The Mother of All Recoveries?
Will the economy tank, as I have been predicting in my blogs? Or will it bounce-back? This issue is dominating my thoughts and conversations. Last week brought us confirmation - [...]
Your true colours
During these frightening times, my recent experience of business, politics, family and friendships instructs me that people’s true colours shine more clearly now than they have ever done. In [...]
Marxists and Capitalists
Marxists and Capitalists make the same mistake: both describe our current system as capitalist. Sure, it is capitalist, but missing is the sub-category. As Yanis Varoufakis skilfully explains here, when [...]
Good Days, Bad Days
After a bad day - as today has been - as a sufferer of a chronic pain-type illness, I now sympathise with those who have had the good day-bad day, [...]
Don’t Look Back in Anger
Don’t Look Back in Anger by Oasis captured the spirit of the mid-90s. At 15, I remember that time as one of optimism; we knew that something better was en [...]
Lockdown Weather and Pascal’s Wager
At the high risk of being ridiculed, I’ll write it regardless. The best weather in my lifetime, coincided with the only lockdown in my lifetime. During this weird period, like [...]
We can move mountains
Until yesterday, my dealings with business banking has been the low point in my business life. The average length of a call to my high street business bank was around [...]
In defence of Reckless Boris (RB)
After the PM’s apparent bungled performance on Sunday evening, which was supposedly exacerbated by his “clarifications” on Monday, I thought that I would – candidly – spring to his defence. [...]
Six months without alcohol
Yes, it was six months ago since I last tasted the amber nectar. I haven’t missed it, no. Given that alcohol doesn’t work well with my medication - which I [...]
A Pandemic of Poor Decision-Making
During this life-defining time – when what we do during these weeks may define our lives - I have noticed, in a variety of arenas, people making the most absurd [...]
