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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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The city of Nanjing: 1937 and 2000
September 4th, 2012 by Roger Darlington
In 1937, Japanese troops occupied Nanjing, then the capital of China, and massacred up to 300,000 Chinese. I have just seen an impressive Chinese film on the atrocity called “City Of Life And Death” which I have reviewed here. On the first of my three visits to China in 2000, I visited Nanjing and I […]
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A review of “Shadow Dancer”
August 27th, 2012 by Roger Darlington
Britain is noted for its wet Bank Holiday weekends and this one has been no exception. But I went out with friends to Kilburn in north London to see an excellent film at the Tricyle theatre and to have a delicious Afghan meal at “Ariana II” (“Ariana I” is in New York). You can read […]
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The cutest girl in the world
August 23rd, 2012 by Roger Darlington
As regular readers of this blog will be well aware, I have a granddaughter called Catrin who is now just over a year and half old. I try to see her each week, but I went on a trip to Finland and then she went on holiday to Wales. So, when I saw her this […]
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