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Tis the voice of the lobster; I heard him declare You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair I suppose it was only a matter of time. After the Great British Bake-Off, the Great British Pottery Throw-down and the Great British Sewing Bee, there was only really …

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare. How are we to encourage more young people into this industry? We have to go out and …

When sorrows come, they come not as single spies, but in battalions. I just watched the nine-year-old boy who lives opposite me walk down the road on his way to school. Nine years old. The same age as the three primary school children who were gunned down at a school …

Money makes the world go aroundThe world go aroundThe world go around By and large, how one feels about a Chancellor’s Budget depends upon how much an individual will be fiscally affected by it. Unless you are lucky enough to be able to afford to be altruistic, chances are, the …

But I remember now I am in this earthly world, where to do harm Is often laudable, to do good sometime Accounted dangerous folly If only life came with an edit-button. Once you’ve invented something, it’s quite hard to un-invent it again, now matter how tempting it must be. Such …

Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power Almost three years to the day since the then Prime Minister Boris Johnson appeared on our telly screens to tell us we needed to stay home, save lives and protect the NHS, Covid-19 is back at the top of …

He is a perpetual fountain of good sense; learned in all sciences; and therefore speaks properly on all subjects. Maybe I’m seeing this in too simplified a way, but what we appear to have coming out from government is an outbreak of the sensibles. I’ll give you a moment to …

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. At the risk of releasing my inner Victor Meldrew, sometimes it does seem as though life has got needlessly complicated in many areas. I was accused of acting like a teenager yesterday (ironically by an eye-rolling …

A river is time in water; as it came, still so it flows, yet never is the same In June 2019, at the BMF Conference in Dubrovnik, I got up at stupid-o’clock to go for a swim in the Adriatic Sea, an attempt to clear my hangover. It worked. At …

Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no-where but in’s own house Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Taught at the beginning of all A Level Psychology courses, and most management courses. Sets out the hierarchy upwards of basic human requirements: the physiological (food, shelter, sleep, …