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A welcome re-wind

Completely by chance, over the last six months, I have become involved in a semi-commercial business project – if that is the appropriate description for something that in the final analysis and scale of multi-national corporate activities is infinitely modest. As the deadline for its launch has [...]

November 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

Cleared for take-off

There was a great deal of media excitement yesterday over the Government’s announcement that it favoured the creation of a third runway at Heathrow over a similar at either Gatwick or Stansted … or indeed any other solution. Reporters were sent to the perimeter fences to stand for up to ten [...]

October 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

Sorted!

In these uncertain times – I’ve just finished reading a scaremongering article on a newspaper website suggesting that climate change will have made the world unfit for human existence by 2050 – those of us who have reached retirement age, or indeed by choice and/or force of circumstance have [...]

September 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

A great man remembered

Yesterday at a charity lunch the host on my table was Brook Land. Brook as at the same school as me and, in introducing him to an old friend from the same school who is a keen lover of the theatre, I mentioned that Brook’s father David Land was an eminent impresario of his or any day. So [...]

June 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

Battening down the hatches

During the course of the last seven days there have been two media stories that have highlighted the gulf that exists between men and women. Firstly, there has been the news that those campaigning on both sides of the EU Referendum debate are being urged to address their ‘women’ problem [...]

May 31, 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

Here we go again

It’s that time of year again – or at least I think it is. Yesterday my eagle eye spotted a piece in The Sunday Times on the subject of whether or not Sir Elton John was Britain’s most generous philanthropist, based on ‘latest figures’, which suggested to me that we will shortly be hit [...]

April 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

Between a Rock and a hard place

Between 1992 and 1994 I had a brief love affair with Apple products. I can pin-point the start of it because it was the year that the outcome of the infamous ITV franchise process instigated by the swivel-eyed Maggie Thatcher took effect, in the sense that those companies who had lost theirs had to [...]

March 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

Meanwhile, back in the real world …

Last week the Google organisation apparently agreed to pay the sum of £130 million in settlement of a deal agreed with HMRC regarding tax upon its UK revenues generated between 2005 and 2015. At least I think those are the bare facts – it is difficult to tell because ever since the world and his [...]

January 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

A timely intervention

For some reason I know not the fines imposed on the bank for rigging the exchange rate triggered a memory of a conversation with my father over thirty years ago. It’s a curiosity – if that is the right word – that neither the victims of the scandal are compensated nor the [...]

May 22, 2015 // 1 Comment

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