I start with the refugees which leads nicely into the vicious and Orwellian attack by Channel 4 News on Steve Brown of Orcadian Energy (ORCA) where I am a loyal shareholder. What has happened here is a direct attack on free speech, an attack by the media itself. It is horrific. Then it is onto Versarien (VRS). Ian Westbrook may well be within £1950 of being able to make the loathsome pig Neill Ricketts sweat like an AIM CEO so with 22 hours to go, please keep donating HERE. Meanwhile, Neill is up to his old tricks of disseminating over-egged “news” via non RNS means as I expose HERE. Surely the Oxymorons must act?

It has come to my attention that Steve Brown, the CEO of Orcadian Energy (ORCA) is the latest victim of the MSM obsession with closing down debate about climate change. Steve has deleted his twitter account following a report by Channel 4 (https://www.channel4.com/news/revealed-north-sea-oil-company-chief-exec-claims-climate-emergency-is-fake) that his personal twitter account expressed views about climate change and global warming which did not accord with the worshiping of Greta. History informs and teaches us and explains why my blood boils at this latest manifestation of the “cancel culture”.

Self-styled “a world leader in the design and manufacture of supercapacitors and energy management systems” CAP-XX (CPX) has announced a “significantly oversubscribed” bookbuild and “is pleased to announce the successful sale of 10,498,700 Sale Shares”. How pleasing is it?…

Back in April I wrote about Taylor Wimpey (TW.), ‘one of the largest British based housebuilding companies’. Back then the shares were above 180p, but even with a decent rise this morning after the publication of first half numbers, the shares are still ten pence or so below the level back then. So what is going on?

I make no accusation here against UK Oil & Gas (UKOG) and its boss Lyin’ Steve Sanderson. It is just that the recent timeline of disaster looks rather compressed to me. And given Lyin’ Steve’s form for er…lying, I have dropped the note, below, to the Oxymorons at AIM Regulation, cc’ing the woke dullards at the FCA since this relates to the conduct of an open offer.

The fraud Zoetic (ZOE) said, on 17 May 2021, that its results for the year to 31 March 2021 would be out in July (2021). But instead of delivering its numbers, it served up trading statements on July 1 and July 29 and last night said that covid had caused delays and the results would be out in August. That is both a lie and an admission of a rule breach.

Asset manager Peter Grandich says that during his forty year career, financial markets have changed to become high-tech casinos. Spot on!

Shares in Versarien (VRS) are being pumped by Bulletin Board speculation that the company has won a “major role” in HS2. If that is the case Versarien should announce the deal with hard numbers via an RNS.  But it has not, it has leaked the story to “Punchline” the No 1 source of Business News in Gloucester. And then cult followers have spread the link all over the internet.

Hello, Share Finders. I’m a longish term holder of Capita (CPI). And so far I’ve been disappointed. Actually, a disaster. But new shareholders may now see a decent return on the shares as business picks up after the worst of Covid. Hot press: Capita has signed a ‘learning services’ contract with a big financial services client in the UK.

International staffing group Impellam (IPEL) has announced results for the first half of the year and that it is seeing “increasing positivity in our customer demands for our managed service and talent solutions across our markets”. This sounds encouraging.

While I was recording bearcast, Zoetic (ZOE) announced that since promising results in July on May 17 – by when it would already have done much of the audit work – it had discovered all about covid so would not now be releasing, what will be piss poor, results (for the year to March 31 2021) until this month. Good news travels fast, bad news is delayed. The real reason for the delay is explained in this podcast. I also cover discussions with the regulators on UK Oil & Gas (UKOG), Supply@ME Capital (SYME), the John Story episode and getting the shyster resigned from Escape Hunt (ESC). I speculate on what he did next. And there is a final appeal for Ian Westbrook. Do not let the loathsome pig Neill Ricketts win by default, please donate HERE

Previously writing on IRN-BRU, Rubicon, Funkin and more drinks company A.G. Barr (BAG), last month with the shares at 530p I concluded decent growth from here would see this valuation become attractive… I’ll look out for the further detail scheduled for next month. Today a half-year trading update…

Previously writing on live events services company Aeorema Communications (AEO), in March with the shares at 28p I reviewed reinvented & well positioned, concluding at least worth continuing to monitor and possibly here worth a small recovery buy. The shares last closed at 28.5p but are currently 37.5p on the back of a trading update…

Previously writing on hydraulic and pneumatic consumables and components and systems business Flowtech Fluidpower (FLO), I concluded in an update on my share tips of the year 2021 last month that the shares are now 123.5p and for those still in, ahead of an update on half-year trading, I currently say hold. Today it has announced that trading update…

Shares in AIM-listed Block Energy (BLOE) are up this morning by 7.5% on no news, although yesterday the company announced a series of nil-cost options being issued to its directors and employees in lieu of salary. In this mad market, nothing surprises me and the dilution is apparently a good thing as far as shareholders are concerned! Meanwhile, more bombs have been dropped by the rebels looking to oust current chairman Philip Dimmock in favour of the last independent NED still standing, Mr Charles Valceschini and commission an independent forensic report into the affairs of the company. Oh dear…..

Back in May I observed that I was ‘still holding onto my profitable position’ in Playtech (PTEC) the gambling software development company. Today it is less profitable than it was back then as over recent weeks the shares have fallen back to levels last seen in November last year. Thankfully I doubled up my holding sixteen months or so ago when almost everything was perceived a bit more cautiously. Anyhow back in May, whilst observing firm multiples and a bit of debt, I did also observe that its ‘online growth has remained very strong in 2021’ and hence I still hoped that Playtech shares had ‘the scope to return to around the six quid level again’. Well despite the romp in Entain (ENT) shares over the last couple of years working out very well, Playtech has been a lot duller. Since May there have been a couple of interesting further announcements too.

You may remember the Equities First Holdings (EFH) scandal which we did so much to expose? Fine chaps like the fraudster Rob Terry of Quindell (QPP) would take out a loan at a big discount to the value of shares pledged. They did not care as they knew the shares were way overvalued. The “lender,” EFH, would dump the stock at once so locking in a profit and when the shares fell a bit more the borrower would default. Easy! How to dump your entire holding in a worthless company while saying you were not. A document filed at Companies House, below, but natch not admitted to via RNS suggests the CEO of the fraud Supply@ME Capital Alessandro Zamboni has (again) been reading the Rob Terry playbook.

Over at Powerhouse Energy (PHE), the chairman is branded a liar by a High Court Judge but because Tim Yeo is a Tory Toff he gets to keep his job. At Verditek (VDTK) – the company that repeatedly announces big contracts to ramp the shares ahead of a placing only for the contracts to evaporate once the mug punters have ponied up, the Tory Toff in charge is Lord David Willetts. Because the good Lord is just the sort of fine fellow to whom we should all doff our cap, normal AIM rules don’t apply.

Hello, Share Casters. Companies connected with TV and films look worth consideration in the present uncertain climate. One of my babies in this field is Zoo Digital (ZOO). It’s produced numbers fairly recently that show Covid has not been a problem for it. And no wonder, when you supply dubbing and subtitles to foreign TV shows. The pandemic confined zillions of us to our sofas – and it was hard for programme makers to keep up their normal output.

Recommending shares in international specialist staffing group Empresaria (EMR) at a 70p offer price last month, we stated there looked reason for confidence that following updates will show further evidence of recovery building and that a full recovery can be delivered – also noting cost action taken last year should come through. Now there has been a half-year trading update and the shares are currently up to 80p.