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Many of us over 60 are counted out when part-time jobs come up despite our collective wisdom and abilities.

To counter some of this prejudice I have dispensed with sending my CV and have instead created The Complete Picture, an animated ninety second overview of my life to date @ https://vimeo.com/223960456.

 

 

 

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Three cheers for Parliament; at last they showed up and struck a blow against our wretched Foreign Office - a disaster abroad - and started - like it or not - a final retrenchment policy which had its origins at Suez in 1956. What we want now is a smaller, smarter FCO: bring it on. Our foreign policy on the Middle East since the Balfour Declaration has shamed our nation.
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Social Networking 31 25 July - 24 August 2013   Summer Holiday in Siena Bump Carlo Cignozzi, Winemaker & Mozart Music maker, Montalcino Jeremy & Jacqueline Sinclair, CEO, M&C Saatchi Carole Stone & Richard Lindley, Serial Networker & Former ITN Newsreader Diana Grandi, NG Photographer Mark & Vicky Jefferson, Wine Buffs and Bon Viveurs Chris Larkin & Suki Stephens, Actor (Yes Minister & Teacher/Copy Writer/Genuine Good Eggs) Ken Clarke MP Hatty...
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I met Ben O'Brien this morning at Sourced, his creation, at St Pancras International. I may become an investor. 
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A greast rugby player and speaker; a lover of mankind, of music and of The Valleys. Another rugby player overlooked for a knighthood.
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Syria was a French "territory" after WW1 and they put the Assad family into power in the last century. if anyone should be leading on Syria it should be the French.  America has dithered over Syria as its elasticated red line has finally caused it a major headache. But the UK now seems ready to take up the gauntlet with America. Pray, what has Syria to do with the UK? The West stood by on Egypt, helped in Libya and did nothing in Tunisia or Bahrain.  Russia, now a...
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Siena Holiday Reads & Films Part of a holiday is about playing catch up with books and films you should have read or seen. I began collecting books to read back in March and brought most of them with me. Here's a selection I actually managed to finish: A Delicate Truth **** by John Le Carre From the Master maybe his last. I gobbled up the last quarter unsure what would happen The New Digital Age ** by Eric Schmidt Slightly boring Perfect CV**** by Max...
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