21 APRIL 2024 and COUNTING ...
ZDENKO KOS MSc MEc BScEcon Hons MBA • 21 April 2024
A VERY SPECIAL DAY ... or IS IT???
Time to time I ask myself, is this the real life or is this just fantasy?
I started with Freddy Mercury, therefore let me go further with Freddie's words in song:
"Too late, my time has come
Send shivers down my spine, body aching all the time
Goodbye, everybody, I've got to go
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth ..."
"Goodbye, everybody, I've got to go
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth ..."
No further comments needed!
The truth is that perhaps former Defence Minister John Healey stepped down because he realize that despite that the UK has made Ajax central to the future of the Army and the UK's ability to fulfil our NATO obligations, yet after 13 years and £4bn investment, the Army has still not got a single deployable vehicle.
Over more than decade, the global accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers, or PWC, has become entangled in a series of scandals, government probes and media exposés relating to the cross-border movements of wealth linked to autocratic regimes, oligarchs and tax-avoiding mega-corporations.
Thank you ALI FORTESCUE again that you have the backbone and moxie to tell all openly and publicly doesn't matter on possible consequences.
For me personally, the fact that Arsenal are champions in the UK is a great disappointment, which was not the result of a good game but just luck with the referees and VAR.
The question for some remains: Who was better manager Alex Ferguson or Pep Guardiola?
What I wish you Janez and your cabinet? That Slovenia will truly be Slovenian and that the prosperity of the nation will finally prevail over the greed of individuals in the government as it has been so far.
People don't matter where I am, it doesn't matter what I do, I am asked again and again why I am having dogs like Kelpie and Labrador Retriever.
Labour has to be united including Unions has to stick with the labours, under one leadership and not fight between themselves. We saw this with Conservatives.
The final question here is not whether the world would have survived the closure of Hormuz. The world would survive it. The question is who would come out of it stronger – and who would be permanently weaker. My money would be on China and Russia, while US will have huge problems.
We have to ask ourselves whether we are being dragged into a war with no clear outcomes, just as we have to ask ourselves whether we're being dragged into a war with no clear objectives!
Reform UK is trying hard to show to the public that they are a “serious” party and they announced its new top team as Nigel Farage seeks to prove his party is not a "one-man band".
IF PRATT NIGEL FARAGE REALLY BECOMES THE PRIME MINISTER, WITH ALL THE INCOMPETENT AND DELUSIONAL FORMER CONSERVATIVES MPs, THEN THERE REALLY IS NO HELP AND HOPE FOR BRITAIN!
So, I am asking the British people and the UK MPs, how on earth is all this still happening and we are still transferring millions of pounds to Ukraine as “support”.
If Liam Rosenior would have the brains, skills and football knowledge for being manager on top levels, he would never ever put such a team against WestHam in first place. Being a manager of elite players which Chelsea FC have several, you must be really stupid manager, or players don't want to perform for you.
What a joker and smoker Trump really is. A Board of Peace. Trump, you are the best to go on a TV audition for “Get me out of here, I am celebrity”.
There is no doubts that PM is scared losing leadership and PM is without any shadow of the doubt afraid of Andy Burnham and he will do everything in his power to make sure that he doesn't get to run.
Donald Trump was not showing that he is the leader of the free world, the letter sounds like this is the moanings of a petulant child talking about “we had a boat that landed there too, we should have the rights as well”,.
Foreign Minister Marco Rubio said at a press conference "that the operation against Maduro was a warning to others in the world that America was to be taken seriously".
Mind you, Todd Boehly, you and I will die the same, whether you are giving me or not back my 5 season tickets you took of me, however my 17.6m followers are simply seeing your vision and ego.
The Belgian government has so far justified its rejection with legal and financial risks, there is a danger that Russia could retaliate on EU companies and individuals,
What is around the corner in 2026?
I was speechless seeing such vulgar attack in live TV debate without any intention of Madam Deputy Speaker Nusrat Ghani who chaired the Budget in the House of Commons to stop such disgraceful language toward our Chancellor Rachel Reeves.
Digital war between US and Europe started ugly. If EU is not changing the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and the Digital Services Act (DSA) the US will impose 50 percent tariffs on European steel and aluminium.
The good, the bad and the ugly from Saddam Hussein, Ghadaffy, Bashar al-Assad to Benjamin Netanyahu.
Sun Vegas is not the one you would consider to play with, they are playing with your life and privacy
Delusional Nigel Farage will be saying that this is now evidence that Britain is broken, while Kemi Badenoch will be again full of mouth on PMQ on Wednesday hove labour had lost control of law and order.
Every once in a while, cases are so bizarre that it shows once again the truth is stranger than fiction. And one of such cases is DIGITAL ID.
IF PRAT OF NIGEL FARAGE REALLY BECOMES THE PRIME MINISTER THEN THERE REALLY IS NO HELP AND HOPE FOR BRITAIN
The feeling of crisis in Manchester at Tory conference also afflicts Labour and the Lib Dems. It leaves voters facing a dangerously unstable political order.
In every human compassion should be a spark to recognise that today is a day when we mark what happened on October the 7th which was a terrorist attack.
Crime statistic for Cannes is not something in favour of Cannes where is a significant increase in crime, with 7,224 crimes and delicts reported in 2024, resulting in a 97.6% rate per 1,000 inhabitants.
The judge concluded that PPE Medpro had not complied with the legal and regulatory requirements to ensure the gowns, manufactured in China, were certified and validated to be sterile.
From the first 6 easy fixtures games, Chelsea FC managed to bank 8 points out of 18 possible. Complete disgrace!
Angela Rayner of course is the one big loss for the Prime Minister because Angela Rayner was the connection with labour activists and union in the way that she did.
A homage to China's rise and the vision of President Xi being no doubt there is a clear message for the world too and it is a message about Chinese power.
Chelsea stadium for example can accommodate around 42,000 only last renovated in 1990's. Is this the stadium for the club which in the last 10 years collected 25 major trophies?
What charges has the Insolvency department come up with against these five companies, including the one where I am (was) a director? Fishing charges!?
We said we can win by any means and that's what we have shown again today. I am so proud of the team and the staff. It is incredible said Sarina Wiegman, the England boss.
When this "unauthorised data breach" was finally discovered, a full 18 months after it occurred, the UK government obtained what is known as a super-injunction, preventing its publication by the media.
Cole Palmer stole the show with two brilliant solo efforts before setting up Joao Pedro to score his third goal in just his second game since signing for the club midway through the tournament.
Polish Iga Swiatek won the famous Wimbledon tennis tournament 2025 for the first time in her career. In the final, she completely outplayed American Amanda Anisimova.
the message on Friday from Sharon Graham, general secretary of Unite, the successor to the TGWU, was intended as a shot across the bows of the Labour Party.
The welfare reform was triggered to save up to £5bn. With all these changes made with the bill before voting that the bill pass in Parliament there basically will be no savings at all apart from new claimants.
On NATO Summit there was no words about Russia, no words about Ukraine and president Zelensky were more spectator that being in centre of interests. Thank goodness.
Donald Trump is the first US president to attack another country’s nuclear program and the first to explicitly join Israel in an attack on an adversary.
The Tory frontbencher Jenrick, currently the shadow justice secretary, filmed himself pursuing members of the public who snuck onto the tube without paying last week.
It is even more concerned issue because they advertise that they are replacement to all who can not have regular bank account for the reasons as bankruptcy, CCJ’s, Debt Relief Order, Debt Management and other such issues.
Chelsea completed the European quadruple: After successes in the Champions League, Europa League and the former European Cup Winners' Cup, the club has now also won the Conference League - as the first club in history.
Since he came into the office for the 2nd time, the US president has initiated a radical restructuring of the state apparatus and issued an almost incalculable number of decrees.
It is not strange that two biggest political parties at Westminster and Parliament itself are finding themselves buckled, bent and contorted by the furious arguments provoked by the Israel-Gaza war.