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What a crappy, crappy thing to happen to Carvers.

To paraphrase the great Benjamin Disraeli, there are lies, dammed lies and telephone cold-callers.

I'm trying to be positive, really I am.

I've been going through the entries for the BMJ/BMF Young Merchant Achiever Award this week, looking at the submissions, at the achievements and at the testimonials.

The four horsemen of the Apocalypse - aka Chris Smith, Ed Miliband, David Cameron and Eric Pickles - are bestriding the flooded plains. What amounts to a new sea is settling in on the Somerset Levels. There are landslips everywhere. The Tory heartland of the Thames Valley is under two foot of water. The West…

There's a lot to like about social media - Twitter, Facebook etc. There's also a lot not to like - the online abuse of JK Rowling and a radiator salesman who just happens to have the same name as one of the BBC's newest, least experienced, football commentators spring to mind.

There's a bit of a hoo-hah in my local area over some development that has been granted permission with a smaller percentage of 'affordable' housing than was initially thought.

My first reaction was: hey, haven't we heard this before? My second reaction, on realising that yes, we have had something very similar before, was: what the actual (insert expletive of choice here)?

Way back in the mists of time, before t'internet took over our lives, when 'blog' was just a funny-sounding word, I wrote an Editor's Comment about the fact that Travis Perkins, then the country's 3rd largest builders merchant, had resigned from its own industry organisation.

A lot of words have been printed about the Green Deal and ECO schemes. Many of them derogatory (and many of those in this very blog).