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There is a well repeated story concerning the Emperor Nero, who supposedly played a fiddle, while the city of  Rome was burning. I think that this is a very early…

As most sane people are suffering from I would call acute Brexit fatigue at the moment, I will gloss over this by simply quoting Doris Day, “Que Sera Sera!” We…

It was given the name The Thinker not by the artist, but by foundry workers!   This famous sculpture by Rodin, is from The Gates of Hell initially represented Minos, judge of the damned in…

It’s that time of the year when everybody is flying kites, and I don’t mean the summer pursuit of seeing them go higher and higher, until the string runs out…

All of the papers are saying that banks should lend more to new starts and small SME’s. This is one of the areas that Oak Leasing is currently funding more…

Years ago, there was a very popular TV programme called ” The Good Old Days”, where the audience would dress up in costumes of the turn of the century,  and…

Our customers are too big for leasing, they are a large PLC! How often have we heard that line over the last 30- 40 years? Or we only deal with…

Here we all are as we approach the end of a very rollercoaster year.  I think that the pantomime season started quite early this year, my reckoning was before the Summer,…

Here we are again, as Laurel and Hardy would say, “That’s another fine mess you got me into” or even going further to Victor Meldrews’ catch phrase, ” I don’t…