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OXFORD STREET — Okay you’re not running Egypt. But imagine you were. Or let’s be clearer. You have been given a new project: Get that Egypt thing sorted out. Easy, right? They made it through the frogs and locusts, etc. No, okay. Seriously. (And apologise in advance to the people who are working hard to bring change to that country.) But what [...] PICARDIE — It’s like the world’s biggest gossip column has just brought out dozens of consecutive bumper, Christmas, double-issues. Anyone who likes: Leaders are called names. Petty gossip is repeated. Minor faux pas [...] HYDE PARK CORNER — I love Doha. I was thinking about that as I wrote a friend at QTel in Qatar. It’s a lovely place and I know some lovely people there. This week we have seen lots of poorly disguised derisive comments made about Qatar and it’s [...] LONDON — It is sad to see another attack and lives lost in the Russian Republic of Chechnya today. Language, culture, religion… all poisoning the well in a distant part of the world. It’s easy for people likely to be reading this blog to look at today’s breaking news and say: “Will they never learn!” or “What a mess they have made [...] BY THE THAMES — There’s an interesting article about Transocean in The Sunday Times last weekend (subscription required). Perhaps you read it? I have been expecting something to come out, and certainly the implication is that we will hear a lot more about Transocean in the near future. I am sure there’s a lot to say [...] OXFORD STREET — At my local Starbucks everyone this morning was ending their sentences with “…for you.” I think if I worked there I’d start doing it too. It’s a cross over from a number of European languages that add the possessive to sentences for emphasis. We don’t really do it English so much. Except we do now. And why not? We [...] GREEN PARK — The papers today say that we’ve hit a 23 year low for employee sick-days. That’s no small achievement. If you listened to the average mumblings of commentators, employees are fed up and… work is horrible and… and… But maybe that’s not true. Maybe work is more interesting than it was. Maybe [...] BROMPTON ROAD — The story won’t go away. Although coverage might have lightened today. The 13 different Chinese 18-24 year-olds who have tried to kill themselves this year are not going unnoticed. Most of them died. But the world outside Shenzhen in southern China has paid attention. Shortly after the media had packed [...] CHELSEA — Foxconn is a Taiwanese company you have probably never heard of. And yet they have 800,000 employees. They employ 2,000 singers, dancers and gym trainers to entertain them. They put 6,000 pigs to the knife every day to feed their 400,000 employees on one site. That site covers 1.2 square miles. Because so many [...] HOME — The sign behind the track today at the Shanghai Formula 1 race said “Made WITH China”. (You can see it in this BBC report at about 3:42 and 3:53, but it was clear all day.) Along with the logos for Santander, Lenovo’s ThinkPad, DHL, |
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