial services businesses investor B.P. Marsh & Partners (BPM) has announced that during its year to 31st January 2023 the majority of its investee companies continued to perform well and that it remains positive regarding its ongoing performance and the outlook for the insurance market.

105 days ago

Video: Gold the Excellent Risk Diversifier that is Widely Underheld

Money manager Bob Elliot analyses the current economic situation, the role of debt cycles, and the trade-offs between a fiat monetary system and a commodity-based system. He note that productivity is the main driver of growth over the long term, and that debt cycles have been used to make up for declining productivity. He explained the risks associated with governments borrowing to make up for productivity declines and noted that wage growth is maintaining nominal spending at a higher level.

106 days ago

Zamaz – kicking the debt can down the road, can the FCA really be happy about this?

On 17 February 2023, Standard Listed Zamaz (ZAMZ) attempted to kick the debt can down the road to avoid defaulting on its debt repayment. The key text of the RNS announcement is below:

106 days ago

The Wandisco share price is insane

I have a lot of time for Wandisco (WAND) boss David Richards and his tech business clearly has some traction. But the valuation is surely insane.

106 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: buy, sell or hold Jubilee Metals?

In today’s podcast I look at Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL), Mr sock’s Zenith Energy (ZEN) and Jubilee Metals (JLP) where my SIPP has a big interest. Should I buy more, sell or hold?

106 days ago

Castings plc – a value and income Buy

Shares in Castings plc (CGS) have recently recovered to above 350p after positive trading and results statements towards the end of last year. However, they remain well down on levels achieved in prior years despite a positive outlook and look to be a value and income Buy at current levels.

106 days ago

Canadian Overseas Petroleum – deliberately confusing release as death spiral shares issued at just 7.3p

“I cannot remember the last time that I saw such a duplicitous dishonest company, this has to be one of the easiest shorts out there at the moment!” says Evil Banksta of Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL). He is not alone, Lucian Miers has also called in from the grim North today, outraged as to how the FCA allows Canadian to publish the sort of misleading piffle it has today.

106 days ago

Video: The Fed is Creating a Perfect Setup for New Gold Investors

Keith Weiner runs gold investment firm Gold Standard Institute USA so he is talking his own book.

106 days ago

Told y’all Purplebricks – another lack of profits warning and the dreaded words “strategic review”

Oh dear. Oh dear. The words “strategic review” are always bad news. What they mean is “we are screwed will anybody buy us.” But let’s start with a lack of profits warning from Purplebricks (PURP) and, as ever, it is what it does not say that should worry the muppets who still own the shares.

106 days ago

Audioboom: almost certainly another Robert Bonnier spoof

The release below, from Eliot & Luther purports to show the Asia based advisory firm speaking for folks owning more than 10% of Audioboom (BOOM) who now want a seat on the board. Oddly Audioboom has not responded with an RNS. Perhaps because this is another spoof from disgraced ramper & market abuser Robert Bonnier.

106 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: the importance of bears

I am on the mend but very slowly and still in pain so a shorter than normal bearcast covering Home Reit (HOME), Tintra (TNT – target price 0p – and Caracal Gold (GCAT) also a zero despite today’s deceptive RNS with Andrew Monk’s VSA Capital’s name at the bottom. Now back to bed.

106 days ago

BREAKING EXPOSE Tintra – minimal development spend on IT in period to 31 July 2022: this makes no sense at all!

We continue the series of exposes which any sensible regulator would have acted on already. Luckily for Tintra (TNT) it is listed on the AIM sewer so the Oxymorons at AIM Regulation appear happy to do nothing. Tintra 3.0 Limited accounts for the period ended 31 May 2022 have now been filed at Companies House and were stated as being signed by Abdul Sajid, the Tintra CFO, on 3 February 2023. As described in extracts from Tintra RNS announcements of 24 November 2021 which announced the joint venture, Tintra 3.0 is a crucial part of Tintra Plc’s future business plan:

106 days ago

BREAKING: Fraser Perring of Viceroy threatens defamation proceedings as Home Reit ‘fesses up & considers dodgy sale

It is ouzo time for Fraser Perring of Viceroy and for Boatman Capital. The bears look to be wholly vindicated as Home REIT (HOME) has fessed up to a collapsing business model and has put its rag bag assets up for sale. Indeed it has had one offer but that looks to be related party and shareholders should not expect to get much. This is a scandal and exactly why bear raiders are so needed. Shares in this company were almost 80p when Fraser published his dossier last November. The shares are now suspended at 38p and shareholders will be lucky to get pennies.

106 days ago

Boohoo – industrial scale management greed or a spoof? Either one is ( again) the unacceptable face of capitalism

There is no evidence at all that management incentive plans actually incentivise management to work even harder or take even better decisions that reward shareholders. They are just a free one way bet for the fat cats. If you want a case study look at the 2019 and 2020 plans for Boohoo (BOO) bosses. Had the shares roofed it they would have coined it in without risking a penny. As it happens, despite all that “incentivisation” the shares, 408p back in 2020, have slumped to 49p today. So management need even more incentivisation right?

106 days ago

Chill Brands: Mad yes, Tasty no – pre bailout placing spoof

The last time we had a figure for the, rapidly falling, cash position at Chill Brands (CHLL) was 30 September when cash was £1.8 million after a £2.2 million loss in the six months prior. There were one offs in that period but you can do the maths. By the March 31 year end the cash will largely be gone and so yet another placing is on the way. So today a prize spoof.

108 days ago

The bogus air raid sirens over Kiev for the Biden visit – can’t folks see they are being played?

The Americans warned Russia that President Joe Biden was going to Kiev precisely so that there would be no missile attacks during his visit leading to further ramping up of tensions. And, indeed, there were zero attacks on the Ukrainian Capital yesterday.  None by plane, none by missile, none at all. However…

108 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Dicked around by the NHS, in real pain and going back to bed

Gosh I hate the incompetence of the overpaid poltroons at the NHS. I explain my latest setback and why I am going back to bed and am in pain. I apologise for a brief bearcast, normal service will, I hope, resume Thursday

108 days ago

Is Rachel Reeves the most economically illiterate politician in Britain?

The shadow chancellor does not seem to appreciate that she can only tax the profits of oil companies on their UK earnings and North Sea Operators already pay 75% tax. As the tweet below somehow she seems to think that adding to that tax will both cure inflation and slash fuel prices. I realise that there are many truly economically illiterate MPs, but this one could be Chancellor of the Exchequer by the end of next year.

108 days ago

Corero CEO Lionel Chmilewsky is “resigned” – ahead of funding crisis what will his total 2022 screw and payoff be?

On 17th January, as Corero (CNS) buried yet another dire warning in a bullshit trading statement, I pondered what CEO Lionel Chmilewsky would be earning as his total screw for 2022. Today we are told that this fat cat value destroyer has “resigned to pursue other opportunities.” In truth he “was resigned”.

108 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast - looking very grim for Kanabo, it is what it does not say today

In today’s podcast I remind you to get something in for the special person or people (it is 2023) in your life. I look at Brian Basham’s green spoof Net Zero Infrastructure (NZI), BlueJay Mining (JAY), Afentra (AET) and free speech on this site, 8000 for the Footsie and our obsession with round numbers, Okyo Pharma (OKYO) – spoofing on vapours – and Kanabo (KNB)

108 days ago

The FCA just does not get it: a £72.9m fine that is nothing of the sort for Amigo

The FCA has today published its final report into the wrongdoings at loan shark Amigo (AMGO) and it is damning but, other than a public censure, there is nothing it is going to do about it.

108 days ago

Versarien prize contest – guess the amount of red ink when results eventually arrive

I realise that I have yet to post the olive oil for to the winner of the readers tips of the year contest. Fear not I shall. But the prize in this contest is a small jar of my home grown and picked radishes. This competition is brought to you thanks to Versarien (VRS) a favourite company of this website whose shares are worth 0p and which is run by a loathsome bully and disgraced ramper Neill Ricketts. To the contest…

109 days ago

The Lionesses and another record crowd lie - what is the point of it all?

The narrattive is that women’s soccer is getting massive crowds every week. It is, of course, a complete lie as I have demonstrated time and time again. At some point I will do a piece on the attendances at WSL side West Ham Ladies and how they show what a joke the economics of women’s football has become. The entire media class colludes with this lie, terrified of being branded as sexist. Today the England National Side, the Lionesses, beat Italy 2-1 in the Arnold Clark cup today at Coventry’s CBS Arena and then boasted of the attendance, a record for this ground. This is just so 1984.

110 days ago

BlueJay Mining wants to deceive you - $6 million death spiral

The management may have changed at BlueJay Mining (JAY) but the desire to mislead investors is very much the same, the culture of smoke and mirrors is intact. Today it announced “Institutional Equity Subscription.” Bollocks. Total bollocks. This is a death spiral.

110 days ago

Zamaz another acquisition but how will it raise the cash to stave off its imminent liquidity challenges?

Zamaz (ZAMZ) where Dominic White of the fraud [email protected] Capital (SYME) infamy is the founder and non-executive director and owns via 66.29% of the shares via companies he controls, has announced another acquisition which begs more questions than answers, not least a looming financing crisis.

110 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Just how screwed is MJ Hudson, a timeline of deceit and destruction

In today’s Bearcast I look at Tintra (TNT), Inspirit Energy (INSP), MJ Hudson (MJH) run by the founder of the West Ham United supporters on Linkedin but for whom there look to be no excuses, Bidstack (BIDS) and the Abrdn Smaller Companies IT (ASCI)

110 days ago

HUGE EXPOSE: Tintra: were net assets and profits in Tintra Acquisitions accounts to 31 March 2022 understated by £15 million?

In a previous article, I exposed that the fair value of the ordinary shares in Tintra (TNT) that should be required to be valued in the accounts of Tintra Acquisitions Limited but clearly weren’t of £7,446,291. In this note, I highlight another material asset that wasn’t recorded, that being the convertible loan provided by Tintra Acquisitions to Tintra Plc and this could make this scandal, one HMRC is bound to be investigating a £15 million one. That is three times the size of Nadhim Zahawi’s recent “scrape.”

110 days ago

Caracal Gold – another letter to Andrew Monk as the formal FCA investigation ratchets up

Andrew Monk of VSA Capital (VSA) has spent the past week sunning himself at the Indaba Mining conference in Zim South, attending cocktail reception after cocktail reception or, as he terms it, working. But now he is back and finds his prized client, Caracal Gold (GCAT), in the midst of a full scale FCA enquiry into insider dealing and market abuse. As the first scalp was announced today, I have dropped Andrew a note.

115 days ago

Told y’all: Bidstack forced to restate FY trading statement and, almost certainly, interims – cash crisis by summer

It is an ouzo on cornflakes day of vindication once again. As I predicted HERE, the Bidstack (BIDS) Full Year trading statement of January 3 was accounting for dummies and today it has been restated. Almost certainly the ramptastic interims used to inflate the share price before the last placing will also have to be restated and with a clear warning for 2023 and 2024 on sales, a cash crisis looms by summer. In a country with a proper regulator CEO Lyin’ James Draper would be having his collar felt. Luckily for Lyin’ James, the Oxymorons at AIM Regulation couldn’t catch a cold.

115 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: is Anglesey Mining a fraud?

For reasons I shall explain I know this company well. Is it a fraud like,say, [email protected] Capital (SYME)? No. But anyone holding since the highs is down 99%. The company engages in sharp practices and I view its assets as worthless. So it will be a zero in the end. How Anglesey Mining (AYM) is still going after 35 years defies belief.

116 days ago

Tom Winnifrith postcard: is a united political class always wrong and has it ever been more out of touch as it lies to you all about Ukraine?

With respect to Peter Hitchens who flagged up the first point at the weekend and whose work of late would have delighted his old friend Christopher Booker, I look at covid, vaccines, masks and the lockdown, at Delilah, Lee Anderson and the death penalty, the SNP its trans laws and dying on the wrong hill and finally at Ukraine. Now to  be branded a transphobic Putin apologist: tin hat on.

116 days ago

Photo Article: Joshua wins the ray of sunshine cup

I worry a bit that this is a bit of “all must have prizes” as this cup is awarded once a week and there are only about 65 kids in Joshua’s school. But, what with the lomg holiday’s teachers enjoy and all those Inset days perhaps I worry too much. Anyhow being called out in assembly last Friday to receive this cup, which is for adademic progress and being a pleasure to be at school with, made my son very happy and proud. He was, I’m told, a bit shy about going up to get the cup but he has had a wide grin of happiness and pride all weekend.

116 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: a failed and humble fund manager offers advice to a conceited successful one, Crispin Odey, over Advanced Oncotherapy

I discuss both Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO) where my target remains 0p. And I say that as the loyal owner of one share. Then also the green idiots suing Shell (SHEL) for not being green enough. Words almost fail me but, as usual, in the end they do not. I forgot to mention it but I commend to you my article on the utter bastardisation of democracy and Orwellian use of language by the Committee of the MCC, HERE

116 days ago

Video: Could We See a Precious Metals Buying Mania?

Trader David Brady is another gold bull whispering sweet nothings into the ear of our own Nigel Somerville.

116 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: a buy idea with 20% total return target + what would Ben Turney v1 make of Ben Turney v2 after Friday's nonsense?

In today’s podcast I look at Afentra (AET) and Gary Newman’s patience with obvious cretins, ScotGold (SGZ), Chill Brands (CHLL), Guild ESports (GILD), Genedrive (GDR) – a £62 million short – Kavango Resources (KAV) and BAT Industries (BATS).

116 days ago

Video: The Best Gold Bull Market I Have Ever Seen

Money manager Peter Grandich has a message that our own Nigel Somerville will be delighted to hear. Peter discusses the potential for this gold bull market and why it’s likely extraordinary. He says that Central Banks are buying at record levels, and many of those buying are doing it for safety reasons. He says  that you should not bet against the Fed and don’t bet against central banks when it comes to gold and hence mining shares have yet to reflect what is happening, and are, arguably, as cheap as they can get regarding the price of gold.

116 days ago

Argo Blockchain is uninvestable says broker Fiske

I explained why I expected Argo (ARB) to go bust during 2023 yesterday HERE after scallywag CEO Peter Wall jumped ship. I am not to the only bear in town. Jeremy Smith of broker Fiske does not hold back, opining:

116 days ago

Genedrive CEO engages in sordid BB ramping - bailout discounted placing ahoy

David Budd the, CEO of Genedrive plc (GDR) has been out ramping this week with an RNS that one of its devices has received a preliminarily recommendation for use in the NHS.  Not only that but he’s been posting over on the LSE asylum to groom the posters over there:

116 days ago

The BBC bums its readers with the fake news pump that got Scotgold’s bailout placing away

I wonder if BBC journalist David Henderson, Pravda’s business correspondent in the second world post industrial transgender friendly shithole that is Scotland, feels any guilt about losing folks stacks of cash by publishing fake news? Ahead of a ramptastic and wholly fictitious article about Scotgold (SGZ), an AIM listed company teetering on a financial precipice the shares traded at 44.5p. Then Henderson published as you can see HERE.

116 days ago

BREAKING EXPOSE: The fraud [email protected] Capital: – a dubious loan between Alessandro Zamboni and Dominic White controlled companies

At Companies House company 1AF2 Limited is late filing its accounts for the period from incorporation on 7 May 2021 to 31 May 2022. 1AF2 Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of The AvantGarde Group Spa (“TAG”), the entity through which Alessandro Zamboni the CEO of Supply (SYME) holds his shares in the company.

116 days ago

David Beckham’s Guild Esports – is the rescue placing now underway?

You may remember that on 31 January Guild Esports (GILD) tried to hide from its shareholders the statement by its auditors that there was a material uncertainty as to its ability to pay bills as they fell due for 12 months and that a placing was now underway. As the FCA forced it to ‘fess after hours, Guild said that there would be a placing but it was not actually underway, the auditors had been misled. Wind forward…

116 days ago

Share price at Iconic Labs still insane –- EHGOSF continues to dump shares and Ott bills £50,000 a month

Today EHGOSF announced its fourth conversion under its the £3 million facility to Iconic Labs (ICON):

118 days ago

Photo Article: The luxury Greek Hovel and Pool, now just 2 summer weeks free

Another day and another booking. There are now just two weeks between late May and late September NOT now booked out at the Greek Hovel. The pool is open in both may and October and it is easily warm anough to swim so those cheap off peak bookings are the smart ones.  But if you want the height of summer there are now just two weeks in July when the house is not used which given how lovely it is, is a crime in itself. I am off myself in a few weeks to complete the final upgrade to the road up to the hovel and to install a third lavatory. I lead a glamorous life. 

118 days ago

BREAKING: MCC members, including me, vote the “wrong way” so its “progressive committee” orders them to vote again

I am one of those MCC members who voted the wrong way.  I really don’t care that much for the retention of the Oxford vs Cambridge match at Lords and as for Eton vs Harrow, I’d rather both establishments were shut down altogether. But I don’t like being sledged and I loathe the Orwellian abuse of the English language which seems to be the order of the day at the MCC these days.

119 days ago

Glacial Lake flooding and another #fakenews headline from the BBC

Barely a day goes by without the BBC pushing out some fake news in support of the global warming cult.  The headline below will have grabbed the attention of many. Thanks to academics at Newcastle University, Pravda is able to warn that millions face a new threat, 15 million to be exact could be drowned as glacial lakes burst their banks. Few will bother to read to the end of the story which quantifies the actual threat:

119 days ago

Back to that BBC bombshell on global warming killing the Swiss ski industry – you will never guess what?

On January 6 the BBC sent a reporter to Torgen to show a ski resort devoid of snow and warned that an entire industry was being killed off by man made global warming. That was, of course, fake news as I demonstrated here on 24 January by when the website onthesnow.co.uk showed 66% of Swiss reports open for ski-ing. Now guess what?

119 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Main Bearcast: Is Love Hemp now in administration?

In today’s main bearcast I look at Love Hemp (LIFE) or should that be (DEATH)? then at Microsaic (MSYS), Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO), Guild ESports (GILD, Argo Blockchain (ARB) and finally Afentra (AET) after today’s dynamite dossier HERE

120 days ago

BREAKING SHOCKING DOSSIER: Is £62m AIM darling Afentra Investor Trying To Hide Corruption Allegations And Russia Connections?

I only ask the question of this company, beloved by private investors, and at 28.1p valued at £62 million.  A detailed dossier published below begs some serious questions.

120 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bonus Bearcast: explaining North Sea oil economics to comrade Malcolm Stacey and the Probiotix nightmare continues

I start with the economics lesson for Red Malcolm, looking at the North Sea, BP and Shell and his Marxist scribblings of yesterday. Then it is onto Probiotix (PBX) and where we stand.

120 days ago

Am I the only straight white male in my village in Wales?

I am pretty sure I am not. In fact, although this household is very, very, mixed race ( white identifying as Northern Irish married to Asian origin identifying as English with kids mixed race identifying as Welsh) 98% of folks here in Wrexham are white. And although you would find it hard to believe given the media coverage and our Government’s determination to spend as much as it can to make Wales “the most LGBTQ friendly country in Wales” the census suggests that almost 98% of us are in fact heterosexual. In Cardiff it is only 95% so the proportion up here in North Wales must be even higher. But…

120 days ago

BREAKING: OvalX/ETX/Monecor shutting spreadbet/CFD operations across Europe

Clients of OvalX, formerly ETX Capital, have just received an email warning them that the business is being shut down. This is not just in the UK, the owner Monecor, is shutting operations across Europe.

120 days ago

Anglesey Mining – acquisition at spoof price, who does it think it is kidding?

Who does Anglesey Mining (AYM) – a company that pretends to be a wannabee miner but, in fact, for more than thirty years has engaged in a principal business of issuing more shares – think it is kidding with its latest pointless deal?

120 days ago

Argo Blockchain’s Disgraced Peter Wall walks the plank with immediate effect: more red flags vicar?

The man who sold £3.5 million of shares at 243p AFTER sounding out folks about a placing which took place a few days later at 200p is gone. Yes, Peter Wall the CEO and ( for 18 months) “interim” chairman of Argo Blockchain (ARB) has announced his resignation with immediate effect.

120 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: I shall now block anyone emailing me about Kefi, it is sending me bonkers

In today’s long Bearcast I discuss Kefi Gold & Copper (KEFI), Sosandar (SOS), Argo Blockchain (ARB), Ben’s Creek (BEN), Cellular Goods (CBX) and an IPO from Primary Bid and the spivs at Novum to avoid like the plague: World Chess

120 days ago

Helping paid share "promoter" David Burton of Total Market Solutions with his maths re Vast Resources - GCSE fail for Dave

Total Market Solutions, owned by David Burton, earns its crust promoting penny shares for cash. It is open about it and let me be clear that there is absolutely nothing wrong in this trade although one imagines that Mr Burton has to hold his nose on occasion with some clients. But there is promotion and then there is telling outright porkies, which brings me to his tweet this morning about Vast Resources (VAST) when the shares were 0.66p.

120 days ago

Ben’s Creek – an after hours share dumping stinker: the stench of Adam Wilson is everywhere

At 6 PM last night, nobody is watching O’ Clock, Ben’s Creek – CEO infamous Adam Wilson of Atlantic Carbon/Coal and Daniel Stewart disgrace – (BEN) announced that its largest shareholder MBU (main advisor the same Adam Wilson) had dumped 22,222,222 shares (5.92% of the equity) at just 18p. As with all share dumping by Wilson entities this is not what it seems and it stinks.

120 days ago

David Beckham’s Cellular Goods Merger off – its now a full on cash crisis

The proposed RTO with Cannary Limited never made sense. Cannary – as fronted on nauseating TV ads with Claudia Winkleman – had a horrible balance sheet with huge liabilities and is burning cash. Cellular Goods (CBX) has cash ( £4.37 million at August 31) but spunked it at £500,000 a month last year. So this proposed deal was like two drunks propping each other up. But now the transaction announced on 26 September is OFF. What next?

120 days ago

Versarien – bad rumours from the USA

You thought that the savage redundancy programme at cash strapped Versarien (VRS) was all done and dusted? Perhaps it is time to think again. Rumours are arriving from the USA.

120 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: The economic illiteracy of the political class: BP and its $27.6 billion profit

The tweet below is from Labour shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves but I also cite Lib Dem leader Ed Davey for spouting equal tosh this morning. I start with BP (BP.) and windfall taxes. Then it is onto Tintra (TNT) with two more bombshell exposes today. My target price here is now officially 0p. Then it is onto another Dominic White, of the fraud [email protected] Capital (SYME) infamy, MaxRets Ventures (MAX). En passant I mention DeepVerge (DVRG).

120 days ago

GOTCHA! Tintra: – the hidden multi million profit not recorded in Tintra Acquisitions accounts, time for HMRC to intervene?

Whilst we wait for Richard Shearer to respond to our questions posed in 4 exposes since Saturday or for AIM Regulation to show it gives a f*ck about maintaining an honest and orderly market, I present evidence that the Tintra Acquisitions Limited company number 13236378 is the relevant entity referred to in Tintra Plc RNS announcements. Maybe I should grass Shearer up to HMRC?

120 days ago

Gabriel Grego calls out Darktrace CEO share buy for the spoooooooooooooof that it is

In the wake of Gabriel Grego’s superb expose on Darktrace (DARK ), HERE, CEO Poppy Gustafsson made great play, as part of her range of responses, in buying 48,000 shares. But that was a spoof as Gabriel pointed out on twitter yesterday:

120 days ago

Exposé No 4 in 4 days: Tintra — what on earth is going on with St Daniel House and Tintra Acquisitions?

AIM Regulation and Nomad Allenby appear not to care about the three exposes of Tintra (TNT) published here in recent days. So here is a fourth showing what a sewer AIM has become. St Daniel House, a former subsidiary of Tintra Plc is massively insolvent and owes former customers £1,467,511 and is effectively looking to offload these liabilities from the Tintra Plc group.

120 days ago

Essentra – proposed special dividend and share buyback, Buy

Essentra (ESNT) has now announced how it intends to structure a previously noted £150 million return to shareholders following the disposals of its Filters and Packaging divisions to focus on being a leading global manufacturer and distributor of components.

120 days ago

Another tweet that has not aged well - Gerry "the pustule" Brandon of Deepverge trolling me

On November 27 2020 shares in Deepverge (DVRG) traded at 27.5p and I challenged the company on its ropy accounts and over-optimistic trading statements. The CEO Gerry Brandon took to twitter to say that I did not understand accounts. He aggressively trolled and insulted me. I replied but in the end did block him. The shares are now 1.75p, Brandon was forced to walk the plank, the trading performance has been dire and even former advisers admit that he broke AIM rules. As such the tweet below has aged badly.

120 days ago

Tintra – was the loss in January 2022 accounts understated by almost £600,000?

Tintra (TNT) is, following exposes HERE and HERE, now drowning in more red flags than one might see on a May Day parade in Moscow. But it gets worse, far worse.

120 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Manchester City should suffer a Saracens+ penalty and here is why

I start with Manchester City and then move onto Tintra (TNT) where i a am now working on a 3rd exposé in three days. It has all the hallmarks of a zero and regulators need to step in. In the same vein I discuss Caracal Gold (GCAT) amid a dash for trash. Then it is onto HUI (HUI) and Powerhouse (PHE) and finally I discuss Vast Resources (VAST) where – as I warned a placing dump followed the Zim diamond pump. This will not be the last bailout placing.

120 days ago

NEW BOMBSHELL EXPOSE: Tintra – what is going on with Tintra 3.0

Following my bombshell revelations around Tintra Acquisitions on Saturday which AIM Regulation has confirmed to me that it is now looking into, there is a new massive red flag to hoist. If anyone cannot see how Tintra (TNT) stinks and is uninvestable, they need to get a guide dog and a white stick pronto.

120 days ago

Zamaz – was anything in the September 2 FCA approved prospectus actually real ? Financing terminated!

Why on earth did the FCA approve the Standard List prospectus of Zamaz (ZAMZ), the new dog created by Dominic White of the fraud [email protected] Capital (SYME) infamy. The £77 million valuation was a joke as I explained HERE. But more importantly, we can now say that almost nothing in that document was real.

121 days ago

Told y'all! New paper shows World's coral reefs not declining at all, so much for David Attenborough, Prince William et al

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2023/02/08/worlds-coral-reefs-not-declining-new-paper-reveals/

122 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: feeling a bit fragile today for reasons you can guess & is there any way back for disgraced pot stocks?

I am sure you can guess the sport related reasons for the fragility. Blame my pal C who you may have met at ShareStock last year. It is all his fault. I start with that and a milestone this website reached on Friday. Then onto pot/CBD stocks including Seed Innovations (SEED), Chill Brands (CHLL), Oxford Cannabinoid (OCTP), Love Hemp (LIFE) and Cellular Goods (CBX) and “investment expert” Clem Chambers of ADVFN (AFN) infamy. No sniggering at the back please

122 days ago

Video: All Pistons are Firing for Gold to Reach New Highs this Year

Analyst and trader Michael Moor believes in technical analysis. Whatever.

122 days ago

EXPLOSIVE DOSSIER: Tintra – why are accounts for Tintra Acquisitions materially inconsistent with Tintra Plc RNS announcements: SOMEONE TELLING MASSIVE PORKIES

Richard Shearer the CEO of Tintra (TNT) has a grand vision for the company which is summarised in the Allenby Capital research note of 30 January 2023:

122 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast - FTSE 100 hits record high and Malcolm fills his boots - is he mad?

I start with today’s bombshell expose. Either shares must be suspended or an RNS is needed to answer specific allegations, first thing on Monday. Then it is onto the FTSE 100 hitting a record high: buy, sell or hold?. Finally, the full Sharestock line-up is (almost) revealed. You can book your seats (50% of which have now gone) HERE

122 days ago

Red Rock Resources shares up 18% at 0.34p – rumours, rumours

I still own my shares in Red Rock Resources (RRR) if only as a constant reminder of my own folly. But on Friday they jumped by 17.5% to 0.34p. I am still well out of the money but I suppose every dog (with fleas) has its day. There are two rumours.

122 days ago

Doubling down on Argo Blockchain and Canadian Overseas Petroleum

Both Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL) and Argo Blockchain (ARB) have featured here as shorts. Let’s start with the undoubted success.

122 days ago

Sylvania Platinum – Q2 report, production guidance increased

Platinum group metals in South Africa company Sylvania Platinum (SLP) has announced results for its quarter ended 31^st December 2022 and that “FY2023 production guidance increased, targeting 70,000 to 72,000 4E PGM ounces” (up from 68,000-70,000 ounces). Good news from a current 106p share price we suggest.

122 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: remember to sing Delilah tomorrow wherever you are

I start with news on ShareStock – we have now completed the speaker line-up and 50% of the seats for September 23 are now reserved – for details and to book your seat go HERE. Then it is Canadian Overseas (COPL), Nanoco (NANO), BSF Enterprises (BSFA) where its placing ahoy and a joke valuation, and then Caracal Gold (GCAT). Finally, I shall be wearing an Ireland shirt in a pub full of Welshmen tomorrow, make sure you all sing Delilah wherever you are. 

122 days ago

Purplebricks – Compliance, Rats & Sinking Ships

I noted in yesterday’s bearcast how Purplebricks (PURP) must be due a lack of profits warning given the increasing slowdown in the number of UK residential property transactions. Some high profile rats, it seems, are not waiting for the ship to sink.

122 days ago

Caracal Gold letter to FCA: does it support insider dealing & not disclosing price sensitive information?

The FCA appears to be plodding on with its enquiry into Caracal Gold (GCAT) despite the company admitting to a litany of wrong doings including share trading by its CEO Robbie McCrae while sitting on price sensitive information (insider dealing to you and me) and massive breaches of the disclosure rules. This is an open and shut case and McCrae should be in prison. There are also questions for Andrew Monk of VSA Capital. I have sent another letter to the FCA which regulates ( no sniggering at the back) both the Standard List where Caracal’s shares are traded and also Mr Monk and VSA.

122 days ago

MGC Pharmaceuticals – more death spiral vicar?

36 days ago MGC Pharmaceuticals (MXC) drew down A$800,000 of funding from its death spiral provider Mercer. But I guess Christmas is an expensive time for us all, there are bills to pay, yadda, yadda, yadda.

123 days ago

Bidstack - how big is the Azerion black hole?

In October of 2022 Bidstack (BIDS) completed a fundraise at 2.85p raising a net £9.5 million. Its house broker Stifel said that this would be enough to get it through to breakeven in 2024. But I suggest that is patent bollocks and that there could be a cash crisis ( again) this year. Here’s why.

123 days ago

Pure genius: Bill Maher on the Woke Revolution

After thirty years as a liberal darling exposing wicked Republicans for what he terms batshit crazy ideas, US TV star Bill Maher seems to be discovering that it is his liberal bedfellows who really are barking mad. A day or so ago, he again discussed the woke revolution. The man is a genius. Enjoy.

123 days ago

Fresnillo – Q4 report, a recovery from production challenges: Buy

The world’s largest primary silver producer Fresnillo (FRES) has issued a fourth quarter production report and 2023 guidance for 104-115 million ounces of silver equivalent production.

123 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: why is 2nd February a big day for me? I just cannot remember

I struggle to remember why I should remember 2nd February. Then, with Kefi Gold & Copper (KEFI) shareholders again jamming my email in box with pointless emails, I squeeze in time to discuss Purplebricks (PURP), Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL) where Lucian is – sensibly – adding to his short, Cineworld (CINE), Vast Resources (VAST) and the daft economically illiterate suggestions about extra windfall taxes for Shell (SHEL) and Centrica (CNA).

123 days ago

Guild Esports & David Beckham – flagging up a few more recent lies

It has not been a good week for Guild Esports (GILD), deception and lies. Just for the record,, here are a few more that it has told:

123 days ago

Iconic – just how many billion shares will be in issue before an RTO?

There are already 39.664 billion shares in issue for Iconic Labs (ICON) a company with a past of disgrace and no business. Today it spelt out in part just how much more confetti will hit the market. Still the morons can’t do the maths.

123 days ago

Vast Resources – don’t count your Zimbabwean chickens, the clue is in the release!

Vast Resources (VAST) has today confirmed that it should get back the diamonds it owns but which have been locked up by the Central Bank of Zimbabwe for years. But this does not solve its cash crisis, indeed it’s a confirmation that a bailout placing is needed ASAP. The clue, the morons ignore, is in the RNS.

123 days ago

The snake oil salesman Arthur Millholland of Canadian Overseas trolls ShareProphets and Tom Winnifrith - this did not age well

On 8 April 2022 I reported Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL) and its CEO Arthur Millholland to the FCA, branding the CEO a “snake oil salesman” as you can see HERE. His response issued via RNS on 14 April was a direct attack on me and on this website. He branded his critics as “snake oil salesmen” and false “prophets”. He was talking about me. He said critics  did not understand accounts and were in it for my their “nefarious” gain. I suggest, never having had a position long or short in Canadian, just being a journalist who trained as an oil analyst I am today vindicated as the company warned it could go bust and its shares collapsed. Millholland’s statement is below. It has not aged well.

123 days ago

9 Months away – Sharestock now more than 40% booked out! Grab your seat now

The big tent is now booked for ShareStock on September 23 this year. It will seat around 100 folks but already more than 40 of those seats have been reserved. And it is now wonder given who is speaking and all the other attractions. We might even have a jetty for you fisherman to try to grab a salmon or a pike on the day. That project is in hand. But the speakers are lining up.

123 days ago

Video: Mask wearing was utterly pointless, told y'all, Linkedin not apologising for its fascist censorship

Throughout the covid scamdemic mask jihadists in my home village and the political and media class insisted masks stopped the spread of covid.  I showed with hard data time and time again that masks did not work. Yet still some folks carry on masking. For them, here is a video with a stack more hard data. Ha! You’ve been had! As for LinkedIn and other social media platforms which censored my mask coverage, now that I and others are vindicated, how about an apology you free spech deniying liberal-fascists?

123 days ago

Hat tip Evil Banksta - Canadian Overseas ramping just 9 days ago

Today Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL) warned that it could easily go bust. It must have known that nine days ago, it is just only now that a prospectus is ready that it has had to ‘fess. Yet just nine days ago, knowing what was coming, disgraced CEO Arthur Millholland was ramping hard with a paid for interview on Proactive as you can see below. Shame on Proactive for failing to ask any tough questions of the old rogue. Call yourself journalists? You are just low life investment street hookers. As for Arthur, words fail me. He is a disgrace and should be forced to resign for ensuring folks lost money in this way.

123 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: If I were going to list a fraud in the UK this is what I'd do

I start with this, I promise, hypothetical explanation. Then I look at Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL) – ouzo for yours truly tonight. There was not time to discuss another triumph, Guild ESports (GILD) so you will have to make do with my article earlier HERE but I am working on the next exposé of that crock. Then I look at Darktrace (DARK) and Deepverge (DVRG) which might just be a buy. I discuss ShareStock, now almost half booked out even though it is not for almost nine months. You can get more details, discover our latest new speaker and book HERE

123 days ago

KERBOOM: Canadian Overseas Petroleum admits to financing crisis – told y’all! Another ouzo day for the Sheriff!

I have warned you all repeatedly that Arthur Millholland is ALWAYS a kiss of death and that his latest venture, Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL) had piss poor assets and finances built on sand. As ever, savants such as our own PL cited bullish broker notes and other tosh saying that, as someone who started out as an oil analyst, I just did not understand what a great trade this was. Kerboom, a shock admission at 2.24 PM today means its ouzo for the Sheriff tonight and tears before bedtime for the bulls. The shares are now 8.5p, 45% down on the day, and even more down on the last placing at 20p, nine months ago. Kerboom!

123 days ago

PKF LittleJohn failing on the Guild Esports audit… an accountant writes

Last night’s 6.29 PM RNS omnishambles leaves Guild Esports (GILD) at loggerheads with its auditors PKF Littlejohn. A senior Big 4 firm accountant has written to me on PKF’s performance so far. He opines:

123 days ago

GOTCHA: David Beckham’s Guild Esports – now an after hours accusation that its auditors have misled investors: what a clusterfuck

The FCA duly replied to my letter explaining how Guild Esports (GILD) had mislead investors with its 7 AM Results investors. And hey presto in a not unrelated development, at 6.29 PM  yesterday – aka no-one is watching O Clock – Guild was forced to issue a fess up RNS. But it was a shambles and effectively says that the auditors lied in the annual report. It just gets worse and worse.

123 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Gabriel vs Darktrace, myself vs David Beckham

I start with an apology for Canadian lie-ins. Then I look at Darktrace (DARK) – Gabriel Grego’s new target, at Caracal Gold (GCAT) and 2 questions for Andrew Monk as the FCA enquiry continues, ITM Power (ITM) and David Beckham stock market disgrace Guild ESports (GILD) and why its deception today matters., 

123 days ago

Bombshell Bear Dossier from Gabriel Grego's QCM: The dark Side of Darktrace

Myself, Matt Earl, Steve Moore and Chris Bailey have all been bearish on the bastard child of the Autonomy fraud, that is to say Darktrace (DARK). Now our hero Gabriel Grego joins the party with a damning 70 page dossier. At 200p it remains a £1.44 billion short. Enjoy…

123 days ago

Letter to the FCA: Directors of David Beckham’s Guild ESports have surely deceived and broken the law

I do not wish to be obsessive but yet again we find that companies on the Standard List, which is regulated by the FCA ( no sniggering at the back), as opposed to the AIM Sewer, are issuing abridged results which, as a result of highly material omission, actively deceive investors. Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL) is a pioneer of such deception but David Beckham’s Guild Esports (GILD) has today taken this to a new level. I have written to the FCA

123 days ago

SHOCKING BOMBSHELL: Here is what Guild’s auditors actually said, which surely must be in an RNS

Earlier today I suggested that Guild Esports (GILD) had published abridged annual results via an RNS to hide a material uncertainty statement by its auditors. Well I was right but it is actually far worse than that. Here is what Guild is actually hiding. It is a bombshell

123 days ago

Zak Mir’s Lift Global Ventures chucks £750,000 down a related party, technically insolvent, black hole

Oh dear, oh dear, the Sith Lord Zak Mir’s Lift Global Ventures (LFT) becomes more of a joke every day. Its first investment, when it was a media consolidation play, was Zak’s own company brown envelopes company Miriad, a deal which broke all sorts of rules and stank. Now there is another related party deal, as Lift goes into energy. You could not make this up.

123 days ago

David Beckham’s Naughty Guild Esports is hiding something from you all: a material uncertainty and looming bankruptcy perhaps?

Guild Esports (GILD) has today published piss poor annual results for the year to September 30 but it has not published the full notes to the accounts or the annual report and will not do so until later today and then only on its website. So what is it hiding? I suggest that its auditors may have flagged up a material uncertainty and that is what is being hidden. I have asked the company if this material omission from the results is what it is hiding but it has declined to comment. Here are the maths on how close Guild is to bankruptcy.

123 days ago

BREAKING: Quadrise Fuels why has BDO quit and why no RNS? Lube up shareholders...

On 25 November 2022 at the Quadrise Fuels (QFI) AGM it was proposed that shareholders reappoint BDO as auditors. They did. Today at Companies House, as you can see below, we see that BDO has resigned. There has been no RNS.

123 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Sincere apologies to Britain's latest Buffett, Mr Tim Blackstone

I end with an apology to Tim. I start with the annual agony of a tax return. The Mrs is struggling. Then onto Vast Resources (VAST), Tintra (TNT), can anyone explain the mystery to me? Rosslyn Data (RDT), Predator Oil & Gas (PRD) and UK Oil & Gas (UKOG).

123 days ago

ScotGold: What is it with the BBC and ramping shares in shite, almost insolvent, miners from the Celtic Fringe with fake news?

First it was Anglesey Mining (AYM) which is in desperate need of a bailout placing and where the BBC rode to the rescue with some ramping based on fake news about its hole in the ground in Ynys Mon as I showed HERE. Now it is Scotgold (SGZ) which, as I demonstrated HERE, is now only heavily in debt but has run out of – other folks cash following FALLING production and so needs its own a bailout ASAP. Time for the BBC doing its bit of fake news PR.

123 days ago

No thanks for the shitcoin offer Big Dave Lenigas, I am washing my hair tomorrow

Are you are at a loose end tomorrow? Do you want to waste your time and then lose some of your hard earned. In which case Big Dave Lenigas has an offer for you.

123 days ago

This still stinks: Tintra –are Tintra Acquisitions and Fintech Leaders Fund dumping shares?

In today’s RNS Tintra (TNT) announced that it had received the US $10 million subscription at 1178 pence per share, a huge multiple to trading share price of around 185 pence per share down on the opening price by almost 12% at time of writing this article as follows:

123 days ago

Iconic Labs –- EHGOSF starts to dump shares (Lot's more to come!)

In today’s RNS Iconic Labs (ICON) announced two conversions from European High Growth Opportunities Securitization Fund (“EHGOSF”) as follows:

123 days ago

Clem Chambers reckons there’s money in Sweet Transvestites from Transylvania – spoooof!

It is 50 years since the Rocky Horror show first appeared and to celebrate this Clem Chambers and the AIM dog that funds his sons’ business, Online Blockchain (OBC), has another spoof for you all as it tries to get away yet another bailout placing.

123 days ago

The left's favourite economist Stephanie Flanders tells porkies about poverty in the UK

I cannot remember which future Labour bigwigs she dated when at Oxford but Stephanie Flanders has always been the economist the left puts on a pedestal. This week, she stated that the poorest fifth of the population are now much poorer (in the UK) than most of the poorest countries in central and Eastern Europe…they would be better off in quite poor countries in the European Union.” Natch this was retweeted thousands and thousands of times. Those evil Tories they are just bastards aren’t they? Well some of them are, but on this matter the data just does not support Ms Flanders’ claim. As we live in a post fact world I suppose that does not really matter but just for the record…

123 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Greed vs Fear, Bailey vs Stacey

I explain why this Bearcast is late then cover how more buy notes means a worse share price performance in small caps, Flybe going bust again and how that relates to firms like Inspirit (INSP) and Aston Martin Lagonda (AML) and plans to bring back Help to Buy, the last thing this country needs. Then it is Greed vs Fear, Bailey vs Stacey.

123 days ago

Video: Golds Time to Shine is Just Coming Into View

Author and analyst David Murrin discusses the role of commodities in the conflicts of the world and how governments should move towards a hybrid market command system in order to secure essential resources and protect their economies. 

123 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: More folks I'd jail over Neil Woodford, the SUPP gang & scumbag Paul Griffiths of Predator on the ramp

I start with NatWest closing down a bank branch (quite rightly) and what the fuss made by MPs etc says about the doomed UK. Then I look at Predator (PRD) and others ramping for survival, a chance for bears not bulls. Finally a long look at Schroder UK Public Private Trust (SUPP), formerly WPCT, past present and future.

123 days ago

Video: The U.S. and Europe are in a Terminal State of Decline

Global forecaster and author David Murrin says that the road to war is peppered with polarization. Murrin explains that the human strategy for survival is through social structures, and that wars between a weaker system and a rising system are necessary to create a better outcome. He also explains that war is regulated by the Kondratiev cycle which takes place every 56 years.

123 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: The rise and fall of Chesterfield Resources - surely it is now bust?

I start with a few thoughts on Holocaust Memorial Day then a few on Warwick School business which I attended to yesterday. Then it is onto Chesterfield Resources (CHF) where THIS BEARCAST warning of the joke Pacton deal now looks to be very much on the money. I suggest it is bust. Then it is onto Cellular Goods (CBX) and Versarien (VRS).

123 days ago

Amigo looks more friendless by the day, more bad news!

Oh dear, oh dear. Loan shark Amigo (AMGO) says that its restarting of lending is going well. Fab. The only problem is the balance sheet and on that we have more bad news today.

123 days ago

Revealed:Lucian Miers’s UK shorts, big and small – 1 a zero by end February

Yesterday, as I am in the grim North, I met up for a quick pint with Lucian Miers at a boozer which had the most abominable customer service I have encountered in years. Hell’s teeth they made Darren Atwater’s approach to customer service and that of the entire French population, seem Nobel prize winning. I digress. After discussing historic abuse at public schools we moved on to Ukraine and then to Lucian’s portfolio of shorts.

123 days ago

Advanced Oncotherapy – is the funding farce about to end, prompting a share price collapse? This company could well go bust!

Each month, Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO) needs between £1 million and £2 million to keep the lights on. And to date, each month Odey Asset Management has been writing a cheque, buying shares at 25p (par value) to keep the show on the road. But the shares are slipping and is this farce about to end prompting a share price collapse?

123 days ago

Versarien: ignore today’s piffle it is delayed results that should panic holders

Company in crisis Versarien (VRS) has today issued an RNS Reach about it getting an eco passport for a product nobody wants to buy. An RNS Reach is one that the nomad deems “not financial significant.” And for the fraudsters’ fave Nomad SP Angel to make that ruling means this news must be almost irrelevant. The key issue is results. Or lack of them.

123 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast - Not sure when the next one is

I am on a road trip from tonight on Warwick School business so am not sure when the next podcast is. Maybe tomorrow, maybe Friday or even Saturday. Then there is the news that 45% of ShareStock seats now taken – book yours for September 23 HERE.  Ahead of that I have some very bearish macro ponderings about the state of the UK, then cover Caracal Gold (GCAT), Predator Oil & Gas (PRD), the fraud [email protected] Capital (SYME), Deepverge (DVRG) and – in depth – Inland Homes (INL)

126 days ago

“Othering,” Holocaust Memorial Day and the Russians

On Holocaust Memorial Day, expert after expert went onto the airwaves to insist that what happened to the Jews started with the “othering” of them as a minority by the Nazis. Othering is a ghastly world created by Guardian reading sociologists, like my wife, but essentially it means depicting as distinct as a precursor to demonisation.

126 days ago

BREAKING - Caracal: another letter to Andrew Monk and this is not a fishing trip by me

The adviser to disgraced and technically insolvent Caracal Gold (GCAT), Mr Andrew “the Monkey” Monk of VSA Capital has yet to reply to any of my letters about the insider dealing, undeclared share trades and pledges, undeclared death spiral and tardily declared failed fundings. But he should know that I write to assist him and that I am not on a fishing trip, just trying to assist my old friends at what the Monkey terms Very Sexy Andrew Capital. In that spirit of friendship I have written again, ccing in the fellows at the FCA who are investigating Caracal and its bent board.

126 days ago

Predator Oil & Gas: Drilling failure now prompts cash crisis: the shysters aren’t trolling me any more!

Oh Dear. Oh Dear. Companies where there appears to be a culture of insider dealing and whose bosses think that trolling me on twitter is a way to create value are ones where it usually ends in tears for the morons and that brings us neatly to a company which, thanks to drilling failure today, is in crisis, Predator Oil & Gas (PRD).

126 days ago

Home REIT – slowly the truth is dragged from it.

Well done City AM. When not promoting shitcoin to your readers on an industrial scale, your paper continues to do a sterling job dragging the truth from Home REIT (HOME). Today yet another fess up is forced from the shysters.

126 days ago

UPDATED: Cenkos note on Bidstack, er that's it: not a good sign

Is the note below the shortest research note in history? It sure isn’t a good read for morons still owning this stock.

126 days ago

Iconic Labs –- it’s finally back from suspension, valuation insane

At midday today Iconic Labs (ICON) was restored to a Standard listing after its suspension on 7 June 2021.

127 days ago

BREAKING: St Brides quits as PR to Caracal - now Andrew Monk do you have less honour than a PR firm?

St Brides Partners, the PR firm to disgraced Caracal Gold (GCAT) has today quit as an adviser with immediate effect. I am told that St Brides was not aware of the numerous rule breaches and insider dealing and did not draft yesterday’s nonsensical ‘fess up forced on the company by the FCA after recent revelations on this website. The next question is for Andrew Monk of VSA Capital (VSA).

127 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast - I'm ruined by Probiotix as its shares crash. Not. And an apology to Turner Pope

In today’s podcast I start on Zephyr Energy (ZPHR), then move onto Caracal Gold (GCAT). I cover: Iconic (ICON), African Pioneer (AFP) and wretched Colin Bird, Probiotix (PBX), Optibiotix (OPTI) and Skinbiotherapeutics (SBTX). Then it is Norman Broadbent (NBB), the fraud [email protected] Capital (SYME) and Versarien (VRS).

127 days ago

British Businesses in ever deeper merde – the latest shocking red flag alert from Begbies

Entrepreneurs, folks who risk their own capital to start a business to create jobs, to generate taxes for the Government to spunk, are, unlike greedy public sector wastrels, the true heroes of our age as I noted here. You have to be a true optimist to start a business, knowing that most will fail within a few years. As it happens, I am about to start a new business with my friend C. You will be surprised when I can say more. But to start a business now is especially optimistic/damn foolish given shocking data out today in Begbies red flag alert.

127 days ago

EXPOSE: The colourful past of the Caracal adviser, the CEO's dad, that it hides from you all

Gordon McCrae is a technical consultant to Caracal Gold (GCAT), the company run by his son Robbie who, as I explained earlier, should be in jail. Now as it happens, if we are discussing white collar crime…

127 days ago

Video: Matthew Piepenburg on The Great Reset – Weaponizing Our Debt-Soaked World

Matt Piepenburg is the sort of conspiracy theorist who will appeal to some of you. The author and asset manager discusses the Great Reset proposed by Klaus Schwab, and how it is a symptom of a broken and debt-soaked developed economy. Matt believes Schwab is an opportunist taking advantage of the COVID crisis, and his idea of ‘stakeholder capitalism’ is actually extreme centralization. This, Matt says, has never worked in history and has led to an addiction to debt, which has been weaponized by pharmaceutical companies, science, the media, political parties, and regulatory bodies.

127 days ago

KERBOOM: The after hours fess up from Caracal Gold – it is far worse than even I imagined, folks should be in jail

A lot of ouzos for the Sheriff for this one! And I am told that there is now an FCA enquiry into Standard Listed Caracal Goal (GCAT) following extensive correspondence from myself. Damn Right, there should be. At 4.45 PM yesterday there was a fess up with the company tripping over itself as it tried to cover up its crimes. This company is insolvent and its directors should be in jail. It is hard to know where to start.

127 days ago

Sharestock September 23 2023: two more returning speakers to join the four new stars

This morning I met a man who organises tents. We wandered to the elevated lawn behind my barns and worked out how he can supply a big tent and chairs for ShareStock 2023. Things are now underway. Next in, I will get a friend of mine in to manage catering so that we have everything from morning coffee to home grown supper supplied on time. And I am working hard to get an amazing speaker line-up organised as soon as possible.

127 days ago

Wood Group – 2022 trading update, “attractive growth prospects”?

Wood Group (WG.) has issued a trading update for the 2022 calendar year, including emphasising “underlying revenue growth… led by Operations and Consulting with a return to growth in H2 in Projects” and that it has “attractive growth prospects”.

127 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Now I can talk about Kefi

I start with a meeting at the Ha Ha earlier. As each day passes more details are inked in for ShareStock 2023 on September 23rd. More details and ticket booking is HERE. Then onto Kefi Gold & Copper (KEFI), Caracal Gold (GCAT), Vast Resources (VAST), Argo Blockchain (ARB) and then poor Gary Newman and the effect of those poisonous spiders he kissed from Suriname and Audioboom (BOOM)

127 days ago

Calm Down Gary Newman: Audioboom is still a sell

I see that, on twitter, comrade Gary Newman of this parish is suggesting that he is tempted by Audioboom (BOOM) largely because he sees there being more and more demand for podcasts.as his friend and colleague I urge him to sit down in a dark room, dream about kissing poisonous spiders in the jungle, and think again. Today’s 2022 trading update adds to the bear case as outlined by Lucian Miers in his tip of the year HERE, it is no reason to buy.

127 days ago

Pure Gold: another nail in the coffin, lid almost shut tight

Nigel Somerville has long warned you that Pure Gold (PUR) was a nailed down zero. News today suggests that he would be justified in pouring a good quantity of ouzo on his cornflakes this morning.

127 days ago

Definition of a Bridge Loan for morons and other shareholders in Zephyr Energy

I seem to be getting rather a lot of stick for my article on Zephyr Energy (ZPHR) by folks who wilfully misinterpret what I wrote and my motives.

127 days ago

Another letter to Andrew Monk of VSA Capital: Has Caracal Gold received the Philoro $3 million yet?

I have yet to hear from my old pal “Andrew “the Monkey” Monk as to when his client Caracal Gold (GCAT) is to announce via RNS the death spiral it took out on 27 June 2022 but has only admitted to in a small footnote buried in the annual report published in November. Monkey has also yet to respond to the issue of directors pledging shares and not disclosing it. So, I have sent another letter to Monkey about another issue.

127 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Kefi and its shareholders again: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh

In today’s podcast I look at the critical difference between the Standard List & Aquis and the AIM sewer and why advisers like Andrew Monk are thus anti AIM. I am not so sure. Then I look at Kefi (KEFI) some of whose shareholders who just do not understand insider dealing laws are doing my head in.

127 days ago

Note to Andrew Monk: Rule Breaking by your client Caracal Gold

I have today written to “the monkey” the boss of VSA Capital, advisors to Caracal Gold (GCAT) which has driven a coach and horses through the rule book of the Standard List. Does Monkey care? Does he think he has a reputation to lose by not caring? Or are those unpaid fees to VSA more important than salvaging what is left of its reputation? When will it fess? The letter to Monk is below

127 days ago

Centamin – Q4 and full-year update, a progressing gold BUY

Centamin (CEY) has issued an update on the fourth quarter and full-year of 2022, including emphasising that it is now looking forward to further increasing gold production while continuing to manage cost pressures and progressing the multiple identified opportunities across its portfolio.

127 days ago

Zephyr Energy what is a bridging loan? An admission that a placing is on the way?

You and I understand that a bridging loan is one that will be refinanced and is short term by nature. We need one to buy a house when our old one is yet to sell. So how does Zephyr Energy (ZPHR) define a bridging loan.

127 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Zamaz shares collapse, the FCA disgraces itself again

In today’s Bearcast I look at Zamaz (ZAMZ), Love Hemp (LIFE), Mirriad (MIRI) and in depth at Versarien (VRS) as its shares slide again ahead of what will be appalling results and an auditors warning within 10 days. Neill Ricketts…it could not happen to a nicer bloke.

127 days ago

Mirriad puts itself up for sale as it admits it is running out of cash ( again)

Mirriad Advertising (MIRI) today uttered the two words that should strike fear into the hearts of all investors: “strategic review.” That is stockmarket speak for “the game is up we are fucked.” Sure it tried to sugar the pill by initiating a formal sales process (FSP) and putting itself up for sale. Hey Cheryl darling I am waiting, ready, free and available.

127 days ago

[email protected] Capital – joke trading update, deep dive into the waffle, Part 2

As I pointed out earlier, in today’s trading update the fraud Supply@ ME Capital (SYME) provides no financial information on revenues or cash as at 31 December 2022 because boss Alessandro Zamboni doesn’t want to expose just how piss poor the actual numbers are.  The trading statement has a list of “achievements” but its primarily a list of excuses of that the dog ate my homework during 2022 but there will be jam tomorrow. Now to dig into the excuses… 

127 days ago

Scotgold – it gets worse! A reader writes…

I gave Scotgold (SGZ) a good kicking yesterday and anyone who holds the stock is either a total moron or a saltire waving, heroin addicted uber nationalist. Or both. But I am not an expert here, a reader writes with a few more observations including shocking new allegations of law breaking. Over to the real expert who writes:

127 days ago

When is a trading statement not a trading statement? The fraud [email protected] Capital opines: Part 1

What profit or rather loss did the fraud [email protected] Capital (SYME) make last year? What about sales? Assets under management at the sub scale asset manager Tradeflow? How little cash is left? Er…. Nobody has a scooby and that is even after a trading statement today from the fraudsters. If there was good news on any hard metrics, Supply would shout about it. Instead…

127 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Boohoo is it a buy or a short or just one to watch from the sidelines with beer and popcorn?

I start with walking to school with Joshua in the snow then cover being an insider (Kefi and Skinbiotherapeutics) and what it actually means. Then Mode Global (MODE), ouzo on my cornflakes again, folks were warned, Red Rock Resources (RRR) and its comical broker note, and finally today’s trading statement from Boohoo.com (BOO)

127 days ago

Red Rock Resources a ten bagger? LMFAO Mr broker

I write as a shareholder in Red Rock Resources (RRR). But the broker note below, today being trumpeted on twitter today by boss Andrew Bell is complete and utter bollocks. The idea that Red Rock shares could go from 0.26p to 2.60p is just fantasy. There is more chance of me getting lucky with you know who by the weekend than of this work of fiction proving any where near accurate.

127 days ago

Video: The Fed has lost control, of inflation, silver to $100, buy gold

Author and investor Don Durrett might be termed as a bit more of a conspiracy theorist than even our own Nigel Somerville He reckons that the financial media and government tend to release bullish information which is inaccurate and misleading.

127 days ago

ScotGold – buried in today’s news is a cash crisis, hence current valuation insane

Scotgold (SGZ) has today served up a trading statement where the bad news is buried in a place nobody is meant to spot. One imagines that the only folks holding this stock are patriotic Saltire waving heroin addicts yakking on about how women with penises should be allowed to go into women’s prisons and share a changing room with your 13 year old daughter. Maybe our heavily subsidised friends in Scotland have not noticed the elephant in the room or maybe economics is not their strongest subject?

127 days ago

Just under 9 Months away – Sharestock now almost 50% booked out! Grab your seat now

The big tent is now booked for ShareStock on September 23 this year. It will seat around 100 folks but already almost 50 of those seats have been reserved. And it is now wonder given who is speaking and all the other attractions. We might even have a jetty for you fisherman to try to grab a salmon or a pike on the day. That project is in hand. But the speakers are lining up.

127 days ago

Gear4Music hits a bum note again – another warning

Another quarter goes by and another blow for long term Gear4Music (G4M) fan Malcolm Stacey, another profits warning. The real issue, as I have noted many times before, is the balance sheet.

127 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: But the Welsh Girlies are shite and nobody wants to watch them!

I start with the news that the Welsh women and men’s soccer teams will now get equal pay. Does nobody understand economics any more? Then it is onto bitcoin and also Argo Blockchain (ARB). Then Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO) which sounds madder by the day. It certainly does not understand economics. Then nanosynth (NNN) and finally Omega Diagnostics (ODX). I wonder how this Saltire flying Scottish dickhead is doing these days? 

127 days ago

BREAKING: Good news for Julie “Lingerie on Expenses” Meyer, the FCA fails us all again

A source close to the enquiry confirms that the FCA criminal investigation into Julie “Lingerie on Expenses” Meyer has been ended. She is a free woman. Well apart from that outstanding High Court arrest warrant and unpaid tax bills in the UK, Malta and America and an unsatisfied six figure personal guarantee to Barclays Bank.

127 days ago

Cellular Goods – just 0.81% of the equity dumped and the shares slump 16%: far worse to come

After hours yesterday there came another TR1 from the chancers Jonathan Bixby and Mike Edwards, aka Durban Holdings, the folks who paid just 0.1p per share to obtain a stake of c31% in Cellular Goods (CBX) at the time of its 5p IPO in late 2021. Oh dear. I have told you repeatedly that this would be messy.

127 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Cellular Goods races towards zero, tough luck David Beckham ( statement on RTO & fund raise needed)

I start with a few words on the weather here in North Wales which brings much joy to my kids and then on Warwick School historic abuse matters. Then it is on to Caracal Gold (GCAT), Corero (CNS), Cellular Goods (CBX), Dev Clever (DEV), Skinbiotherapeutics (SBTX) and THG (THG). 

127 days ago

Twitter troll glorifies violence against Tom Winnifrith

Will the online harm bill do anything to protect journalists facing constant online harassment including a celebration of violence against them? I doubt it. I bring you Tuesday’s TW troller of the day.

127 days ago

Naked Wines Trading Update – not so pretty and not so transparent

Naked Wines (WINE) today boasts that its EBIT ( fairly made up earnings) for the year to almost the end of March 2023 will be higher than expected. But there is a warning about 2024 and absolutely no guidance about the real elephant in the room, the ghastly balance sheet. That 2024 warning and the lack of transparency about what really matters are what stink.

127 days ago

Corero – Bullshit earnings, cash burning and a profits warning buried in a release: uninvestable scumbags enter a 26th year of failure

How many times has cyber security group Corero Networks (CNS) lead its shares up the hill with ramptastic announcement after ramptastic announcement only to admit that it was running out of money, needed to do yet another bailout placing and seen its shares slide back down the hill again? Corero has been listed since 1997….

127 days ago

Zamaz – a very curious share transaction and the rescue return of Dominic White of the fraud [email protected] Capital infamy!

On 6 January 2023, it was announced that Mr Dominic White will return as a director to the (laughably valued) company built on sand that he founded and will become an independent non-executive director on 31 January 2023.

127 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Amigo really should be friendless

I start with the FTSE 100. Should we celebrate it “soaring” to the level it was at the time of the war criminal Blair? Then onto Caracal Gold (GCAT) and more bad news on the way, to ITM Power (ITM), Inland (INL), Amigo (AMGO), IGC-Longbow Senior (LBOW) which lies about my anonymity and Tower Resources (TRP) and its desperate attempt to hide a death spiral with a verbose release.

127 days ago

More ouzo for the Sheriff please: IQE tries to polish turd with sleight of hand as it serves up yet another warning

Can you spot the sleight of hand here?

127 days ago

Vindicated Again, ITM Power – is the warning a kitchen sink or is there more to come?

A long call with Lucian Miers has just ended. As you may know he has moved from leafy Hampshire to the grim North of Yorkshire and has blundered out for a walk only to find himself in the middle of a snowstorm. Let us pray that he makes it back safely to his new home, without the need for the local Moors rescue team to unleash the whippets. We talked of ITM Power (ITM) where the great bear has increased his short position after today’s dire warning. But is that right?

127 days ago

Letter to FCA – Caracal Gold: surely public sanctions needed?

Yesterday I started what is likely to become a series on why Caracal Gold (GCAT) is a zero with shocking revelations HERE. There is more to come. But already there is clear evidence that Caracal has breached market rules in a most serious way not once but twice. Sanction against Caracal, its CEO Robbie McCrae and possibly its advisor and the main promoter of its shares, VSA Capital, is now clearly merited. I have written to the FCA which is the regulator, no sniggering at the back, of the Standard List where Caracal is quoted and also of Andrew Monk’s VSA.

127 days ago

ICG-Longbow Senior & Cenkos start the week with a monster lie – you are LIARS

On Friday on the ShareProphets website I published a devastating bear dossier on ICG-Longbow Senior (LBOW) and as always, I signed off in my name. I have nothing to hide. I have been a journalist for three decades, longer than Cenkos has been acting for shysters. That dossier detailed the very dodgy CV of a key player and explained why the NAV was a work of pure fiction. Today Longbow has responded with a “portfolio update” which shows that it and its advisor Cenkos (of Quindell infamy) are nothing more than low grade liars.

128 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Malcolm Stacey failing as a bear and why the Caracal scandal is so huge and matters

I refer at the end to a podcast on the Northern Ireland census I recorded today. Honestly it is more interesting than it sounds and is HERE. I start with Malcolm’s failed career as a bear and where blue chips and small caps go from here. Then onto our bombshell on Caracal (GCAT) today HERE and all the other red flags and why it matters that the FCA acts on this one.

128 days ago

BREAKING EXPOSE: The scandal at Caracal Gold, what a colourful cast of “characters” – this is a zero

If the name Caracal Gold (GCAT) does not ring a bell, count yourself lucky not to have this dig in your portfolio because it is a zero and one where the FCA should be crawling all over everything. Until 16 months ago, Caracal went by another name.

128 days ago

BlueBird Merchant Ventures – from the horses mouth

I am as frustrated as the rest of you by the failure of the share price of Bluebird Merchant Ventures (BMV) 1.725p, a £10.7 million market cap, is far too low if, I repeat, IF, it delivers what it has promised in South Korea and the Philippines. But this is a mining junior and IF is the operative word. IF it delivers I see these shares heading to 4p+ so I asked the company what was not happening.

128 days ago

Ethiopian Minister of Mines sacked – this is very good news for Kefi

The Ethiopian Minister of Mines, Takele Uma, was apparently sacked yesterday at a cabinet meeting. Rumours in Addis suggest that he stands accused of industrial scale corruption. Well knock me down with a feather.

128 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: The point of speaking to Harry Adams and do I believe the Kefi boss?

I start with the NHS pissing money away on my lawn, then onto why I opt to speak to CEOs, gold and Kefi Gold & Copper (KEFI)

128 days ago

Video: Are the Mining Stocks Starting to Gather Momentum?

Writer Craig Hemke, founder of TF Metals Report, says he expected a macro dip in 2022 but anticipated a faster recovery to a higher level than what transpired. The Fed hiked more than most expected as inflation got ahead of it, and the extent of the damage remains unknown.

129 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Revolution Beauty's bosses should be in jail, if this is not massive fraud what is?

In today’s podcast I discuss the naivete of the spider kisser over Coro Energy (CORO) but my main focus is on the fraud at Revolution Beauty (REVB). How on earth are Tom Allsworth and Adam Minto not heading for jail. And as for the shares….

129 days ago

BREAKING EXPOSE: This looks a lot like Home REIT - a bear dossier on ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments Limited, a LSE listed fund

This bear dossier on ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments Limited (LBOW)  a Guernsey domiciled, closed-ended, premium listed investment company on the London Stock Exchange has been passed to me for publication, I have edited it and I take full responsibility. This article goes out in my name. In many ways it looks a but like Home REIT (HOME)

129 days ago

Coro Energy: The Sheriff of AIM vs The spider kisser Gary Newman, its ouzo for the Sheriff already

Back on December 8 2022, poisonous spider kisser Gary Newman tipped Coro Energy (CORO) at 0.31p HERE. I then explained why Garry should stick to snogging spiders as anyone tipping a James Parsons run company was bonkers. The shares are now just 0.24p mid and there is an RNS that the market is yet to digest. It is horrific.

129 days ago

Colin Bird you shameless old spoofer – time for Xtract shareholders to lube up, placing imminent

After decades as a penny share grifter, Colin Bird is a multi-millionaire. Unlike any of the other shareholders in the companies he manages. It is within that context that you should note a share purchase in Xtract Resources (XTR) announced today.

129 days ago

Gary Newman in the jungle caption contest, just 1 oz away from saying size is important

This is Gary holding a Butterfly Peacock Bass he caught while dodging poisonous spiders in the jungles of Suriname over Christmas. He claims it was just 1 oz shy of being the biggest ever caught. With a no prize on offer, you are allowed to mention James Parsons, in suggesting a suitable caption in the comments section below. Deadline midnight tonight.

129 days ago

Deep Dive Analysis of [email protected] Capital – Cash crisis by April Fools Day

The fraud [email protected] Capital (SYME) has not issued a full year trading update, so we can safely assume there were no material new sales to boast about other than the first Inventory Monetisation transaction funded by VeChain which saw Euro 1.6 million of inventory monetised. At Supply’s claimed revenue percentage fee of 3% this is worth a tiny Euro 48,000 in revenue and almost certainly no profit on the trade at all.

129 days ago

The Victims of War on BBC Radio 4 – Do not mention the Ukrainian Nazis!

There were three historians on this show discussing the holocaust. Dan Stone and Catherine Merridale and a chap called Bernard Wasserstein.  Stone has recently published a book on how folks in countries across Europe assisted or took part in the murder of six million Jews. Among those were the parents and family of Mr Wasserstein who were butchered in a village in Western Ukraine.

129 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Happy Birthday to Me, only NOT a pensioner now thanks to Steve O'Hara!

Yes its my birthday. Ahead of a cake made by the Mrs and a takeaway from what I am told is the finest Indian in Wrecsam, I discuss musicmagpie (MMAG) in depth, Argo Blockchain (ARB) en passant and Trustpilot (TRST) in depth.

129 days ago

Home REIT – massive warning just as the bears warned: management credibility zero, were investors misled on arrears?

The management of Home REIT (HOME) do not even dare to put their own name and contact details on RNS releases these days, instead hiding behind the very well paid skirts of the journalist smearing PR firm FTI Consulting. And who can blame Home’s craven managers today for it has had to serve up a shocking admission.

129 days ago

EXPOSE: Versarien – can it possibly dodge a huge intangible write off when results are published?

When Versarien’s (VRS) results for the extended month period ended 30 September 2022 are published before the end of January 2023, I am expecting them to be a piss poor sea of red but will they also be impacted by an impairment charge for the Graphene business intangible assets?

131 days ago

Trump’s Killing Spree – how a liberal journalist ignores history to smear The Donald

Most executions in the USA are conducted at a state level. Very few folk are executed for Federal Crimes. But apparently, according to Asawin Auebsaeng and Patrick Reis in Rolling Stone, in allowing the execution of 13 murderers in 6 months, the narrative is “Trump’s Killing Spree: The Inside Story of His Race to Execute Every Prisoner He Could.” Let me put this in context with regard to Bill Clinton.

132 days ago

Another day – another disgraced penny stock to leave AIM: Morses Club

With its former CEO clearly guilty of insider dealing, with its balance sheet trainwrecked by, as yet unquantified, mis-selling, Morses Club (MCL) has announced that it is leaving the AIM sewer. Why, surely its CV makes it just the sort of company that Marcus Stuttard, the bogus Sheriff of AIM, wants to attract?

132 days ago

Procook does a Nightcap and plays fast and loose with reality in trading statement

Just like Nightcap (NGHT) yesterday, Procook (PROC) has served up a trading statement which plays fast and loose with reality. Its intent is not to inform but to mislead.

132 days ago

NFT Investments – you could not make this up

NFT Investments (NFT) likes to describe itself as an “incubator specialising in the market for non-fungible tokens (NFTs).” Some of us view it as a puffed up promote created and run by the chancers Jonathan Bixby and Mike Edwards. For we sceptics today an announcement. As Richard Littlejohn might say “You couldn’t make this up.”

132 days ago

Srebrenica is NOT a holocaust – listening to kids being brainwashed and taught false history in Bradford

On Holocaust Memorial Day I found myself driving through West Yorkshire listening to kids doing a Q&A with teachers and local councillors in Bradford regarding the holocaust: what caused it, what will stop another one and “other holocausts”.  Natch the panel, playing to a local audience, utterly rewrote history as they downplayed what happened to the Jews, equating it to the “holocaust at Srebrenica” where the victims were all Muslims. Rewriting history is the order of the day as I noted earlier.

132 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Why Argo really is worth 0p

In today’s podcast I look at nanosynth (NNN) and why its RNS crimes do matter, Argo Blockchain (ARB), Kefi Gold & Copper (KEFI), Reach (RCH), Cellular Goods (CBX) and Colin Bird POS Tiger Royalties (TIR) where data today shows how a recent placing only postponed death.

132 days ago

Letter to the FCA and AIM Regulation re nanosynth and Market Abuse

Yesterday’s deeply discounted bailout placing at 0.18p will have stunned some shareholders in nanosynth (NNN) who thought, as a result of RNS releases made in August and September, that the company had raised almost £3 million and was fully funded. That was a deceit. I believe that CEO Mark Duffin, PR firm IFC Advisory and Nomad SP Angel may be guilty of market abuse and have asked both AIM Regulation and the FCA to consider the matter.

132 days ago

Banning the Russians from Holocaust Remembrance Day as we rewrite history just as the Nazis did

Its 2023 so everything has to be a political statement about what is happening now, even when it is remembering events of 78 years ago, the liberation of Auschwitz. And so, on Holocaust Remembrance day we all look back and remember.

135 days ago

Cross dressing Sir Grayson Perry & BBC Radio 4 on the shame of being English

Cross dressing artist Grayson Perry graced BBC Radio 4’s flagship “Today” programme this morning and engaged in a wide ranging chat with the sycophantic presenters. If he goes to the Coronation he intends to wear a dress he said. I bet the ranch he is exactly the sort of chap who will be invited by woke King Charles to show the diverse nature of a modern Britain.  So what if 99.5% of chaps opt not to dress as birds ( a word now set to be banned so I shall use it more often), it is important to invite as many of the 0.5% as possible to show what Britain really looks like. And that brought us to discussing regions and the four home nations.

135 days ago

Photo article from the Welsh Hovel - a home grown winter butternut squash and leek soup

After last night there is just one butternut squash from the summer left in my larder. But it is large enough to make two soups. The last twenty or so leeks are still left to be picked in my garden.

135 days ago

Argo Blockchain woeful December update & things can only get worse!

Oddly, Argo Blockchain (ARB) has only now disclosed that its Helios bitcoin mining facility in Texas (now sold) was shut down by bad weather for most of December. Normal companies might have mentioned it at the time but since when did disgraced CEO Peter Wall give a FF about the rules?

135 days ago

EXPOSED: Sarah Willingham and Nightcap deceive investors again: bailout placing inevitable.

There is today, finally, as I demanded, a trading statement from Nightcap (NGHT) the financially challenged bars chain of Sarah Willingham of Dragon’s Den “fame”. But it is hugely misleading, on an industrial scale, and the underlying position is grim, sales are falling and a cash crisis is looming. This is the pump before a bailout placing dump. Let me explain why an update described by the ghastly Willingham is not as she claims “positive”. Not at all.

135 days ago

The curse of Julie “Lingerie on Expenses” Meyer – strike off order at Lattun 1 day after she joins board

This is not quite what you might expect from someone awarded an MBE for services to business at the behest of Rob Terry defender Vince Cable. But then again, why someone fleeing a High Court Arrest warrant and under an FCA criminal investigation still has a gong as something of a mystery. But back to Lattun.

135 days ago

Essentra – 2022 pre-close trading update, still a relatively lower-risk Buy?

Essentra (ESNT) has issued a full year 2022 pre-close trading update including that its “resilience is supported by its breadth of customers, market categories, geographies and acquisition momentum” and confirming an intention to return approximately £150 million to shareholders this quarter. So what of a current 218p share price?

135 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: if Nanosynth was US listed its directors & advisors would be getting an SEC collar feel

I dropped my two year old off at school for the first time today. I am sure every parent knows that moment well. I move from that onto Nanosynth (NNN), a scandal for all concerned where my warnings have been 100% vindicated today. So its ouzo there but also at Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL). I look in detail at Eden Research (EDEN) and cover Anglesey Mining (AYM) and Trevor Brown’s POS Braveheart (BRH)

136 days ago

Photo Article: The Greek Hovel is almost booked out for the summer of 2023 and here's why

Having restored a hovel which will be 100 years old next year into a quite amazing eco palace I’d want to live there all year round. But my young wife has a career in Airstrip One and so wer must all stay here. And so when we are not in the Mani peninsular in Sourthern Greece, the eco palace is now avaiallable to rent. The pool season is May 1 to October 31 and the nearest airport (Kalamata) is open for direct flights from the UK April to the end of October. It is less than an hour away. If you like crowds and noise this is not for you.

136 days ago

India Willoughby, Britain's leading transgender activist says their treatment just like the Holocaust

The British state has not shut down 1 trans business. It has not transported one trans person. It has not organised a Kristellnacht for  the trans community or barred trans folks from working in a range of jobs. It has not killed one trans person. It has not denied them equal rights with the 99.6% of the population who don’t identify as trans or the 99.95% who have not had operations to transition. Yet India Willoughby says that, bar the camps, folks like her are being treated as trhe Jews were by the Nazis.

136 days ago

Funded by you, Manchester Art Gallery urinates on all taxpayers

Manchester Art Gallery sucks greedily at the teats of numerous taxpayer funded organisations. So you, dear reader, fund its activities as the UK tax burden hits the highest level seen in 70 years. With that in mind, I invite you to consider the thread below, images of the display signs currently up. As someone working to pay tax 365 days a year, boy am I glad how my money is spent. Let’s play woke & historically inaccurate bingo shall we?

136 days ago

Bobby Sands the baby murderer and those who want a United Ireland

I explained the other day why Northern Ireland does not have a Catholic majority or a majority who want a United Ireland, whatever the BBC and the rest of the media GroupThink might tell you. The key “swing votes” are those who identify as Northern Irish, largely of a Protestant background but now saying they have no faith, folks we might term Garden Centre Unionists. And this brings us to Bobby Sands.

136 days ago

Tap Global IPO – You is 'avin' a Turkish: this is a truly mad valuation even by the standards of shitcoin

I today asked the advisers to Tap Global (TAP) which joined the Aquis lobster pot today via a reversal into Quetzal Capital to justify why Tap was worth £20.5 million and 4.5p and the enlarged group worth £32.2 million. There has been no answer. Why? Because even by the standards of shitcoin and crypto-shite this valuation is bonkers. It’s a car crash in the making and shames all involved.

136 days ago

Canadian Overseas Petroleum – Letter to FCA as disclosure rules broken again, does anyone care?

Not for the first time I find myself writing to the FCA as the regulator, no sniggering at the back, of the Standard List. And not for the first time it is about Canadian Overseas Petroleum Limited (COPL) which appears to be in terrible financial trouble and is now, apparently, breaking listing rules. This company’s shares should be suspended at once pending a statement. The letter is below.

136 days ago

EXPOSE: Canadian Overseas Petroleum - once again hiding the grim truth from its shareholders

Last year ShareProphets highlighted how standard listed Canadian Overseas Petroleum Limited (COPL) had defaulted on its main credit agreement but then raised $8 million of fresh equity at 20p a share without revealing the default to prospective investors. Canadian hid the default for four months before it finally published its annual accounts and buried the details of the default in the notes.

136 days ago

EXPOSE: Julie "Lingerie on Expenses" Meyer caught lying again, does the High Court and FCA know about this?

Julie “Lingerie on Expenses” Meyer, does not appear to have turned over a new leaf at the start of 2023 as the filing made at Companies House on January 3 which is below, appears to show. Meyer kicks off 2023 by lying.

136 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast - a long term investment I shall never see, its for Joshua and will probably fail

I start with that investment c/o my pal Dave from Chester Zoo, Then I look at Eurasia Mining (EUO), Okyo Pharma (OKYO), Eden Research (EDEN), Nanoco (NAN) – which I may have misnamed in the podcast – Cellular Goods (CBX) and Frontier Developments (FDEV). Tomorrow I have a Julie “Lingerie on Expenses” Meyer treat for you all. It seems she has been a naughty girl (again).

136 days ago

Here are some temperatures the BBC is not reporting on: can you think why?

Oddly the BBC’s climate change correspondents are not reporting on temperatures in Siberia this week. You may remember their pitiful attempts, aftering being flown in on a private plane, to show you how global warming is melting the tundra a couple of years ago. But following on from its fake news on the death of European skiing thanks to global warmingg, oddly the BBC has not been back to Siberia.

136 days ago

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Boatman Capital letter to BDO re "Independent" review of Home REIT

Shares in Home REIT (HOME) are now suspended at the company’s request despite it insisting that allegations made by Viceroy Research and Boatman Capital are groundless. BDO London is now investigating those (groundless) allegations as part of its audit. Boatman has now written to BDO flagging up some new areas of concern. The letter is below. Ouch!!!!

136 days ago

Durban Holdings & David Beckham promoted Cellular Goods – why Bixby & Edwards are still making profits dumping stock at 0.7p

At the time of the IPO of David Beckham promoted CBD play Cellular Goods (CBX) in late 2021, the chancers Mike Edwards and Jonathan Bixby held 31% of the equity. Today they are at sub 7.7% and are still dumping. Soon they will be out. But with the IPO at 5p why are they selling at 0.7p and lower? Some, it appears, are more equal than others.

136 days ago

BREAKING: Versarien, a list of those who got P45s for Christmas and the obvious questions vile Neill Ricketts is refusing to answer!.

I can now reveal a near full list of those staff at Versarien (VRS) given P45s for Christmas by loathsome Neill Ricketts. They are now all, apparently on gardening leave, so not working but still on a notice period so the cash savings will not kick in until late March or later. Those made redundant include some heavy hitters so this list begs big questions.

136 days ago

Tortilla Mexican Grill Trading statement – a mission to deceive

Tortilla Mexican Grill (MEX) claims to be “the largest and most successful fast-casual Mexican restaurant group in the UK”. Whatever. Having bought out its nearest rival from insolvency there is scant competition. And if its deceitful trading statement out today marks it as the “most successful” I’d hate to see what a failure looks like.

136 days ago

Buy Fresnillo ( one of our share tips of the year and its already flying)

Fresnillo (FRES) has seven operating mines all of them in Mexico. This impacted it in 2022 with Mexican labour reform challenges adding to the wider ones such as supply chain bottlenecks and cost inflation. In October a third quarter report concluded “remain on track to meet our 2022 full year guidance of 50.5 to 56.5 moz of attributable silver… and 600 to 650 koz of attributable gold production” and just yesterday the company was “pleased to confirm the final testing of the downstream power distribution and control systems at the Juanicipio project is now complete… commissioning of the project has formally begun. Ramp up will now be conducted at pace”.

136 days ago

Lack of snow in Europe stops skiing claims the BBC, its all global warming. LIES

Today the skiing in Scotland has been stopped because there is too much snow. Will the BBC and the reast of the Mainstream Media GroupThink put that down to global warming and or climate change too? But what about those snow deprived resorts in Europe which the BBC has reported on with so much glee of late. More global warming vicar?

136 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: the argument for not selling rubbish like Red Rock and Wishbone

I start off with why the Times‘ demands for a Sheriff of Tipsters smacks of glass houses and throwing stones. Has its own tipster declared all conflict of interests. Then onto gold, looking at my portfolio and why I have not sold Red Rock (RRR) and Wishbone Gold (WSBN) yet despite my grave governance reservations and their failure to monetise assets whose quality I start to doubt. So why not sell and reinvest in a higher quality play I own like Centamin (CEY), Ariana (AAU) or even Kefi Gold & Copper (KEFI). One reason was the illness that laid me so low I just forgot. But there are others which I explain in the podcast, my second of the day after this photo/podcast from Lake Vyrnwy which has given me great pleasure.

136 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: the wretched Times calls for a Sheriff of online share tipsters

It misses the point. I discuss why as I prepare a second Christmas meal for a ShareProphets reader. It is all part of the service. It could be you next year.

136 days ago

Iconic Labs year end accounts to 30 June 2022 - further losses and material uncertainty over going concern remains

On 3 January 2023 Iconic (ICON) published its accounts for the year ended 30 June 2022. It showed a loss of £762,107 and the balance sheet now shows £1 of intangible asset and £5 of cash with a deficit on shareholders’ funds of £8,938,520. EHGOF financing fees in the period were £585,000. On 6 January Iconic issued a corporate update which summarised the position which is unless the Financial Conduct Authority lifts the suspension on the company it won’t receive any more cash and will return to administration and the shareholders will get nothing.

136 days ago

Versarien – where is the statement? Doesn't AIM Rule 11 apply to Neill Ricketts?

In the days before Christmas Versarien (VRS) sacked a large number of employees as I revealed here. This is a material financial event with some folks suggesting that the effect will be to slash the company’s monthly cashburn from £450,000 to £250,000 which implies that the cost of the exercise is at least £600,000 – more than a third of the net proceeds of the most recent bailout placing. So this is material. AIM Rule 11 is clear:

136 days ago

SHOCKING EXPOSE: The AIM CEO who was made bankrupt and did not tell anybody about proceedings against him

If you are an AIM CEO and facing bankruptcy as a result of a winding up order from those to whom you owe money, surely this is a matter you should let your Nomad know about and also about which investors should be told?  As the document below shows, for Osser the Tosser, Osamede Okhomina of ADM Energy (ADME) that is not the case.

140 days ago

Jacinda Arden quits before ousted, the liberal left applaud her & lie: she is a totalitarian with covid blood on her hands

Jon Sopel, his former colleagues at the BBC, the Euro loon Femi, the whole of the liberal elite are applauding ghastly Jacinda Ardern for stepping down “on a high” as Prime Minister of New Zealand today. It is almost as “brave” as when Phil Schofield came out as gay just as his 17 year old bunk-up/work junior was going to out him to a tabloid.  The reality is that Ardern’s party is now trailing in the polls and its ratings are tanking fast. Defeat in the October Election is inevitable and that is why Ardern is quitting, whatever little Sopel says below. But what of her record on, say, covid where the liberal left applauded her for the most draconian lockdown in the world, bar North Korea.  Here are the facts and they do not make for good reading:

140 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Elon Musk businessman of the year or just a mega crook on a roll?

After all Time Magazine made Hitler man of the year 1938 and – I think – made Great Thunberg, the Doom Goblin, Person of the year as well. As folks in Europe and America freeze to death in coming years they will look back on both awards in an unkind way. So what of The Times making Elon its businessman of the year? As Ouzo man starts shorting Tesla (TSLA) again is this a Hitler moment? I also look at Asiamet (ARS), at whether UK retail had a better Christmas than expected and at Quantum Blockchain (QBT), surely a pre-placing pump is underway. 

140 days ago

Anglesey Mining: using BBC fake news to get away a bailout placing?

With breathless excitement the BBC here in Wales has pumped out an exclusive story which has prompted some of the sheep shaggers to fill their boots with shares in Anglesey Mining (AYM) prompting a bit of a spike in the share price. But it is all bollocks. And a prelude to a deeply discounted placing. The sheep shaggers here in Cymru are going to get their fingers burned. Shame on the BBC for failing to do even basic research. Its article from one day ago is below.

140 days ago

Canadian Overseas – more bond conversions, easy cash for the death spirial providers, but far worse to come: do the math!

Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL) talks of its “bonds” as if it is a proper grown up company. Its Bonds” are a death spiral and today we have more evidence of how the (unnamed) provider is coining it in. Lovely jubbly for it.

140 days ago

Video: Quoth the Raven - The U.S. has Lost It’s Financial Compass, Tesla to fall another 90%

Chris Irons, the host of the Quoth the Raven podcast, is a foul mouthed libertarian so obviously a good man.

140 days ago

Nightcap – when’s the (lack of) profits warning?

Spending her 100% cash bonus for last year must be hard for former Dragon Sarah Willingham of NightCap (NGHT). With the company having abandoned its rollout plan because of a major cash crisis and as LFL sales plunged by 15% post year end, anyone with a shred of decency would be handing that bonus back. Not La Willingham, she spent Christmas on a luxury family holiday in Australia. Is she back yet? If so when is the (lack of) profits warning.

141 days ago

Greek Hovel olive oil prize contest: Face nappy covid madness on the way to Spain - can any mask nutter explain the logic?

Okay mask nutters please explain how this stops the spread of covid and you can win a jar of my finest olive oil from Greece if you can. Just enter your logical explanation in fewer than  200 words in the comments section below.  A friend of mine flew to Spain yesterday and says:

141 days ago

David Beckham’s Cellular Goods – Bixby & Edwards now panic selling ahead of bailout placing/merger with insolvent cash guzzler

Oh boy this is ugly. The CBD play backed by arch LGBTQ hypocrite David Beckham, Cellular Goods (CBX), is rapidly running out of cash and wants to merge with another CBD company with stiff liabilities and which is burning cash faster than star chef (LMFAO) Brooklyn Beckham can burn his cooking. So quite obviously a major fund raising is needed within months to stave off bankruptcy. However…..

141 days ago

AIM CEO in a bind, need cash fast - here's the man to go to

Running a shite AIM company, guzzling cash, tank almost empty? In a bit of a bind. Maybe you need to consult a man who is an expert at running such worthless promotes and still raising cash for them time and time again.  There is such a man and he’s keen to help….

141 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Photo Bearcast: Was this another Zak Mir brown envelope job & should I buy Yourgene?

Eldur Olafsson of Amaroq (AMRQ) thinks I am a member of the British establishment. I explain why I am not. No doubt Sir Arthur Cochrane would view me as he viewed his daughter, my grandmother, as a “traitor to our class” But I am. and explain why with reference to Eldur’s company. Then it is onto Zak Mir and the Okyo (OKYO) scandal. Your link to his video is HERE. And the photo below is of Zak himself relaxing today at the Carlton Club. That is the establishment today which makes me so hostile to it all and determined to be a simple goat farmer. Then I answer a, rather unfair, question on Yourgene (YGEN) before looking at Argo Blockchain (ARB) and Angle (AGL)

141 days ago

BREAKING: Amaroq and Alleged executive greed: Q&A with CEO and why I still feel betrayed

The new executive “incentive scheme” at Amaroq (AMRQ) has come in for some stick so, below, are some questions from reader T and some answers from CEO Eldur Olafsson. But before then here is why I, as a supportive long term shareholder, feel betrayed.

141 days ago

Union Jack Oil - you were warned!

The table below is derived from Union Jack’s (UJO) own figures. With a hat tip to the chain smoker, you were all warned.

142 days ago

After two nights of global warming falling here in Wales – the latest reservoir data is out and exposes the cultists yet again

As I write, the snow, which has fallen for the past two nights, exposing my son for the seventh time in his seven years on this planet to something cultists said he’d never see, is melting and the flood waters here on the river Dee in North Wales are actually receding. But still my fields are flooded as you can see HERE. More importantly we now have data on reservoir levels in the United Utilities region which includes this part of Wales. This data is now the highlight of my week and again shows what tosh the global warming cultists in the mainstream media GroupThink were talking last summer.

142 days ago

AIM Casino Market December statistics – market hits almost 20 year low in terms of number of listed companies

The AIM Market statistics for December 2022 have arrived. There were 12 cancellations and 2 new admissions in the month so the AIM market ended the year with 816 participants, the lowest since 2003 when AIM was adding more than 100 new companies a year.

142 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: the mystery of the Midas Harland and Wolff share tip

I start with a bit about weather, snow rain and drought. Then gold vs bitcoin, Enwell (ENW), Ferrexpro (FXPO), Harland & Wolff (HAWL), Argo Blockchain (ARB), Powerhouse Energy (PHE) and Pantheon Resources (PANR) before ending with Vast Resources (VAST) where a placing at 0.1p is surely being attempted after today’s incomplete news.

142 days ago

OUTSIDE ALL PAYWALLS: Letter to AIM Regulation – were Bidstack’s pre placing interims bogus & misleading? Enquiry needed now!

Yesterday there was an admission from Bidstack (BIDS) that its soon to be former business partner Azerion had terminated the venture and had not been paying invoices for some time. This begs the question: were interims released on August 8 2022 bogus and designed purely to pump the shares ahead of the 5 October bailout placing. I have written to AIM Regulation demanding it launch an enquiry.

142 days ago

Just why does ADVFN put up with this Jew hating conspiracy theorist & shite investor in Bidstack and other frauds

It is a sign of just how much, to its credit, the largely Jewish board of ADVFN (AFN) really does believe in free speech that it still allows the biggest jew hating nutter out their to pollute its boards. But surely there must be a limit? The post below is from yesterday and concerns Bidstack (BIDS) where aidenabettin is long and wrong and insists that any share price weakness is down to a conspiracy between myself and unnamed Israelis.
The post is below the words in bold type are brief comment from me:

142 days ago

EXPOSE: Tintra – expect selling pressure from Tintra Acquisitions Limited during January 2023

In its business update RNS of 8 November 2021, Tintra (TNT) provided the following information about its proposed restructuring of St Daniel House Limited, the last active corporate entity in what was Boxhill Technologies before it was renamed Tintra:

142 days ago

BREAKING: Ukraine gets ready to steal assets of Enwell Energy

You are not allowed to say this these days but Ukraine is an incredibly corrupt country, normally ranking 2nd in Europe after Russia for dishonesty. So let me first say Slava Ukraini and that we should carry on sending UK taxpayers cash to President Zelensky’s Swiss bank account for as long as he wants. That was a joke BYW. Back to Enwell Energy (ENW) which looks to be well and truly in the merde.

142 days ago

BDO LLP & suspended shares – What is going on?

Historically, it was rare for listed companies to delay publication of their audited results. However, it is becoming more common for UK listed companies to have to delay the publication of audited accounts because their auditors have not yet completed their audit work. In the event of severe delays this can result in the suspension of their shares. I have listed below 4 companies which have had to delay the publication of their audited accounts and have had their shares suspended from trading as a result.

142 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Is this the time that Bidstack's James Draper really does go to jail - questions about the interims

I start with some nerd like comments about river and reservoir levels in North Wales. Bear with me. This will be interesting I promise. Then Bidstack (BIDS) and what questions today’s shocker begs about the pre-placing interims. Surely the Nomad ( SPARK) and AIM Regulation must investigate. Then Okyo (OKYO) where post podcast recording the company has published interims on its website. Technically it missed the deadline and the FCA – whose conversations with me I discuss – must take this further. As it happens the interims are truly appalling and red flag strewn as I discuss HERE,  Then I discuss Lucian’s two big oil shorts: Pantheon Resources (PANR) and Canadian Overseas (COPL). He is right on both IMHO. Finally a few words on Helium One (HE1)

142 days ago

Okyo Pharma finally spills the beans – interim results shocker

As I pinged emails to and fro with the FCA about Okyo’s (OKYO) failure to publish proper results on Friday which should have led to a suspension at 7 AM but did not as the FCA is useless, Okyo has ‘fessed to the bad news.

142 days ago

Canadian Overseas – another dollop of deception and death spiral vicar?

Some things in life never change. There is the beauty, innate sophistication, angelic voice and native intelligence of Ms Cheryl Cole for starters. And then there is the ability of Arthur Millholland to enrich himself while obliterating shareholder value by issuing a blizzard of new shares while spunking other folks cash. Whilst I would like to spend the day considering Ms Cole, instead it is Millholland’s latest gravy train (for him) Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL) to which I must attend.

143 days ago

Photo article from the Welsh Hovel: snow on top of flooding prompts two thoughts

The pictures below show the elevated lawn and Ha Ha and the fields this morning at the Welsh Hovel. As you can see it snowed last night, there is about half an inch on the ground. And the fields are completely flooded. It is a wonderful view and shows my flood defences holding firm. But it prompts two thoughts.

143 days ago

Cineworld saves the best until the end – its shares really are toast

Maybe it is a New Year’s Resolution? Cineworld (CINE) appears to to have turned over a new leaf and is, via RNS, now giving some commentary on how its equity is slowly being destroyed completely via the Chapter 11 process that kicked off on September 7.

143 days ago

Bidstack starts the year with a revenue recognition howler: which Nomad signed off on this garbage?

On the 29th December when nobody was watching, Bidstack (BIDS) snuck out the news that Francesco Petruzzelli was quitting as Managing Director and was resigning from the Board. So it ended 2022 with bad news and it has started 2023 with even worse news regarding the bust up with its major partner Azerion.

143 days ago

EXPLOSIVE EXPOSE: Okyo Pharma – still no real results, the FCA notified and here is what it is hiding!

Okyo Pharma (OKYO) has not updated its website and so has still not filed results which include a P&L, balance sheet or cashflow statement. I have alerted the FCA to this and in a normal world the shares would be suspended. But this is the FCA which will be too busy reading woke porn to actually do anything. So what might Okyo be hiding?

143 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: 4 stocks that I did not quite make my 2023 tips of the year

I discuss manic swings between optimism and pessimism, my own pessimism re the world and UK PLC but my relative optimism on shares. Then I discuss 4 stocks almost making it as my share tips of the year but not quite – 3 sells, 1 buy.

143 days ago

The ShareProphets 20 share tips of the year 2023 – No 20 is a SELL from Tom Winnifrith

Between Christmas Eve and the start of the trading year 2023 we will be serving up 20 tips – 2 from each of our writers but six (all sells but that may not be true) from me. Twentieth up is a SELL from myself, Tom Winnifrith. I write….

143 days ago

Another victim of sadistic abuser Geoffrey Eve at Warwick School comes forward to tell his tale

Geoffrey Eve smashed my head against a wall at Warwick School twice in the late 1970s. Those incidents were so horrific that I have almost blotted out the daily terror he instilled in me for one whole year. After more than ten years of campaigning, Warwick has privately apologised to me for the abuse I suffered as it has run an enquiry into historic sexual and physical abuse. Within two weeks, I plan to name a living teacher who sexually abused boys at Warwick and who Warwick protected.

143 days ago

The ShareProphets 20 share tips of the year 2023 – No 19 is a SELL from Tom Winnifrith

Between Christmas Eve and the start of the trading year 2023 we will be serving up 20 tips – 2 from each of our writers but six (all sells but that may not be true) from me. Nineteenth up is a SELL from myself, Tom Winnifrith. I write….

143 days ago

Tom Winnifrith postcard - the data lies you are being fed by the BBC and others: Northern Ireland does not want a United Ireland

I refer to another data manipulator, the LGBT campaigner Peter Tatchell HERE. But this is about Ulster and how you are being lied to about Catholic majorities, and the desire for Ulster to be part of a United Ireland if not now then inevitably in the future. I look at the hard data from the 2021 census which the media GroupThink, always sympathetic to the Republican cause, manipulate to post a false narrative. I also discuss the true history of the IRA and the Troubles and what are kids are not being taught as they are encouraged to romanticise evil. Maybe those of us who back Ulster might need to start explaining the real history and facts of “the troubles.” 

143 days ago

The Greek Hovel is booking up fast for summer 2023, and it is no wonder why

We now have two trips planned to the Greek Hovel for this spring and summer and I cannot wait. Admittedly, at Easter, the pool will not be up and running yet ( it opens on May 1) but we will have time to put the last finishing touches to the track up to the house, but a second clothes hanger and put up a couple more paintings, replace a few light bulbs and install a third lavatory.  What a holiday! The Eco palace will then be complete.

143 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: A rotten end to 2022 for the vile slug & self confessed liar David Williams of Avanti infamy + bubbles bursting for Malcolm and Darren

I start with Williams. Everything that is wrong about fat Tory conceit and sleaze. Then the bursting of the green and pot bubbles and why Malcolm and Darren just cannot see either. 

143 days ago

The ShareProphets 20 share tips of the year 2023 – No 17 a SELL from Tom, Steve & Lucian

Between Christmas Eve and the start of the trading year 2023 we will be serving up 20 tips – 2 from each of our writers but six (all sells but that may not be true) from me. Seventeenth up is a SELL from Tom, Steve & Lucian and the N50 website. The trio write….

143 days ago

Okyo Pharma Limited – surely shares should be suspended first thing when the market reopens?

Evil Banksta flags this up on the comments section but this merits a wider audience. This is a disgrace. The great bear, with grammar corrected by myself and a bit of added poison from me, notes:

143 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast - I just cannot tolerate executive greed even when the executive is dead

I start with the case of Atlantic Lithium (ALL) and share options for its late CEO. Then I look at why some bombed out stocks will bomb again in 2023 – Malcolm’s green shite – and then at a couple of others that may recover massively next year as I discuss my entry in our readers share tips contest which I urge you to enter HERE 

143 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Pantheon collapses, boy you should have heard Peter Brailey on September 10

I start with a health update, finally some joy from the NHS and, even before that, I am starting to feel better. Then it is onto Pantheon Resources (PANR), Inspirit (INSP), and Atlantic Lithium (ALL) and share options, incentivising the dead. Then macro calls on interest rates, inflation, the real economy, shares, bitcoin, gold and oil. Details of ShareStock 2023 on September 23 are HERE

145 days ago

Jack Monroe Part 4 - brilliant expose by Awfully Molly

https://awfullymolly.com/scams-exposed-past-and-present/

146 days ago

Jack Monroe Part 5 - superb journalism by Awfully Molly

https://awfullymolly.com/2023/01/13/jack-monroe-part-five/

146 days ago

Powerhouse Energy – yet more directorate changes & another Peel delay: when will this house of cards collapse?

Over the past two years Powerhouse Energy (PHE) has had almost as many directorate changes as I have had inappropriate thoughts about Cheryl Cole. Today there were three more. That is to say directorate changes, not thoughts about Cheryl. I finally got a phone appointment with a GP and am under instructions to take it easy.

147 days ago

Michael Vaughan vs Shamima Begum – why the BBC does not speak for me, part 567

Mr Vaughan used to captain Yorkshire and England at cricket and until last year worked as a commentator for the BBC at which point he was suspended following allegations from the whistleblower and anti Semite Azeem Rafiq that Vaughan made a racist remark to Asian players in 2009. That allegation made by the anti-semite and alleged sex pest is denied by Vaughan. On the other hand, Ms Begum left the UK to join ISIS, admitted to watching and applauding beheadings in Syria and condoned the attack on the Manchester area which saw a raft of young girls killed.

147 days ago

The Church of England rewrites history over slavery and bungs £100 million to its "victims"

Nobody seems to care about history being accurate any more. As long as it fits the narrative that English folks were universally bad and that vast amounts of money must be paid to the imagined victims of slavery.  The Church of England buys into this piffle and has produced a big report into its slaving links with especial reference to the South Sea Company and has found £100 million down the back of the sofa to compensate communities that might have suffered. Where to start?

147 days ago

The ShareProphets 20 share tips of the year 2023 – No 14 a SELL from Tom Winnifrith

Between Christmas Eve and the start of the trading year 2023 we will be serving up 20 tips – 2 from each of our writers but four (all sells but that may not be true) from me. Fourteenth up is a SELL from myself, Tom Winnifrith. I write:

147 days ago

Iconic Labs – year end accounts to 30 June 2021 - huge losses and material uncertainty over going concern remains

Iconic (ICON) published its results for the year ended 30 June 2021 which showed a loss of £7,697,306. The balance sheet showed gross assets of only £154,056 and a deficit in shareholders’ funds of £8,176,413. The results are primarily for the period before Iconic went into administration on 4 June 2021.

147 days ago

The ShareProphets 20 share tips of the year 2023 – No 13 a SELL from Tom Winnifrith, target 0p

Between Christmas Eve and the start of the trading year 2023 we will be serving up 20 tips – 2 from each of our writers but four (all sells but that may not be true) from me. Thirteenth up is a SELL from myself, Tom Winnifrith, where the target is 0p. I write:

147 days ago

Ben’s Creek – more greed and the morons love it, they love being diluted, shafted without lube

Ben’s Creek (BEN) shares have zoomed ahead by 15% today to 24.5p on news that shareholders are being shafted. They seem to love being screwed without lube by disgraced CEO Adam Wilson of Atlantic Carbon and Daniel Stewart infamy. Words fail me.

147 days ago

Jubilee Metals – Zambia and Corporate Update, making further progress

Jubilee Metals (JLP) has issued a ‘Zambia and Corporate Update’, including noting “successful completion of the water infrastructure upgrade at its Roan Project and continued advances in the production of cobalt and copper from waste at its Sable Refinery in Zambia”. So what with the shares currently at 10.25p in response?

148 days ago

The BBC rewrites history regarding Sir Francis Drake

Some crackpot school in London has renamed itself as it does not wish to be linked to Sir Francis Drake because he was an evil slave trader. Except that he was not. The BBC is keen to whip up more fake history and has joined in the battle as you can see below.

148 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: GOTCHA Chill Brands but Argo postpones death by a year

In today’s Bearcast I discuss Chill Brands (CHLL), which fesses to another TW Gotcha, as it serves up piss poor numbers. Then Cellular Goods (CBX) which I cannot see digging itself out of a hole of insolvency. Finally Argo Blockchain (ARB) which has merely postponed death by 8-15 months with today’s announcement. The target is still 0p.

148 days ago

The three Align Research share tips of the year for 2023 - heck one of them I own

For what it is worth here are the three share tips of the year from Richard “nobody likes me and I don’t care” Jennings of Align Research. 

148 days ago

The ShareProphets 20 tips of the year 2023 – No 6 is a SELL from Tom Winnifrith

Between now and the start of the trading year 2023 we will be serving up 20 tips – 2 from each of our writers but four (all sells but that may not be true) from me. Sixth up is a SELL from myself.

148 days ago

BREAKING: Eden Research – why can’t the fraud Eden and TerpeneTech agree on what are related party sales?

Eden’s (EDEN) 29.9% owned associate TerpeneTech Limited has finally filed its statutory accounts for the year ended 31 December 2021 on 19 December 2022, almost three months past the due date of 30 September 2022.  

148 days ago

The 30 most read articles of 2022 on TomWinnifrith.com

For what it is worth these are the 30 most read articles on this website during 2022. And there are some bloody good pieces here using the sort of hard data that the mainstream media ignores as it carries on spouting GroupThink gibberish. Enjoy.

148 days ago

Video: The Inflationary Nightmare – Biggest Bubble to Biggest Bust warns Peter Schiff

Maybe this time Mr Gloom will be correct. Investor, commentator and libertarian Peter Schiff has some stark warnings.

148 days ago

Zak Mir’s Christmas Carol Part 3

“For fuck’s sake you ghastly foreigner and all round oik I told you to sod off” screamed in unison both the world’s leading chartist and CEO of Lift Global Ventures and Aloysius as once again the windows of the chartists luxury apartment were flung wide open by the ghostly apparition. “Nadolig Llawen” said the ghost once again and beckoned the great technical analyst to come towards him.

148 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Yourgene (again) and not forgetting Christmas 1914 in France with great, great uncle Douglas

I discuss Yourgene (YGEN) again – should the directors be sued? Then I read to you the account of Rev Douglas Winnifrith from France in 1914 as I make a comment or two about Christmas and suffering. I wish you all a very merry Christmas. I must now brave a cold garden to pick the vegetables for lunch tomorrow.

148 days ago

Zak Mir’s Christmas Carol Part 2

The world’s best known chartist and CEO of Lift Global Ventures had a long discussion with the only bear who should not be serving a life sentence in South Georgia, that is to say Aloysius. They concluded that the ghostly apparition from earlier in the night was a ghastly oik probably a foreigner too, speaking Frog and all that, and so should be disregarded. It really was beddy byes time. But the great chartist struggled to fall asleep. And then….

148 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Beckham's pot dream up in smoke as I defend loathsome Neill Ricketts

I got up early to do part one of my Christmas Carol series today. I had been lying in bed thinking about it and some of the jokes for hours. I hope you enjoyed it. Part two will be tomorrow when we also start our tips of the year, a series of 20. Today I discuss Versarien (VRS), Cellular Goods (CBX) and “the gang” and Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO) where – with the shares now at less than half of par – matters are getting critical and the final collapse could be imminent.

149 days ago

Another week of rain here in Wales and in the North West of England for the global warming nutters to ignore: new reservoir data in

I am sorry if this sounds a bit obsessive but I like dealing in facts, that is to say what has happened, hard data.  Those in the Global Warming GroupThink, the followers of the Doom Goblin Greta Thunberg and employees of the BBC engage in wild speculation. And so I return to my specialist subject of reservoir levels here in Wales.

149 days ago

The lamentable state of the deadwood press: The next Warren Buffett?

Once upon a time the deadwood press investigated crooks.  Now it just recycles press releases and blows smoke up their arses. I bring you an edition of Fortune Magazine from last year as a case study. Discuss.

149 days ago

Online Blockchain – the fecking nerve of Clem Chambers & some crap results

Words almost fail me. In writing his excuses for another abysmal year at Online Blockchain (OBC), Clem Chambers starts by banging on about ADVFN (AFN) which Online bled dry with bogus charges when Chambers also ran ADVFN and where Online holds a 17% stake. Chambers knows who is to blame for matters at ADVFN. Not him for 20 years of relatives on the payroll, obscene expense claims and grossly inflated pay for him and his mates. Oh no…. Chambers says:

149 days ago

Video: Inflation, War and Precious Metals All Set to Accelerate Next Year

Analyst Charles Nenner is another cheery fellow.

149 days ago

GOTCHA! David Beckham Pot Play Cellular Goods – Rats, sinking ship, atrocious results, cash crisis

The David Beckham backed CBD play Cellular Goods (CBX) was listed at 5p in February 2021. Today the shares are plunging ( off 21% ) to 0.75p and things are only going to get worse. I did warn you. Let’s start with the rats.

149 days ago

Ben's Creek – more related party nonsense, more shareholder cash drained away to MBU

Even Stevie Wonder can now see that the optics here are dreadful. It is as you would expect with Adam Wilson of Daniel Stewart, Atlantic Carbon and Atlantic Coal infamy. It stinks. Today there is another shocking announcement.

149 days ago

BREAKING: Versarien – folks were fired by email at 5PM last night

I have been reporting all week on the growing story of redundancies at cash strapped Versarien (VRS). The company should make a statement because, according to my source, at 5 PM emails were sent.

150 days ago

So Headmaster: did you really listen to Alex Renton? Lessons for Warwick School

I flagged up my latest piece on historic physical and sexual abuse at Warwick School to the current headmaster yesterday.  He promised that he would listen to the excellent Alex Renton programme on Radio 4 last night. I listened with a glass of brandy in my hand thinking how much this reminded me of Warwick and almost in tears. It was very saddening but illuminating.

151 days ago

The absolutely brilliant new Dominic Frisby video - Show me the way to Ancapistan!

Dominic Frisby is a headline speaker but will also be performing a musical set at this year’s ShareStock on September 23. as a hint of what you don’t want to be missing, for all of you libertarians tired of watching the UK head down the pan, here’s Dominic’s new video, his best for a good while, in my view. Enjoy. Show Me the Way to Ancapistan!

151 days ago

Photo article from the two hovels - the olives are cured

My fellow harvester T had some doubts as to my method of curing olives but ye of little faith.

151 days ago

Warwick School, protector of abusive teachers please listen to Alex Renton on Radio 4 tonight

It is not often hat I urge anyone to listen to the BBC. But at 8 PM tonight the excellent Alex Renton has a new programme on historic sexual abuse at the UK’s public schools. I urge the staff, Governors and Headmaster of my old school Warwick to listen to Radio 4 very carefullty. For the issue at hand is how schools covered up and protected abusers and Warwick is guilty of that to an extraordinary degree.

151 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Photo podcast: Lake Vyrnwy and the GroupThink myth of global warming here in Wales

In August 2022 Lake Vyrnwy, about an hour from where I live in Wales, was the posterboy of the Global warming GroupThink cult as I recalled here. I took my kids to the lake today and combine those photos taken with hard data from United Utilities to show how the GroupThink are just so wrong. Not that the BBC or anyone in the Mainstream Media will report it.

151 days ago

Zak Mir’s Christmas Carol Part 1

‘twas the night before Christmas and the UK’s best known and leading chartist and CEO of Aquis listed Lift Global Ventures was perched on the edge of his four poster bed. His faithful teddy bear Aloysius urged him to consider snuggling up with him underneath his duvet, adorned with the Harrow School crest. But something was playing on the mind of Europe’s leading technical analyst, Mr Zak Mir.

151 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: 57 calls NOT to get a GP Appointment, the useless bloody fecking NHS

I start with a rant. Then I go onto look at Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL), why I am less bullish on oil than Gary Newman, Argo Blockchain (ARB), AAA (AAA), Asimilar (ASLR) and Audioboom (BOOM)

151 days ago

The SEC rap sheet against Caroline Ellison, part time g/f of FTX chief crook Sam Bankman-Fried

Although the FTX crypto heist gang gave quite enormous sums to the Democrat Party it is to be hoped that these twenty something fraudsters spend the rest of their working lives in the slammer.  The rap sheet below from the SEC is for Caroline Ellison the part time girlfriend of the chief crook Sam Bankman-Fried. GUILTY! Say we all. Enjoy.

151 days ago

Ben’s Creek now flogging its own assets – the Argo Blockchain route to (temporary) survival

Is there a growing cash crisis at Ben’s Creek (BEN)? In short, and you should be, YES.

151 days ago

Video: Worst Recession in Memory and New Highs for Gold in 2023, bitcoin to $9,000

Market Strategist Gareth Soloway of “In The Money Stocks” is a cheery fellow predicting doom and gloom all round unless you are in gold and silver or short shitcoin.

151 days ago

Lies, damned lies and census statistics from the heroic Peter Tatchell

For his work campaigning for LGB rights when nobody else was and for his heroic support of free speech, Peter Tatchell is a great hero of our time. But when it comes to Maths he really should go to one of Rishi Sunak’s planned brush up classes.

153 days ago

BREAKING: Versarien set to sack staff on Friday, all to do with audit sign off

The word on the street is that the “consultation period” with Versarien (VRS) staff where they were ALL told by the loathsome Neill Ricketts that their jobs were “at risk) ended yesterday. As such, a material number of P45s will be issued in time for Christmas. Its Neill: “Happy Christmas colleague, you are fired!”

153 days ago

Another indicator of Government failure - record numbers of bars & restaurants going bust

As chancellor, Rishi Sunak was applauded by almost everyone except me for the vast amounts of taxpayers money he chucked at the hospitality sector during the scamdemic. His reckless spending – either supported by the Labour Party, the SNP, the Lib Dems, the media class, or attacked for not being enough, created the inflation nightmare. But did it work? Look at the shocking chart below.  

153 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bonus Bearcast: GOTCHA Yourgene

The shares have collapsed 80% today and from 4.25p on November 3. I explain why that matters and why heads must roll as this stock is now just not investable.

153 days ago

Lemming interviews Skinbiotherapeutics boss Stuart Ashman

I do not always agree with Mr Lemming Investor but for what it is worth we are both still bulls of Skinbiotherapeutics (SBTX). He posted this Q&A with Stuart Ashman the other day and it is worth a read. Over to the Lemming:

153 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: I am sure I win my bet with Cliff Weight

I start on my health which seems to be improving. I then cover Nightcap (NGHT) – with another shocking expose – Cineworld (CINE), Eurasia Mining (EUA), the fraud [email protected] Capital (SYME) and Zephyr Energy (ZPHR) where I reckon I have won my bet with the ShareSoc BSD. I offer him another bet of a similar nature.

153 days ago

BREAKING: Happy Christmas Julie Meyer - Who's Going to Drive you home tonight?

Oh dear. Oh Dear. You remember Tesla meets Fitbit? Drive Software, the flagship in the empire of Julie “Lingerie on Expenses” Meyer? I have chronicled what a joke company it is many times year but my analysis was dismissed as “misogynist”. Anyone who criticises the woman still fleeing a High Court arrest warrant is a misogynist. Well just in time for Christmas it seems as if the unpaid bills have just piled too high as the documents below demonstrate.

153 days ago

Swapping emails with ‘arry Adams as Kefi lunatics plague me and him

I get up off my sick bed to find numerous emails from my fellow shareholders in Kefi Gold & Copper (KEFI). I am told that the shares are “collapsing”. Hmmmm so a 1% fall is a collapse: whatever you say.

153 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast - back on the sick bed

I have no idea what this lurgy is but I cannot throw it off and feel dreadful. In today’s podcast I cover Truspine (TSP), Vast Resources (VAST), Bens Creek (BEN) a zero for 2023, and San Leon (SLE).

153 days ago

Keller Group – income and growth value?

A trading update last month from Keller Group (KLR) included that “since the half year results, trading has continued at record levels” and that it is to “recommend a further 5% increase in the final dividend to 24.5p (2022: 23.3p). This would bring the 2022 total dividend payable to 37.7p (2021: 35.9p)”. We see income and growth value from a 747p offer price.

153 days ago

Verditek – the fraud will be bust by June.

It was only just over two years ago that shares in the fraud Verditek (VDTK) reached 18p at peak Mike Walters ramp. But, like so many stocks promoted by old mother Walters, Verditek was a fraud and now the shares are just 0.6p. This website has exposed the way Verditek has made announcements about big new contracts on a serial basis since 2017, ramped the shares, got a placing away only to ‘fess that the contract was bogus. The problem with frauds, as Mrs Thatcher might have said, is that eventually they run out of other people’s money. That point will arrive within months

154 days ago

Oh no covid’s back and that means barking mad Commie Susan Michie is back on the BBC talking unchallenged bollocks about masks

Already one health trust in England has banned hospital visits and force folks to wear face nappies “to save the NHS”. To save it from what? Covid of course. This is a new super strain of the Omicron variant, you remember the one that spread rapidly and killed virtually nobody. It is time for all the “experts” to be wheeled out, backing claims from public sector workers like the nurses and teachers as to why we should give them less work to do for more pay and to  trainwreck the economy as we do so. 

154 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Falling out with my old college ( again) over Christmas

Oxford is so full of Godless liberal tossers these days. After a brief rant on that matter I look at the importance of December to the bars and restaurant trade and how this month will be awful. I suggest why the lack of profits warning Sarah Willingham is now sitting on will force a bailout placing at Nightcap (NGHT) – any takers at 4p? I also look at Tintra (TNT) and nanosynth (NNN) as it heads for zero. 

154 days ago

Wheelsure – sales are vanity: the Fat Lady is checking her diary! This company deserves to go bust!

Aquis listed Wheelsure (WHLP) has always been an accident waiting to happen. But now it seems as if the Fat Lady may have a gig in Bedford possibly even before Christmas. The statement, ‘natch, is wholly disingenuous. Naughty, naughty Liam Murray at Cairn. I shall be dropping a quick email to Santa as this is NOT what good boys do.

154 days ago

Letter to the FCA – Odey Asset Management wasting clients cash?

I have commented extensively on this issue. I cannot understand how Odey is not both creating a false market in shares in Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO) – so inflating its AUM – but also knowingly and deliberately losing money for clients. I have written to the FCA asking it to examine the matter

Request that you investigate Odey Asset Management over share dealings in Advanced Oncotherapy

154 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Posties are greedy bastards and their company will go bust, its just a matter of when

Not quite as greedy as the Nurses. But do you know what the average screw of a postie is? I discuss that and why Royal Mail Group (RMG) is doomed and its equity must eventually go to zero. Then I discuss transparency ref  Red Rock (RRR), nanosynth (NN) and others.

154 days ago

SkinBioTherapeutics – no-one watching o’clock results and equity raise, what’s the outlook from here?

SkinBioTherapeutics (SBTX) has announced no-one watching o’clock (4:30pm) results for its year ended 30^th June 2022, with CEO Stuart Ashman stating “this financial year has been a mixed one for the group”. With the results coming with a potentially £3.5 million equity raise (albeit including an up to £1 million “retail offer”) at 16p per share, we’ve got some other words for it but where does this all leave the company now?

154 days ago

Jeremy Bowen – what a POS: the BBC, Israel and a partial stance

When Palestinans elect Hamas to lead them, when they vote for an organisation committed to driving the Jews out of Israel, the BBC reports that Hamas has won an election. When Israel elects a right wing coalition led by Bibi Netanyahu which is committed to a two state solution, the mainstream media reports that the frigging Jews have elected a ultra-right wing coalition which threatens to set the region in flames.  That was the tone of the discussion on the “impartial” Radio 4 flagship Today Programme today, centred on an interview with Jeremy Bowen. Who is he?

154 days ago

Tintra – was the recent death spiral really issued by Bergen Asset Management?

Dubious quality companies on the AIM and Standard List have long used Death Spiral funding to raise cash to keep the lights on.  It appears that now that some but not all of the Bulletin Board morons have cottoned onto the main names in the Death Spiral space that the latest twist is for the Death Spiral Lender to use a front entity to provide the money and for it to be given a industry relevant moniker to reassure the more gullible investors that the new funding is coming a long term institutional investor and not a wicked Death Spiral lender that will crater the share price.

154 days ago

DS Smith – interims, still a Buy

Packaging company DS Smith (SMDS) has announced results for its half-year ended 31st October 2022 and that, with also current momentum in the business, it now expects full-year performance to be ahead of expectations. Good news.

154 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast - The £250m Dev Clever scandal everyone wants to ignore

This is a quarter of a billion up in smoke. Real money. So many Red Flags. So many guilty parties ( named here), so many crimes bit nobody seems to care. I do. I predicted this but the failings of so many and the huge losses many will suffer gives me no pleasure. 

154 days ago

BREAKING - GOTCHA! Dev Clever - A £250 million UK tech blow up: delisting, lies and looks to be bankrupt

I have always warned folks about this company, even before its shares were suspended at 30p last Christmas Eve, giving it a £250 milllion market cap. Others ramped away or took vast fees (bucket shop adviser Novum and PR Chris Lane at Buchanan) step forward. But this was always a failing business drowning in red flags. Today it ‘fessed. Well sort of. It also lied.

155 days ago

Photo article from the Welsh Hovel - the flood waters rise but my earthworks from 2022 hold firm

Listeners to my bearcasts on Shareprophets know that I am set to plague the press office of United Utilities with obscure enquiries about reservoir levels here in North Wales. Here in the Dee valley the waters are rising as they always do at this time of year and always have done with or without the global warming spoof.  The apple orchard in photo one is now underwater but I plugged holes in the small levee last year and so the waters are yet to get to the base of the new elevated lawn and Ha Ha I built. And that structure is holding back the waters in the fields, now all underwater, so protecting the barns. So far so good and according to plan.

156 days ago

The Guardian on the Vlachs of Greece, the folks my father lived with and wrote about & who I shall visit again this September

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/02/greece-nomadic-herders-life-in-the-hill-photo-essay

156 days ago

Native American arts leader/grants grifter exposed as 100% white ( here we go again) - Madison365

https://madison365.com/indigenous-arts-leader-activist-revealed-as-white/

156 days ago

What do you reckon Cliff Weight, is Asimilar the most blatant insider dealing of the year?

The last stated NAV of Asimilar (ASLR ) was 25p per share. We knew it had taken one hit (AAA) but still the NAV should have been c20p (ho ho ho). On Wednesday its shares plunged by 32% to sub 4p begging me to ask this question.

156 days ago

Tintra – curious funding news, this stinks

In the current nuclear winter for small cap stock Richard Shearer is proving to be the man to watch as today Tintra (TNT) issued two announcements revealing the raising of significant additional cash to finance the artificial intelligence led banking operation that he is building.

156 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: The macro market and real economy take and Skinbiotherapeutics

Recorded last night in Greece I am now on my way, I hope, back to Wales. I start with the real economy, wider stock market and small cap forecasting. That does have a bearing on the Skinbiotherapeutics (SBTX) placing which I also discuss in detail.

156 days ago

Video: Could $3000 Gold Happen in 2023?

Chris Rutherglen runs Gold Investor Research so he talks his own book here. 

156 days ago

Photo article: the Woodlarks Christmas Grotto, so many thanks to you all from Sarah, Nick and the team

Sarah, the Mrs of Nick Richards, who is also a stalwart of Woodlarks, has written to you all with a few photos of what you funded. Over to her…

157 days ago

Video: The Coming Financial Iceberg

Alasdair Macleod is the head of research at GoldMoney and a cheery fellow. His conclusion, natch, is to buy gold. And here is why..

157 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: falling out with three old friends edition

Maybe I have fallen out with these folks already: Colin Bird, Richard Poulden, and Andrew Bell. But after this podcast I sure will have done so. I own shares in two companies mentioned. It is my intent to cut my losses when back at my desk in Wales next week and to reinvest the little cash that comes in, in a boring gold play with a dividend which will not be passing the begging bowl around numerous times next year. I think probably I shall buy a few more Ariana (AAU). The three companies that I slate today are Red Rock Resources (RRR), Tiger Royalties (TIR) and Wishbone Gold (WSBN)

157 days ago

Vast Resources is very rapidly approaching the trapdoor of death

20 months ago with its shares approaching 0.1p par Vast Resources (VAST) did a 100-1 share consolidation, telling its credulous shareholders that this was to help it pay a dividend. No sniggering at the back please. A series of fund raises and ongoing operational failure later, the shares are now 0.17p-0.19p. That is a major issue as Vast is again almost out of cash. This time that could be fatal. We are in a nuclear winter for small caps.

157 days ago

The actual rap sheet from the $100m US twitter and discord pump and dump fraud

A wise man suggests that I should not publish the details below of the alleged $100 million social media shares fraud as it might give certain folks in Airstrip One a few ideas of how they can up their game. But I do so anyway. Can you think of a podcast host who invites on private investors posing as BSD traders to pump their stocks with daft price targets. Who checks on whether the host or guests trade into the spikes? As for twitter pumpers…don’t get me started. Anyhow enjoy what is below, and if you have comments about UK citizens engaging in similar practices post away and I will approve.  

157 days ago

Asimilar – so what is the reason your shares are imploding? I offer three scenarios

Yesterday shares in Asimilar (ASLR) plunged 32% to sub 4p. The last stated NAV was – at March 31 – 25.3p so why the plunge. There are three scenarios.

157 days ago

SEC Charges Eight Social Media Influencers in $100 Million Stock Manipulation Scheme Promoted on Discord and Twitter – why is the FCA so useless?

We all know the sort of wretched individuals who pump and manipulate small cap UK stock prices on twitter by telling knowing falsehoods but the FCA, despite being provided with evidence does SFA. In the US it is different. A release from the SEC shows how to do what the FCA refuses to do because it is too busy monitoring how many lesbians or BAME folk sit on the Climate Change committees at UK PLC.

157 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Why Mirriad is a zero and another reason why the cheerleading by Andrew Monk for Aquis is wrong: Love Hemp

Andrew Monk of VSA, who no longer speaks to me but only to deadwood press journalists who blow smoke up his arse, keeps on saying how wonderful Aquis is and how it will replace AIM. But it cannot unless it addresses the long tail of garbage listed there. I mention a few names but focus in on today’s statement from Love Hemp (LIFE). It is possibly the worst trading statement I have ever seen from a listed company. I then discuss why Mirriad (MIRI) may say it has £11m cash but why it is a zero.

158 days ago

Could you run a business that manages to burn £8.13 of cash for every £1 it makes in sales?

I am not sure that I could. Morally I’d feel bad about it and actually to be quite so useless not just in the year gone by but over five years as a listed company would be really hard work. Welcome to the world of Mirriad Advertising (MIRI) about which Steve and I have been bearish for half a decade. Today came another piss poor trading update.

158 days ago

Eden Research – the TerpeneTech accounts debacle continues, cash crisis by St Valentine's Day

After 27 years of making losses, lying to investors and engaging in the odd fraud, the laughs continue at Eden Research’s (EDEN). Its 29.9% owned associate TerpeneTech Limited – with which it did a stunning Panama Pump fraud on more than one occasion -  still hasn’t managed to file its statutory accounts for the year ended 31 December 2021 which were due on 30 September 2022. As an associate of Eden, Eden is presumed to exercise some degree of influence over TerpeneTech.

158 days ago

BREAKING: is it P45s for Christmas for Versarien staff?

I explicitly told you that the £1.7 million fund raise by Versarien the other day was simply not enough and that by mid-year 2023, loathsome Neill Ricketts’ company will need another bailout. Today, a source suggests that Ricketts is preparing to fire some of his staff as an early Christmas treat. This is the maths on why.

158 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: after the funding time to close the Shield Therapeutics short?

The Greek Hovel olive harvest is done and I am soon off to the press. Phew. In today’s podcast I discuss Shield Therapeutics (STX), FinnCap (FCAP) and Argo Blockchain (ARB) 

158 days ago

Forget wanting to get some how’s your father the reason Sam Smith walked from FinnCap – atrocious results!

On 21 June smug and conceited Sam Smith announced that she was stepping down as CEO of FinnCrap (FCAP) the business she had founded and floated at 27p just three years ago. She left the business on September 28 and, according to one of the sycophantic journalists who have blown smoke up Smith’s arse for being a wonderwoman in a man’s world, yadda, yadda, yadda, this was so she could find time for a bit of How’s Your Father. Whatever. The real reason Smith walked was that she must have been aware just how dire trading was. Today we have results for the6 months to 30 September and they are catastrophic.

158 days ago

Argo Blockchain back from suspension, shares crash, statement is dire

So the rapidly deleted web pages from the Argo Blockchain (ARB) website, which you can see HERE, were real – it ‘fessed last night, Chapter 11 is a very real possibility. The statement will bring no comfort to the bulls bit at least it means the shares can trade again and they have duly slumped by 48% to 3.5p. That is 3.5p too high.

158 days ago

On behalf of Woodlarks I say thank you very much: Christmas Grotto appeal closed!

I asked you for £3,000 to fund the Woodlarks Christmas Grotto appeal a week ago. Today we have reached our target with gift aid on top. I have asked Darren to close the page when he wakes up in the socialist hell hole that is Canada (no sniggering at the back) so no more money please. Treat yourself to an extra bottle of ouzo this Christmas. On behalf of Nick Richards, his charming Mrs Sarah and all the team at Woodlarks, we are very grateful for your generosity. Thank you all. 

158 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: time to write to the FCA about Odey

I start with macro economics and why I am so bearish on UK PLC. Then to Purplebricks (PURP) and the housebuilders in light of today’s shocking warning from the UK banks on mortgage lending prospects for 2023. Then Parsley Box (MEAL), Vast Resources (VAST) as the trap door approaches and Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO, Odey Asset Management and the FCA. I may be wrong about this but I’d like the FCA to have a butcher’s. Finally a big thank you from me on helping us raise all the money needed for the Woodlarks Christmas Grotto appeal. 

158 days ago

Nanosynth just 0.3p to sell: bankruptcy by Christmas, will the misleaders come clean?

Back in August the serial deceivers at nanosynth (NNN) announced a death spiral deal with the shysters at Lanstead claiming it “is pleased to announce a conditional subscription to raise £2,942,500 through the issue of 535,000,000 new ordinary shares of 0.01 pence each in the Company at a price of 0.55 pence per Ordinary Share to institutional investor Lanstead Capital Investors L.P., together with a related sharing agreement pursuant to which the Company pledges the gross proceeds of the Lanstead Subscription.” Morons did not read or understand the small print. Now bankruptcy looms and morons who bought into that RNS should be rightly furious with the company and its advisers.

158 days ago

Chill Brands is taking the piss, clearly out of cash a pathetic pre placing ramp, new order might cover 3 days costs

The last time we knew the cash position of Chill Brands (CHLL) was at March 31. The company neglected to give any update with its (piss poor) finals or in a trading update a few weeks ago. You can thus guess that the position is pretty dismal and the company is close to running on vapours. Hence 6 RNS ramptastic announcements since September. Today’s is the most wretched yet.

160 days ago

Photo article, Day 7 the end of the Greek Hovel Olive harvest 2022

Heroic harvester T and I knew we had a deadline to meet. At 4 PM mad lefty L and villager George would be arriving to tie up our bags Albanian style and to take the harvest in George’s 4×4 down to the press. So we started early, 7 am, putting our Englishman’s sacks and the even smaller English Gentleman’s sacks through the grill, pictured below, removing more leaves and decanting into a new small sack which we poured into the most full of our sacks. We created Albanian sacks, ones containing almost 50kg, full to the brim

160 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: beware what a delirious Tom says, is this the end of Zak Mir at Lift?

First things first. We now need just £240 to wrap up the Woodlarks Christmas appeal. Please give a tenner HERE so we can do that on Monday. Thank you in advance. Second I am a bit delirious and explain why. Finally, is this the end of Zak Mir at the Lift Global Ventures (LFT) swizzle?

160 days ago

The annual Woodlarks Christmas Grotto appeal from Tom Winnifrith, just £20 shy of target! - can you get us over the line?

I know times are tough. But I am sure that if you are reading this you can afford a tenner or a fiver. And I ask that you hand that over to the amazing folks at Woodlarks as it does its first face to face Santa grottos for 200 kids whose, often short, lives are not like those we enjoy.

160 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: why Gary Newman is so wrong on Coro

But we believe in free speech here so Gary is entitled to his opinion. But I explain why, in my view, Coro Energy (CORO) is a bargepole stock. The good news today is that we have now raised 84% of our Woodlarks Christmas Grotto appeal target. Please shut me up and donate a tenner (or more) to raise that last £443 HERE

160 days ago

When you bank is trouble you are really screwed – yes its Argo Blockchain again

We still have no statement from Argo Blockchain (ARB) regarding its share suspension on Friday and a possible Chapter 11 filing. But if you think Argo has problems ( it does it is bust) have a look at its main bank, NYDIG, the company’s primary secured lender.

160 days ago

SHOCKING EXPOSE: Evrima – this is taking the piss! Free money for the boss!

I have highlighted before that Aquis listed Evrima (EVA) is worthless POS, with shocking corporate governance. Now there is an AGM planned for 28 December and CEO Burns Tennent Bohi really is taking the piss on a gargantuan scale. Let me explain:

160 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: More Albanian problems and more Kefi shareholders on my case - I communicate with ’arry Adams

I explain my latest Albanian problem on day three of the harvest. The it is onto Kefi Gold & Copper (KEFI), Yourgene (YGEN), Kibo (KIBO), Procook (PROC) and Argo Blockchain (ARB). There is a bit of swearing for Catriona and Matthew’s Dog since Matthew and C’s Dad have both donated to the Woodlarks Christmas appeal. Thanks to them and you all we are now at 64% of target. If you are yet to donate, please shut me up and donate HERE.

160 days ago

Procook – told y’all another warning, an extra ouzo for the Sheriff of AIM tonight!

I explicitly warned you to dodge the Procook (PROC) IPO at 145p on November12 last year. Since then there have been a catalogue of profits warnings and today, just 40 days after the last trading statement there is another savage warning. It will not be the last and the shares, at just 28p, are for morons and financial masochists only.

160 days ago

Inspirit Energy – time for an uber expensive cash bail out

On 8 December Inspirit (INSP) announced that “it has entered into a short-term, un-secured debt facility of up to US$250,000 (approximately £205,075). Under the Facility Inspirit will be initially drawing down US$80,000 (approximately £65,624)” It contained the standard lie that AIM and Standard Listed dogs regularly trot out when raising funds to pay for ongoing losses namely “the proceeds of the advance are for general working capital.”

160 days ago

Tom Winnifrith bonus bearcast - Argo, the end or the beginning of the end?

Tom First things first. We have now passed 50% on the Woodlarks Christmas appeal. If you can help us raise just another £1500 by donating a tenner we are there. Please donate HERE. Secondly Argo Blockchain (ARB) shares have been suspended. An extra ouzo for me tonight. I discuss reference the screen grab, of a page now deleted by Argo or maybe not, below.

160 days ago

easyJet – full-year results, now return to profit potential?

easyJet (EZJ) has announced results for its year ended 30th September 2022, including emphasising “achieved record headline EBITDAR in Q4 of £674 million” and “peak holiday weeks this winter, such as October half term and Christmas week in the UK, are back to normal levels of volume. Through these key periods, ticket yields are showing strength on the prior year, with the Christmas period’s ticket yield currently up c. 18%”. Is this overall good news?

164 days ago

All praise, not the NHS, but my fellow entrepreneurs this Christmas

From King Charles downwards everyone always lines up at Christmas to praise the valiant NHS workers (greedy bastards), and other public sector workers who keep the country running at this time of year. Well up to a point.

164 days ago

Shearwater – interims and traditionally weighted second half “has started strongly”, still a Buy?

Technology security services group Shearwater (SWG) has announced results for its half-year ended 30th September 2022 and that it remains “confident, based on delivering the existing pipeline of opportunities”. So what’s the half-year detail and what of a current 95.5p share price?

164 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: time to close the Purplebricks short?

I start with a little joke about the weather and global warming. Then I discuss Tern (TERN) and Purplebricks (PURP).

164 days ago

Neill Ricketts is the real victim of the collapse of Versarien, says .... Neill Ricketts

Shares in Versarien (VRS) now linger at just over 10p. Just over four years ago they were 182p. Some folks have lost 94% of their money. Many more who believed the promises of jam tomorrow and the outright deceit of boss Neill Ricketts, a man who himself is the largest shareholder having invested a paltry £4,000 for his shares. He has taken out millions in salary, bonuses ( for what FFS?) and by dumping shares as he urged others to buy. So who does Neill Ricketts say is the real victim here? Guess…

164 days ago

I know it's Edison but a scotching of Kefi doing a placing rumour and a valuation that says shares should treble (or more)

These days he goes by the name Lord Ashbourne but I shall always know Edison’s mining analyst as the convicted felon Charlie Gibson. Anyhow yesterday he was not thrashing some peasant for being a dirty oik or driving while sloshed but instead penning a note on Kefi Gold & Copper (KEFI). Of course Kefi pays for this research but that makes its steer on a placing all the more relevant. No it is NOT doing one right now as I keep being told by folks who will not accept a slam dunk denial from ‘arry Adams.

164 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: On Day 1 of the olive harvest, a challenge for loathsome Neill Ricketts but is he man enough?

It is day one of the harvest and feeling rather wet and very tired I explain a bit of what has gone on. Then it is onto Versarien (VRS), Chill Brands (CHLL) and musicMagpie (MMAG) two of which I expect to go bust in 2023.

164 days ago

Day 6 of the Greek Hovel Olive harvest 2022

It is now the day after Boxing Day. Between arriving back in Wales on the 16^th and Christmas Eve I decanted six litres of the olive oil pressed from my olives in Kambos earlier this month. Today, as my recovery from the illness that struck me in late November, accelerates I sat down with my son Joshua and enjoyed a plate oil that oil with some crusty bread for the first time. It was delicious with a peppery after taste hitting the back of your throat. It reminds me that I have yet to complete the tale of this year’s harvest.

164 days ago

Zamaz – a deep dive into accounts reveals major issues

The year end accounts for Zamaz (ZAMZ) are now available so I have taken a look at the more detailed information and it just highlights just what a poor-quality business Zamaz is. I have grouped the findings under a number of themes below.

164 days ago

Alpha Growth – buys another sub scale life insurance company: questions, questions

Another deal more questions. Alpha Growth (ALGW) announced the completion of its purchase of Old Mutual International (Guernsey) Ltd which was initially announced on 24 March 2022.

164 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Revolted by Clem Chambers ex ADVFN

Recorded on the hoof before I fly to Greece, this Bearcast covers the open offer at ADVFN (AFN) and what new management must do to deal with the revolting greed, reward for failure and disgraceful behaviour of ex-boss Clem Chambers and his gophers. It is truly nauseating.

164 days ago

Versarien bailout placing at just 10p – and it is not enough!

As I warned you, my analysis showed that Versarien (VRS) was going to run out of cash by Christmas. And so today, after shameless ramping this website exposed HERE, HERE and HERE, a bailout placing is announced, though raising just £1.85 million gross, call it £1.7 million net, at just 10p. Where does one start?

164 days ago

Home REIT - why the Chairwoman Lynne Fennah has to go NOW!

It is probably deemed sexist to say this but the chairwoman of Home REIT (HOME) Lynne Fennah has to be fired now. Adding to the work of Fraser Perring and Boatman Capital I offer a few more thoughts on this matter.

164 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast – Don't worry I'm not ignoring the elephant in the room called O'Hara

I start and end with some admin matters. The one at the start is the Woodlarks Christmas grotto appeal, if you have a spare fiver or tenner (or more!) please donate HERE. Then I look at a conversation with a small cap vet warning of bailout placings at a 75% discount on the way. I discuss Optibiotix (OPTI), Skinbiotherapeutics (SBTX), Vast Resources (VAST), Versarien (VRS), Yourgene (YGEN) and AJ Bell (AJB)

164 days ago

Disgraced Dominic White’s Zamaz – piss poor results and ludicrous valuation

Zamaz (ZAMZ), the Standard listed vehicle of Dominic White of the fraud [email protected] Capital (SYME) infamy, has published extracts from its annual report for the year ended 31 August 2022 and promised that the full results would be available on its website at Zamaz.tech. At the time of writing this article, the website simply states “coming soon” which for a company which states “Zamaz’ proven expertise in digital brand building” is rather laughable.

164 days ago

Jeffreys Henry quitting as auditors to over 40 listed companies: the knock on…

On 2 December, Kanabo (KNB) issued an RNS which stated under heading “Resignation of Auditor” the following text:

164 days ago

Versarien Loan Rescheduled: another £5m of Tory sleaze vicar?

Make no mistake, today’s news from Versarien (VRS) is a £5 million dollop of sleaze from the Tories. It also suggests that the bailout discounted placing is coming soon. To what seems wholly corrupt, first.

164 days ago

AIM Market November stats are dire – numbers heading for 19 year lows

The, self-described, world’s most successful growth market, aka the AIM Casino, had a dire November and December will be worse, the sewer is heading for 19 year lows in terms of listed companies.

164 days ago

Evil Banksta says I got my Shield numbers wrong – but he still thinks it’s screwed

I plead guilty. I recorded the bearcast HERE the other day when I was ill and so marginally delirious so I may have erred when it comes to Shield Therapeutics (STX). Evil Banksta is kind enough to assist me with my maths and he writes:

164 days ago

BREAKING: Now Boatman Capital savages Home REIT & demands boardroom changes

First it was Viceroy Research savaging Home REIT (HOME), now Boatman Capital, the entity that exposed Babcock (BAB) and Argo Blockchain (ARB) has joined the battle. It claims to be long not short but its letter to Home below is damning and makes it clear that heads need to roll. Enjoy.

164 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: a vital Christmas question for ALL of you as I discuss a £250m blow-up in waiting

I start with a question for you ALL. Answers please in the comments section below. Then there is a detailed analysis of the cash position of Dev Clever (DEV) capitalised at a suspension price of £249 million. Follow my logic, I reckon it is surviving only by not paying bills and is bust.  I explain all. Please take note shareholders in Asimilar (ASLR). I hope it does go bust as that will pose serious questions for a list of colourful characters who I name and shame in the podcast.

164 days ago

Does anyone read the FT any more? Not even its own staff?

The article below is hilarious and merits a wider audience.  It implies that even staffers at the god awful FT aren’t reading its dreary, woke, PR puff filled pages anymore and who can blame them? Enjoy.

164 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast – why I'd be short ASOS, a tale from 1938 & Malcolm bonkers again

I explain why Bearcast is late. There are several reasons but the main one is me distributing Christmas presents in Bristol to an Aunt and a Great Aunt and it is the latter’s story from 1938 regarding Munich which I find so fascinating.  Then it is onto ASOS (ASC), the CFO merry go round and the fundamental reasons why it is a short. Finally Comrade Stacey is almost 100% in cash. Three Brains Bailey is 0% in cash. I explain why I agree with three brains

165 days ago

Christmas & Pride Month in Brighton: This is all to do with Offence

My old Oxford College sent me an email just before Christmas wishing me happy holidays, festive break etc. It did not mention Christmas which, adopting the vernacular of the age, I told Hertford, caused me great offence. I pointed out that they may be Godless liberals but the reason they got time off work at this time of year was because it was Christmas, the time when many of us celebrate the birth of the Lord.

165 days ago

Vp plc – interims, a “sustained demand”: Buy

Equipment rental company Vp plc (VP.) has announced its results for its half-year ended 30^th September 2022 and that “reflecting these results and our view of the future prospects of the group, the board is declaring an interim dividend of 11.0 pence per share an increase of 5%”. This sounds encouraging.

165 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast - you are just too kind says a fellow Argo Blockchain bear and 2+2 does not always equal 4

Thanks for all the kind wishes about my health and that of Joshua, we seem to be on the mend. In today’s podcast I discuss Kefi Gold & Copper (KEFI), Skinbiotherapeutics (SBTX), Argo Blockchain (ARB) and – in detail – Victoria (VCP) 

165 days ago

Video: Gold – The Anti-Fiat Bubble

Diego Parrilla is an author, engineer and economist and a gold bug.

165 days ago

Do I really want my taxes lent to upper class twit of the Year Mark Warde-Norbury and Marechale?

The bounceback loan scheme of the then chancellor Rishi Sunak was meant to help small businesses suffering a covid hit to get access to funding to see them through.  As we taxpayers face the highest tax hit in 70 years let’s look at one worthy recipient, Mark Warde-Norbury, speaking to us from the stately home at Hooton Pagnell which has been in the family since 1704. Mark runs Marechale (MAC) a sub scale investment bank which snuck interims out just before lunchtime, allowing mark time to shoot some wildlife and thrash a few peasants before he speaks to the great unwashed. 

165 days ago

Tintra – could Richard Shearer’s stake soon really be worth £90 million?

Since I wrote about Tintra (TNT), its rule breaking and interim results on 27 October, it has busy with a few new announcements. Is this now a quarter of a billion dollar spoof?

165 days ago

Because man made global warming is bollocks – the quotes, as a greenie, I recycle every winter

One of the many things that those inside the global warming GroupThink cult are unable to explain is why we should believe 30-50 year forecasts about climate change when the ones made 20 years ago have already been proved to be utterly wrong. It is as if we based our response to covid on the work of Professor Ferguson whose forecasts of hundreds of thousands of deaths from avian bird flu, swine fever, etc had proved so completely bogus. Oh, we did because“experts” inside the GroupThink are always right… but back to global warming.

171 days ago

Argo Blockchain – precisely just how little cash is left

On 7 October Argo Blockchain (ARB) announced a series of measures to raise $39.5 million and claimed that this would be enough to last 12 months. Now I have doubts about that claim but unfortunately a proposed $27 million placing fell through so where is the company now?

171 days ago

Cineworld shares zoom – has anything changed?

Yes. The share price. Up 30% at the start now 17% ahead at 5.4p.  That has changed. But anything else?

171 days ago

Tom Winnfrith Bearcast from the house of sickness

Both Joshua and I are feeling dire so this is a very short bearcast covering Peel Hunt (PEEL) and the nomad/broker sector and Purplebricks (PURP), a zero after the latest housing data. Now back to bed.

171 days ago

Seed Innovations – Ed McDermott Bullish but am I losing faith?

Seed Innovations (SEED) was my exposure to cannabis and a jolly disastrous investment it has been. At 2.6p I am almost 80% out of the money. My feeling is that the cannabis bubble has burst and yesterday’s comment on CBD HERE has to be bad news. I cant bring myself to cut the loss although maybe I should.  But of the NAV is 8p as Ed Claims maybe I should hang on? A couple of weeks ago I exchanged emails with Seed boss Ed McDermott asking him if he was alright?

171 days ago

Iconic Labs – its alive!

At Companies House, Iconic’s (ICON) status is now “Voluntary Arrangement” and the administrators filed their final report on 8 November 2022.  So Iconic its back under the control of its directors.

172 days ago

Day 5 of the Greek Hovel Olive harvest 2022 – the worst day

As our phones had warned the weather went downhill rapidly overnight. The wind was already howling and the rain falling as we arrived back at the Hovel. During the night I was woken up repeatedly by lightening and enormous thunder claps which arrived almost at the same time. The storm was directly overhead.

172 days ago

Tern – Wyld 3rd quarter results show it’s still a significant cash burner: SMTM!

In its RNS yesterday Tern (TERN) provided various extracts from Wyld’s 3^rd quarter results for the period ended 30 September 2022.  The extracts focus heavily on positives such as the purchase orders now being received by Wyld.  If you look at the actuals published Wyld results it becomes apparent that it may take some time for these revenues to be reflected in the income statement as the following note to the accounts shows:

172 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Family tales

I start with the reason for no bearcast yesterday and end with my virtue signalling siblings lining up to be mugged. In between I look at Strix (KETL), Argo Blockchain (ARB), Chill Brands (CHILL), Cellular Goods (CBX) and the CBD pain myth exposed and also at Tomco (TOM) and Shield Therapeutics (STX) where I sense PL will be apologising to the master soon.

172 days ago

Versarien pre-bailout placing ramp part 3 - rope in a wretched Tory MP: caption contest?

With a majority of just 834 Tory MP, almost, lifelong career politician, Andrew Bowie is probably already trying to find secure employment for after 2024 when he loses his seat. If so he was in the wrong place yesterday as, as a junior export minister, he pitched up to meet the blubbery lardball that is Neill Ricketts, the loathsome boss of Versarien (VRS) which is set to run out of money by Christmas.  It won’t be in a position to make him a NED come 2024. From the winner of a reality TV show 21 years ago to a Tory MP who is not even a household name in his own household, Versarien sure pulls in the all the big stars.

172 days ago

Home REIT - "we have them on the ropes now" claims Fraser Perring of Viceroy as he publishes new report (below)!

My pal Fraser does not  think much of Home REIT’s (HOME) formal response to his bear dossier and now adds to the savaging of “shy bear” with his own formal response, below in full. Mr.Market agrees with Fraser, the shares are off another 9% at just 51p.  His rebuttal below is pretty brutal.

172 days ago

BREAKING: Fraser Perring and “shy bear” bite back as Home REIT tries – and fails – to rebut

Home REIT (HOME) has today published a very detailed and wordy attempted rebuttal of the bear dossier served up by Fraser Perring at Viceroy Research, HERE. But has Home dealt with the bears? Au contraire. Both Fraser and another leading grizzly have hit back with a series of questions and comments which  I can reveal exclusively, below ahead of a conference call at 11.30 AM.

172 days ago

Versarien pre bailout placing ramp part 2 – placing a bogus story in the local rag, for the cultists to then circulate

Given that Versarien (VRS) is now running on vapours, the pointless creation of loathsome Neill Ricketts is desperate to pump its shares as hard as it can to get a bailout placing away. Yesterday we saw lovable oaf Craig from Big Brother 2001 roped in. Today we see the use of the local rag.

172 days ago

Tomco – yet another bailout placing – can any AIM listed company better this record of value destruction?

Tomco (TOM) arrived on AIM via an RTO int a failed tech business just in time for Christmas 2006. Was that a White Christmas? I only ask because I am dreaming of one and the chap behind that RTO was Howard Crosby, nephew of Bing and cousin of Mary who shot JR.  More than £5 million was raised at 2.5p. Wind forward today and, accounting for a 2017 200-1 share consolidation, the shares at 0.335p, are 99.933% down. Can any AIM dog, still going, match that record of disaster?

172 days ago

Devro – recommended offer, now a little more than 2 months, near 71% gain!

September-recommended at a 180p offer price manufacturer of collagen products for the food industry Devro (DVO) has issued an update including that “current trading and the full year outlook are slightly ahead of the board’s expectations, underpinned by a robust performance and foreign exchange tailwinds”… but, more significantly, has also announced a recommended offer… at 316.1p per share!

172 days ago

Boohoo’s Mahmud Kamani – mad, bad or a genius?

I refer, of course, to news today that  that Boohoo (BOO) has increased its shareholding in Revolution Beauty (REVB) from just under 13% to 26.4654% even though Revolution Beauty shares are suspended as it still cannot bottom out the size of a fraudulent accounting black hole. So is boss Mahmud Kamani mad or a genius?

172 days ago

Petrofac – Sorry Gary Newman but I fear the great Waseem Shakoor is right: look at the bond price

Gary Newman last tipped Petrofac (PFC) on this website on 6 September HERE at 112p. He can write what he wish, but I fear he is wrong – this is a stock for shorting –  and note comments from the great Waseem Shakoor today.

181 days ago

Photo article: day 4 of the Greek Hovel Olive harvest 2022 - the most poisonous wildlife diversity yet spotted

It looks increasingly grim on the Albanian front so harvester T and I soldier on. It is hard work and by the end of every day my bones ache and I long for bed.

181 days ago

Photo article of day 3 of the Greek Hovel olive harvest - an Englishman's sack is smaller than that of an Albanian, size does matter

I overslept a bit and a couple of major triumphs from my day job pulled me out of action for an hour or so. The net result was that after harvesting 20 trees on day two we manged just 15 on day three. There is another reason: we are now moving further from the house so dragging back mats laden with olives (and leaves) to be sifted on the grill takes that bit longer.

183 days ago

Photo Article: Day two of the Greek Hovel olive harvest 2022, I gather it is minus 3 in London

I hope that you are all wrapped up warm back in Blighty. I do not want to make you all jealous but this was my work atire all day, here in Greece. Yes, as you can see below, it was T-shirt weather.

183 days ago

Day 1 of the Greek Hovel olive harvest 2022

My plane from Manchester was almost an hour late. That meant that poor olive harvester T, back for his second stint, had five hours to kick his heels at Athens airport but at least he was able to buy supplies for the day ahead. Foot to the floor and with the roads almost deserted we hit Kambos by 10.30 and thought we’d stop off for a quick drink in what was once Miranda’s. Schoolboy error number one.

186 days ago

When the UN views Israel this way you know it cannot get a fair hearing - the death of Ammar Mifleh

Ammar Mifleh was a man with a career in terror which on the West Bank means trying to kill Jews.  Last week he attacked an Israeli soldier, trying to steal his rifle. In that attack he stabbed the soldier in the neck. The soldier pulled his gun and shot Mifleh dead. The whole incident was caught on video so there is no doubt what happened. But the UN’s  Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland offers his take below.

186 days ago

The great covid and cigarettes cover up - Christopher Snowdon

https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/12/05/the-great-covid-and-fags-cover-up/

186 days ago

A devastating critique of the #climatechange scam from NZ

https://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/12/dick-reaney-its-madness-madness-madness.html

187 days ago

Versarien pre bailout placing ramp part 1 – loveable scouse oaf Craig Phillips from BB 2001 and the video

There has been a concerted attempt by Versarien (VRS) to ramp its shares in recent weeks. The reason, though it has yet to ‘fess to it is that it will be out of cash, burning cash and having stiff debts to support by Christmas. It clearly needs to do an emergency placing fast, hence the ramping.  Let’s start with the just released video below starring lovable scouse oaf Craig Phillips, the winner of Big Brother 2001.

187 days ago

100,000 killed or maimed Ukrainian troops – shocking, little-reported, news back in Airstrip One

The British mainstream media, led by the appalling Daily Mail has, from the start of the war in Ukraine bigged up Russian Casualties, bathing in the blood of every dead Russian. Day after day there are videos straight from Kiev showing Ukrainian snipers getting kills at record distances, drones blowing up Russian tanks or some other heroic act meaning more Russian mothers will be mourning their sons this Christmas. But there is a big omission.

189 days ago

So where is your Mrs from? I am asked now and again: Ref Lady Susan Hussey

I am not often asked wherev I am from. If so I’d mumble someing about Warwickshire, Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire and that would be that. Nobody would ask “but where are you really from?” forcing me to discuss Kent, Dorset, Worcestershire -on two sides – and my illegitimate great grandmother who was from God only knows where. I am more often asked where my wonderful wife is from and that is because she has brown skin. I say Nottingham.

191 days ago

Fewer than half of Brits are Christians census fury but atheists, like Cambridge bisexuals, see the light in the end

There is much wailing as the results of the 2021 Census are published and so that for the first time in almost two thousand years the majority of folks in England and Wales do not identify as Christian. Well sort of, many of the supposed godless are just like Cambridge University bisexuals. They will see the light sooner or later. Let me explain on this day before Advent.

192 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: getting my head around Atlantic Lithium, placing ahoy for sure but what of the £234m valuation?

I start remembering a career moment of shame involving Colin Bird and that brings me to Xtract Resources (XTR) where for all Bird’s dissembling surely a placing is underway? I look at the joke company eEnergy (EAAS) and the disgraceful antics of Justin the Clown.  I cover nanosynth (NNN) which I expect to go bust by New Year’s Day and Argo Blockchain (ARB) which I think is already bust. I explain how it can avoid paying its bills for a while.  Then I look at “wonder stock” Atlantic Lithium (ALL), its £1 billion NPV and how robust that is, its management, the various red flags and the inevitability of a near term placing. There are bull points here as well as bear.

192 days ago

Advanced Oncotherapy marks its own homework and says it is sex on legs – does anyone fall for this bullshit as the cash runs out (again)?

Study showcases the potential superiority of LIGHT! Shouts today’s RNS from Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO). That would be the LIGHT Proton system that is not yet up and running? Yes that one. Great. So, who did the study? Er…

192 days ago

Condor Gold – Jim Mellon has to bail it out at 15p: surely this should have been before sale process started?

Last week Condor Gold (CNR) announced that as part of a strategic review it was putting itself up for sale (again) which I warned was because it was out of cash and probably could not raise any. Guess what? Old Tom Winnifrith was right yet again.

192 days ago

Justin the Clown’s misleading ramp of a dog where he is already well underwater – eEnergy (looks a great short)

Back in June of this year Justin the Clown told his followers, both of them, that he had filled his boots with eEnergy (EAAS) saying “My new investment that fits ALL my filters”. I am sure that is true, the shares were then c9p. They closed Friday at 6p before the company issued dismal results at 5.40 PM, nobody is watching O’clock. So yes, eEnergy does fit the classic Clown filters. But it gets worse.

192 days ago

Less than half Cambridge students are straight screams the Daily Mail... of course its all cobblers

I always thought the Tabs were a bit queer but further down this article in the Mail is a survey suggesting that less than half of Oxford Students are straight so has Oxbridge been over-run with gay folk? Quite obviously the answer is no and this is another sensationalist load of cobbers from the wretched Mail. The stats in the Cambridge survey were: straight 49.7%, gay 11.9%, bisexual 29.7% and other 8.7%. In Oxford 49% were straight 33% bi and the other 17% gay or other.  However…

192 days ago

Disastrous Thanksgiving weekend for the movie industry – just a couple more reasons why Cineworld is screwed

The Thanksgiving weekend is when Americans go as a family to see a movie in massive numbers. Well not this year. Ticket sales were just $125 million way down on prior year norms and what was expected. There are two reasons and both bode terribly for the cinema industry as established trends continue or even accelerate.

192 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Is the Eden fraud finally getting pulled down by Terpenetech?

In today’s podcast I look in detail at recent events at Eden Research (EDEN) and at Revolution Beauty (REVB). Both companies could well be 2023 zeros.

192 days ago

Praise be the lord - a new bonkers email from Julie "Lingerie on Expenses" Meyer

The Christmas gift that happens all year round has landed again, another bonkers email from Julie Meyer MBE.  Quoting both the Bible and EM Forster, a woman who is dodging a High Court arrest warrant, is subject to an FCA criminal investigation and pleads poverty to avoid paying tax in multiple jurisdictions while boasting of her life in her million euro luxury Greek villa has a message for you all. The world needs more of Julie. Whatever….

192 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Posh Spice Ltd now owes £60m but Bulb has cost every taxpayer £232

In today’s podcast I look at two business failures and the lessons we can all learn from them. In many ways Bulb is a bigger scandal than FTX and it has already cost the UK taxpayer £6.5 billion.

192 days ago

Carr's Group – audit delay, shares set for short suspension but trading “has continued to perform strongly” BUY

Speciality agriculture and engineering group Carr’s (CARR) has issued an update including that “the expected completion date for the group’s audit and publication of the group’s FY22 audited results is now mid-January 2023, later than the 3 January 2023 deadline required” but that it “has continued to perform strongly”, so what’s going on?

193 days ago

The Gresham lesson about bonuses for Sarah Willingham and Nightcap

The corporate governance at Nightcap (NGHT) is – as I have exposed on this website so many times – dreadful. That rather surprises me as the non executive chairman Gareth Edwards is not a bad old stick despite having been a partner at the accursed law firm Pinsent Masons.  One issue that the cash strapped company, now right up against the limit with its banks, and with its rollout programme on hold, is bonuses. I urge Gareth to look at events at Gresham (GHE), which – to make it easy for him – are detailed in full below.

193 days ago

CloudTag: Life in the old fraud yet or just a new fraud and possibly money laundering?

Cloudtag (CTAG) was a bulletin board darling which we exposed as a bankrupt fraud on this website numerous times HERE. Eventually the company’s Nomad, Liam Murray at Cairn Financial, arrived at the same conclusion and gave his notice of resignation.  However the company then raised £975,000 via broker Novum without telling Novum or anyone else about that resignation. Murray thus resigned with immediate effect and Novum unwound the placing while, with no other Nomad prepared to take on this toxic client, it was booted off the AIM sewer in March 2017.

193 days ago

Shield Therapeutics – tick tock …36 days to tits up alley ( or is it just 21 days?)

On 1 August 2022, having failed to raise $30 million in an equity markets fundraise – as I warred here to hoots of derision from BBMs sitting in their underpants in their parent’s basement – , Shield Therapeutics (STX) took out a $10 million loan from 13% shareholder AOP Orphan International AG. Now the clock is ticking on that loan.

193 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Oi Sam Smith stop getting your leg over and go back to FinnCrap - it's falling apart without you!

The legover reference is HERE. I am still very much under the weather with all the symptoms of covid. I am feeling a bit better but not well enough to do more than a few hours work today. Thanks to Steve for taking care of things. In the podcast I discuss Devro  (DVO) – who said young Steve and I could not tip a waiter? Then FinnCap (FCAP) then finally the dire sentiment towards mining stocks. Is it really that bad out there?

193 days ago

Ouzo Man adds to his Versarien short – is he smart to do so?

Reader Ouzo man is brave enough to be short of Versarien (VRS) historically this has been a wise move but the shares have surged in the past couple of weeks to 21.5p from a low of c13p.

193 days ago

Publicity Mad Sarah Willingham wants to stop rail strikes by bribing the workers with her £12 cocktails

According to City AM the owners of AIM listed POS bars chain Nightcap (NGHT) are Sarah Willingham and Michael Toxvaerd. Funny, I thought that it was long suffering shareholders who owned this financial abomination where every single person who has ever bought a share and held is now out of the money with the shares trading at just 8p-9p.

193 days ago

Video: More unemployment is needed to cure inflation

There are folks who think that inflation can be cured without pain. Those are the same folks who urged record money printing during the scamdemic. That is what caused inflation not, as they claim, President Putin. Writer Jesse Felder puts them straight.

193 days ago

OptiBiotix Health – after update from management, we continue to look for 100p+ for shareholders ahead

On developer of “compounds to tackle obesity, cardiovascular disease and diabetes”, OptiBiotix Health (OPTI) we’ve previously noted ‘some delays in delivery but a sales recovery Buy’ – including with “product launches by Apollo Pharmacies in India and restocking by some partners with sales normalising… as in previous years, there was no contribution in this period from licence or royalty payments which tend to be received in the second half”. We’ve since again spoken to CEO Steve O’Hara.

193 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast - this is short as I think I have Covid

I have been in bed since 7 PM last night and feel wretched. After this short podcast discussing my relief that it is probably Covid it is back to bed. I discuss Deepmatter (DMTR) and other companies trying to persuade ius that delisting is good news. Look at the shareholders behind it. 

193 days ago

NEW: Savage bear dossier from my pal Fraser Perring of Viceroy Research

 My pal Fraser has a new report out today savaging Home REIT (HOME). I bring it to you in full. Enjoy.

193 days ago

More greedy public sector workers telling lies - this time its the bone idle teachers, step forward Cllr Louise Atkinson

Its not just the greedy nurses who are lying about how they all need food banks to survive and who are thus demanding a big hike to a package which is already massively greater than the UK median wage. Across the public sector they are all at it. I have highlighted before the greed and mendacity of the teachers, but in 2022 the lazy scumbags are telling porkies as never before. Meet Louise Atkinson who when not working hard and getting a good screw from being a Labour councillor in Carlisle is a teacher. Heaven help her students.

194 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Being a Trustpilot detective on failing shitcoin promote Aqru - and look who is behind it?

I start with a few words on Jubilee Metals (JLP) and Bluebird Merchant Ventures (BMV). Then some Trustpilot detective work on AQRU (AQRU) which, I predict, will go bust in 2023. I move on to Xtract Resources (XTR), Shearwater (SWG), Alliance Pharma (APH) and then to the impending demise of Applied Graphene Materials (AGM). Gotcha! I also cover Argo Blockchain (ARB) which I still have down as a 2022 bust, maybe as soon as this week 

194 days ago

Video: The Only Year in History when Treasuries have Lost More than Stocks

Asset manager Michael Gayed discusses how insane this year has been and how this is the only year in history where treasuries have lost more money than stocks. The only period it can be compared with is 1931. We’re in very abnormal territory. 1931 was a pretty terrible time too, yet too many folks think this is business as usual.

194 days ago

BREAKING: Today’s shitcoin disaster is c/o chancer Mike Edwards – Aqru, you couldn’t make this up

In the bitcoin, NFT, blockchain frenzy of early last year the gang of Mike Edwards, Jonathan Bixby, disgraced Peter Wall of soon to go bust Argo Blockchain (ARB), disgraced broker Andy Frangos of (has just gone bust) Pello infamy and proven liar John Story staged a number of heists, or as they termed them IPOs.

194 days ago

“Strategic Review” is the AIM way of saying “we are fucked” – Applied Graphene Materials

On the evening of 7^th November I revealed how perma-dog ( with fleas) Applied Graphene Materials (AGM) was trying to raise money at just 2p even though the shares were 12.5p at the close the working day before. The next morning it fessed, citing my article, and admitted that the issue had been pulled and that it only had cash to last until January 31. The late Mama Cass put a date in her diary for a new gig. Today comes the words every investor dreads “strategic review.”

194 days ago

BOOM! Boohoo – another scandal emerges – can it survive this one?

After the slave labour in Leicester scandal, Boohoo.com (BOO) insisted it had done nothing wrong but put in place all sorts of ESG committees, procedures and staff to make sure it never did anything wrong again. Not that it had sinned in the first place, you understand. Today, an undercover reporter from The Times has exposed what happened when posing as a worker at the company’s Burnley distribution centre.

195 days ago

Ukraine rewrites history – Holodomor was not genocide, more lies from Kiev

In these days when every comment about Ukraine can see one black-listed by someone, I find myself having to preface this article by saying that I am no apologist for either President Putin or for Joe Stalin. However, having tried for the past year to re-write the present with the ghost of Kiev, the Auschwitz style gold teeth and other spoofs, Ukraine is now trying the most monstrous rewrite of history, a claim that the Holodomor was an act of Russian genocide.  The clear implication is that Russians like genocide against Ukrainians. The tweet below sets the case.

198 days ago

So what about the dying polar bears and the penguins as the sea ice disappears: the biggest global warming myth of our time.

It was about ten years ago when I sat down with my daughter Olaf, now 21 and in her final year at Oxford, to enjoy a meal at an Italian restaurant. I was greatly taken by an electric grater of parmesan and suggested to the little Trustafarian (not on my side) that I quite fancied one for Christmas. “But what about the Polar Bears, Daddy” said Olaf almost in tears

198 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Explaining why the Condor NPV is not serious and why that makes it a cracking short

I am still being pestered by my fellow Kefi Gold & Copper (KEFI) shareholders for reasons I cannot fathom. Some of them are delusional. I then turn to Microsaic (MSYS) where a statement on related party deals is needed pronto. Then onto AO World (AO.) where I do not buy into today’s rally before onto why Jim Mellon’s Condor Gold (CNR) is actually a short after today’s second attempt to put it up for sale.

198 days ago

The dangers of leaving a fund raising till it is too late : Yourgene

Back on 14 October when Yourgene (YGEN) shares traded at 4,25p I warned that the company would almost certainly run out of cash and would need to do a fund raise, HERE

198 days ago

Jim Mellon’s Condor Gold puts itself up for sale (again), better luck second time around

In September 2015 with its shares at 53p Condor Gold (CNR), backed by my old pal Jim Mellon, announced that to maximise shareholder value it was putting itself up for sale. But with no takers by January 2016 and with its shares back at 20p it called the process off. Today: guess what? It is up for sale again! The shares are now 24p! So much progress in almost seven years!

198 days ago

Deepverge £2m cost savings from thin air – what on earth was Gerry Brandon up to? How soon is Microsaic toast?

Gerry the arse Brandon has only “been resigned” from Deepverge (DVRG) for two weeks and yet already the new bosses have managed to find annualised cost savings of £2 million from thin air. That begs an almighty question of Brandon and surely means that he must be fired at Microsaic (MSYS) if it is not to go bust next year.

199 days ago

Think back to July and August and those parched Welsh lakes like Vyrnwy – where are the media & the cultists now?

The global warming cultists and their publicists at the BBC and across the liberal deadwood press in Britain had a field day in the summer of 2022. On July 19th the record high temperature for the UK of 40.3 degrees centigrade was recorded. The recording station was at RAF Coningsby at the side of a runway being used by after-burning Typhoon jets. And if you suggest that that might be a bit of a fix you are obviously a global warming denier, not following the experts and might as well admit that you are a Nazi right now. A month later came the dramatic photos from Wales…

199 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Kefi and more emails, 11 brave men & they were all Iranian & the G issue at Genedrive

I start with 11 weedy virtue signallers and 11 incredibly brave men at the World Cup. Then it is on to Kefi Gold & Copper (KEFI), Fox Marble (FOX), Dev Clever (DEV) and Asimilar (ASLR) and inally a long look at Genedrive (GDR), a case study on crony capitalism and destruction of shareholder value.

199 days ago

The Price of Changing your Mind – Andrew Monk of VSA Capital Special

Who said that for a small cap broker “delisting is inevitable. All are struggling to survive in a climate of scarce deals, low trading volumes, strong competition and rising costs” Okay it is a trick question but the answer is Andrew Monk of VSA Capital. The trick is that …

199 days ago

Genedrive rewards executive failure & deserves to go bust: full year results

When David Budd joined Genedrive (GDR) as its CEO in early 2016 the shares were 116p.  Today after diabolical full year numbers the shares are now just 10.5p. So we are all in it together right? Er wrong. While investors have lost 91% of their cash Budd has trousered just over £2 million including an inexplicable 2020 bonus of more than £207,044 taking his total package that year to £444,615. Oink. Oink. It gets worse…

199 days ago

Peter Schiff reminds us all of the great lie of shitcoin – the crypto winter may last as long as a Nania winter

The great lie pushed by those supporters of bitcoin and other crypto currencies was that supply of bitcoin was limited by the halving formula. So, we were assured that while promoters of shares or funds or any other asset would always match demand with new supply, bitcoin was different. Of course, that was just misleading.

199 days ago

Fancy a 165% annual yield until you get a 1750% capital gain in 4 years?

Yes, if it sounds to good to be true it is too good to be true. But some folks still think that it is true. The company is, of course, Argo Blockchain (ARB). I think it could go bust as soon as this week but there are others who know better.

199 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: The red flag lessons from quick death/slow death Wilko

Apparently the 92 year old chain needs an emergency refinance this week. If it gets it it is a slow death in 2023. If not it is a quick death before Christmas and 16,000 P45s. I look at the red flags in this case over the past year and why I own no retail or no property stocks – there are lessons for both sectors here.  Then I ask if Dave Richards of Wandisco (WAND) has gone mad or simply stuck his own moral compass where the sun don’t shine?

199 days ago

Why doesn’t the BBC challenge the canard of Evil Tories: lifting bankers bonuses while nurses eat from food banks?

This morning on Radio 4’s flagship Today programme it was the TUC boss Frances O’Grady ( total package £167,000) saying that the Tories were bad because they were going to lift the cap on bankers bonuses while nurses have to eat from food banks.  This line is trotted out by those on the left many times a day but it is just palpable nonsense. Let’s start with the banksters…

199 days ago

The Avaaz global warming grifters at it again – now it is drought in Somalia

There is a drought in Somalia. Nobody denies that fact. But the cause? The grifters at Avaaz do not care about facts  and are thus calling it out as another symptom of global warming and asking the saps they spam for money, some heading out to East Africa and some to line the pockets of the grossly overpaid liberal grifters at Avaaz. The grifters lead with a touching father and son photo from Somalia and say:

199 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast - white collar crime DOES pay and Malcolm Breaks the habit of a lifetime

You find me making sweet chilli jam as Christmas is near. Photos later. For some companies such as nanosynth (NNN) and Versarien (VRS) time is thus running out. I look at that but start with Malcolm and his deviation from every year I have known him. Then I look at how crime does pay – Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos and, I fear,  FTX.  Then a few words on the budget, a statement of “managed decline.”

199 days ago

Video: A Wave of Junk Debt Could Force the Fed to Pivot

Danielle DiMartino Booth, the CEO and Chief Strategist for Quill Intelligence, a research and analytics firm is a top banana, bang on the money on the subject of economics and crypto scams.

199 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Is Cliff Weight sniffing out insider dealing at N4 Pharma?

I start by referencing a podcast on public schools HERE and saying why I am at a funeral today. Gone are the days when the BSD at ShareSoc offered to help out those chaps at Globo (GBO) get the show back on the road. In new hands there is a suggestion of odd share dealings at N4 Pharma (N4P). I look at that and then the fundamental case against this stock. I also look at Parsley Box (MEAL) and CEO spoofing and at Eco Atlantic (ECO) and the dangers of punting on an E&P play ahead of a well.

199 days ago

#FakeNews, liberal comedian Tom Walker ( aka Jonathan Pie), twitter and Donald Trump

Donald Trump is back on twitter. Cue floods of liberal tears and wailing leftists protesting about why this is a threat to free speech and giving a potential GOP candidate for the President the same platform as a Democrat imperils democracy. It has also unleasshed lots of fake news. Take the tweet below from Jonathan Pie, aka the left wing comedian Tom Walker.

199 days ago

Photo article from the Welsh Hovel - dealing with some of the chillies glut/making Christmas presents

I am still using some of the chillies we grew and dried last year, despite giving away pots and pots of them as gifts last Christmas. And this is despite the Mrs and her family using quite a lot of chillies in their cooking and me using a good few in the various stews I make. And guess what: we have had a pretty big harvest this year too.

199 days ago

When will the West tire of mad and bad President Zelensky as he “attacks” Poland?

Of course, Ukraine did not deliberately attack Poland. But last night two missiles landed a few miles away from the border with Ukraine killing two. Immediately, President Zelensky blamed Russia and urged NATO to stand by a member state and retaliate, to invoke clause 5. To start World War Three.  The Daily Mail was still trying to blame the Russians and talking up WW3 this morning. It drank the war whisky without hesitation. But, thankfully, saner minds and the truth prevailed.

199 days ago

Oscillate RTO – madness

Fungai Ndoro who runs Aquis listed Oscillate (MUSH) is not a bad girl but any company that invests its shareholders cash in Dev Clever (DEV) warrants must – for reasons explained HERE – be run by someone who is smoking something.  Today Oscillate has announced an RTO which makes no sense at all.

199 days ago

Net Zero Infrastructure: share ramp by spivs + green shite + ex Tory MP on board = disaster

Oh dear, oh dear. My old friend the champagne socialist Fleet Street Legend Brian Basham is a director of Net Zero Infrastructure (NZI) and was so hopeful when it listed on the (sub) Standard list at 3p last September 15^th. I warned him… and now a year later almost two thirds of the money has gone….

199 days ago

The FTX Bankruptcy file in full - so shocking it is almost comical

The file below is shocking, the big crypto blow up is just a fraud from top to bottom with young folks who espoused all that ESG bullshit that Malcolm and our political leaders love so much, either stealing the cash or blowing it through incompetence.  Enjoy. This will not be the last such scandal in this industry but it may be the biggest and most comical. Enjoy.

199 days ago

Imperial Brands – full-year results, we’re well ahead but still income and earnings value?

Imperial Brands (IMB) has announced results for its year ended 30^th September 2022 and that it is “well placed to build on our track record of delivery over the next three years, improving returns and creating sustainable growth in shareholder value”.

200 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Jeremy Hunt is a LIAR Steve O'Hara is not

Even Pete Brailey the most staunchest of Tory members you could ever meet says he has given up on the party after today’s budget. I go through two lies Jeremy Hunt told and consider how he has screwed the poor, those of us running SMEs and is protecting super rich folks with sons at Eton with another lie.  Like Peter I shall not vote Tory next time.  Then onto a man who is not a liar, Optibiotix (OPTI) boss Steve O’Hara and the presentation he gave today which is below. I mention Skinbiotherapeutics (SBTX) and an email exchange today at this point. Then a few words on Kefi Gold & Copper (KEFI) follow then on to Argo Blockchain (ARB) which I expect to go bust next week and Ceres Power (CWR) whose valuation is still bonkers despite the shares slumping by 80% since peak ramp. 

200 days ago

Video: Quoth the Raven - The World is Turning To Gold Amidst Armageddon in Crypto

One of the few serious financial podcasters who swears more than me is Chris Irons, aka Quoth the raven. His latest soundings on gold and shitcoins are music to my ears.

200 days ago

Tom Winnifrith postcard: Jeremy Hunt's lie - there is NO case for not ending charitable status for public schools

Mr Hunt lied about what would happen if he ended the status which would have brought in material revenues. There is no case whatsoever for not ending such status and in doing so Mr Hunt protects the rich while the poor feel the squeeze. Now, of all times, this anomaly should be ended. The RSPCA is a charity. Woodlarks is a Charity. Eton College or Warwick School should not be allowed to claim charitable status.

200 days ago

Ceres Power – on a (very) slow boat to China

Oh dear, oh dear, more bad news from the green pipedreams, slurp the jam tomorrow and forget about the bonkers valuation sector. Today it is Ceres Power (CWR) an AIM listed company repeatedly recommended by our own in-house Guardian reading eco-Warrior Malcolm Stacey but red flagged by  myself and Peter Brailey. Its shares are down by 65% year to date and by c80% since February 2021, the peak of the green bubble madness.

200 days ago

Guild E-Sports – yet more management changes as this bogus David Beckham creation prepares for bailout fundraise.

So far this year 4 NEDS and the FD have departed from Guild E-Sports (GILD). Now one of the NEDs who came onboard on March 31 as others left has walked and the CEO has replaced the chump who floated this crock just over two tears ago. What next for a company now running on vapours?

200 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Singing to you all in Welsh

There is a film in which my Great Aunt starred where there is singing in Welsh. She is the lady on the right in the first scene below. Anyhow I start today’s podcast singing to you in Welsh for reasons I explain. Then it is onto Carson Block and Pantheon Resources (PANR), Carnival (CCL), BSF Enterprise (BSFA), Tern (TERN), nanosynth (NNN), Versarien (VRS) and the comedy at Deliveroo (ROO) which still has to be a short does it not?

200 days ago

Ince gives away broker Arden for nothing, the final chapter of a comedy of errors

Well I guess it is not quite so funny if you are a shareholder but this acquisition – now – rreversed – has destroyed Ince Group (INCE) as a credible investment. I was urged by the company’s PR to tip the stock but, according to some folks, that really would have been a kiss of death and anyhow it was self-destroying – as I predicted – without my endorsement. 

200 days ago

Bezant Resources – oi Colin Bird is it bust yet?

The maths look pretty clear to me. Perhaps penny share huckster Colin Bird would want to explain why I am wrong and Bezant Resources (BZT) is not technically bust yet?

200 days ago

BREAKING – Bucket shop stockbroker Pello Capital set to call in administrators Smith & Williamson tonight

Two distinct City sources have contacted me to say that controversial broker Pello Capital, founded by “colourful” broker Andy Frangos, has gone into administration. I have contacted Pello and can reveal that it is not yet in administration but will be tonight. Smith & Williamson will be doing the last rites.

200 days ago

Surely everyone can see that Russia has a legitimate point over #fakenews at the ghastly Daily Telegraph?

Yesterday I made the mistake of pointing out that when Ukraine’s President and his fellow leaders of the second most corrupt country in Europe (after Russia) said that a Russian missile had hit Poland, killing two Poles, and that NATO must collectively respond, this was a lie. Not just any old lie but a lie that could have lead to World War Three so a rather dangerous one. Naturally, on twitter and elsewhere, folks responded by saying that I must be a Putin apologist, supporting Russia’s invasion and it shooting down an airliner in 2014.  Of course, I am not an apologist and I do not support either, wholly unwarranted, military action. But that sort of smear is what happens when you write facts exposing folks who are lying in 2022. It is what always happens when you are not part of the GroupThink. The wretched Daily Telegraph, one upon a time a half decent newspaper, is now part of the GroupThink…

200 days ago

If you are feeling happy the antidote is tonight at 7.30 a free online seminar with Dr Doom

I am not being paid to promote this but flag it up anyway as libertarian gloom monger David Scott is always entertaining, as well as always bearish about the world we live in. Thus, if you are at a loose end tonight at 7.30 and fancy coming away really depressed, he is holding an online zoom seminar. Accessing it is simple.

200 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: NO I am not being naughty but YES I disagree with three brains

In today’s podcast I discuss  BSF Enterprise (BSAF), Vast Respources (VAST), nanosynth (NNN), Shield Therapeutics (STX) and Imperial Brands (IMB) where I dare to challenge three brains himself, his mind clearly damaged by NEVER smoking, drinking or taking drugs.

200 days ago

VINDICATED AGAIN: CakeBox: Dismal interims, don’t believe in the jam promised tomorrow: Told y'all!

Cakebox (CBOX) has already warned that results for the six months to 30 September would be piss poor and it did not disappoint but folks who have lost a packet ignoring our numerous red flag warnings had a straw to clutch at, one covered with jam tomorrow.

200 days ago

Video: The Road to an Energy Crisis

Author and historian James Meigs will be a familiar face if you watch “Abandoned Engineering” on late night TV but he is a serious scholar.

200 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Time to switch my email off for a week thanks to 'arry Adams

In today’s podcast i discuss Kefi Gold & Copper (KEFI), Pantheon Resources (PANR), the residential housing market, Purplebricks (PURP) and the housebuilders and retailers in general, Sosandar (SOS), Joules (JOUL), Made.com (MADE) and Boohoo (BOO). I reference an articlle on greedy nurses and different types of averages and how they mislead HERE

200 days ago

Surely Moonpig is a short at 171p?

What am I missing dear readers but surely a company that sells extraordinarily expensive personalized greeting cards and a range of gifts in Britain and Holland must be at risk of a slowdown in discretionary consumer spending? I refer to Moonpig (MOON), a company whose valuation discounts no such slowdown so ahead of interims on December 7 should you go short? 

200 days ago

Why isn’t Malcolm tipping BSF Enterprise?

It is right up his street, as a vegan extremist, in what it does. It also taps into an unproven market, is guzzling cash and has a joke valuation. What more could Malcolm want?

200 days ago

Tesco – a 250p+ share price target after recent interims?

Shares in Tesco (TSCO) were above 270p as recently as August but have fallen back significantly as it faces clear macro challenges. However, it has a long track-record across economic conditions and we consider the share price fall has been too extreme.

200 days ago

Pssst Don’t tell the BBC – but the Dems are about to lose the House!

The BBC has reported every Democrat Triumph from the mid terms, before during and after it happened. That is to say retaining control of the Senate, though it may still be 50/50 after the Georgia run off on December 6. But on a night when the Republicans won more state governors and the popular vote there is still the matter of the House which for the past two years has been run by the Dems… All bar 12 contests have now been called and…

200 days ago

Rightmove: another survey showing Purplebricks toast and housebuilders facing torrid times

After the shocker from RICS the other day, here, Rightmove’s (RMV) latest survey of the UK housing market makes for more grim reading.  If you are still a shareholder in Purplebricks (PURP), which could not make money in the good times and so must now be spunking cash daily, why do you have a financial death wish?

200 days ago

My fellow Kefi shareholders – sorry but some of you are very dim indeed!

In October Kefi Gold & Copper (KEFI) announced, in another delay, that it would get financial sign off for its Tulu Kapi scheme in “mid November”. Today, on the 14^th, some of my fellow shareholders are cacking their pants. Why? Just how dim are you?

200 days ago

Argo’s Peter Wall caught with his trousers down again as insolvency looms

Peter Wall the CEO and interim ( for more than a year) chairman of Argo Blockchain (ARB) has been caught with his governance trousers down yet again. When will the regulators accept that Wall is a bad actor who should be ejected from the PLC stage?

200 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: All hail Pete Brailey as other bears wake up to his Pantheon genius

I start with Muddy Waters, Pete and Pantheon Resources (PANR). Then on to ouzo man and his bear calls on Boohoo.com (BOO) and AO World (AO). Finally onto the blow up of FTX and Almeda Research and what that tell us about crypto and NFT hype which is now bursting.

200 days ago

BREAKING: Project Pound at Nightcap – the delusional world of Sarah Willingham

On 12 September 2022, as Sarah Willingham’s Nightcap (NGHT) announced the opening of a new bar in glamorous Watford, the former Dragon’s Den star proclaimed “Nightcap now has 37 sites within its estate and a further 19 premises under offer or in legal negotiations for all its brands.” Less than two months later she said that the new openings programme was on hold. What changed? It is all to do with “Project pound.”

200 days ago

Photo article from the Welsh Hovel – getting in early with Christmas Puddings

On Christmas Day we will be hosting my parents in law, my sister in law and her two kids and my daughter’s godmother I who is joining us from New York for what she terms “the holidays” as in “happy holidays”. So that makes ten around the table. The godmother and I shall be doing the cooking.

200 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Macolm Stacey vs Steve Moore

I weigh in on the debate on Biome (BIOM) looking at macro babble & bubble and bottom up analysis to decide which of my colleagues is, I suspect, right.

200 days ago

Tom Winnifrith bearcast: Madness!

I start with the macro babble and surging equities explaining why, I think, rubbish stocks have done the best today. I look at Cineworld (CINE), Versarien (VRS), Boohoo (BOO), Pure Gold (PUR), Argo Blockchain (ARB) and Victoria (VCP) 

200 days ago

Powerhouse – after digging a hole in the road, its next ramp: placing ahoy?

Even Stevie Wonder can see the writing on this wall. PowerHouse Energy (PHE) is now having to fund the building of its own waste to hydrogen plants having previously said others would do so, it burns c£2 million every half year running the company and it is spunking £1.3 million on a global Technology and Innovation centre. By next Spring it will be out of cash…

200 days ago

Dev Clever are you a £255m BUST yet? How about a year end trading statement?

Shares in Dev Clever (DEV) remain suspended as, after 11 months, the FCA is still refusing to sign off on a RTO prospectus. But that is the least of Dev’s worries, it must surely be bankrupt by now, how about its advisers, those fine fellows at Novum, cobble together an October 31 year end trading statement. Here is the maths:

200 days ago

The greed, the revolting rewarding of failure of Dragons Den star Sarah Willingham exposed

I noted yesterday how the bars chain Nightcap (NGHT) has had to halt its planned rollout because of the cash crisis it faces. In the year to July 3 2022, on sales of c£35 million it reported a pre-tax profit of just £238,000 and the operating cashburn was a stonking £7 million. But boss Sarah Willingham described the year as “rewarding and fun”. Just how Rewarding and fun? You will be horrified…

200 days ago

Video: Rumors of War and Whiplash as the Old Paradigm Ends

Asset adviser Grant Williams says you need to admit your investment mistakes. How many of us will do that?

200 days ago

BREAKING: Latest RICS survey confirms house price & volume gloom, Purplebricks is surely toast in 2023

There is no way that this turd can be polished. It is a turd for housing market bulls. The latest monthly survey from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) covering October is even worse than that for September which was itself pretty dire. Those seeing value in anything housing related shares ( Comrade Stacey?) need to take a reality check.

200 days ago

Guess who, blood stained Fenian scumbag, Gerry Adams is supporting tomorrow night at the World Cup?

With neither of the two Irish sides in Qatar for the World Cup it must be hard for blood soaked IRA, oops sorry Sinn Fein, celebrity Gerry Adams to know who to support. But maybe not as the old bastard has taken to twitter to give us all a clue as you can see below.

200 days ago

NHS Nurses - greedy, deceitful and shameless witches

You are told by the BBC and the rest of the liberal media that nurses are grossly underpaid and that their decision to walk out on cancer and other patients leaving them to die is thus all the fault of the wicked Tories. But here in chart form are the facts….

200 days ago

Hello Adam Wilson, it’s Adam Wilson here can we chat again? I wanna tell you I love what you are doing

After yesterday’s inadequate disclosure from Ben’s Creek  (BEN) - CEO Adam Wilson – about share dealings by its biggest shareholder MBU Capital – senior advisor Adam Wilson – Mr. Wilson of Daniel Stewart and Atlantic Carbon infamy – has sought to clarify matters with another comical RNS.

200 days ago

BOOM: Argo Blockchain 2026 bond collapse screams at you the shares are worth 0p

The bond market is nearly always a better guide to the value of equity than the equity share price since the latter – in situations of distress – is largely driven by bulletin board morons in denial who are trading the stock while institutions  are unable to sell large positions so just sit there like rabbits in the headlights waiting for the end. So there are some folks who reckon that buying Argo Blockchain (ARB) shares  at 8.5p giving a market cap of £40 million is smart…

203 days ago

Tuvalu PM and Avaaz: more climate change grifters, happy to ignore facts as they seek to raid your wallet

To be fair Avaaz is not just a climate change grifter. It will spam millions of folks on any woke issue getting them to sign pointless petitions or to hand over their hard earned to support bloated salaries, sorry I meant laudable campaigning.  It is an all round grifter. A recent Avaaz spam is from the Prime Minster of Tuvalu. Now he really is a climate change grifter. He wants western money as reparations for our carbon crimes.

203 days ago

Company digs hole in road and issues RNS

Digging a hole in the road should not merit an RNS but when you are desperate to ramp your shares ahead of the next bailout placing, needs must.

203 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Let them eat cake and the latest shitcoin crash

I start with a few words on UK press coverage of the mid terms. No the Democrats have not won! Then I look at bitcoin and its woes, Argo Blockchain (ARB) – bust by next week? – Revolution Beauty (REVB), Boohoo.com (BOO), Novacyt (NCYT) and Nightcap (NGHT) and the problems a CEO has when the media blows smoke up his or her arse for too long.

203 days ago

BREAKING: Every single person owning Nightcap shares has now lost money – but CEO Sarah Willingham says she is having fun & its rewarding for her so that’s okay then

Dragon’s Den “star” La Willingham tells shareholders in Nightcap (NGHT) that for her the past year has been “eventful, fun and, at all times, rewarding”. With her bonus scheme and that for her husband Michael Toxic, that may be true for her family. The shares listed at 10p, peak ramped at 33.5p and the last placing was at 23p. The shares are now just 9p-10p after today’s dire results. So anyone who has ever bought a share in this company since its  January 2021 listing iand who still holds is now out of the money. Do mug punters in Willingham’s vanity PLC regard this experience as “fun and rewarding?” It will only get worse for them.

203 days ago

Ben’s Creek – the stench of Adam Wilson, today’s very belated 'fess up does not bear scrutiny

I have always argued that promote Ben’s Creek (BEN) is uninvestable on the basis that its CEO Adam Wilson of Atlantic Carbon and Daniel Stewart infamy is a scallywag and also that its assets which sent the last owner into bankruptcy were piss poor.  Today comes news of a share transaction that stinks and an explanation that does not wash.

203 days ago

BP – Q3 results, continued positive trading and shareholder returns

BP (BP.) has announced third quarter results emphasising “net debt fell for the tenth successive quarter; we are investing with discipline; and we are delivering on our commitment to shareholder distributions – announcing a further $2.5 billion share buyback”. So what of a now slightly further higher 486.45p share price?

203 days ago

#DemocracyWins trends on twitter – whatever

In the woke echo chamber that is twitter news that the Democrats will almost certainly still control the Senate is greeted with #DemocracyWins. Hmmm.

203 days ago

Sylvania Platinum – improved production and prices, remains a growth and income Buy

Sylvania Platinum (SLP) has announced “best quarterly production since the COVID-lockdowns in early 2020. This increase in production ounces and the 2% higher PGM basket price recorded in the quarter, resulted in stronger profits”. The shares have currently responded up to 92p and there looks more to go.

203 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Chinese Whispers and Kefi as Andrew Bell insists Opera needs subsidy for poor, young & black people

As we all face a cost of living crisis with the poor and the young hardest hit, Andrew Bell insists that Opera needs more subsidy. Is this a more tenable position than his defence of the Red Rock Resources (RRR) share price? I start with that then onto the two big losers from yesterday’s surprising mid terms in the USA. Then onto Kefi Gold & Copper (KEFI), Ithaca Energy (ITH), MGC Pharmaceiticals (MXC) – which looks like a possible zero – and Dignity (DTY).

203 days ago

The curse of the fraud Suppl[email protected] Capital’s David Bull – PCF Group to leave AIM and wind down

Secondary lender PCF Group (PCF) was an AIM sewer high-flier with its shares trading at above 40p just over 4 years ago. Today after news that it was winding down its loan book and delisting the shares are just 0.56p and the man who is to blame for the chain of events that led to today’s bombshell  is David Bull, until August chairing Eight Capital Partners (ECP) and running the Audit Committee as a NED as its bastard big brother the fraud [email protected] Capital (SYME). Is he the most toxic bean counter in the small cap world?

203 days ago

Top Oil analyst savages the biggest IPO of 2022 – Ithaca Energy

Ithaca Energy (ITH) has IPO’d today at 250p giving it a market cap of £2.5 billion making it the biggest London IPO of the year to date. Well done Goldman Sachs. There is a big push to get Joe Retail buying in the after market. But is that a smart move? Top analyst Ashley Kelty of Panmure Gordon thinks not and in an email, below, sent today has savaged the issue.

203 days ago

The Andrew Bell defence at Red Rock

I am no longer tipping Red Rock Resources (RRR) as, I feel that its failure to monetize assts and thus prove what they are claimed to be worth has gone on for too long. Why can’t it monetize even one asset? The failure to do so means more fund raisings and that, to me explians why the shares I still own after almost three years have been such a duff investment for me. But boss Andrew Bell has another excuse…

204 days ago

Tom Winnifrith podcast - did the Democrats really win the mid-terms as the BBC is telling us today

I look at the House, the Senate, the probable outcomes on both and what that means for the radical liberal agenda the BBC so desperately wants to see pursued. I also look at the popular vote ( remember that from 2016?) and what that tells us. I look at who is likely to run for President in 2024 and what that may mean for the House and Senate that year. The man whose name I always forget ( long covid?) is Joe Manchin – my sort of Democrat.

204 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast - Clem Chambers and the most almighty spoof & extra lashings of ouzo for me after AGM

Maybe I shall save the celebratory ouzos for tonight and double up as I watch liberal tears as we see a Red Wave in the mid terms. I discuss that briefly then go on to look at Applied Graphene (AGM) and what it is like running a company facing corporate death as well as the ethics of my scoop last night. I look at Online Blockchain (OBC), Mello destroying its brand c/o Zamaz (ZAMZ), Argo Blockchain (ARB) and a couple of points about Seraphine (BUMP) from an accounting perspective and in terms of changing consumer behaviour and also how as a bear one can do non financial DD.

204 days ago

Have you looked at Seraphine’s website – another dire warning issued

Young Steve Moore and I have repeatedly warned you about Seraphine (BUMP) another disastrous 2021 IPO. Today came another warning but before we deal with the abject numbers I suggest you all have a butcher’s at its website HERE. And as a reminder…

204 days ago

Another calamitous update from Argo Blockchain, the Fat Lady is warming up

You really cannot say that you were not warned over and over again by this website that Argo Blockchain (ARB) would make rich knaves such as CEO Peter Wall, disgraced broker Andy Frangos, paid share ramper (sorry “journalist”) Zak Mir and proven  liar and rule breaker John Story richer while screwing ordinary shareholders. The game is almost up. The Fat Lady is gargling. Today’s October update is a disaster.

204 days ago

GOTCHA: Applied Graphene forced to comment on ShareProphets scoop – surely the Fat Lady has a gig coming now

At 9.07 PM last night I revealed here that Applied Graphene Materials (AGM) was working on a placing, trying ( I stress trying) to raise £3 million at just 2p as against a 10p bid price. I flagged my piece up to the PR bunnies at Hudson Sandler and so ensured they all had a late night as today there is a response to comment on “an article published on the ShareProphets website on the evening of 7 November 2022 regarding a possible equity raise.” Timber!

204 days ago

BREAKING: Another Cineworld Court Hearing spells out exactly why it is a slam dunk zero

Still there are fools who think that Cineworld (CINE) shares have value. They do not. This looks like a slam dunk zero after documents published late last night in the latest round US Chapter 11 hearings. What follows is an idiots guide as to why any holders should sell and anyone who wants a free Christmas bonus should add to/open a short at 6p. Here goes:

204 days ago

Photo article from the Welsh Hovel - the school celebrates Wales in the World Cup day

My son Joshua has now spent well over half of his life in Wales. And, though he was born in England to parents who support Northern Ireland and England respectively, he considers himself a proud Welshman. He leads us as we say grace in Welsh each night and there are more and more Welsh phrases exchanged between him and me as I also start to grapple with the language from hell. Today his school is celebrating the fact that Wales has made it through to the World Cup finals, by everyone wearing red tops.

204 days ago

BREAKING: Applied Graphene working on a placing at an 80% discount to bid price – City source

Such is the terrible track record of Applied Graphene Materials (AGM) – minus 97.8% from peak – and such is the severity of the bear market in small caps that what follows should not be that shocking but it is still shocking. Since last week Applied has been on a dog and pony show with its broker. The aim was to raise £3 million. However, the details are horrific:

204 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Can you smell that bullshit from Tern: shares could well halve by Christmas

I start by discussing apple pressing: I am still at it. Then I look at Tern (TERN), Amur Minerals (AMC), Joules (JOUL) and Eurasia Miniung (EUA) as it heads for a cash crisis.

204 days ago

At what point does Daddy Pig’s compliance officer put a stop to the Advanced Oncotherapy farce?

I do not believe that Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO) will ever generate a cent of positive free cashflow as the demand for the proton therapy services it will offer at some point in 2023 is, in my view, already fully catered for with existing capacity. Others, notably a fund management firm run by a chap who looks remarkably like Daddy Pig, father of Peppa, disagree but what we might agree on its that, until late 2023, there is no doubt that Advanced will continue to guzzle cash. Which makes the next bailout placing only a matter of time.

204 days ago

BREAKING: The FCA sees off legal challenge from the Globo fraudsters

It really is an ouzo on cornflakes day. Not only has Gerry Brandon been fired but the FCA has won a legal victory in its attempts to nail the fraudsters behind Globo (GBO) an AIM listed scam I warned about, doorstepped in Athens and eventually helped bring down by publishing the dossier of my pal Gabriel Grego.

204 days ago

Photo article from the Welsh Hovel - a home produced supper

Ok, there were also some sausages not home produced but elsewhere you see beetroot (still being harvested) which we eat boiled, roast spuds (still being harvbested) and roast butternut squash which I harvested a few weeks ago and which are stored in the larder. I’d happily eat this lot without a meat dish but the Mrs and the kids are very much carnivores.

204 days ago

Gotcha! Gerry Brandon “resigned” as he leaves Deepverge with immediate effect

As CEO of AIM listed Deepverge (DVRG) made two schoolboy errors: trolling me on twitter and then breaking AIM Rules by hiding a profits warning before doing a placing at 30p last June. There were other blunders and deceits too but after that crime, that fraud, of last June came to light he should have been in jail and his position was untenable.

204 days ago

BREAKING BOMBSHELL: Batman's Italian Connection and the criminal investigation

A major subsidiary of BATM  Communications (BVC) or Batman to its City friends, has been implicated in a criminal investigation in Italy.  The subsidiary in question, Adaltis Srl, represents the vast majority of BATM’s “diagnostics division”.  It sells molecular diagnostic test kits for various diseases, including COVID, operating from a facility near Rome.

204 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: the deadwood press will not dare say what I say about 2 failing retailers: Made.com and John Lewis

But I do dare. Enjoy.

204 days ago

When a bad company battles short sellers with legal action it ALWAYS ends badly – Cassava

My friend Gabriel Grego has, along with a stack of other bears, been hit by a law suit from a biotech company he has taken on, Cassava (SAVA). Gabriel is too much of a gent to steal my catchphrase “see you in Court bitchez” but he says so in rather more gentle words. As my old pal Evil Knievil once noted “legal action is not an invitation to go short but an obligation.”

204 days ago

Video: The world is turning to gold as debt resets

Francis Hunt, Founder of “The Market Sniper”  Francis, discusses how demand for physical metal appears to be increasing significantly in the United Kingdom. He says that a lot of interest is coming from those in the financial industry and some of those customers have expressed concerns about their employer’s stability. He says that self-directed pensions in the U.K. are also seeing a move away from equities and into custodial backed physical metals.

211 days ago

Britain needs to give a trillion quid to poor countries for our leading role in Global warming – fact free bollocks

The good news for the Charity War on Want, which has made this ludicrous claim, is that Scotland has committed to pay £2 million as compensation for its historic carbon emissions to poor countries around the world. As soon as it can scrounge the money off England under the Barnet formula, the cheque is on its way. The bad news is that the other £999.998 billion that War on Want reckons the UK owes is not on its way as we are already almost bankrupt. Mind you the useless Tories egged on by the BBC and others are still  thinking about it.

211 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: DFS will survive but surely it is a cracking short and here is why

Have a great bonfire night tonight. In today’s podcast I discuss DFS (DFS) in great detail – it looks like a cracking short. Then Deepverge (DVRG) where Gerry Brandon needs to SMTM and finally Revolution Beauty (REVB) which will be either a zero or a penny stock but not until after Christmas.

211 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: President Trump offers you a great investment

I start with a bit of political betting – folks like Lucian will be wailing as the Donald makes his come-back. I kid you not. Then how ill prepared companies are for the coming economic and stockmarket shit-storm. Two case studies I mention which are, IMHO, uninvestable are Rosslyn Data (RDT) and Yourgene (YGEN). Then onto why Argo Blockchain (ARB) and its dead cat bounce is a chance to add to one’s short.