In an undistinguished business career, it has been my pleasure to share an office with a number of talented individuals. I have also partnered some for whom the description ‘fruitcake’…
I feel that I must respond to Gerry Hassan’s article as he normally writes such good sense. Last week’s article about the health and well-being survey in schools and the…
Sometimes in life, you can’t do anything right for doing wrong. Well, at least that is the phrase my mother used to use whenever I rebuffed her advice as a…
It is with doubt a deeply troubling dark and misanthropic anthem. To what do I refer? Well, it’s Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer. It’s ostensibly presented, in the main by…
It is time to praise queues and queuing. Nations like Russia or France organise grand parades of weaponry to celebrate their national feasts, but maybe the fading UK could celebrate…
Doris A Wright set the standard for new year resolutions. It was she who wrote the famous lines: the future lies before you like a field of fallen snow, take…
In the scrupulously moral maze of UK business, there is a £4bn area of various shades of grey. Never to be confused with bribery, one is referring to the world of…
 Phone calls from others are an increasingly irritating source of interruptions, unlike the phone calls that I make. What follows is a collection of advice assembled from my experiences…
Strange though it feels to commit it to writing, I am beginning to suspect that our family dog may in fact be an assassin. Ostensibly a wee curly black and…
It was very interesting to read Tam Dalyell’s journal entry for 6 May 1999, and his concerns of that day. Like many others in the early part of 1999 I…