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A noble cause

Posted on July 9, 2010 by Jamie Jauncey

By this time next week I have to have written a very short piece about an object in the British Galleries at the V&A. It’s another project organised by the indefatigable ideas wallahs at 26, the national organisation that champions … Continue reading →

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Oral history

Posted on March 12, 2010 by Jamie Jauncey

How did we get here? How did we reach the point where we have one language for work and another for the rest of our lives? In one we tend to engage with all the unique characteristics and faculties that … Continue reading →

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Flying blind

Posted on February 18, 2010 by Jamie Jauncey

Yesterday afternoon I ran a two-hour online training session with nine HR managers from a multinational corporation. I sat in my office in my garden in Birnam. They sat in their offices in various locations in seven different countries, from … Continue reading →

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Heat, dust and truth

Posted on October 22, 2009 by Jamie Jauncey

We took off from Jodhpur at 2.45pm on Tuesday and climbed, rather slowly it seemed, over the Rajasthani desert on the first leg of our journey home to Scotland. After fifteen minutes, and five thousand feet at best, there came … Continue reading →

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The train now arriving …

Posted on October 16, 2009 by Jamie Jauncey

4.30 am. After five days in the mountains we have spent the last seven hours trying to snatch sleep as the train rattles and sways down from the north. Now a lady with a singsong voice and cut-glass diction comes … Continue reading →

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Indian autumn

Posted on October 8, 2009 by Jamie Jauncey

It’s one of the great clichés of travel-writing that India is an assault on the senses, but stepping outside the terminal building at Delhi airport, I’m lost for any other way to describe the experience of arriving in the sub-continent. … Continue reading →

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A ticklish matter

Posted on October 1, 2009 by Jamie Jauncey

I met my first grandchild on Tuesday. She was four-and-a-bit days old. It also happened to be my sixtieth birthday. What a birthday present. It won’t be too long, I expect, before she discovers that she is quisquillosa. This is … Continue reading →

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The rain in Spain

Posted on September 24, 2009 by Jamie Jauncey

I’m on the train to catch a plane to fly to Spain where the rain, I hope, stays mainly on the plain. We, the Dark Angels, will be in the mountains of Andalucia – where fellow writer John Simmons and … Continue reading →

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Cherish the stories

Posted on September 17, 2009 by Jamie Jauncey

There’s a wise storyteller called David Campbell who cuts a distinctive figure about Edinburgh with his kilt and ponytail. ‘Story is the lifeline of human consciousness,’ says David. ‘Stories do not argue. They speak to the heart.’ Smart organisations have … Continue reading →

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Human capital

Posted on September 10, 2009 by Jamie Jauncey

I’m a latecomer to the superbly written White House drama series, The West Wing. In the first series, the deputy chief of staff meets with a black senator who wants the government to start making reparation for slavery. As their … Continue reading →

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