Recent Blogs.- SIZE DOESN'T MATTER January 30, 2023But bigger is still better to many, it seems. Bigger cars, bigger planes, bigger skyscrapers, bigger salaries – and so it goes on. Some of the cars cruising round Brighton with huge wheels and cowcatcher bumpers resemble tanks. The world is the same size as it ever was but we are defying gravity, as it […]
- I'M ONLY A COCK-EYED OPTIMIST January 23, 2023I believe it’s too easy to take a malignant view of the world. Surprisingly UK has not been the worst off in terms of strikes over the past three years with industrial unrest right across Europe and the rest of the world. Thus a good friend of mine, whose wisdom I rate, recently said lugubriously “There something […]
- CHOOSING THE RIGHT JOB January 16, 2023Being promoted to a bigger job is not always the right move to make. In modern politics people ill equipped for a given role nonetheless greedily grab it. Because, they say, that’s what you do.When Graham Potter left Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club where he earned a “meagre” £2 million a year for a […]
- LEARNING TO READ AGAIN January 11, 2023I keep hearing people say how wonderful Netflix is. Certainly there’s never been so much to choose from. According to research, the number of adult scripted original series in 2021 was 559 across cable, broadcast TV, and streaming services and it grew again last year. Yet I struggle to get excited.But I liked Emily in […]
- IS IT MAYDAY, LACKADAY, OR HAPPY DAYS? January 2, 2023Is it Mayday, Lackaday or Happy Days?Things aren’t going so well in the UK.We’re getting close to panic which would mean crying “mayday.” We’d prefer to be regretting where we are but putting up with it which would be “lackaday.” But “happy days” are some time in the future I’m afraid.It’s become something that’s up […]
- SIZE DOESN'T MATTER January 30, 2023