Category CADS Blog

Friday the 13th – The Jokathon

Next Friday, 13th of December, brings the annual CADS Christmas lunch and Jokathon! We will gather in the bar of the KIGC on Dam Square from 1200 onwards. Lunch starts at 1230 in the Damzaal, and we will finish slightly…

More Bad News for Beavis

So how is the business sector responding to Boris’s ‘oven ready’ Brexit plan? Looks like they are mostly packing up and retiring to holiday homes in the Mediterranean. Latest UK PMI figures show that UK productivity continues to drop and…

Impact of UK Election

ING have produced a very useful study of all the possible outcomes of the UK election on Brexit, and the consequent impact on currency, gilts and shares. You can download the presentation below.

Can You Believe It?

Several pieces of bad news for Beavis and his election campaign this morning. First up is Michael Gove, who hits the headlines for suppressing the government’s own report on Russian interference in the Brexit referendum and the last UK election.…

WordPress Security Concerns

WordPress is one of the most popular site creation and blogging tools, and is often used by businesses. That has made it a target for Internet crime. Pressing on the link below will take you to a report by Wordfence,…

The New Withdrawal Agreement

Use the link below to download the changes to the Withdrawal Agreement which have been incorporated in a new document for consideration by Parliament tomorrow Saturday the 19th October 2019. Effectively, all the changes are subject to review by a…

Crime pays! But only in the UK…

My rant about government failure earlier in the week has been reinforced by yet another example of Utterly Kakistocratic (UK) government. A survey of changes in robbery rates in various countries by Crest Advisory from 2014 to 2018: The crime…

The CADS/NBCC golf

We were an eclectic band of CADS and NBCC members last Friday 🙂 The sun shined, the balls behaved well, and Mark Hofstee Holtrop won the NBCC cup whilst Abel Rasterhoff won the CADS trophy. A great time was had…

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