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Unaccustomed as I am
ByJohn MayUnaccustomed as I am… – Mrs Moneypenny mentions me in the Financial Times “Representing: standing or acting for another, especially through delegated authority. I don’t often represent anyone else and I have never represented my country. Recently, however, I did represent the chairman of a large international bank. No, I was not standing in for…
20 of life’s little lessons
ByJohn MayI was chatting today to an old friend in Nairobi. We come from different backgrounds and different cultures. We disagree about many things, but we have remained steadfast friends since early adulthood. We started to talk about the advice we would offer our younger selves. We began to make a list. Here are a few…
Dinner out
ByJohn MayA delightful dinner last night with a Scout friend who had worked in my team at the Jamboree. Carine is Belgian and is teaching French in a school outside Göteborg. We went to Soho, a restaurant my guide book told me was the hip place to be. The food was excellent and it was lovely…
The FT bigs me up a bit…
ByJohn MayRather surprised this morning to wake and find myself being likened to Kingsley Amis and being described as an educational reformer. Stuart Rose and I have penned an article for a forthcoming book on education, which also include contributions by AC Grayling and Niall Ferguson. Andrew Roberts predicts that the book will “set the education…
A day on the river
ByJohn MayToday the Career Academy staff team (or at least those who could travel, due to the appalling weather) decamped to Cambridge for a day out. We went punting on theriver, enjoyed a wonderful picnic and I was able to have a blistering argument witha tea shop proprietor who wouldn’t let us sit together… All in…
