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It is that time of year when the summer holiday mass migration begins as we seek an escape from the daily grind. Admittedly the initial euphoria of brushing down the trusty fedora and slipping into those ‘summer shoes’ is often dashed on the rocky reality of queues, crowds and a wallet that appears to be […]
Are you an office gossip? Do you like to swap titillating tales about your colleagues around the water cooler, at lunch or down the pub? If so you are not alone. In fact, a study by academics in Holland suggests that a whopping 90% of office conversation comprises of gossip in some form. That said, […]
You know you’re getting older when those expressions you heard from your grandparents start to ring true and “A new broom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners,” is just such a phrase. It wasn’t so long ago that the new brooms were sweeping over the political stage, but the old brooms are […]
Alain de Botton examines our ideas of success and failure — and questions the assumptions underlying these two judgments. Is success always earned? Is failure? He makes an eloquent, witty case to move beyond snobbery to find true pleasure in our work. “The dominant kind of snobbery that exists nowadays is job snobbery. You encounter […]
You know how it is… You’re only just starting to get on top of things when out of the blue comes a message to say that an old colleague is in town and would like to get together. On most occasions you would say ‘great’ and life carries on as normal, but every now and […]
When is a car crash interview not a car crash interview? Well that, it would seem, depends on who you are. Boris Johnson’s calamitous interview on the Queen’s Speech with Eddie (‘the bear trap’) Mair last week had all the hall marks of a major horror show, but he appeared to get off lightly in […]