I love the idiocy of talking about company performance for 2008.

We are all supposed to heave a sigh of relief that company profits are up on their 2007 results.

Well der, you morons. Most companies, even in the US and western Europe, were showing massive gains on their 2008 results when compared to 2007.

The financial meltdown has only just begun, and it will take some time to (inevitably) trickle through into the 2009 financial reports.

If anyone is dumb enough to believe that companies in Qatar are bucking global trends, they should be slapped silly, not working in a newspaper.

It's similar to the rubbish that is on Emirates News each evening, telling the world how the UAE is just the greatest place in the whole wide world and everything is rosy.