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How to think critically
February 2nd, 2008 by Roger Darlington
I’m a great believer in clear and critical thinking and one of the most visited pages on my web site is my advice of “How To Think Critically”. Therefore I was pleased to have my attention drawn recently to a really good web site which presents an encyclopedia of errors of reasoning. In fact, yesterday […]
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Starting a new role
January 29th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
Just days after the Government announcement of the membership of the New National Consumer Council on which I will serve for the next four years, we had our first Board meeting today – almost five hours discussing over 100 pages of papers. A really great team of colleagues – but a lot of complicated procedural […]
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My new public appointment
January 25th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
On 30 September 2008, three statutory consumer bodies – energywatch, Postwatch and the National Consumer Council – will cease to exist. They will be merged into a body currently called the New National Consumer Council which will come into effect on 1 October 2008. At the end of July 2007, advertisements were placed seeking applicants […]
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A very busy week
January 19th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
I’ve not blogged for a few days because this week has been such a very busy time. I’m the Member for England on the Ofcom Consumer Panel and, on Tuesday, we had our monthly meeting and met our new Chairman Anna Bradley. I’m the Chair of the Greater London Region on the Postwatch Council and, […]
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A new year; a new device
January 1st, 2008 by Roger Darlington
For a decade now, I’ve always carried two electronic devices with me wherever I go: my mobile and my personal digital assistant (PDA). From today, no more … For my 49th birthday (June 1997) I bought myself a present. My first palm top computer – a Psion 3c with 2 megabytes of memory. Some years […]
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A new year; a new diary
January 1st, 2008 by Roger Darlington
One of the reasons why blogging comes quite naturally to me is that I’ve kept a daily diary for decades. In fact, I have an entry for every day for the last 46 years – that’s some 16,800 entries. Of course, today I start my 47th diary. Now my diary and this blog are very […]
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Wii-ing at Christmas
December 25th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
Having spent the morning running [see photo here], Vee’s nephew David and his wife Sharon joined the rest of Vee’s immediate family to spend Christmas Day with us. They brought along David’s Christmas present to Sharon: a Nintendo Wii game console. Now I’m not into gaming and certainly first person shooter games and fantasy games […]
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Hurricane at Christmas
December 25th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
A few days ago, I blogged about how my biography of the World War Two night intruder ace who was my wife’s father keeps coming back into our lives. The Czech Karel Kuttelwascher flew a particular Hawker Hurricane IIC which he called “Night Reaper”. Today, to our astonishment, Vee and I received a Christmas present […]
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Reaching round the world
December 24th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
I know that my web site and blogs are visited by up to 5,000 people a day because my traffic statistics tell me exactly what’s happening day by day. But it’s wonderful when I hear from a visitor I don’t know and find that some of the material has proved helpful in some way. Today […]
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Memories still flying high
December 21st, 2007 by Roger Darlington
One of my favourite sayings is: “It isn’t over until it’s over – and then it isn’t over”. This has certainly been the case regarding the book “Night Hawk” which I wrote in 1984 about the life of the Second World War night fighter ace who was my wife’s father [his story here]. I keep […]
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