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Can you tell your Meerkats from your Singapore Girls?
I was both frustrated and happy this week to be caught up in the admin' of helping people move from one office to another. It is a time consuming task all about managing mind numbingly dull and yet hugely significant personal details and arrangements. Bleh! The good thing is we have more people from 'here' over 'there' and vice versa. Brits to Abu Dhabi, yanks and Canadians to London and Paris and a Russian now splitting her time between London and Moscow amongst the more recent movers. There are many benefits for the company, ...
Mink and ermine and handcuffs
Sir Allan Stanford models the classic orange boiler suit. The news that four UK politicians could face jail sentences of up to ten years if they are found guilty of fraud or false accounting in the wake of the expenses scandal is a good thing if we want to rebuild trust in politics. I am not a lawyer and so I would have absolutely no idea how legally compelling in a technical sense the evidence collected by the Crown Prosecution Service is. But given the various confessions of MPs and members of the House of Lords to date, ...
Cheating
How do you react to Thierry Henry's obvious handball (x2) against Ireland in the World Cup qualifier last night? The British and Irish media are (understandably?) hysterical, the French are embarrassed and FIFA are not going to win whatever they say. There are mashups galore on the subject. Some suggest Henry's marketability will be damaged, though I am not so sure. I was surprised the English media took up the Irish cause so strongly as I don't remember the Irish doing the same at the "hand of god" incident. My take is simply that sport still matters. ...