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You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it does. Social media has come a long way since Jack Dorsey, founder of Twitter (I’m not calling it X. That’s a stupid name) posted “just setting up my twttr”, and the Harvard students’ simple profiles …

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. Hurrah and Huzzah. The Government is throwing £725m at the apprenticeship system to reset it and make it more fit for purpose. For construction, this is vital. We are never going to get anywhere near the 1.5million …

Water, water, every-where, Nor ‘ere a drop to drink Never has the oft-used quote from Coleridge’s The Tale of the Ancient Mariner been more appropriate, than the morning I write this. However, more of that later. I was, of course, going to write about last week’s Budget. About some of …

Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of our generation you shall find, This is an industry that is built on relationships, on people knowing each other, dare I say, liking each other, and choosing to work together. We all know that. How much of that getting to know and …

We have been waiting all this fortenight: Now help us, lord, since it lies in thy might I’m rather inclined to think that pushing the Autumn Budget back from the end of October, as it was last year, to the end of November, was, on balance A Not Good Thing. I …

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear Oh dear. What on earth has been going wrong at the BBC? There has clearly been, for some years, a lack of management oversight, and of management cojones to deal …

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;     If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; I don’t know if it’s an age thing, or a just-me thing, but I am getting increasingly eye-rolly at stuff that lands in my in-box. I receive a tonne of emailed …

It looked as if it had once been a large house of entertainment; but the roof had fallen in, in many places, and the stairs were steep, rugged, and broken. In today’s least surprising news comes the headline at the top of The Times App: “Labour will miss 1.5m new …

It droppeth as the gentle rain from Heav’n Unto the place beneath Having been through one of the hottest, driest Summers for some years, it seems only fitting that news stories relating to Flood Defence Week should have been hitting my inbox in the past couple of weeks. Ah, Autumn, …

What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally, the whole school knows. This is an industry that prides itself on the strength of its relationships. On the close working relationships between merchants and other merchants, between suppliers and other suppliers – …