Nick Leeson is the biggest gambler in history. Over the next few months, he'll be writing about everything from the nature of risk, gambling psychology, his new passion for poker and maybe even the state of the Far-Eastern financial market.



Rogue trader', 'disgraced bond trader', 'that tosser from Barings'. These are all descriptions of me that I've heard this week and every week for the last four and a half years. Add to that the formal presentation of an injunction for £100m - yes, £100m - at Heathrow Airport on my return from Singapore and a lien over 50 per cent of my earnings, and you get the picture that the future wasn't exactly looking very bright.