Schoolboy tiff between Pietersen and Moore ends in PR calamity

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

Are we really that bothered by the schoolboy tiff between Kevin Pietersen and Peter Moore? I went to bed last night with the England Cricket team’s calamity stealing top spot on Sky News’ 10 O’clock bulletin, only to wake up this morning to hear Radio Five Live giving airtime to ...

Battery kids will make bad businesspeople

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Will our cotton-wool kids grow up into rubbish business people? The entrepreneur Simon Woodroffe, of Yo Sushi fame, certainly thinks so - and I couldn't agree more. Radical changes to childhood are producing a lilly-livered generation of battery kids who are cocooned from even the most negligible risk. A successful entrepreneur needs to take risks, push themselves and others to their limits and show unlimited reserves of initiative and imagination.  ...