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World HQ, Bredonborough.
Across the street to World HQ I…
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… to a reading & writing morning I…
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Jeremy Paxman’s Friends In High Places: Who Runs Britain? (Michael Joseph Ltd. 1990)…
Handling vast sums of money – other people’s money – was a great deal easier if the City’s adage ’My Word is My Bond’ could be believed. You didn’t cheat other members of the family, and you knew from schooldays who was and was not to be trusted…
Lord Shawcross has watched the change at first-hand: “ Under the old system, they were rules, underwritten roles, that people adhere to. They used to be an axiom that' my word is my bond'. No one operates on the principle today. And in the old days, they didn't rush off constantly to the lawyers to find ways of getting around the law or the rules. Now, of course, that's the first thing they do”.
Written at the time of the EG Meltdown & the collapse of Messrs. Alder & Fenwick’s businesses, this account is accurate & indicative of the period as I experienced it, conveying a sense of the major changes in English & British business culture. You didn’t cheat other members of the family… and yet this is what Messrs. Alder & Fenwick did, to the extent that I was “family” after 21 years of close dealings… they didn't rush off constantly to the lawyers: and yet this is the state that Messrs. Alder & Fenwick finally came to.
On April 18th. 1996 The Evening Standard business section featured an article on the successful outcome of the Bromley 405 Lloyd's Names action group, who had become the fourth spiral group to win its negligence action in court. "The victory is a personal triumph for Sam Alder ... a one-time Ernst & Young
accountant who made his money in the music industry managing, among others, Bryan Ferry, in his heyday..." `My real advantage was working in the music industry,' Alder says. `We are used to litigation. We do it all the time.'"
The EG Calendar of Events continues to build, the trajectories & nature of the time, place & persons coming together in a form that presents, to an impartial, basically honest & decent person, conduct unbecoming from two nominal pillars & exemplars of society.
An important communication has arrived from the Commissioning Editor of The Writing Project.
12.10 Good news of the day: today is the 25th. anniversary of Tom, Child of Chaos, entering Guitar Craft.
Off to lunch with the Minx.
18.17 After MinxLunch, last tranting from the cottage for my Wife. The builders now have free access.
More packing for long traveling & returning to HQ for hoovering, organizing, e-flurrying & considering the suggestions of The Commissioning Editor.
21.24 An evening practicing.
World HQ, Bredonborough.
Across the street to World HQ I…
II...
III...
IV...
V...
… to a reading & writing morning I…
II...
Jeremy Paxman’s Friends In High Places: Who Runs Britain? (Michael Joseph Ltd. 1990)…
Handling vast sums of money – other people’s money – was a great deal easier if the City’s adage ’My Word is My Bond’ could be believed. You didn’t cheat other members of the family, and you knew from schooldays who was and was not to be trusted…
Lord Shawcross has watched the change at first-hand: “ Under the old system, they were rules, underwritten roles, that people adhere to. They used to be an axiom that' my word is my bond'. No one operates on the principle today. And in the old days, they didn't rush off constantly to the lawyers to find ways of getting around the law or the rules. Now, of course, that's the first thing they do”.
Written at the time of the EG Meltdown & the collapse of Messrs. Alder & Fenwick’s businesses, this account is accurate & indicative of the period as I experienced it, conveying a sense of the major changes in English & British business culture. You didn’t cheat other members of the family… and yet this is what Messrs. Alder & Fenwick did, to the extent that I was “family” after 21 years of close dealings… they didn't rush off constantly to the lawyers: and yet this is the state that Messrs. Alder & Fenwick finally came to.
On April 18th. 1996 The Evening Standard business section featured an article on the successful outcome of the Bromley 405 Lloyd's Names action group, who had become the fourth spiral group to win its negligence action in court. "The victory is a personal triumph for Sam Alder ... a one-time Ernst & Young
accountant who made his money in the music industry managing, among others, Bryan Ferry, in his heyday..." `My real advantage was working in the music industry,' Alder says. `We are used to litigation. We do it all the time.'"
The EG Calendar of Events continues to build, the trajectories & nature of the time, place & persons coming together in a form that presents, to an impartial, basically honest & decent person, conduct unbecoming from two nominal pillars & exemplars of society.
An important communication has arrived from the Commissioning Editor of The Writing Project.
12.10 Good news of the day: today is the 25th. anniversary of Tom, Child of Chaos, entering Guitar Craft.
Off to lunch with the Minx.
18.17 After MinxLunch, last tranting from the cottage for my Wife. The builders now have free access.
More packing for long traveling & returning to HQ for hoovering, organizing, e-flurrying & considering the suggestions of The Commissioning Editor.
21.24 An evening practicing.
