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The Post Office did not quite get away with it. They almost did. You may think it could never happen to you – or to someone you love … you would be wrong. It happened to me Mention the words Postmaster or PostMistress and what spring to mind is someone …

Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments Validation, recognition, celebration of achievements: sometimes we all need a bit of a pat on the back to make us feel our hard work was worth it. That’s why BMJ launched the BMJ Industry Awards, in what seems like the distant …

But thrown upon this filthy modern tide And by its formless spawning fury wrecked Pop quiz, hot-shots. What lasted for 1 million hours in 2022? And has carried on during 2023? I warn you, the answer’s not for the faint hearted, or sensitive of stomach. If you’re reading this over …

Tis the voice of the lobster; I heard him declare You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair I suppose it was only a matter of time. After the Great British Bake-Off, the Great British Pottery Throw-down and the Great British Sewing Bee, there was only really …

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare. How are we to encourage more young people into this industry? We have to go out and …

When sorrows come, they come not as single spies, but in battalions. I just watched the nine-year-old boy who lives opposite me walk down the road on his way to school. Nine years old. The same age as the three primary school children who were gunned down at a school …

Money makes the world go aroundThe world go aroundThe world go around By and large, how one feels about a Chancellor’s Budget depends upon how much an individual will be fiscally affected by it. Unless you are lucky enough to be able to afford to be altruistic, chances are, the …

But I remember now I am in this earthly world, where to do harm Is often laudable, to do good sometime Accounted dangerous folly If only life came with an edit-button. Once you’ve invented something, it’s quite hard to un-invent it again, now matter how tempting it must be. Such …

Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power Almost three years to the day since the then Prime Minister Boris Johnson appeared on our telly screens to tell us we needed to stay home, save lives and protect the NHS, Covid-19 is back at the top of …

He is a perpetual fountain of good sense; learned in all sciences; and therefore speaks properly on all subjects. Maybe I’m seeing this in too simplified a way, but what we appear to have coming out from government is an outbreak of the sensibles. I’ll give you a moment to …