Photo-a-day 31: Town wall
This is a section of Newcastle upon Tyne’s old town wall, which I walked past today on my way to a meeting.
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Weekend read: Let’s ditch the word ‘cancer’
Adrian Marston is a former President of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain who has suffered from cancer twice – though the two experiences were really very different.
The gulf between the disease (and hence the experience of suffering from) these two very different maladies, both given the title “cancer”, has lead him to write an insightful article in the New Statesman in which he argues that the term “cancer” should no longer be used. He makes a strong argument, and I’d very much like it to catch on. Unfortunately, I fear the reality of the billion pound “cancer industry” will count for more than the potential to avoid distress in patients.
I hope I’m wrong.
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Photo-a-day 30: Giraffe Stop
I’m often to be found here when waiting for a train home!
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Photo-a-day 28: William Tyndale
This is a statue of William Tyndale, who translated the Bible into English half a millennium ago, causing (to put it mildly) a right old stir.
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Photo-a-day 27: Flying Scotsman
This is the crest of the Flying Scotsman, the train service which sped me to London in about 160 minutes this morning – as it has on many Mondays in the past year!
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Photo-a-day 25: Mannequins
Stories occasionally hit the news about retailers redesigning mannequins to match the proportions of “real women”. If Debenhans decide to go down that route, these necks might be for the chop…!
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Photo-a-day 24: Aggressive
Perhaps they shout at you when you buy something?
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Weekend read: Jeff Randall’s 30 years of financial journalism
2014 is the year that Jeff Randall has chosen to make his exit from financial journalism, after three remarkable decades. I have enjoyed his Telegraph column, work for the Financial Times, and, latterly, his Sky News programme for a number of years now, and will miss his insights.
Randall has written a farewell column in the Telegraph, in which he reflects on the changes affecting business and journalism over thirty years. It was particularly fascinating for me, as someone who isn’t even thirty years old.
On my first day in 1986, if you had told me that Britain’s pioneering successes in the coming quarter of a century would include a mobile telephone company (Vodafone) and a satellite television broadcaster (BSkyB), I would not have understood the proposition.
It’s well worth reading this weekend.
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