THE BIG RETORT

We recently highlighted the ‘banker’ who splashed out £71,000 on a drinks binge at a top London nightclub in one single evening - and with just nine money-making wannabees. Now, in our follow up exclusive, TheBigRetort   uncaps the bottle. At the bottom of the glass we discover a 'sponsored' jolly for  a top model agency and a publicity stunt gone awry. Our report pours ice on a little-known drink someone has styled 'Methuselah'... What do a bunch of party-going models and a drinks firm have in common?   Answer: A give-it-large hedge fund owner with more money than sense. To recap... It took place just off Oxford Street. In a club called The Rose. You may recall that this is the place (if you've got no soul) that was recently promoted by its gloating owners as the wannabe hangout of the embarrassingly wealthy. And boy do we mean e-m-b-a-r-r-a-s-s-i-n-g. The Rose has a thorn aft...

Jerome Isaac, 47, has been charged with murder and arson following the death of Deloris Gillespie, 73. The victim was set alight after being sprayed with a flammable liquid when her lift stopped on the fifth floor of her apartment block. The incident was captured on CCTV together with images of her attacker dressed as a pest controller who was seen entering the lift in Brooklyn, New York. The video went white as the woman was set on fire. Dorinda Thomas, 56, told the New York Post. "She was a wonderful lady, you understand."

Following the much-publicised introduction of the new Routemaster bus, reports just in...  Boris Johnson’s new bus, named the “Son of Routemaster”, has broken down on a motorway just south of Luton. The new Routemaster took the unscheduled stop leaving its driver looking forlorn. The Routemaster, which has its hazard lights flashing, is flanked by police in a lay-by.

I n our last Retort, we reported on the City hedge fund banker who received national publicity when it was revealed that he blew £71,000 on a single night out for ten in a London nightclub. Added to the largess he left a tip for one lucky young lady... of £10,000. TheBigRetort exclusive... Since we ‘outed’ the lucky 'Rose Club' waitress at our last retort the recipient of the windfall has now posted a photograph of the receipt - showing a tip made out to her to the value of ten thousand pounds. Yes - TEN THOUSAND! Who's the lucky girl, then? TheBigRetort can now reveal that she is none other than "Margaux Nina". Or at least this is the name under which she currently Tweets. "Wooooooop ahahahaha !!! ;-) watch out…" Ms Nina wrote in one tweet following the enormous tip. She even thanks the London Evening Standard, presumably for reporting on the tip? Woooooop ahahahaha indeed.

The new alternative to the hated Bendy-Bus was seen on London streets today as LBC's Nick Ferrari, and former MP Michael Portillo put two very large bums on seats.   Their verdict: a big thumbs up for Mayor Johnson's "Boris Bummer.". The old Bendies never did find much popularity (except amongst fare dodgers) and if Ferrari and others are to be believed, the Boris Bummer is likely to bring in the punters due to its lighting and sleek glass design, which also manages to retain the heritage of the old much-loved Routemaster. Will is be a success amongst the travelling public? Fares ladies and gents, please.

When newspapers recently reported the largesse of a mysterious hedge fund manager who is said to have frequented a London club where he spent £71,000 on a single evening out - TheBigRetort  couldn't resist querying the bill... The Evening Standard, together with the Mail and various additional newspapers of note recently carried a feature on the 13 th December that came in for a lot of scrutiny by we poor due to the amount of money that is said to have been spent, in a single evening, and by just one rich individual at a club styled 'The Rose'; and which (significantly) recently opened off Oxford Street. On Thursday evening into the Friday morning the club is said to have played host to a big-spending banker and his cohorts - with more money than it seem sensitivity in what are arguably straightened times, for the many at least. But is all as it seems in this remarkable story of riches to riches? Apparently this right ‘banker’ (call him what you will) all...

It was back in June 2010. The Kepler space telescope discovered over 750 extrasolar-planets culled from data that it had collected in its first 43 days of observations of the cosmos. Marked "candidates" - since then astronomers have gone on to confirm hundreds of planets orbiting alien suns light years beyond our own little solar system. But one planet alone has drawn the most excitement. We name it “Keptoo-toobe”. The recent discovery by astronomers of an extra-solar planet designated Kepler 22b comes just one year after a treasure trove of stars was unveiled by the space telescope Kepler at NASA. “This is the biggest release of candidate planets that has ever happened,” said scientist William Borucki at that time. NASA expected only 50% of these so-called alien candidates to actually turn out to be real planets. Kepler 22b, almost two and a half times the size of the Earth, has not only been conf...

George Hallam, an economist at Greenwich University,  has been nominated as the London People Before Profit candidate in the forthcoming bye-election in Feltham and Heston. But can he do it? The challenge by Mr Hallam follows the death of MP Alan Keen (Labour), who passed away this November aged seventy-three. Mr Keen had been ill with cancer for some time. The London People Before Profit movement grew out of what was the former Lewisham People Before Profit (LPBP). People Before Profit was set up, not by politicians, but by community campaigners in South London who were angry about Government and political leaders who simply put the interests of Big Business before community need. The London People Before Profit Party brings together a broad group of people of varying political backgrounds who are united under one banner, the People‘s banner: Community Need Before Private Greed. Such was the rush to meet the qualifying deadline for the bye-election that the Londo...