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40 years on: the disastrous start to my working life
I started my first job 40 years ago today. My career began at Nationwide Building Society…
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Beware the Blue Monday myth
Over the next week, you’re likely to see stories about ‘Blue Monday’ in your social media…
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Remembering Jim Callaghan: an underrated PM
James Callaghan, who died 20 years ago this week, might have been Britain’s most forgotten postwar…
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abrdn: an end to irritable vowel syndrome
It was the most mocked rebrand in years. In 2021, when most companies were worrying about…
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Reputation ruined: Bruce Ismay and the Titanic disaster
Everyone’s heard of the loss of Titanic in April 1912, the world’s most famous peacetime shipping…
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Pointless jargon: my latest letter in The Times
Over 40 years ago, I bought a wonderful book called The Complete Plain Words by Sir…
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Just blaming the Tories isn’t enough for Starmer
Labour won a landslide victory in July’s general election, as the Conservative Party was swept from…
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My Dad and Wynford Vaughan-Thomas
I was delighted to discover this photo of my late father with Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, one of…
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Remembering my wonderful Dad
Robert Charles Skinner, 27 November 1926 – 21 February 2023 Ten years ago, I had one…
