Ed Miliband with Steve Pound in Ealing
Why not take this opportunity to welcome Steve and Ed Miliband,
on Thursday 11 February at 7pm, Northolt Golf Club, Huxley Close, UB5 5UL
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Pound wins Pancake Race
Why not take this opportunity to welcome Steve and Ed Miliband,
on Thursday 11 February at 7pm, Northolt Golf Club, Huxley Close, UB5 5UL
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The case of Munir Hussain
The case of Munir Hussain, the father who took a cricket bat to the home invader who terrorised his family, has been the main topic of conversation here in Parliament this week.
On the surface this is such a simple case. A serial crook, Walid Salem, attacks the family of a decent law abiding man and ends up brain damaged after Mr.Hussain and his brother manage to escape and to pursue the criminal through the streets of High Wycombe where they give him a severe doing over with the bat.
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Thoughts from the News
Haiti has been a horror story but rays of hope and human heroism sometimes break through the clouds of tragedy.
I even managed a brief smile when I read about the 121 member search and rescue team sent from Israel to Port-au-Prince who managed to make a miraculous rescue from a collapsed building.
The man they saved turned out to be the Haitian government’s chief income tax officer. Nothing else needs to be said!
Maybe it is because this has been such a grim week that I couldn’t hide a chuckle at the latest joke doing the rounds here. As one of my colleagues said – the Grim Reaper had come for him last night but he managed to fight him off with a vacuum cleaner. Talk about Dyson with Death!
People are always telling me how much better things were in the old days but we still fall for the magic of the FA Cup.
With all the overpaid prima donnas and whinging clock-watching managers there is still some romance left in the game that we invented and exported to the world. Accrington Stanley at home to Fulham is a mouth-watering fixture that even the severely depleted Cottagers’ squad can be optimistic about. Mind you – the way things are at the moment the best of British seems to be getting bought up in front of our eyes but as long as there are games like Accrington v Fulham the beautiful game will always be the British game – but I won’t be eating Kraft/Cadbury chocolate on the terraces on Saturday.
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India Inc.
Steve Pound gave the introductory speech at the launch of Vikas Pokas’ book ‘India Inc – How India’s Top Ten Entrepreneurs are Winning Globally’. The launch drew a wide range of Indian businessmen and women, politicians and celebrity guests for an extrememly crowded book launch. Steve’s speech was followed by Dixit Joshi, Managing Director of Barclays Capital who praised the launch and the book.
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TRIBUNE; JANUARY 2010
Pashas: Traders and Travellers in the Islamic World.
James Mather, Yale U.Press.
Even those of us who harbour unrequited longings for the commanding heights of the economy to be brought under workers control without compensation (except in cases of proven need) may feel a guilty frisson of something like admiration for the sheer energy of mercantile capitalism.
For those who have not experienced this sinful emotion I recommend this extraordinary book by an author who has ensured my eternal enmity by being impossibly good looking, about twenty-five years old, a qualified barrister and a former Kennedy scholar.
Mather has set out – with meticulous use of superbly annotated primary and secondary sources – to write a history of the Levant Company which waxed and waned from the time its charter was granted by Elizabeth I in 1581until the late 18th.Century when India became too ripe a fruit to resist and all avaricious traders sought to fill their boots in the footsteps of the East India Company.
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