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LONDON — The Olympics are coming to London for the third time. But they won’t be the same Olympics. In 1908 they were held all around my house… I mean in this part of South West London. The events are most famous for causing the odd Marathon distance… The Windsor to West London distance was altered from 25 to [...] 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 [...] LONDON — The shootings in Arizona this weekend leave a lot to think about. And there’s lots and lots being written. But even foreign journalists seem to be struggling to make sense of it. And yet I have a theory… It’s new to me, but maybe you’ve heard it before. It’s got to do with the law of unintended [...] 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 [...] LONDON — A whole lifetime of planning and meticulous work ended with the death of Sir Thomas Tresham on 11 September 1605. He had been working on a beautiful hill-top house in Northamptonshire and the lavish gardens surrounding it. A pious Catholic in a Britain that was only settling into Anglicanism, he hid his piety in quiet symbolism around the [...] PICCADILLY — Everyone knows Britain is a bit of a strange place. Screaming Lord Sutch waltzed across the political scene so long ago that he’s no longer on the planet. My aged mother still can’t look at someone sucking on an orange without breaking into fits of laughter… And that is probably the difference. In America politics has [...] SW LONDON — There’s a video shop across from my bus stop. Or there used to be. Now it’s a specialty ski boot shop. Obviously. There are now cafés where there used to be off-licences… and estate agents and phone shops on every high street. It’s the natural evolution of business. Old businesses pass away and new ones come in to their places. The [...] MONDAY MORNING OVER BREAKFAST — I am honestly not wanting to get into a philosophical discussion here. I was just wondering about something. It’s a question for change management professionals. If you were called by the Vatican and asked to support them on change management, what would you do? Where would you start? It wouldn’t be hard to find a burning [...] 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 [...] |
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