Facebook reports 1.23 billion users, and I am “friends” with only about 38 of them. Statistics like that really keep any pretence of self-importance firmly in check as you mull over the sheer insignificance of your next wise or witty status update. As for the other 1.23 billion users, who really cares how bored you … Continue Reading
Everything in life is relative. One moment you are feeling pretty flush as the billionaire owner of a Premier League Football Club and then along comes Sheikh Mansour with a reported personal wealth of £20 billion and an estimated family fortune of $1trillion and your whole day loses its sparkle. I mean, how is any … Continue Reading
Oh dear, such good intentions but it lasted less than a week. 17-year-old Paris Brown resigned from her £15,000-a-year post as “adviser on youth” to Kent Police Commissioner Ann Barnes after the media discovered her various tweets about sex, drugs, alcohol and her online use of derogatory and discriminatory terms. Brown apologised for her “inappropriate” comments and noted … Continue Reading
The great British Summer has come and gone once more (one morning last week, I think, but I may have missed it), still no British winner at Wimbledon and only England’s cricketers striking a jarring note by actually winning something. So what else is new? Every cloud has a silver lining, and Squire Sanders Hammonds … Continue Reading
Toxic debts are just so 2010. The contamination caused by corporate bribery and corruption will be keeping many more Chief Executives awake at night as they watch rolling news reports of Rupert Murdoch’s humble apologies for corporate misbehaviour whilst his wife attacks a protestor intent on doing him grievous bodily harm with a plate of … Continue Reading
Putting a bus squarely through the proposition that justice must not just be done but be seen to be done, FIFA announced on Monday that it would not be initiating ethics proceedings against any of its executives, including one Jack A. Warner, on the basis that there was nothing to investigate. Nothing? Really? A bold … Continue Reading
