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Guess who’s been to the Classic BRIT awards?
October 3rd, 2012 by Roger Darlington
Thank you. DCMS Minister Ed Vaizey, for dropping out of attendance at last night’s Classic BRIT Awards ceremony, allowing me to pick up a vacant place. I was a guest of the BPI (the British Recorded Music Industry) and we had a great box giving us a pleasant meal before the ceremony and terrific views of […]
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Guess who’s going to the Classic BRIT Awards?
October 2nd, 2012 by Roger Darlington
This year’s Classic BRIT Awards ceremony will be held this evening in the Royal Albert Hall in central London. It is organised by the BPI (the British Recorded Music Industry) with which I am about to do some work – more of that another time – and I was contacted last night and advised that […]
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The tragedy of Aleppo’s souk
October 1st, 2012 by Roger Darlington
Vee and I were on holiday in Syria from 3-9 March 2011 and I have written a full account of our trip here. Although the months running up to our visit were dominated by the dramatic events of the Arab Spring in north Africa, the whole country of Syria was eerily quiet during all our […]
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What’s the name of that tower?
September 29th, 2012 by Roger Darlington
I’ve recently been a couple of times to visit the British Recorded Music Industry to discuss some work (more of that in the future). The central London offices of the organisation are located in the former County Hall overlooking the Houses of Parliament and our meeting room had a great view of the clock tower […]
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London’s water from the Great Stink to the Tideway Tunnel
September 28th, 2012 by Roger Darlington
I have now served for six months in my new appointment in the water sector as Chair of the Customer Challenge Group at South East Water. This is a new sector for me and a really complicated one, so I’ve been attending lots of briefings and meetings and doing lots of reading and research. This […]
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Do we need a wealth tax?
September 24th, 2012 by Roger Darlington
The talk at the Liberal Democrat Conference this week in Brighton is of the need for the richest in our society to make a larger contribution to thr resolution of the country’s financial problems. Even without the economic crisis, I would favour this because the UK has too great a spread of income and wealth […]
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Riding high in post-Olympic London
September 19th, 2012 by Roger Darlington
Earlier this week, I saw my good friend Jen with her baby boy James who is almost two and therefore just a few months older than my granddaughter. At Jen’s suggestion, we went on the Emirates Air Line cable car which opened just before the Olympics and it was terrific fun with great views of […]
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The London 2012 Games: the last hurrah
September 10th, 2012 by Roger Darlington
This afternoon, I attended a meeting at the Department for Culture, Media & Sport to discuss a communications programme for when the Government announces a timetable for switchover to digital radio. I was there in my capacity as the Chair of the Consumer Expert Group. The DCMS is located just off Trafalgar Square so, once […]
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Day One with baby Catrin
September 8th, 2012 by Roger Darlington
OK, I’m shattered (I slept for 11 hours last night), but I’ve just spent two fabulous days looking after my darling granddaughter Catrin who is now almost 20 months old. Her parents Rich & Emily managed to obtain tickets for the Paralympic Games here in London on days when Catrin’s nursery was closed for staff […]
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Day Two with baby Catrin
September 8th, 2012 by Roger Darlington
Day Two with baby Catrin started at 8 am again, necessitating another 6 am alarm. When we left the flat about 10 am, it was another warm and sunny day and I decided that today we would stay on London’s South Bank which is always so vibrant in summer but especially so during this period […]
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