Posted on January 5, 2010 by Nick
There’s a big difference between the political classes and the great British public. Politicians are still trying to put a gloss on our heinous economic situation- refusing to admit that we need drastic cuts from somewhere. That’s what happens when there’s an election round the corner. The Great British Public, however, aren’t so stupid. In 2009, [...]
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Posted on December 24, 2009 by Nick
Well, this is probably my last post of not just the year, but a whole decade. And that gives us quite a lot to look back on; here’s a list from off the top of my head. They’re largely negative, but that’s only because it’s bad things which make the news… the biggest debt pile [...]
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Posted on June 17, 2009 by Nick
It’s been a fairly lazy start to the week – I had a lovely long weekend in Belfast, visiting friends and godchildren. Along with family stuff, I got a little time to whiz round the city. As a Londoner who grew up in the 1970s and 1980s,and hadn’t been for over a decade, I heartily recommend [...]
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Posted on May 6, 2009 by Nick
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 [...]
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Posted on November 11, 2008 by Nick
This post is going to be a bit odd for me, because I’m going to talk about something I don’t know much about at all- manufacturing. You see, I have always worked in the service sector. I’ve got soft, Fairy Liquid hands because ‘I’ve never done a ‘proper’ day’s work in my life’. I’ve lived [...]
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Posted on June 24, 2008 by Nick
Astute readers will have noticed that this blog is kindly supported by the Microsoft Small Business Centre. It’s not often that Microsoft founder Bill Gates accepts the limelight anywhere, let alone here in the UK, so given his in-depth interview on BBC2 last week (for The Money Programme), I thought it would be useful to [...]
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