Month: May 2022

I’m often asked and I don’t have an answer. What’s the trick, they say. There is no trick. A lifetime of observation, collecting […]

In case you wanted to send a card, the 17th August is Robert de Niro’s birthday. It’s also the day, in 1962, […]

Jeremy Hunt was the SoS for Health for the longest period since the war. In these eLetters, I called him The Tinkerman… … […]

There’s a word… … it’s an important word that, until relatively recently, we haven’t had to bother with. It’s a key determinant […]

Let’s start the day with Gandhi… Mahatma Gandhi. He borrowed from a 17th century phrase; ‘See no evil, hear no evil, speak no […]

Let’s start the week with some maths. Take a product that sells for £10 and has a £2.50 cost. If you sell […]

It’s hot. Really hot. The azure swimming pool is perfect but for the petal of bourgainvillia drifting on its surface. You lean back on […]

George Formby, Tony Benn and George Orwell. What do they have in common? If this isn’t one for the pub-quiz… what is! […]

I can’t believe this thought ever entered my head… … but I’m going to say it. Wherever you are, if you’re standing, […]