Tag: Communication
When did you stop ****ing your wife?
I don’t know how to put this politely, so I’ll follow The Times and use a lot of asterisks.
My attention has been caught by a recent news item (£) in which a vicar was taken to task for describing the Archbishop of Canterbury as a w****r. Read more »
Posted: June 10th, 2013 under Topics: Communication
Harry’s Bottom and the Right to Privacy
Today’s big argument is said to be about privacy and the public interest. I think there must be more to it that that. Most commentators seem to be going round in circles. Read more »
Posted: August 24th, 2012 under Topics: Communication, Human Rights, Law, Regulation
Redknapp admits his guilt?
We all know that Harry Redknapp is innocent of tax evasion. A jury has decided that unanimously.
But readers of The Times newspaper may have been a little surprised by the verdict. Redknapp had, after all, admitted criminality. Or so the paper reported Read more »
Posted: February 15th, 2012 under Topics: Communication, Football, Law, Sport
A rule that Mae be broken
I have certain rules. One of them is that, when a friend asks you to watch their daughter do a stand-up comedy routine at an upstairs theatre in an Islington pub, you say “No, thank you”. So when an email came in from a friend I hadn’t seen for over 20 years – and not likely to bump into any time soon, because he lives more than 3,000 miles away – it should have been a no-brainer. Except … Read more »
Posted: February 5th, 2012 under Topics: Communication, Happened to me
Hasty Copper and the Paper with Secrets
I keep reading expressions of anger that the Metropolitan Police sought a court order under the Official Secrets Act to uncover the Guardian’s source behind the phone hacking story (here, here, here, here, and here, to name but a few). I’m not convinced. Read more »
Posted: September 22nd, 2011 under Topics: Communication, Justice, Law
It’s very disconcerting …
… to be giving a presentation whilst the audience is tweeting their comments onto a screen behind your head. Read more »
Posted: November 25th, 2010 under Topics: Communication, Economics, Fair Value, Finance, Happened to me, Pensions, Regulation
Who’s optimistic now?
“You were the future once …”
When David Cameron famously made that remark on his first encounter with Tony Blair across the despatch box, he employed a very effective communication device. This week, Ed Miliband tried the same trick (“Mr Cameron, you were an optimist once”). It was clearly intended to have the same effect – if not a bigger one. The words “hoist” and “Cameron’s petard” must have been bandied excitedly around the new leader’s drafting table when some bright spark came up with the idea.
But it hardly registered at all. Why not? Lots of reasons, actually … Read more »
Posted: September 29th, 2010 under Topics: Communication, Politics