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LONDON -- It's a bit of a misnomer, isn't it? Saying Ronaldo is a slave. Even without a talk-radio station playing on my desk I can hear the punters saying ''How can he be a slave when he's earning £120,000 a week?''
And you can't really argue with that.
The Portuguese footballer is only 23 years old. He was bought and ...
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SOUTH WEST LONDON -- On Friday night I stood on a chair in our sitting room watching Jay-Z on Friday night with Jonathan Ross. I was on the chair because we have mice passing through. But the image is not unconnected.
I was surprised to see Mr Z in person and hear him talk and laugh. He did well on a show that ...
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PICCADILLY -- I am quite overwhelmed by Elbow at the moment. I have bought other albums but I keep coming back to this one.
And every time I hear great lyrics like:
a friend of mine he grows his own brambles,they twist all around him, until he can't move...
I think about the fact that the band actually set out to be a disco/funk ...
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SOHO SQUARE -- Forgive me, this sounds like a question in an up-market Heat magazine. But I am interested in knowing, based on two recognisable personalities, in an imagined business setting, who would you rather work for? Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, or Prince Phillip, the Duke of Edinburgh?
There is a reason that I ...
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LONDON -- I famously tried to get a colleague to join my team by saying ''any time you want to come to mine, just let me know.'' And the young lady smiled nervously and walked off. It wasn't until I was half-way to the bus that I heard the line back in my head and realised that it sounded like the world's worst pick-up ...
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THE DRIVING RANGE -- There are a few guys down the way shouting ''Look at that!? Nice one!'' and you don't even need to look at them to know they're Australians. (Although a glance at their flip-flops and 3/4 shorts, in February, and you know.)
I also had lunch with my friend Ben on Friday. We were best mates at school ...
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The memorial with tonnes of fresh flowers for The King at the base of Elvis-Presley-Platz
BAD NAUHEIM -- As the blind-folded priest walked cautiously across the altar rail, we started to laugh. In fairness, only my wife and I seemed to think it was funny. The rest of the ...
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BERLIN -- The young lady sitting to my right at dinner speaks 5-6 languages. She's Lithuanian, so she speaks Russian and Polish, but went to school in Germany, and has a few other European languages. Plus a very solid mid-Atlantic English. But that's not remarkable in this crowd.
Dr. Hanna and I are in Berlin to run an ...
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OVER LANCASHIRE -- There's a Stefan Stern review in today's FT of a book called ''The Extra Mile'' by David MacLeod and Chris Brady. (Come to think of it, I know David. I used to work with him... Hmm. I wonder if I have to be nicer now?)
The list of what companies need to do to create ''employee engagement'' goes ...
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ON THE WAY TO HEATHROW -- My brother Mike is a clever and interesting guy. He's older than me but hasn't had a clear physical advantage over me since I turned about 15. So we've had to become friends.
He wrote this morning (late last night) to say that he'd read my book, and my blog, and he had some questions:
[Won't] ...
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