Articles
- 29th June 2009
In a meeting last week a colleague mentioned, in passing, a report he'd read that referred to an institution's "Victorian" approach. Was that, another colleague asked, intended as a compliment? The laughter was spontaneous, loud and long. read more »
- 15th June 2009
Sometimes it is nature that calls, not the chance of a more interesting conversation. read more »
- 8th June 2009
It's like finding Liam Gallagher tapping noisily at the no-smoking sign in a pub, or hearing Roy Keane deliver a school speech day address in which he explains that it matters not whether you won or lost, but how you played the game. read more »
- 7th June 2009
During all the time he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown notched up a significant roster of achievements, from frustrating Tony Blair's plans for schools reform to converting the party of James Maxton to the joys of the Private Finance Initiative. read more »
- 1st June 2009
I don't know whether it's in the Anglo bit, or on the Saxon side, but there's a chromosome somewhere in the DNA of the British that gives our bodies a very different chemistry from the rest of the world's. read more »
- 31st May 2009
Six decades have passed since George Orwell wrote his prophetically dystopian novel 1984 in a few short weeks of exile on the bleakly beautiful coast of Jura. read more »
