“DON’T put it in your blog.” Those are words I hear regularly. And as a writer of many years standing, I am pledged to the unwritten journalistic code of conduct. I believe it is called the Hypocritical Oath. I came up with that myself. Do you like it? Please yourselves. Anyway, the problem I’ve got […]
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I’M used to singing for my supper. Selling not so much. When Martin Jenkins, the chairman of the Maggie’s Yorkshire charity, invited me to a dinner to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the opening of the centre which supports people with cancer and their families, I was delighted to accept. I spent several years on
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WHEN people ask me what I do it is always difficult to explain and sell my services in a few short sentences. “This and that, mainly that,” doesn’t really encapsulate it either. So when someone suggested that I produce a “show reel” to feature some highlights of my events work it sounded like a good
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WILL you forgive me if I choose not to join the orgy? Tom Riordan has announced he is to step down as chief executive of Leeds City Council at the end of this year. He is moving on from a job he has done for the last 14 years. You would have thought he’d retired,
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I SPENT a couple of days in London at the start of the week and unlike my recent trips, the weather wasn’t grey and wet. The sun shone like it supposed to in spring and I felt distinctly over-dressed in flannel trousers, jacket, V-neck jumper and wool tie. Mind you, if I choose to dress
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