Birthday Boasts On Balls
I’ve never been one to celebrate my birthdays overly much, so today I headed to the gym first thing. However, on your 50th birthday you sometimes want to pretend you can slow the flow of the inevitable and fight the…
Category Life As We Live It
Learn Chinese In An Afternoon
[An edited version of this article first appeared as “How To Learn…Chinese…In An Afternoon”, Professor Michael Mainelli ( 麦(mài)迈(mài)克(kè)), The Linguist, Volume 47, Number 3, page 20, Chartered Institute Of Linguists (June/July 2008)]
ABCB – New Alphabet For Standards – Association of British Certification Bodies
My Lord, Ladies and Gentlemen. It is a real honour for me to have this opportunity to address a group of people who share my passion that standards markets can improve the world, this Association of British Certification Bodies. This…
Barging In
“Barging In” , Lora Walsh Benson, Securities & Invesment Review, Securities & Investment Institute, September 2007, page 38. E957_Sii_main4mainelli
Mark My Keyboards
A night with Harvard classmate Mark Schaffer always covers a wide variety of topics, whisk(e)y, pizza, Hendrix, science fiction, the elixers of life, and Marks. By which I mean Mark I and Mark II computers. Harvard IBM Mark I –…
The City Debate: Are Economic Advancement & A Clean Environment Incompatible?
The City Debate 2007 at Mansion House, 29 January 2007 [left to right] Chris Huhne MP (Liberal Democrats’ Shadow Environment Food and Rural Affairs Secretary), Emma Duncan (Deputy Editor, The Economist), Rt Hon Michael Portillo, Richard D North (Fellow, Insitute…
World Traders’ Installation Dinner 2006
A speech in honour of my dear friend, Jack Wigglesworth, on 12 October 2006 in Drapers’s Hall – I wound up becoming a World Trader because of this talk…
Independence From East Surrey
East Surrey Business Club 4 July 2006 – The House of Lords
All Aboard For Clays In Central London
“All Aboard for Clays in Central London” (John Hargreaves’ shoot off Lady Daphne), Michael Yardley, Sporting Shooter, Archant Specialist, Issue 23, September 2005, page 11.