As everyone will have noticed, it’s been a bit hot and sticky recently. This means several things:
As Brits, we naturally fall into reminiscing about the good old days, when it just used to rain miserably
We notice that it’s more likely to be sunny on weekdays and rain at weekends (this is in fact true, and [...]
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As I write, London is yet again under the cosh of a tube strike.
It’s a proper pain for me. We have eight guests turning up for a TV studio session – studios which don’t come cheap, and don’t come with a refund, either.
I am a huge fan of London’s transport system. Our buses have improved [...]
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If you’ve read this blog for any length of time, I hope I’ve been broad enough in my declared opinions for you not to be able to guess which way I vote in political elections. After all, that’s nobody’s business but my own.
I’m not going to tell you here how I voted on Thursday (although [...]
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I am watching a manufacturing edifice come crumbling down. As I write, the future of General Motors, a global manufacturing behemoth, hangs in the balance. At least, that’s what the media and politicians would like you to think. There’s a lot of kudos in last-minute rescues, so let’s not pretend all is lost.
GM is not going [...]
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I’m not usually a fan of Human Resources departments. It’s not particularly the people who become HR consultants (there’s nothing congenitally wrong with ‘em); no – it’s the fact that I think it’s rather hard to bat for both sides at the same time. When times are good, there’s nothing to worry about. But when [...]
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Like many hoity-toity Londoners, I don’t get out of London much.
It’s a bit like being a politician – I get the feeling that the fine upstanding folk of Westminster don’t much like getting their hands dirty by going out to their constituencies and seeing how the other half live!
But last week, I did leave the [...]
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If you read my last posting, you’ll know that I’m now on the hunt for a new office. My situation is just a bit of a shame. But the following shows that I have actually been quite lucky, compared to some.
I had lunch today with a good friend, a successful CEO who is highly ethical [...]
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I’ve been wondering what to say about Budget 2009.
Truth is, this will go down as one of the strangest budgets in history. It’s one in which Mr Darling split the economy into neatly separated areas, which apparently don’t ever meet or interact.
Darling is rightly concerned (worried? petrified?) about the state of the macro-economy. There was [...]
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On Wednesday, I was lucky enough to attend the first of the 2009 series of Digital Dinners, an informal (i.e. quite boozy) gathering of people who work in my business – the digital communications industry. It’s a great place to meet a small number of players and actully get a chance to speak to everyone; [...]
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