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The best outcome of all

The EU Referendum campaign has less than thirty days to run and seems to have settled into a pattern of new daily accusatory ‘he said/she said’ claims and denials from both camps. In the past fortnight we have had the Remainers claiming that every family in the UK would be £4,300 worse off, [...]

May 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

Dealing with the media

Something that has always fascinated me is the relationship between people – of whatever status, be they ordinary members of the public, celebrities, agents, PR spokesmen, CEOs and/or chairman of public bodies or business organisations or (wash my mouth out) even politicians – and the media [...]

May 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

Another day before the mast …

I’m currently staying with my elderly father, primarily engaged upon combining mowing the lawn in between the rain showers and watching sport on television. On Friday we watched an hour or two of the first cricket Test Match between England and Sri Lanka at Headingley – with eight wickets down, [...]

May 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

No big deal

Last week a stink blew up over the decision by members of Muirfield Golf Club to reject the admission of women as members. As I understand it, they needed a 75% majority to accept the change to their ‘men only’ rule – the senior executives supported the move and did everything they reasonably [...]

May 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

Like mushrooms in the dark

Someone said on the radio yesterday that there are now just 35 days until the EU Referendum and last night I watched – well, until I nodded off about ten minutes from the end – Jeremy Paxman’s BBC1 programme Paxman on Brussels: Who Really Rules Us? I read somewhere that, given Paxo’s [...]

May 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

Frustration

Somebody is soon going to have to do something about the traffic conditions in modern Britain. Having not so long ago failed to reach a funeral in Fulham because on the day the roads of south-west London were in the grip of in a ten square mile gridlock for unknown reasons, I’ve recently had the [...]

May 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

Running on empty

At this stage of the EU Referendum campaign – with the opposing teams seemingly falling over themselves to be more and more outrageous [or do I mean desperate?] in their claims as to what will happen if they do not win your vote – I suspect that, like me, most voters have already (or are about [...]

May 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

Mind at rest at last

And so yesterday to Soho, one of my familiar haunts of my yesteryear career, for lunch. In days of yore at one stage the Gay Hussar in Greek Street was practically a staff canteen and I (no gourmet I hasten to add) was occasionally taken down the road to L’Escargot, where the legendary Elena [...]

May 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

Cranking up the rhetoric

Regular readers will have correctly fingered me as a supporter of Brexit on the forthcoming EU Referendum. I have reached this position not from a careful forensic analysis of the economic, political, security and innumerable other issues that we voters are being told we should be considering. Nor [...]

May 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

Tough times

It never rains but it pours and currently, as he reminded us yesterday, just 45 days from the EU Referendum David Cameron could be heading for a cliff. Here’s a link to an analysis by Ben Chu, economics editor of The Independent, of progress since the Tories’ unexpected victory in the [...]

May 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

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