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Tell them the North remembers. Smile, they said, for things could be worse. So, I smiled, gentle reader, and lo, things were indeed, worse. The three-tier system has been launched whereby every district in the country has been given a ranking depending on how many people in that district have …

Travis Perkins’ Head of Sustainability, Megan Adlen, on how our handling of the Covid situation will make business stronger in the long term. If this year has taught us anything, it’s that we can adapt when we need to, and that the evolution of our mindsets is something we should …

Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man’s ingratitude; What a difference a year makes. This time in 2019, the Conservative Party descended upon Manchester, full of vim and vigour, in their best business attire, determined to ‘Get Brexit Done’ and trying to ignore the hoo-hah …

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. The world of work has changed. That much is abundantly clear, even if much of the information coming out of Number 10 isn’t. Covid-19 has changed the way we …

Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward to what they were before The six months thing was a bit of an ‘ouch’ moment, but part from that, the Prime Minister’s address to the nation last night didn’t really tell us anything that we weren’t expecting. Those of …

Done because we were too menny I know these are unprecedented times. I know it’s hard trying to find a way through all the mess that seems to be the ‘new normal’. I know how irritating it is when people use the phrase ‘new normal’. But really, does the government …

Winter is coming Well, it was nice while it lasted. Being able to get together with a few – a select few at that – friends and sit 2metres apart in our gardens, each quaffing our own bottles of Sainsbury’s special-offer Rioja and a Walkers Grab-bag of crisps – no …

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do. As someone who has spent all her working life in the media, it pains me to say this but sometimes, it’s best to ignore what you read and just get on with life. In previous …

I am pleased to tell you that we have been busy the whole of the lockdown and none of us has missed a day There’s nothing quite like that heart-stopping moment when you open an envelope and see that you have messed up your exams. The realisation that you have …

I count myself in nothing else so happy As in a soul remembering my good friends I did something really very exciting this week. Something I have not done for a very long time.  I arranged a lunch meeting. Not one of those with my local friends where we sit …