ESTATE AGENTS: An Important Announcement From Government
UK house prices have hit record highs (again). This is very serious and, sadly, sometimes tough choices have to me made. Estate agents are often cuddly to look at, and of course they regularly appear...
View ArticleCome back Tomorrow’s World, all is forgiven.
I see from that there News that it’s the annual “CES” technology show in Las Vegas. Everyone seems incredibly excited. As I drove the old Land Rover to work today the BBC’s technology correspondent,...
View ArticleWhat the resurgence of vinyl tells us about the future of print.
In a little-regarded corner of the Czech Republic a factory you’ve never heard of reported the busiest day in its history last year. It produced 42,000 of the things it makes in a single day. Despite...
View ArticleFashion – the scam of ages.
Imagine for a moment if a group of newspaper and magazine journalists were exposed as being so totally in the pocket of big business that, whilst being paid by their employers, they were also working...
View ArticleThe death of Top Gear, in which the hobbits slew the dragon.
Ding dong, the witch is dead. The celebrations have begun, and they will be loud and long. All along the yellow brick road to Hampstead the Sancerre will be flowing tonight. Top Gear is no more, or at...
View ArticleFirst they came for the bumpkins, but I was not a bumpkin so I did not speak...
I was struck by an interesting blog this morning retweeted by the Labour MP Tom Watson (interest declared, I know and like Tom). Basically it’s a guy railing (quite rightly) against London’s LGBT and...
View ArticleBusiness-Speak: the self-defeating art of corporate nonsense.
Today we are going to go on an Experience Journey together to leverage our shared understanding of Best Practice in the Workplace Environment and explore how synergies might be better exploited to...
View ArticleYou may not know it, but Paul Dacre is doing you a favour.
In the last week there have been dozens, in fact probably hundreds, of things written on blogs which would make you, whoever you are, really angry. Some are offensive, some plain vindictive, some...
View ArticleSometimes you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone…
In the world of business one size does not fit all. Dress it up however you like – “brand identity”, “customer journey”, “emotional interface” – these meaningless phrases so beloved of MBA students...
View ArticleThree conversations from modern life, 28th, 29th and 30th Jan 2014.
Three conversations from the modern world – 28, 29 and 30th Jan, 2014: 1 – On the phone: The thing is, you see, that you’ve put my car insurance up but I haven’t made a claim this year, or indeed any...
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