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We all accept that world sporting bodies – just like national governments – have to spend a great deal of their time treading a balance between principle and practicality. Whether it is better to ‘play ball’ with pariahs in the hope that exposure to the rest of us will [...]

November 2, 2018 // 0 Comments

Yet another troubled day in the life of

Yesterday I had occasion to attend a lunch in the City of London. Everything went according to plan until I decided to nip into the local branch of my own bank in the high street on my way to the railway station in order to deposit two cheques that I had received in my favour. You’d think – and [...]

October 30, 2018 // 0 Comments

The way it’s going even as you sleep …

These days – some three years into the life of this great organ of the internet – it is sometimes worthwhile reminding ourselves of the speed at which the world is moving ever onwards into an uncertain future as we oldies fight our continuing and losing battle to keep up. [When I paused for a [...]

August 25, 2018 // 0 Comments

This is what I don’t get …

Welcome to the future, sorry the modern world, which is neither like the past nor indeed how things should be. Overnight in the wee hours, for the fourth time in the last six or seven weeks, just as I was composing a long and detailed email on a complicated subject, my desktop computer suddenly [...]

August 2, 2018 // 0 Comments

What goes around sometimes bites back

It’s the nature of capitalism and life after all. You invent or find some item – whether at home or abroad – at a Cost A to you, prepare it for your intended customer market at a Cost B, and then ‘add a little something to the price for yourself’ (Cost C) – and bingo! – the [...]

June 13, 2018 // 0 Comments

A Night At The Trough

This is … er … only a true-ish story, this because some significant details have been altered in order to protect the exact location of the venue concerned and indeed my own identity. Yesterday I entertained a party of five at what could be described as one as a chain of high-end restaurants [...]

June 3, 2018 // 0 Comments

You couldn’t make it up (or so you’d think) …

You know you’re falling off the pace when you get bombarded for weeks (or is it months?) by emails and/or texts from seemingly every organisation you’ve ever had contact with or from – at no point during which do you understand why or what the slightest it’s got to do with you – and then [...]

May 25, 2018 // 0 Comments

Still not in it! Phew …

Yesterday I spent my early evening flicking through The Sunday Times Rich List, a pastime that I’m sure many people do simply to marvel at how the other half – or should that be the 0.00005% – live. My day began by popping over the road to get my Sunday newspapers as my local corner shop [...]

May 14, 2018 // 0 Comments

The problem with modern technology (and consumer affairs)

You might think this is a true story – and I couldn’t possibly comment, which is one of the reasons that I shall do my best to keep it short and to the essence (and will probably fail). I reckon I don’t ever watch more than a tenth of the number of television channels I am supplied with [...]

March 11, 2018 // 0 Comments

The art of keeping up and failing

It ill bodes anyone who ventures to predict the future – I’ll put my hand up straight away to having totally failed to foresee the way things might go when mobile phones and the internet first appeared in the 1970s/1980s – so you’ll excuse me for taking a deep breath before beginning [...]

March 9, 2018 // 0 Comments

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