Blowin’ in the wind When the boys and girls from extinction rebellion were protesting in Oxford circus, (and blocking the traffic for a week) I decided to go down and see what all the fuss was about. To be in the safe side – extinction […]

Housing – another broken record Those of you who are old enough to remember Long Playing records (seemingly vinyl is back in vogue now) will remember they rotated at 33 revolutions per minute. A bit like some South American countries. And that’s how it’s beginning […]

Party, Party, Party! You have to hand it to Boris. This is a man who could have saved the Titanic, quenched the Great Fire of London single-handed or pulled five hundred rabbits of out a hat. With the current state of he country, his speech […]

EXCLUSIVE. Early draft of the PM’s speech at Tory Party Conference I have been privy to a leaked version of Boris Johnson’s speech to the party conference in October. (Please check against delivery). Amici, Londinenses et cives, huic primo conventui novae nostrae scrinii gratissimi sunt. […]

What will we do without the water cooler? With almost everyone working from home (or at least staying in bed at home), how will we find out what’s really happening in the company? What are the key strategic decisions that are being made at the […]

Are we losing the phoney war? A key essence to business success is communication. ‘Of course it is you dunderhead,’ I can hear you all say. We do business with people we know and trust and have a rapport with. I’ve known top technical experts […]

Are we at the end of time? When you think about it, the way we work is crazy. For the most part, we measure output by the time it takes to do the task. This is madness. I’m old enough to remember the bad old […]

Five to four field: Place your bets now The Black Horse is a bit of a dark horse. Lloyds Bank if getting into the housing business as a ‘large private landlord’. The main reason for this is that interest rates are so low. In other […]

Should our politicians be allowed holidays? I know this is not a popular sentiment, but I have a grudging sympathy for poor old Dominic Raab. The man has had a hell of a year. He had to stand in for Boris. He was effectively the […]

Pump up the Heat I am old enough to remember when the biggest threat to the planet was global cooling. Yep. In The early 1970, the big fear was that we would all be living in igloos with huskies instead of Hondas in the driveway. […]