Northern Rock - rat leaves sinking ship
NORTHERN 2 VCT PLC
Director declaration
Pursuant to Listing Rule 9.6.14, Northern 2 VCT PLC ('the Company') announces
that Dr Matt Ridley, the non-executive chairman of the Company, resigned as a
non-executive director of Northern Rock (LSE: NRK.L - news) plc with effect from Monday 22 October
2007.
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...which will probably save him from being charged with issuing fraudulent accounts and running a company whilst insolvent.
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Poor mr ridley, MATT RIDLEY'S 23 pairs of chromosomes, together with a doctorate from Oxford University, equipped him for a career as a science writer with The Economist and the Daily Telegraph. In 1992 he moved to Newcastle-upon-Tyne and developed a business career alongside writing books about science.
Government, in his words ‘corrupts the original virtue of the marketplace.’ And according to Ridley, Margaret Thatcher’s reforms, though she might not have known it, were based on sound evolutionary principles.
Margaret Thatcher’s reforms, though she might not have known it, were based on sound evolutionary principles.
...as were dinosaurs
Ridley again:
Simply this: if you asked intellectuals at almost any time since Malthus to talk about the future, they would have been pessimistic and they would have been wrong. The future (actual) has consistently proved better than the future (forecast).
I think there's something wonky with his banking and precognition genes
Hey folks, Matt didn't fuck up all on his own, he had a pretty impressive team.... Wanless ...
I'm not sure matthew did fuck all apart from trouser 300 grand a year
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