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If you don’t like people, put up with them as well as you can. Don’t try to love them… try to tolerate them. On the basis of that tolerance a civilised future may be built. What the..? You turn your back for a couple of weeks’ R&R (rosé and reblochon …

The only way out is through Since 1997, the UK has had, if you include Andy Burnham, who may or may not be elected unopposed as Leader of the Labour Party, and, therefore, PM, nine Prime Ministers. Of those, only five have won a General Election – the public’s trust, …

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. Excuse my French, but I bloody love this industry. There’s just something about what goes on here, about the people, the products, the processes that seems to float my proverbial boat. …

The ballot is stronger than the bullet This is a fabulous industry, full of people all doing some amazing jobs to the best of their ability. So let’s celebrate their achievements at a big Party at the end of September. Yes people, this is the start of my annual nudging …

A time of drought had sucked the weedy pool And baked the channels; birds had done with song Guess what folks? South East Water is in the news again, having told many of the good citizens of Kent that it can’t guarantee they won’t run short of water again this …

Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now. According to The Times a couple of weeks ago, youngsters leaving school are beginning to turn their backs on formal higher education, ditching plans for university in favour …

And the government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from this earth There’s an old saying that if voting changed anything, they’d abolish it. As an aside, I think Ken Livingstone used it as the title of his autobiography. Reading the news these …

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us Stop me if you have heard this before. We have a Prime Minister who, two years in to his Parliamentary term, is more unpopular than his …

  I have a mind to strike thee ere thou speak’st”. “Gracious madam, I that do bring the news made not the match”. The itinerary for next month’s NMBS Conference in Benidorm (I can read a map, deal with it) came through to my inbox last week. Lots of lovely …

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue… Pride: noun, feeling of satisfaction in oneself due to one’s actions of the actions of those to whom you feel a connection There are things afoot in the world to make one want to …