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Ham on 03 24, 2009 | 2 Comments
Several people commented on my last piece, and I agreed with much of what everyone said. God, what a spineless creature I am.
In that piece I also meant to comment on what Rezbi wrote in his bl
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Ham on 03 19, 2009 | No Comments
One incensed Scots reader has objected to my comparing The Great Toad to an excellent dish - the Haggis - which has unlike the the Toad brought pleasure to millions.
So I will say nothing about
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Ham on 03 17, 2009 | No Comments
Twenty years or more ago, David Ogilvy sent me the draft of a speech he was planning to make in France.
It contained more or less the following.
"Our world is divided into two warring camps.
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Ham on 03 7, 2009 | No Comments
Yesterday I had lunch with my partner in a firm that runs events in a few countries, together with a lady friend he wanted me to meet.
The excuse was to discuss an idea she has had for an online
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Ham on 03 2, 2009 | No Comments
Last Tuesday morning I lurched off the plane from New York and whizzed off to the City to make a speech for the Market Research Society. This was not deliberate; just bad planning by this old fool
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Ham on 02 27, 2009 | No Comments
My friend Michael Rhodes just pointed out that a piece in Management Today suggests the reason for the blatant greed and lack of apology from the procession of bank bosses questioned by parliament
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Ham on 02 26, 2009 | No Comments
If you want to know a) whose stuff I always read b) why the world's economy is up the spout - explained in simple language anyone can understand, here's the answer to both questions in two words.
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Ham on 02 23, 2009 | No Comments
If you were thinking with some relief that you hadn't heard a peep out of me, your good times are over. I'm back.
I came over to Washington where an absurdly clever and unfeasibly successful yo
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Ham on 02 23, 2009 | No Comments
Too much overpaid energy devoted to trivial things.
This is a list of the people it was thought necessary by JWT in New York to make one wanky full-of-pointless-special-effects TV commercial fo
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Ham on 02 22, 2009 | No Comments
Some readers may feel I am a little excessive in my comments about bankers, but it is quite impossible to be too excessive about their antics.
Just when you think nobody, no matter how contempt
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