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Seeing Things
A previous boss (I’ll spare his blushes) once said to me: ”To do things differently, you have to see things differently”. Since then, life has been a constant search for new ways of looking: You can find alternative lenses in the most unexpected places. Indeed, the less expected, the fresher the view. In recent weeks, [...]
The Plane Truth
It’s been a while since my days of constant international business travel; I’d forgotten just what a pleasure it can be. In recent weeks, a pan-European project has taken me on multiple day-trips, and all my fondest memories have flooded back. Especially over the past 24 hours, as a French Air Traffic Control strike left [...]
Was Colonel Jessep Right?
Brilliant final-furlong analysis of the election in the Financial Times this weekend. In summary: it has been a campaign devoid of content. Faced with a huge fiscal problem, whoever gets in will need to sack public sector workers, cut pay, reduce pensions and axe services. No party has deigned to explain how it would do [...]
Back on the Blog. Back on the Bike
How are you dealing with mid-life? A Harley Davidson and a ponytail? A spiritual retreat up a mountain? Writing the Great Postmodern novel? For me, it’s getting back on a racing bike. Of course, it’s not called a racing bike any more; it’s a road bike. But the drop handlebars, the razor-blade saddle and the [...]
Screen Time
According to Wired Magazine, the average American spends 8 to 9 hours a day in front of a screen. Based on the premise that information consumption should be as healthy as food consumption, the magazine suggests this as a ‘balanced diet’ in this information-overload age: Now, I’m reasonably media-savvy, and the very existence of this [...]
Terminal Thoughts
(Populist philosopher Alain de Botton says that he loves his new project – a £30,000 fee for writing a book about Heathrow. He says that airports are “the imaginative centres of our civilization.” On the day his appointment was announced, I was in Terminal 3, on my way to Stockholm. So here’s my immediate take [...]
I Am Not A Number
In a recent radio interview, Alan Ayckbourn recounted going for a drink with a young Harold Pinter, and the two of them being accosted by a man with the opening line: “I think I may have murdered my Mother-in-Law”. After they had listened to a convoluted tale of family members being pushed up chimneys, Pinter [...]
Build Your Dream, China Style
Sit looking at a blank blogging screen for long enough, and eventually the most unlikely memories arise as you search for an opening sentence. It’s just happened again, which explains why this piece doesn’t start in Schenzen, but on a train in a story by David Nobbs. “Cupid’s Dart” was a TV film that Nobbs [...]
Paper Boy
“It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consistent of believing, or in disbelieving; it consists of professing to believe what he does not believe.” Thomas Paine It is Sunday morning. Ben and I sit in the kitchen. I skim the pages of a broadsheet, [...]
Call to Arms
So, you’ve built a very successful business. You’ve put heart and soul into it, burnt the midnight oil, taken risks, made sacrifices, reached your goals. You are now richer that Croesus and more famous than the Queen. Next step? The business biography. You interview some ‘co-writers’, select one you like, set to work and within [...]

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Jan 272009

Just Say No

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There is a new scourge amongst us. A new threat to our health, our emotional state, our well-being.

It has already inflected millions, but as recent sufferer I hope I am not too late to prevent this becoming a pandemic.

For the sake our our families, our friends and our communities.

More potent than any drug, it completely distorts one’s sense of time, place and meaning.

More engulfing than any cult, it demands the sacrifice of all free will.

It creates the most vivid illusion of productivity, while rendering the sufferer incapable of any useful activity.

Indeed, this blog posting was to have been an incisive exploration of UK macro-economic policy and the conflicts caused by over-reliance of the financial sector in a neo-Keynsian world.

But the virus put a stop to that.

It is an invidious infection that, for which there is currently no known cure.

All I can do is plead with you: Just Say No to StumbleUpon.

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