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Glad you can’t spell, either, dear anonymous

This is in response to the question from anonymous of Altrincham (not Altringham) about the results of The Apprentice. I see you have the same trouble with typing as me. My sympathy! For those of you not familiar with it, …

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More on “How to Get a Job”

Quite a few people seem interested in this, so here goes. After a ghastly week confronting the realities of the U.K. divorce laws, which may be summed up by saying that no good deed goes unpunished we have almost completed …

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What earthly use is better marketing anyhow?

Last week before I started to bore a crowd of Croatians into submission for five and half hours, a charming lady TV interviewer stuck a camera in front of me and asked if what I was talking about was important. …

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Woe! Cliché and jargon pollute the world

About 60 years ago George Orwell wrote a fine essay called “Politics and the English language” which was an attempt to explain why politicians’ speeches were so boring. Nothing much has changed since, except that now almost everybody seems to …

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Want to save the environment?

I often quote Lord Salisbury, one of more lugubrious of Queen Victoria’s prime ministers, who said: “One thing long experience of life has taught me is that you never should trust experts.” This maxim applies with special force to do-gooders. …

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Thieves, sloths and drones are out to get us

First, sorry about my spelling in the last piece. Besides having the intelligence of a cat, I have the manual dexterity of a two-bottles-of-tonic-wine drunk. But second, let me ask you how you felt when you learned that the property …

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Am I missing the plot here, or what?

Economics was described by some wit as “the dismal science.” I just read some lugubrious economist predicting dire things if the Bank of England doesn’t act swiftly. The “downturn” is, he said, going to be worse. It seems GDP is …

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