Thursday, 3 March 2016

Business travel: the glamour rediscovered

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I’d forgotten how glamorous international business travel was, not having done any for a few years. Fortunately, as I sit at a departure g...
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Monday, 29 February 2016

Cleaner or MP? Lift operator or Judge?

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Did you see the story about MP Dawn Butler? She was the Labour MP for Brent South from 2005 to 2010, when the seat was abolished. But she ...
Sunday, 28 February 2016

England-Ireland was a good match. But it didn't look good for the nations of the North

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It was odd to find myself overtaking the Irish Rugby Football Union team bus on the M40 this morning. I was heading towards Oxford and my mo...
Saturday, 27 February 2016

Conservatives avoid ideology

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The problem with the Left, I’m frequently told, is that it’s too driven by dogmatic ideology. This means that instead of taking decisions in...
Thursday, 25 February 2016

Miss a machine, miss a train, but at all costs, get a seat

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Not everything ’s good about working  in London, but quite a few things are. It’s a great benefit that Luton, where I live, is on a direct...
Monday, 22 February 2016

Oh, dear. Looks like I have to back rank ineptitude.

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On balance, I’m inclined to believe David Cameron when he says that he favours Britain’s continued membership of the European Union. I say...
Friday, 19 February 2016

Which works better, delegation or control?

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How about this as a vivid description of one way of doing work? From Garrett Mattingly’s Defeat of the Spanish Armada , it conjures up power...