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Welcome to a world of limitless possibilities, where the journey is as exhilarating as the destination, and where every moment is an opportunity to make your mark.

  • It’ s almost a week now since the death at the age of 75 of longtime Woman’s Hour presenter Jenni Murray was revealed online and the tributes have continued to pour in. That’s extraordinary. A week is a lifetime in the frantic 24/7 world of social media and the seemingly ceaseless messages of admiration are…

  • By Jeremy Miles Fifty-five long years ago today I began work as a young newspaper reporter. Green, naive and pretty clueless but bolstered by the confidence of youth, I quickly became surprisingly well-regarded. This was not because I was particularly good at the job but simply because a fellow junior hack taken on on the…

  • By Jeremy Miles The death of the great reggae singer Jimmy Cliff, announced yesterday, brought home to me more than ever the dreadful growth of division and racism in our society. I remembered an interview I did with Jimmy in 2008 and how optimistic and happy he was that the evils of racism that he…

Posts

Welcome to a world of limitless possibilities, where the journey is as exhilarating as the destination, and where every moment is an opportunity to make your mark.

  • It’ s almost a week now since the death at the age of 75 of longtime Woman’s Hour presenter Jenni Murray was revealed online and the tributes have continued to pour in. That’s extraordinary. A week is a lifetime in the frantic 24/7 world of social media and the seemingly ceaseless messages of admiration are…

  • By Jeremy Miles Fifty-five long years ago today I began work as a young newspaper reporter. Green, naive and pretty clueless but bolstered by the confidence of youth, I quickly became surprisingly well-regarded. This was not because I was particularly good at the job but simply because a fellow junior hack taken on on the…

  • By Jeremy Miles The death of the great reggae singer Jimmy Cliff, announced yesterday, brought home to me more than ever the dreadful growth of division and racism in our society. I remembered an interview I did with Jimmy in 2008 and how optimistic and happy he was that the evils of racism that he…