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MR MONEY MAKER: Know your spivs from your spacs!
This is Money 29 Jan 2021
What's Happening? ... Those of us of a certain age will recall Private Walker in Dad's Army, the caricature wartime Cockney spiv who, for the right price, could get you whatever you needed – legal or otherwise, and mostly otherwise. What then is a Spac?. First some history ... This was the era of the South Sea Bubble and other such scams.
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MR MONEY MAKER: Don't lose cash, know your spivs from your spacs! That's a Special ...
The Daily Mail 29 Jan 2021
What's Happening? ... Those of us of a certain age will recall Private Walker in Dad's Army, the caricature wartime Cockney spiv who, for the right price, could get you whatever you needed – legal or otherwise, and mostly otherwise. What then is a Spac?. First some history ... Be on your guard. For the moment Spacs look far too much like the old spivs ... .
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Christopher Columbus Wilson: the spiv who cashed in on new-fangled radios
Moneyweek 21 Jan 2021
The United Wireless Telegraph Company was originally formed in 1906 by stock promoter Abraham White from the remnants of the Amalgamated Wireless Securities Company ... The takeover enabled Wilson to keep the firm’s assets out of the hands of DeForest’s many creditors. But by early 1907 the two promoters had a falling out ... Wilson died in prison ... .
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Ed Becomes A Spiv
Eweekly 30 Nov 2020
The government has got a mountain of bug-protection gear on its hands as a result of us offering silly money to buy the stuff when we were running short. A lot is in containers at the ports costing a bundle in storage fees, every hospital and NHS trust is crammed to the limit and the government’s unloading it at 15p on the pound ... .
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The playground spiv who’s making a mint selling sweets... CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night's TV
The Daily Mail 04 Nov 2020
Rating.. Rating. ... Tuck shops went out of fashion along with the comic book character Billy Bunter ... That leaves the market open for junior spivs such as Tumy and Nelson to make a killing ... ... No sweets allowed at school leaves the market open for junior spivs such as Tumy and Nelson (pictured) to make a killing. That never works ... Nothing goes unobserved ... .
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ANDREW PIERCE: Shamed Lord Truscott hunts down Covid spivs
The Daily Mail 20 Apr 2020
Truscott (pictured) resigned from the Labour Party after he was secretly taped offering to assist in getting amendments on legislation before the Upper House tabled in return for money. Most politicians need a brass neck to survive in the Westminster jungle. But former Labour energy minister Lord Truscott is in a league of his own ... He says of Boris ... .
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Blitz spirit? It's another bonanza for spivs and thieves
The Observer 29 Mar 2020
There has been much talk during the current crisis of wartime measures and the “blitz spirit” amid the reports of good deeds and selfless volunteering ... While the vast majority of those seeking help now are doubtless honest and in need, there may be no shortage of what the wartime BBC described as “spivs and drones” among them ... Callout ... "> ... .
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David Cameron? He's a spiv. John Major? Grander than Mrs T. And Maggie herself? Socially ...
The Daily Mail 05 Nov 2019
I am deeply disturbed by the conduct of David Cameron, the PM, who has declared a planning free-for-all in the construction industry, apparently in return for huge donations to the Conservative Party. He is not a true Tory ... Over the past days, in our exclusive serialisation, they have provided a sparkling insight into members of the Royal Family ... ... .
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Jeremy Corbyn has behaved like a spiv trying to welch on a bet, says Theresa ...
The Daily Mail 17 Oct 2019
Of all the descriptions often attributed to Jeremy Corbyn, being a mind-reader is not one. And yet before the Prime Minister’s new Brexit deal was published yesterday, the Labour leader definitively declared that he couldn’t support it. There are two possible explanations for this ... RELATED ARTICLES. Previous 1 2 Next ... .
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Gordon Brown: No-deal Brexit will make UK a ‘paradise’ for spivs and speculators
Scotsman 10 Oct 2019
A no-deal Brexit will make the UK a "paradise” for speculators, spivs and smugglers to make money out of medicine shortages, Gordon Brown will warn in a speech today ... Mr Brown will tell the Cosla conference that the 31 October deadline could become “a spivs' and speculators' paradise”, adding.
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Gordon Brown: ‘Spivs and speculators’ will profit from no-deal Brexit shortages
Belfast Telegraph 09 Oct 2019
A no-deal Brexit will make the UK a “paradise” for speculators, spivs and smugglers to make money out of medicine shortages, Gordon Brown is to warn ... Mr Brown will tell the Cosla conference that the October 31 deadline could become “a spivs’ and speculators’ paradise”, adding.
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Spivs and bankers are on the money: PATRICK MARMION reviews King Hedley II and The ...
The Daily Mail 24 May 2019
Rating.. Rating. ... Spivs and bankers. Lenny Henry is the super-fly spiv in August Wilson's drama set in 1980s Pittsburgh ... Wherever he lays his hat, that's his home ... Spiv and polish ... Henry, though, has the cooler part as the pensionable spiv who'd sell you a watch, handgun or grandma, but he plays within himself, wary of caricature ... RELATED ARTICLES ... .
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