The 10 Most Admired People.
I’m naturally curious so I love people who expose me to new ideas or interesting ways of thinking about a subject. Here are the ten people I really admire and would suggest you check out. This list reflects my interests in marketing, entrepreneurship, writing, travel, buddhism, philosophy, music and politics. Six of them live in […]
Happy Thanksgiving 2010
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc1Ijay0I3U] UN World Food Programme Samaritans UK? Thanks James?
Trouble at Lib Dem HQ?
Tomorrow will see student protests happening in Edinburgh culminating in a demonstration at Scottish Liberal Democrat HQ in Edinburgh. I truly hope that the demonstration will pass off without violence or damage to property but reading the Facebook page created for the event leaves me a little worried. The organisers of the event say […]
Prince William and a musical journey
To say that this week was interesting would be a bit of an understatement. On Monday I flew down to London to attend a dinner given by HRH Prince William of Wales at Windsor Castle on the night before he announced his engagement to Kate Middleton. Sir Michael Parkinson had asked if my family and […]
It’s a sin that people fail to take up work
‘It’s a sin that people fail to take up work’. So says Work and Pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith in today’s Guardian. While I think that language is not helpful and simplifies a complicated area I do agree that work should always pay and that you should be better off in work than out of […]