England versus Australia at Twickenham promised to be a long-awaited dream, the return of super-hero Johnny Wilkinson. In the end it revealed both the power and the limit of dreams and visions Listening to the match warm-up, I was struck by the power that the dream held over the English commentators. The programme [...]
Dinner was nearly wrecked last light. I set off to procure an essential missing ingredient from The Bottle Shop in downtown Woodford. Shock horror. Traffic was at a complete standstill. In Woodford. At eight o clock in the evening. Unprecedented What had happened was a community firework display which had brought families [...]
DarmstadtTR 029 Originally uploaded by t.rickards Horst Geschka is known as ‘Mr Creativity of Germany’. His fifty years of involvement with technological innovation and creativity were celebrated recently at his home town of Darmstadt The event took place at the Maritim Hotel, [28th October 2009]. The workshop on creativity and innovation was accompanied by […]
A new Chris Andrew documentary, Starsuckers, shows how the media blur the line between truth and fiction The Guardian newspaper played an enthusiastic part in the promotion of Starsuckers, and the sting which was successfully perpetrated on The People, the News of the World and the Sunday Mirror whose journalists believed (or published anyway) [...]
I have been wrestling with the big leadership question of the week. Who is likely to be in his job longer, Adam Crozier of the Royal Mail, or Rafa Benitez of Liverpool Football club? Mr Benitez’s team has suffered from injuries, losses on the field, and departure of key players. Worse, he has received [...]