Colourful Thinkers

Recent Blogs.

• THE AGE OF ENTERPRISE August 19, 2019
  Recently I was passed in the street by someone uttering some rather depressing words.“It’s so hard. I have to spend my time keeping tabs on my people making sure they do things properly.”It must be fun working for him. But he, the joyless administrator,  is one reason the Start-Up revolution is gaining so much momentum.The […]
• COMMON SENSE, REASON AND FAITH August 12, 2019
  A friend said recently “I wonder how history will judge 2019”. The answer, of course, is in much the same way history judged 1919, 1819 or 1719. A year in which reason was cast aside and – as usual - folly prevailed. A hundred years ago there was a devastating flu pandemic, a disastrous Paris […]
• WE ARE NOT ALL DOOMED August 5, 2019
  I’ve had a lot of depressing e-mails from friends living abroad telling me how miserable I should be and how much more miserable I’m going to be; that a no-deal Brexit will be an economic catastrophe; that we’re all shitting ourselves, or should be.And those who aren’t are deluding themselves, fiddling as Rome burns.Although I […]
• VIGOROUS HOPE IS THE NEW STRATEGY July 29, 2019
  Normally (like Mark Antony in Shakespeare’s ‘Julius Caesar’) I’d want to bury Boris Johnston not to praise him but his recent anthems of optimism reach that part of my soul that other politicians seldom reach. Saatchi and Saatchi built their advertising empire around the hope-tingling maxim “anything is possible.” The American management writer Jim Collins coined […]
• PROTESTS, EXCITEMENT AND LIES July 22, 2019
  I heard this on the Sunday Service on Radio 4:“In this troubled world…” Trouble underpins almost everything we hear now. Brexit, racism, anti-semitism, climate change, inequality. We relish “troubled” in the way we relish a seriously hot curry.Well, I need irony and laughter not troubled. I don’t find Trump, Boris or Jezza funny. I need quirky […]