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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality A quick trip down memory lane into Year 8 Science. Bear with me reader. When you drop a stone into a pond, how far the ripples last, how far they go, and how ,well, rippley …

The sum of love is what you have to pay for it and any time you get it cheap you have cheated yourself. ‘Never again’, ‘lessons will be learned’, ‘preventative measures’: all phrases that are trotted out in the aftermath of disaster, phrases that, all too often, are just that. …

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment We talk a lot about the people in this industry, about how lovely and inclusive it is, about the positive relationships and friendships that are formed over the trade counter and …

Send not to know For whom the bell tolls, It tolls for thee On the face of it it’s not looking like a good time to be a housebuilder…more specifically, a shareholder in a national housebuilding business that begins with a B. I’m old enough to remember the Barrett TV …

A traffic jam when you’re already late A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break It’s like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife Oh, the irony. A few days before the final report from the inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire is due to be published, another …

Thus far I have gone, tracing a secure way over the pathless seas, the very stars themselves being witnesses and testimonies of my triumph. It’s that time of of year again, when the thoughts of sandy beaches/soggy campsites/crowded airport lounges/cocktails for breakfast, turn lightly to the post-bank holiday, upcoming Autumn. …

Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future. The phrase doing the rounds at the end of last year was “Survive ‘till ‘25” – loads of companies just thinking that, if they can hang on in there through the difficulties of …

They smelt of pubs and Wormwood Scrubs And too many right wing meetings In the last week we have seen the best of people and the worst of people. It’s been an age of endeavour, resilience and triumph, and an age of horror, violence and bigotry. The terrible events of …

It was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair And so it begins. The ‘Project Fear’ that Rishi Sunak’s election campaign majored on, the huge amount of tax increases that an incoming Labour Government would …

He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age  Goodness, where do I start? I woke up on Friday morning with half the working world staring at a blue-screen-of-death, thanks to a huge computer outage. I went to bed last night with the news that the President of the …