I warn you that my Mahmud Kamani impression when he meets the new ESG director forced upon him contains strong language. It had to, to be accurate. I discuss, in this podcast, the liars at Supply@ME Capital (SYME), William Hill (WMH), Restaurant Group (RBG), Hammerson (HMSO) and Boohoo (BOO), plus my act of mask rebellion in Wrexham yesterday as I stocked up on loo rolls. You – and the Mrs – mocked me last time but it is better to be the first lunatic overreacting than the first sane person forced to pay £5 and limited to 1 roll each!

As you will be aware, I have today written to the FCA about the lying and suspicious share trades of Supply@ME Capital (SYME) chairman Dominic White. An eagle-eyed co-conspirator draws my attention to page 101 of the (balance sheet fraudulent) RTO prospectus from March 23 2020. I do not wish to be a pedant but…

A 4:30pm yesterday “Board Changes and Trading Update” announcement from UK engineering and construction company NMCN plc (NMCN). Attempted no-one watching o’clock? If so, it hasn’t worked – with the shares currently at around 250p (capitalising the company at circa £26 million), 24% lower today…

I have been warning about Wellesley Finance Plc since Sunday 17 February 2019.  It was the third in a series of articles I wrote about mini-bond lenders in early 2019, starting with London and Capital Finance Plc, then Blackmore Bond Plc, and finally Bassett & Gold Plc with the other three now all in administration with substantial losses of investors capital. Now it’s 4 from 4 – ouzo at the Sheriff of mini-bonds towers! And, again, the FCA has fecked it up when it comes to ignoring clear warnings and its basic job of protecting investors.

It has been announced today that Supply@ME Capital (SYME) chairman Dominic White has sold c£1.5 million worth of shares at 0.495p. His reason for doing so is a demonstrable lie and, as such, I have written to the FCA, as regulator of the Standard List, suggesting it suspends the shares to stop more boardroom dumping and charges White with market abuse.

SSince I am a loyal and supportive shareholder at Pensana Rare Earths (PRE), this video is naturally sweet music to my ears! And the video also focuses on the mega bull case for copper which, as an Asiamet (ARS) shareholder, makes me even happier.

Bluebird Merchant Ventures (BMV) has updated its shrewd investors with news, including that “it is expected that an Independent Expert will shortly be nominated under the terms of the Joint Venture Agreements with Southern Gold. The Independent Expert will make a value determination within 30 days of being appointed” and also “with regards to its gold project in the Philippines that has remained dormant since mid 2016”…

If Supply@MECapital (SYME) was about to announce price sensitive information as it repeatedly claims, how come its directors are share dealing like dervishes? There is another one at it today – chairman Dominic White dumping stock with an excuse lamer than a three-legged cat and, meanwhile, the market abusing CEO Alessandro Zamboni has been forced, by my article, to clarify his dodgy dealings of yesterday. His clarification begs more questions.

Hello, Share Friends. You may know that Pets at Home (PETS) is one of my favourite retail plays. In fact, given the curse of the high street, it’s probably my only one. The over-riding reason is that we’re potty about our pets and this overblown fascination is only getting stronger. My town is overrun with dogs as an evermore isolated population turn to four-legged friends for company…

I have been distracted today as you can see HERE. In today’s podcast, I cover Wishbone Gold (WSBN) and Big Dave’s honesty. I look at Supply@ME Capital (SYME) and its latest dishonesty, Cineworld (CINE), Biome Technologies (BIOM) and at Versarien (VRS).

I have no crystal ball, so shares in Malcolm Burne’s Golden Prospect (GPM) could fall further before going up again, but I am convinced that it is now an outright buy.

Escape-the-room experiences company Escape Hunt (ESC) has updated including “trading in our UK owner-operated sites has been encouraging since we re-opened on 12 July… sales in the six weeks to 20 September… 72% of the same period in 2019… resulted in a positive site level EBITDA which was approximately 33% higher than the site level EBITDA in the equivalent six-week period in 2019” – and the shares have currently responded to 8p, 6.7% higher. However…

Another day and another massive red flag is hoisted by con Supply@ME Capital (SYME). Surely even the Sith Lord Zak Mir will not be able to promote this as good news while keeping a straight face?

Of course the first order Verditek (VDTK) won in the land of high culture was way back in 2019. But that turned out to be a fake “take or pay” contract designed to ramp the shares ahead of three bailout placings. Having finally fessed that it made that one up, Verditek has today announced a real order from down under. But it is tiny and will do sod all to ease the financial woes of a company that is technically insolvent, having negative net current assets and which is still burning cash.

Previously writing on bioplastics and radio frequency technology company Biome Technologies (BIOM), I concluded with the shares around 160p that the RF division position and overall cash burn continued to deter, but the bioplastics momentum continued to see it remain on the watchlist. The shares last closed at 240p, but are currently back down around 160p…

When, on August 11^th I looked at the rescue rights issue for fully-listed Hammerson (HMSO) and the terms, I concluded it was a slam dunk sell. At the time, the shares were (in consolidated terms) 264.9p with a mother-load of rights offer confetti to come at just 15p. The official ex-rights price calculation was 25.59p: now the stock is languishing at just 16.6p. A glass of Ouzo for me, then.

Remember how the PR spinners for Cineworld (CINE) conspired with the corrupt deadwood press to suggest that stakebuilding by a Chinese investor meant this company was a bid target?  Anyone who bought into that tosh will today be regretting it as interims show that this company is a zero.

A real ramshackle range of regulatory news updates today but I focus here on Funding Circle (FCH). I first wrote about this one in the summer of last year, after I noticed an office of its during a business trip of mine in San Francisco. Suffice to say it was ‘big and bold on the second floor of a nice small scale development in the middle (and most expensive part) of the city’. In that article, I highlighted the huge IPO shocker from a 440p listing price to just 135p then. The strategic car crash continued…

Kefi Gold and Copper (KEFI) has announced half-year results, but also more significantly “Hawiah Preliminary Economic Assessment”…

Hello, Share Toasters. A share which I’ve earlier recommended has been a disappointment lately. That’s because Zoo Digital (ZOO) is a contractor to TV and film companies and we all know how they’ve been affected by the pandemic. But a report to Zoo’s annual general meeting shows that the company is actually thriving…