Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won I’m returning to a topic I’ve not touched on for a while, because there hasn’t seemed much to say apart from, how is this still going on? Let me start by going off at a tangent. …
Read More »Bad company
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 …
Read More »RIP Alexei
Abandon Hope, All ye who enter here There’s a lot to write about that concerns the day job – the housing market, the push to net zero, the forthcoming Budget and General Election. But, in the face of global politics, that all seems a bit pointless. The line above, taken …
Read More »Should he stay or should he go?
What’s gone, and what’s past help, Should be past grief. The trouble with there being so very many things to get angry about is often that you don’t know where to begin and so your anger gets dissipated. I’m rather afraid of this happening right now. I wrote quite a …
Read More »The love of money
All that glisters is not gold There is so much going on in this industry at the moment, so much to write about and think about. There are anniversaries of long-standing family run companies, there are energy-intensive manufacturers investing in the sustainability of their processes and there is the march …
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