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Our time in Havana
March 25th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
In between attending my son’s wedding in South Wales, reading papers for the New National Consumer Council Board meeting, and trying to reduce further all the outstanding e-mails, I used some of this cold Easter weekend to write up an account of our time in Havana as part of my web page on our recent […]
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It’s snowing!
March 24th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
It’s Easter Monday and, here in London, it’s snowing – crazy!
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A very special wedding
March 23rd, 2008 by Roger Darlington
This Easter weekend was very special for the family because our son Richard married his partner Emily after some five years together. The wedding took place at the Cwrt Bleddyn Hotel (‘cwrt’ means court and ‘Bleddyn’ was a Welsh prince) in South Wales. It was a wonderful occasion with 122 guests from as far away […]
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Off to the wedding
March 21st, 2008 by Roger Darlington
Since I arrived back from our holiday in Cuba on Monday [some preliminary notes here], I’ve had a furiously busy week with events morning, afternoon and evening every day. The three evening events have all been public meetings on post office closures which I have had to address as the Chairman of the Greater London […]
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Back from Cuba
March 17th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
I’m just back from a 10 day holiday in Cuba so now I can resume blogging on NightHawk. The trip was absolutely fascinating and of course I’ll be writing a full narrative for the travel section of my web site. First though: a) I have to get over the jet lag b) I have to […]
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Hasta luego
March 5th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
I’m about to go off for a holiday to Cuba so I won’t be blogging on NightHawk for a while. While I’m a way, please take the opportunity to browse some of the 120 sections of my web site.
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Welcome to the world Harvey
February 23rd, 2008 by Roger Darlington
A new generation in my family started yesterday when my nephew Dominic and his partner Emma became proud parents of a baby boy Harvey. He arrived at 1.20pm weighing 6lb 5oz. You can view his slide show here. I am so thrilled for Dom and Emma and wish them and Harvey all the luck in […]
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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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