Archive for August 20th, 2006
What is a consultant?
A few weeks ago one of my friends said that she’d never really understood what a consultant was, or what they did. Today I heard a brilliant definition of one on the radio:
Consultant : Someone who borrows your watch to tell you the time
On being mistaken for an Englishman
I don’t like the English. One at a time, I don’t mind them. I’ve loved some of them. It’s their collective persona I can’t warm to: the lumpen and louty, coarse, unsubtle, beady-eyed, beefy-bummed herd of England.
The truth is—and perhaps this is a little unworthy, a bit shameful—I find England and the English embarrassing. Fundamentally [...]
