I was introduced to Muphry’s Law yesterday, which the Urban Dictionary defines as follows: Muphry’s Law is the editorial application of the better-known Murphy’s Law.
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Why bother?
In odd moments I confess I do wonder why I write this blog. This weekend has been one of those occasions. After a pretty exhausting
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Tax justice features heavily in accountancy’s top ten influencers
Economia is the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales’s magazine and each year they have a top 50 of those influencing the profession
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Brexit and dating
I was amused by an article in the FT this morning that says that Brexit has massively increased the importance of politics in people’s dating
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Don’t doubt it: social media played a big part in this election
Why did Labour do so well in this election? I have no doubt at all that policies friendly to young people helped. And young people
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Sorry is such an unusual word
Because I forgot to take a hay fever tablet on Sunday I woke at two in the morning with a blocked nose and was coughing
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It’s all thanks to debt
May was the second biggest month in the history of this blog: there were 327,941 reads of this blog in the month. Thanks to all
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Testing times
I was amused to read Hugh Muir’s account of failing grade two piano in the Guardian yesterday. When my boys were a bit younger I
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Essential reading
I have spent two days walking and talking. My head is buzzing. But now is not the time to share much of that. It is
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