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Sep 7
2 min

The horror, the horror, of No Deal

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

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Jason Nisse

Aug 19
2 min

Crisis, What Crisis?

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

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Jason Nisse

Aug 5
3 min

I'm Three

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 r...

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Jason Nisse

Jul 28
2 min

Manic Thursday

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

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Jason Nisse

Jun 26
2 min

Boris breaks the rules - again!

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 break...

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Jason Nisse

Jun 15
1 min

What is Essential?

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...

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Jason Nisse

May 24
2 min

Cummings and the cult of exceptionalism

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...

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Jason Nisse

May 6
2 min

Video skilled a seminar star

A long time ago I was given two pieces of advice. 1. Don’t attend a conference unless you are a speaker; 2. If you aren’t speaking, alway...

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Jason Nisse

Apr 28
2 min

Tearing Up The Plans

In the deep recesses of my record collection I have a 12-inch EP called “Tearing Up The Plans” by a band called 23 Skidoo. This early-198...

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Jason Nisse

Apr 13
2 min

Second Home Thoughts From A Bloke

An Englishman’s home is his castle. For the last few weeks it has been our isolation ward, office, schoolroom, gym, craft centre, disco a...

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Jason Nisse

Mar 19
2 min

A-levels fail the Covid-19 test

My 18-year-old can’t believe his luck. School is cancelled – probably for the rest of his life – and he won’t have to spend a most of May...

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Delighted to reach out to seasoned, passionate curators

Jason Nisse

Feb 4
2 min

Delighted to reach out to seasoned, passionate curators

(updated to take in additional banned words) The great philosopher David Byrne said in the seminal Talking Heads song Psychokiller “You'r...

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Jason Nisse

Jan 21
2 min

Speed is not of the essence

Take a trip on any of the UK’s many motorways and start counting how many cars with only one passenger and how many lorries you see. The ...

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Jason Nisse

Dec 11, 2019
2 min

Is fibbing the future?

Should you advise your client to lie? Of course, the answer is “No”. But with the success of one mendacious campaign for Leave, and the r...

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Jason Nisse

Nov 28, 2019
2 min

No Bo Selecta

Its over a year since RBS first talked about launching a digital only bank with the brand name Bó. At the time I visualised a branding me...

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Jason Nisse

Nov 11, 2019
1 min

Boris, Barbra and the BBC

Labour has accused the BBC of bias after it ran a 2016 film of Boris Johnson laying a wreath at the cenotaph rather than Sunday’s shambol...

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$No return of the frack$

Jason Nisse

Oct 24, 2019
2 min

No return of the frack

In February I said that the question of whether the UK onshore oil and gas industry would be able to frack for gas was on the back-burner...

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Jason Nisse

Jul 1, 2019
2 min

Flamin' June

It’s just over two years since I branched out on my own. At the end of a frenetic June – initially frustrating but in the end glorious (l...

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Jason Nisse

Jun 4, 2019
2 min

The Change Ain't Gonna Come

I have been watching the car crash that has been Change UK with interest – personally, as this was a movement I did want to support, and ...

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Jason Nisse

May 26, 2019
2 min

Snog, Marry or Avoid Our Future Leaders

The obituaries for Theresa May’s brief premiership have been written, and the predictions made not only for who’ll be our new Prime Minis...

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