Colourful Thinkers

Recent Blogs.

• I REMEMBER SOMETHING JUST LIKE THIS HAPPENED BEFORE May 16, 2022
  Anthony Seldon recently said we need historians in important positions in government to categorise, interpret and help us learn from what happened in the past. An executive steeped in the pharmaceutical industry said something similar to me about the absence of “corporate memory.” In both politics and in business, incoming regimes want to demolish their predecessor’s work […]
• I'M GETTING TECHED OFF May 9, 2022
  There was a review of the VW Taigo in the Sunday Times Magazine recently. It’s  a Brazilian model, basically a simplified, old fashioned Golf. No bad thing in a world where there’s a critical chip shortage leading to factory shutdowns and Toyota suffering a stalling of production.  Reviewer Nick Rufford rhapsodises: “it has a mechanical handbrake, […]
• FOLLOW MY LEADER May 2, 2022
  Leadership’s been a hot topic recently. From Boris Johnson to Joe Root. The Ukrainian leader, Zelensky, from being ignored by EU leaders has become a global hero. Mr Bean to Superman in under a month. In contrast Putin has seemed remote and callous.  But I’m not sure that’s how most Russians would see him. To […]
• RELAX. HERE COMES THE SUN. April 25, 2022
   Relax. Here comes the sun.Last week having talked about age I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised to receive, out of the blue, a letter from “Pure Cremation…the fuss-free alternative to the traditional funeral.” That’s probably preferable to and cheaper than the black-horse-drawn hearse that I saw recently.But enough about death (as Vladimir Putin certainly […]
• THE POWER OF AGE April 18, 2022
  Recently there’s been a lot written about old age and what older people should be called.Crinklies, Saga Louts, Oldies, Seniors, Golden-Agers, Boomers and so on.The world seems to be turning against the elderly. Against their assumed wealth, their old fashioned views, their belief that they are right, their increasing longevity, their bed blocking in hospitals, their […]