…and I am a Plant. But a few years ago I was a Monitor Evaluator. So has the world changed or have I changed?
I’m talking about Belbin’s Team Roles, and for the second time in my life I have filled out one of their self-perception questionnaires that in theory indicates where I should ideally fit [...]
A relieved cheer went up over the Quinn household last night as Syed was finally fired from The Apprentice. A few weeks ago I said I expected Sharon and Tuan to be the next ones to be sacked and expressed the concern that Syed would win the thing; in the event I was spot on [...]
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Wednesday 26th April 2006
I don’t, if I’m being honest, usually if ever watch BBC1’s offering New Tricks of a Monday night, but readjusting to British Summer Time following a weekend away in New York it was the perfect brainless nonsense to ignore while I tried to work out what time it was in the Big Apple and therefore [...]
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The Euston Manifesto has caused a bit of a stir amongst bloggers; Tim Worstall is offended by it, Chris Dillow is in two minds over it, and Phil Edwards takes it to task (and uses the same source as myself for his post title).
I would spend some time discussing it myself if I saw it [...]
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Jimmy McGovern was interviewed in last weekend’s Knowledge section of The Times, where he discussed his forthcoming drama series The Street which starts this Thursday.
The idea for The Street has been percolating inside McGovern’s head for years, loosely based on the street where he grew up in Kensington, Liverpool. He was the fifth of nine [...]
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Just over halfway through now, and The Apprentice is proving to be compulsive viewing. In my previous post on the matter I felt sheepish about admitting to watching it, but I make no such apology now; it is the best thing on the box by a goodly way.
Alan Sugar has made a few strange decisions [...]
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Was I the only one to sit bolt upright on hearing the news that in Scotland they had discovered one swan in five infected with bird flu?
That was, of course, until I realised they had said “one swan in Fife…”
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Efraim Halevy, the former head of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, has written a book about his experiences entitled Man In The Shadows. The Economist reviewed the book in their latest edition, in which they claim that Halevy
has a hawkish attitude to the war on terrorism, which he characterises as a third world war. He [...]