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Watch out, jerks about!

“You will want to discover cutting edge knowledge from two thought leaders,” was the message I just got from somebody called Spindelman on Facebook. This asinine piece of patronising jargon was “sent to the members of ZnaTrainer Saturday Blog Radio …

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Aren’t you a genius yet? Shame on you!

How fortunate we all are to live in a period when giants stride the earth, I thought this morning. I was sitting here in Brooklyn’s fabled** Butler Street writing some copy for a client when I heard that “plink” that …

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Medical miracles

As I’m lying sick in bed, I found this very helpful this morning. At a medical conference, an Israeli doctor boasted, ‘Medicine in my country is so advanced, we can take a kidney out of one person, put it in …

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Sick, sick, sick

I’m lying in bed feeling sorry for myself. I’m good at that. Someone in my family I thought I could rely on has let me down badly – more on that when I overcome my rage. But the real problem …

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Sorry, Rich, you’re wrong about Obama

A few years ago I did a seminar for Kendall-Jackson, the big wine-maker. The attendee who paid most attention was Jess Jackson, the firm’s 70 plus billionaire boss. Before that, in my first board meeting at the Ogilvy group, I …

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The Bliar’s friend does it again

I must apologise. I was going to write about the £12 million the great Bliar has earned from making speeches since he left this country in the shit and in the gentle care of the Prudent Haggis. I was thinking …

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