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You are, I’m sure, a better world citizen than me. As soon as you saw, on 9 August, the words “It is a code red for humanity”

I had a couple of days last week where I was grappling with the English language. Not my own version of it.

How well do you know what your friends or members of your family do in their jobs? Or, if they have retired, what they did during their work

“Less is more” is my second favourite aphorism. In a management training career spanning thirty years, I must have listened to and given

Oldies like me may scoff at the notion that anyone needs to be taught how to chat but we were not brought up with a sleek oblong of metal