59 days ago
These days, whenever I pen anything on Skinbiotherapeutics (SBTX), within a day a substack pushed by a small furry rodent produces an essay, apparently penned by a psychologist. The gist of the article is always the same: Tom Winnifrith is clueless and losing ther plot while that chap Lemming is a frigging genius. A couple of imaginary stats about my trading account are thrown in and Robert’s your father’s brother. Last night the Lemming's chum was at it again.
81 days ago
Amazing AI (AAI) the company that attempted to silence me by weaponising the suicide of my mum, stating that it would sue me for up to ten billion pounds and had engaged Rosenblatts as its lawyers to act on that case, has some bad news. Natch, even though it will remain listed on the AQSE market until 6 January, it has not actually announced it formally. So I am here to help.
89 days ago
Julie Meyer and Paul Mathieson actually mentioned my mum's suicide but Lingerie on Expenses explicitly linked mum's mental health to me, suggesting I had issues..To that end The Lemming has commissioned a report into my mental health and sent it to me concluding that the Lemming is sane, balanced and a superb journalist while my work is not credible because of "unresolved drivers behind his behaviour". I wonder what issues he is hinting at after recent weeks? This crosses any line and is the end of an era. No more Christmas cards for the rodent community. Then it is also an end of an era at Tiger Alpha (TIR) as Colin Bird is resigned and at Argo Blockchain (ARB) as it is delisted. I discuss.
96 days ago
The loans business behind Amazing AI (AAI) had already listed on three Exchanges before it joined AQSE at 80p per share less than two years ago. Each time it racked up huge losses and delisted costing shareholders everything. For some reason Liam Murray at Cairn thought it would be different this time. Today, with the shares suspended at 0.275p after advisor Guild quit because of the weaponization of suicide tweet, Amazing says it plans to leave AQSE. But its defamatory statement makes no sense at all.
96 days ago
Yesterday I flagged up that Amazing AI (AAI) was again planning an Investor Meet Presentation and suggested that anyone doing business with a scumbag who weaponized my mum’s suicide had no moral compass. Zak Mir may still be “liking” X posts by Amazing but it seems that other advisors and enablers are abandoning ship. Marc Downes you are my first hero of the day.
97 days ago
It seems that for the 3rd time in six weeks Amazing AI (AAI) is set to appear on the Investor Meet platform. I wonder how much Investor Meet is trousering for platforming Paul Mathieson who most of the City is rushing to cold shoulder. I called Investor and spoke to its CEO Marc Downes following it up with the email below. Downes seems to think that both Amazing and I have equally valid two sides to a story. He had not bothered to fund out why Guild had quit as advisor last week. Giving moral equivalence to a man who publicly weaponises the suicide of a woman and to the son of that woman is despicable but that is the position Downes seems to take. My email , copying in my lawyers, reads:
97 days ago
Auditors Pointon Young in Birmingham are, as I write, working on the accounts of Amazing AI (AAI) for the year to June 30th 2025. Last year the numbers were only published on deadline day, New Year’s Eve (a red flag) and not actually submitted to Companies House until January 7 (a small fine but who cares it is OPM?). But I am concerned about the 2025 Audit and have written to AQSE Regulation
104 days ago
My faith in humanity is somewhat restored. Yesterday, after Paul Mathieson of Amazing AI (AAI) attacked me as a criminal, threatened legal action and weaponized my mum’s suicide all sorts of folks reached out to say thus was not acceptable. I wondered what advisor Guild would say. Last night I reached out to it and was told that it was “appalled” and the remarks were “despicable” and that appropriate action would be taken. This morning it has resigned. Well done Guild you are good men.
105 days ago
Perhaps Paul Mathieson of Amazing AI (AAI) thinks that tweeting about my mother’s suicide or threatening me with a 10 billion quid class action would silence me. Think again… here are some FACTS. Not opinion. Not libel. Just plain old facts
105 days ago
I discuss the real world consequences of the actions of Paul Mathieson at Amazing AI (AAI) and also just why his legal threats are so bogus
105 days ago
Yesterday Amazing AI (AAI) sent a letter before action for libel to myself and ShareProphets. In breach of all protocols it published the defamatory letter in which it failed to mention one single specific libel, as protocols demand. Today it has issued an RNS confirming this.
182 days ago
As you are probably aware suicide is something that for familial reasons I take seriously. My mother killed herself as did one great aunt and two cousins of my parents. I don’t joke about the issue. Data today from the ONS on suicides is interesting in that it gives a new line on the “privilege” , the innate advantage that I might have as a middle class, okay upper middle class, white male. Or maybe in some respects I am not so privileged at all.
1100 days ago
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.
1110 days ago
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.
1294 days ago
I discussed Cineworld (CINE) and some lessons folks can learn in bearcast earlier. But the post below from a bloke who has lost everything is sad and instructive. And I start by saying that even if those chap has posted vile things about me as a leading critic of Cineworld (CINE) I really hope he does not end his own life. Suicide is no joking matter in my family, as folks like Julie Meyer keep reminding you all, and he should talk to someone. I am sure he has friends, if not he can reach out to me and I will happily have a chat.
1448 days ago
I do comment about Julie Meyer’s latest tweet. Suicide is no joking matter and this act alone should see her lose her MBE. But most of this podcast is about events today at Optibiotix (OPTI) whose core businessis not worth MINUS £12 million as Mr Market implies. Ahead of the 24th March FYB! A pedant points out that at 14 mins in I say Optibiotix shareholders will get a distribution of 36-38%of Skinbiotherapeutics – clearly meant Probiotix. Apologies – long covid strikes again.
1448 days ago
46 years ago my mother killed herself. I do not hide the fact and yes it is an event that saddens me. But I do not expose folks like Julie Meyer, who has fled Britain to avoid a six month jail term, owes taxes all over the world and is the subject of an FCA Criminal investigation because of what happened in on Oxford hospital in 1976 but because folks like Julie Meyer should be exposed. The tweet below ike others were Meyer incites the mob with talk of terrorism has been reported to twitter but nothing will be done.
1515 days ago
My friend Paul Nicholson urges us to donate to the anti-suicide charity CALM but I fear that I cannot. It is not that I do not consider the cause worthy. For very obvious reasons I do. It is the CEO salary I cannot accept.
1601 days ago
As I have discussed openly, I have in the past considered suicide. Thankfully those dark days are long gone but 125 folks a week do kill themselves in the UK each week. If my mother’s own suicide taught me anything it is a tragedy for the person who ends their life but, perhaps, an even greater one for those left behind. I know that both my father and my mother’s brother, Christopher Booker, were haunted to the end by the idea they could have stopped it. The pain and guilt they felt were all too obvious.
1896 days ago
Death, like taxation and the sheer awfulness of Mrs Brown’s Boys, is something that cannot be avoided or denied and must be confronted by all of us in the end. When you bring a child into this world, you know that one dreadful day you will have to explain to it that he or she will in the end die. It is awful and unavoidable. We all die in the end.
1909 days ago
The argument for the biggest assault on our civil liberties since World War Two and for actions that are wrecking the economy, causing suicides and job losses to soar and bankrupting businesses across the land is that we must act now to save lives. The monumental folly of this is demonstrated in this one chart below with data sourced from the ONS. Read it and then I challenge any one of you to disagree with me that all those responsible for lockdowns and other measures should be put on trial for their crimes.
1922 days ago
That is the claim, as you can see below, from Tortoise which claims to be “the UK’s youngest, fastest growing newsroom.” As you might have guessed, it is sort of left leaning and whatever it claims about integrity today, it talks utter victimhood piffle on Covid.
1926 days ago
I start with non financial matters: a Woodlarks thank-you, the start of Advent and a discussion about how we really must talk about suicide and related issues. This last subject is prompted by the latest troll to harass me. Then I look at Tungsten (TUNG), Supply@ME Capital (SYME) and at BlueBird Merchant Ventures (BMV).
1946 days ago
In today’s bearcast I report on a sad conclusion to the story I told of the potential suicide on Saturday HERE. Then on to Avacta (AVCT) and Manolete (MANO) before considering five PI darlings which could see their shares utterly crater before I turn 53 on January 12: Supply@ME Capital (SYME), Novacyt (NCYT), Versarien (VRS), Bidstack (BIDS) and Eurasia Mining (EUA). In each case I explain the potential catalyst for the collapse.
2667 days ago
As you might have guessed I regard Theresa May as a treacherous liar and the worst Prime Minister in history. She once called the Tory Party the nasty party but today it is the left in Britain which is truly nasty. The weaponisation of actual suicides as a stick to beat the wretched May is just a new low. Yes, for me, this is personal. My mother killed herself. I have struggled with depression and mental breakdown and have discussed both matters openly. In my wider family there have been three more suicides since 1933. Suicide is a very serious issue which we should be able to talk about openly and honestly. Yet..
2895 days ago
I take mental health very seriously and would never trivialise it. My mother killed herself when I was 8. I have suffered from bouts of severe depression and have been open about having a serious breakdown some six years ago when everything went wrong and I just could not cope. That I met the woman who is now my wife at my lows as I considered diving into the abyss I thought I faced, may well have saved my life. I do not joke about or trivialise such matters.
2947 days ago
It is half term and so I took the younger generation to Salisbury Cathedral where there are two glass panels in memory of my mother and my aunt, as the brass plate between them says, two women who died young.
3048 days ago
The big story of last week was former DNC boss Donna Brazile accusing crooked Hillary Clinton of rigging the primaries against mad Bernie Sanders. Not that the BBC or Channel 4 fake news bothered to report it at all Anyhow if I was Donna I would not go walking in the woods alone after her revelation. Here are 54 folks who crossed the Clintons...
3358 days ago
My mother killed herself in 1976. I did not write about the incident until a couple of years ago when her brother, Christopher Booker, wrote about it in the Daily Mail so pushing me to publish my thoughts. I have photos of mum at home on the wall and there is one of her holding me as a baby. But I'd lie if I said that I thought about her every day or even an awful lot.
3448 days ago
Seventy-five years ago, eighteen year old men and women were dealing with the Luftwaffe bombing our cities to oblivion, with death all around them and the stresses of war. Some had psychological stress but they were relatively rare and, frankly, who could blame them? Wind forward to today and 26% of 16-24 year old women report suffering at least one mental health issue a week. 9% of men suffer likewise. It is hard to know where to start.
3475 days ago
Bully boy lawyers Memery Crystal want me to pay its costs, damages to the fraudsters at African Potash (AFPO), to unpublish 18 articles about the fraudsters and not to write again pointing out that African Potash has committed fraud. But the lawyers letter itself offers fresh admissions that massive fraud has taken place. The lawyers also warned me not to publish what is effectively a suicide note for Potash, i.e the Memery Crystal letter (sent incidentally to the wrong address, a made up email). So...
3527 days ago
In this podcast I discuss pruning here in Bristol, an update on the Gooseberry crumble and then the lessons about how folks behave as investors or rather gamblers we can learn from the Worthington (WRN) fraud which must now be brown bread as explained HERE earlier today following news on Friday. That section also mentions Cloudtag (CTAG) and tech stocks. Then I look at commercial suicide, the curse of the tipster and Bluebird Merchant Ventures (BMV).
3709 days ago
My Yusuf Kajee of Afriag (AFRI) is aware that my mother killed herself. That has encouraged him on a number of occassions to question my sanity and smear me in a variety of ways on twitter while refusing to answer basic questions about his business activities. He has today stooped to a new low which is truly beneath contempt. This prompts a letter to his Nomad, Cairn Financial. We do live in a civilised 21st century do we not?
3718 days ago
David Lenigas associate Yusuf Kajee of Afriag (AFRI) has spent the festive season smearing and trying to bribe me. He asked that I email questions. I did just that HERE. He has not answered. Instead he has again taken to twitter explicitly accusing me of having psychiatric issues caused by my mothers suicide. He tweeted just now:
4157 days ago
The nature of my mother’s death has been raised by certain “admirers” of mine on Bulletin Boards, the circumstances of my Aunt’s death I have mentioned en passant here before. There are no secrets in the era of the interweb. Both deaths were mentioned in an article by their brother, my Uncle Chris (Booker) in the Daily Mail last week. Slowly I read it early on Saturday morning as it brought a number of thoughts to the surface. Matters not suppressed just forgotten or not reflected upon for a long while. My mother killed herself. My aunt was murdered. There you have it. A shocking couple of sentences.
My mother died when I was eight and my sisters seven and five. She had become terribly depressed in that amazing sun drenched year of 1976 and – as I discovered only later – first tried to end her life at the height of summer while the rest of us were out walking. My father found her, revived her but thereafter she was confined to various hospitals in Northamptonshire, Banbury and finally in Oxford, the City where she had studied, met my father and where I was born. I saw her once that autumn at the Trout at Godstow and she seemed happy. She clearly was not and within weeks she had hanged herself. I remember being taken out of class by a lovely teacher who was almost in tears as she told me that my mother was dead. I cannot remember how I felt or what happened next. I did not find out how she died until I was fourteen.
Not having a mother was a little unusual in those days
