I LEARNED a new word the other day. Kakistocrats. It was used by the Sunday Times columnist Camilla Long in a piece headlined: “Britain is like one of Johnson’s broken wives – cheated on, then fed a string of lies and excuses”. Off I went to my dictionary – well Google – to look up […]
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WHEN she was a schoolgirl Carla Stockton-Jones wanted to become a nun. “Other people had posters of Nik Kershaw and Nick Kamen on their bedroom wall and I had pictures of God, Mary and the saints!,” she remembers with a smile. But life sometimes doesn’t quite work out how you think it will. Aged 16
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I REMEMBER once hearing a great phrase used to describe a footballer who played without much passion and who sapped the morale of his team-mates. “He’s a real ‘mood hooverer’ in the dressing room,” I was informed. It made me think that every workplace tends to have one. You know the type: when they walk
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