I was talking to my girlfriend this morning about her fears of giving up working part-time and returning to the corporate world of bullshitting and backstabbing undertaken by people either trying to secure their positions or achieve loftier ambitions, despite their lack of discernible talent.
I was a spectacular failure in corporate life, not because I was bad at lying or being a salesman (I was actually quite good at selling) more because I ...
I saw Tessa Jowell (Labour) and Francis Maude (Conservative) sagely nodding in agreement at each other on Newsnight last night and it kind of dawned on me that the centrist political class are slowly but surely winning the day as the proles becomes bored of politics now the referendum is becoming yesterday's chip paper.
The pro-EU Prime Minister has gone, the Brexit campaigning PM in waiting has gone, the Brexit campaigning man (Gove) who ...
Back in the early noughties, I was doing a lot of recruiting and payroll work for an Irish company in North London. Because of the false building boom of that period, they were incredibly busy and expanding rapidly.
One of the issues they had at the time was that the Celtic Tiger was roaring and a lot of Irish labour was moving back to Southern Ireland to make extraordinary amounts of money. Until the Celtic boom, Irish companies were so ...
Just in case anyone had thought I had given up, at lunchtime today I continued on my quest to walk the Test Way that starts at Inkpen and finishes in Eling in Southampton.
Today I had the pleasure (along with my trusty companion) of completing the stretch between Kimbridge and Awbridge on what had to be the least pleasurable walk so far, courtesy of stinging nettles, mosquitos and a lack of signposts.
I kicked off proceedings just up ...
A Welshman who used to call footballers pansies, has revealed how he always loved the game and doesn't really like rugby.
Dafydd 'Taffy' Williams, from Pontypridd, says that he has always loved football, despite previously stating that's there was only one game for real men, and that was rugby.
"I love the game", said Dafydd. "When Hal-Robson Bale scored that second try, it had to be the greatest moment of my life"
"We won every phase ...
