What ho, fellow readers! Not only is Boris “pip pip huzzah” Johnson the mayor of London, but that rapscallion blogger is smoking a dashed pipe!
Now, I fully understand that smoking is a revolting habit, and I ought to give it up. No offence meant. This posting is actually about one of the side effects of [...]
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More of a travelogue than a business post today. This week, I have been in Vienna; and was lucky enough to have one of my meetings inside the United Nations complex there. The buildings are pure 1970’s classics, redolent of a conference centre far behind the Iron Curtain. Whether you like them or hate them [...]
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Sometimes, opportunity knocks and you just have to grab the chance while it’s there, without thinking.
On Sunday evening, a friend of mine called me up. She’s a news journalist and was doing a shift for TalkSPORT, the national AM speech radio station. The (lovely) Mike Mendoza, their overnight man, was short of an interviewee for [...]
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Today’s post is only tenuously connected to business. Today, a supplier of mine kindly took me out to lunch at Vertigo, the restaurant atop the 42nd floor of Tower 42 at the bottom of Bishopsgate in the middle of the City of London.
Here are the photos, and yes, that’s a fine bubbly. Sometimes, something comes [...]
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Today, I made a big decision. No, a huge decision.
I am going to move offices. For some time, it’s been clear that I needed better premises, closer to my clients. My warehouse in South London is neither salubrious nor warm, and hardly inviting. The time has come to up sticks for the Big City.
I have [...]
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I write to you today from the relative comfort of a fairly good hotel room in New York. Now, I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking “Ooh, lookatchoo, jetting around the world like a proper Charles Lindbergh.” Err… no. My time here is truly a catalogue of errors. You couldn’t make it up.
I am here [...]
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