Just over a couple of years ago, a strange and intriguing thing began to happen. I began receiving messages. The notes were personalised, and posted to a club which I have frequented for some time. They were cryptic and often made up from cut-out pieces of paper. Yet they were not threatening. Instead, they were uplifting. They …
I stumbled across a document today, written over four years ago, and titled “Thoughts on Failure”. Written in February 2008, it was about Make Your Mark with a Tenner, which as friends may know has been under lock and key for some time, pending the upcoming announcements from the trustees of Enterprise UK. To cut …
There are some people you just have to meet. If you are lucky, they are easy to find. When I read about Professor Theodore Zeldin, I knew I had to meet him. Fortunately for me, following the feature in the Times newspaper, tracking him down to his Oxford chambers was far from tricky. His researcher was charming and …
“That’s the trouble with young people today”. So begins a complaint heard all across the land… “The trouble with young people today, is that they all want to be TV PRESENTERS”. “Either that, or they want to be famous”. I take a slightly different view. I think that all young people should want to be presenters. …
“Our best thoughts come from others.” Ralph Waldo Emerson As all serious-minded people know, Twitter is the place where people tell the world what they are having for lunch, and share silly jokes. Well, in my case, I confess that the second may be partially true. On a more light-hearted note, Twitter is where …