Communications Consultant
Communications Consultant
14 May 2010
Coalition bruise
Following last week’s blog post, we now know who and what our new government is. Under the combined banner of blue and yellow, government departments are being renamed and rebranded. Meanwhile the media (and who hasn’t been glued to the news for the past week?) is already looking for cracks in the coalition, rumblings of discontent and predictions about how long things will last.
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Senior Editor
22 February 2010
Who are you looking up to?
One time I was walking back from the newsagent and this mother and her child were walking past me. The child was turning the air blue – swearing like a sailor, swaggering like a little champion. Patience wearing thin with her cocky offspring, mum turns round to child and says: “Will you stop swearing? For f***’s sake!”
It’s kind of obvious where the child picked up his vocabulary (clue: he had never read The Canterbury Tales). Your parents are your very first role models on planet earth. They set the template, lay the foundations on which you build.
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Communications Consultant
09 February 2010
Rugby as glue
I’ve just seen the film ’Invictus’ with a group of fellow South Africans, all Mandela fans though not necessarily rugby fans. It’s the heart warming (and true) story of how Nelson Mandela, newly elected the country’s first black president, understands that he has to help white South Africans face what is, for them, a scary picture in which they felt they had no place.
24 June 2010
Football fervour
Like almost everyone else I’m glued to the TV in spite of myself, watching matches between teams I know absolutely nothing about, in the hope of some on-pitch magic.
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