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It’s a 40 yard walk from the centre of the pitch, where the team lines up, to the penalty spot. The goal is 12 yards away and seems to...

Sir Keir Starmer always strikes me as a sensible chap. Rather too sensible and safe, many would say. As someone who re-joined the Labour...

Sir Elton John, once of course the owner of Watford Football Club, famously sang: “Sorry seems to be the hardest word.” As the “big six”...

One of my most disappointing moments as an Arsenal fan was the Champions League final in 2006. One nil up with just 10 men, our...

OK I admit it. I was once of the hundreds of thousands of people who complained to the BBC about its blanket coverage of the death of...

What do AstraZeneca and the English rugby union team have in common? Of course both have had bad weeks. AstraZeneca has just had to...

If you, unlike Public Enemy, believe the hype, both Coca Cola and KFC have secret recipes. It’s a cunning marketing trick by the two...

Today I received a letter from one of my pension providers, telling me of a change to the way it manages my money and giving me options...

At yesterday’s release of the 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer, the CEO of the global communications group, Richard Edelman, pointed to the...

The quote “Never apologise, never explain” has been attributed to Winston Churchill, though it was first said by Victorian classical...

Crossing the road the other day I was stopped by the mother of one of my son’s schoolfriends. Our socially distanced chat soon turned to...

In the musical Hamilton, there’s a pivotal moment where Alexander Hamilton, played in the original cast by the show’s writer Lin-Manuel...

Followers of the fortunes of electric car maker Tesla have had a ringside seat in one of the biggest stock market battles of recent...

Has any September felt more “back to school” than this one? After six months of lockdown, home schooling, clapping for the NHS, empty...

On January 10th 1979, Prime Minister Jim Callaghan returned from an international summit with the US president, the French president, the...

Thank you to everyone for the good wishes on the third anniversary of me setting up on my own. I actually missed the date because I was...

A senior Financial Times correspondent took me aside once and said: “If you can do anything to persuade your clients not to release...

Just ahead of his election victory, I wrote about how Boris Johnson had embraced the idea that you can fib and get away with it, so...

Anyone who follows me on LinkedIn will have noticed I’ve been involved in a spat with two economists over an article one of them wrote in...

In the first lesson after I started in the Sixth Form at my school, our form teacher announced: “You are now all adults, so you should be...