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A man is known by the company he keeps Judge a man, not by what he says, but by what he does, by how he treats others. When Trump was named the Republican party candidate for the US Presidency, when it became clear that Joe Biden wasn’t a shoo-in for …

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt. It is a truth, universally, accepted, that a journalist in want of a story, must be attracted by tales of bad news as well as good. Bad news is good news when …

Always two there are, a master and an apprentice. It’s National Apprenticeships Week, so it’s fitting that I begin this with a congratulatory slap on the back for the Builders Merchants Federation, which has hit its target of 15,000 by 2030 five years early. With target management like that, there’s …

For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men I’m not sure what its official name is. But there’s a management technique (not followed by anyone I know, of course…) that is basically “be the biggest a-hole in …

You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When you do take the means whereby I live. Is our housing sector broken? I don’t just mean in terms of its output, which the last few CPA and PMI surveys …

There will be no day of days then when a new world order comes into being. Step by step and here and there it will arrive So it begins. Yesterday, Donald J Trump managed to do what only one person in the past 130 year has managed to do – …

Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known Climate change. It’s been a subject of conversation and comment particularly in the last week or so – the events in California and the weather here and in other parts of the States have highlighted our changing …

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering In yesterday’s least surprising news, the worst performing sector of the construction industry, according to the S&P Construction PMI, is housebuilding. Output in this sector has fallen for the third month in a row, and …

What’s the use of doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late. Customer service. How hard is it to just do the right thing by customers? I have a couple of stories to share on the topic. Two annoyingly rubbish service ones, and one, well, where they …

You can never plan the future by the past Depending on your point of view, you can get media validation for whatever you believe if you look hard enough and choose the right paper/website/radio show. A quick type of the sentence “Rayner planning reform December 2024” into the search string …