The Worship Of Youth Has Diminished -

My Time At Shell Was A Most Valuable Experience Because It Taught Me To Look At The World In A Long-term Way. Shell Takes A 20-year View On Events And Plans For Different Scenarios. It Makes You See The World As A Kind Of Large Matrix.

We Have Sectors Of The Economy, Aerospace Is A Good Example, Where Britain's Probably The Second Country In The World, The Automobile Sector, Where We've Done Extraordinarily Well, An Enormous Amount Of Investment Over The Last Couple Of Years, Life Sciences Is Another.

I Fear That The Rising Personal Bankruptcies And Repossessions Are The First Signs Of Bigger Problems To Come And Personal Debt - Gordon Brown's Legacy To Millions Of Britain's Families - Will Hang Like A Millstone Around The Neck Of The British People For Years To Come.

My Late Wife Olympia Was Goan And I've Been To India Many Times. I Love The Food There. We Used To Do Our Shopping In Southall, Where You Can Find Cheap But Wonderful Fruit Like Mangoes, Vegetables And Spices. I Didn't Do Much Of The Cooking, As Olympia Did A Lot - I Was The Under-chef And Did Some Of The Chopping.

Our Workforce Is Very Co-operative, Very Flexible, Easy To Work With And One Of The Big Selling Points. The Idea That Britain Is Still Back In The Labour Market Of The '70s Is Utterly Bizarre.