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MY HOUSE — I come from a family of journalists. And I think that’s a great thing. Naturally curious. Opinionated. Excellent at explaining complex things. Able to bring the world the news it needs. My grand-uncle help set up the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. My dad won awards for his work as a foreign correspondent. There’s a story that one of my rellies [...] LONDON — It’s fair to say that people who are deeply suspicious of… everything… have had a banner week. The President of the United States of America released his birth certificate. Why? BY THE THAMES — I’ve been keenly watching one of my oldest friends, John Cowling, this week. He’s running for the 4th time as the Green Party candidate for the town of Stratford, Ontario in this year’s Canadian election. He is without a doubt one of the most interesting and amusing guys I have ever [...] 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 [...] MY KITCHEN, VERY EARLY — Out of the corner of my eye I spotted an article this week: The Environmental Protection Agency set the value of a life at $9.1 million last year … [recently] the agency [had] used numbers as low as $6.8 million. 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 [...] KINIGHTSBRIDGE — I had a nice bowl of pasta yesterday with one of the leading lights in our business. A guy I have known for 5 years or so, and who has distinguished himself by sustaining and growing a global consulting footprint through the years. And we complained. Like two old men down at the park. “Things have changed.” “There’s not much value [...] PICCADILLY — I sat, tired, with 300 other parents at a school information session about our 13-year-old daughters’ futures. It was exhausting. Not only because school administrators — as a species — don’t seem to be able to speak in public. But because it was really just a parents de-programming session. The main messages were: Don’t force your child to take subjects [...] CHELSEA — There’s a breathless article in The Independent yesterday. I’ve dragged it onto the bus for a read today: “… a new psychology unit in Whitehall [will use] mental techniques which [...] are likely to become a common feature of Government policy.” Nooo! “The Prime Minister established a seven strong unit in July, since when [...] |
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