Colourful Thinkers

Recent Blogs.

• IT'LL BE THE DEATH OF ME October 11, 2021
  Last week I went to a funeral…another funeral. My life seems to have comprised a succession of funerals. They are nearly always stimulating, thoughtful and important. A pause at a moment in time; a chance to remember; a positive moment when we recall the best of a person. Life is a film which, when it ends, […]
• TO HELL IN A HANDCART? October 4, 2021
  Is that where Britain’s going? You’d  think so based on schadenfreude articles in Germany on our “post-Brexit-plight” to e-mails from friends in France entitled “Doom and Gloom” to articles in our own press about the collapse of the economy.There are issues, to be sure, but to predict as the Times did  that “This could ruin […]
• A STORY OF EXCESSES, RAGES AND A BAD APPOINTMENT September 27, 2021
  This weekend following the British Museum exhibition “Beckett: Murder and the Making of a Saint”, we are going to a conference which is about Thomas in Canterbury.It’s the 12th century. England has been ravaged by 14 years of civil war between Stephen and Matilda. The country is in chaos. In 1153 Henry 1’s grandson, at […]
• WHAT ARE WE ACTUALLY SEEING AND FEELING? September 20, 2021
  When I first went into marketing I was fascinated by Ernest Dichter, the American psychologist, described as the “father of motivational research”. His analyses of why people did what they did and his books like “The Strategy of Desire” seemed more interesting than the quantitative beasts like Gallup and Nielsen, research firms that just counted […]
• COMMON SENSE AND THE UNEXPECTED September 13, 2021
  The Oxford English Dictionary definition of “common sense” is blessedly to the point:“the ability to think about things in a practical way and make sensible decisions.”Recently I read something that Tony Blair said. He’s 68 and a somewhat discredited blast-from-the-past. His think-tank (The Institute for Global Change) claims that consistent,  widespread, but relatively small changes […]