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If you’re here becasue you’ve received an invite for breakfast and are checking if I really exist – then here’s a graph just for you. It follows a meal I had in a supposedly marvellous restaurant in central London …

I read through a proposal yesterday and was totally blown away. It looked, smelled and, I’m sure, would have tasted lovely. Everything was on brand and I could see it was oozing success. This morning I re-read the proposal and you know what? There’s almost no substance. In those 15 pages, nothing had been committed to and nothing actually said – never has so little looked so damned nice! Of course, this says very little about my own rigour – was I really like a six year old in front of a fruit machine yesterday? I don’t know.

But I do know this – it’s easy to get dazzled by the lights.

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No introduction need apart from to say, my friend James Kent was at the movies the other day and half way through a member of the noisy audience shouted ‘Come on my Son’ at the screen …

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If you’re at work there’s one sat near you now. Someone who loves to spoil the ending of a film you’ve yet to see. Here’s a tip. That person, the one who’s likely to spoil an ending is either: overpromoted and not bright enough to be doing the job they’re in, feeling like they’ve been passed over for promotion. Eiither way, they have something to prove – and they use the information they’ve gained by watching a movie as a power play. Never trust them – with information, sweets or your email passwords. If they can spoil the end of a film, they will think of nothing at wrecking your career. You’ve been warned.

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