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Après moi, le deluge
One week, one day and one morning into my November walking challenge, and I’m feeling pretty good.
Racing the bus and pounding the pavements
Well, I am a whole day and a half into my November pledge to walk to and from work every day.
Under my own steam
That’s it. I can’t hold my peace any longer. I have a shocking truth to divulge.
I hate buses.
Confronting the new world of work
Few people are going to be immune from the financial downturn.
It is something most of us are going to have to live with over the coming months, whether we are genuinely struggling to make ends meet, or are simply thinking a little more carefully than normal about the choices we make.
Like oil and algae
With the price of oil on its see-saw journey up and down the charts and the British motorist stung into rueful self-censorship on unnecessary journeys, something has to give.
Pledges and poverty
Poverty is a problem the world over, something from which no country is protected, regardless of how supposedly wealthy it is.
Stem the rising tide
We are all protective of our neighbourhoods.
None more so than in the UK, you might think, where an Englishman’s house is his castle, and the tabloids preside over a febrile parochialism which gives order and strength to society.
Clear your plates
It’s World Vegetarian Day! Hurrah! (With less gusto at the back - save your energy.)
(Green) jobs for the boys
Things might not look great for the world economy right now, but according to the UN there is going to be one cast-iron certainty in the job market over the coming decades.
Space age train of thought
Travelling by train is wonderful, isn’t it?
Well, to be honest, no. It’s fairly rubbish. But it should be wonderful.
