You may remember that, on November 23, the Sith Lord Zak Mir put out an RNS to say that he had teamed up with the scumbag spivs at Novum Securities to announce that the media company he had created, Lift Ventures, was to raise £1.7 million at 3p and to list on the Aquis lobster pot. I explained what a top of the market rum ‘n’coke this was at the time HERE. Anyhow…

I doubt that this poster will be challenging the wonderful Rachel Riley on Countdown. If you are bored over the Christmas break and can't get enough thrills from watching my Great Aunt in the Sound of Music try to find any comment on any Bulletin Board more moronic than the one below, from the LSE asylum Supply@ME Capital (SYME thread natch. Post your entries in the comments section below. The deadline is midnight on Boxing Day.

For many years the Economist magazine has been a rather, no very, tedious mouthpiece of the left leaning metropolitan establishment, but at least it pretended to understand economics. But I guess now even that pretence has gone.

There is an awards ceremony on Thursday of this week for the Investment Week Investment Company of the Year 2021. Black ties, coke and hookers will be at hand as the investment industry has a jolly but one finalist’s name really sticks out: Edge Performance VCT! It seems unbelievable that Investment Week would seek to reward failure in such an extravagant fashion, but look under VCT Specialist and there it is.

As you may recall, the business model of Vox Markets is that companies pay £15,000 a year to get interviewed by Justin the Clown who then asks the CEO whether he prefers Hob Nobs or Jaffa Cakes and whether his schlonger is ginormous or merely massive. The sort of AIM and Standard Listed companies that sign up, hope that such interviews can move the share price so allowing the next bailout placing. Maybe those companies have finally worked out that nobody takes the Clown seriuously and this business model is finally being rumbled. I see interesting filings at Companies House.

Thursday night sees another back slapping awards ceremony where the crony capitalists who grow rich floating shite on AIM, Aquis and the Standard lLst congratulate themselves on another year of screwing mug punters. This is the Small Cap Network awards now owned by Master Investor, prop. my good pal Jim Mellon. Jim, I am gutted…