HeyJaredJames McConnachie
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Bad news âsandwichâ - but thousands of jobs are still lost (opens the original)
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Someone who will remain nameless (my sister) once said I could receive 99 compliments and one piece of criticism, and Iâd obsess over it. Obviously, I didnât agree with her and was up all night thinking about what she said. With all the bad news floating around at the moment, Iâve been thinking about how to frame the more negative parts of the column while maintaining the usual air of frothy positivity. The answer may be the âsandwich techniqueâ, which involves encasing bad news in goo
STEERING COLUMN: Mowing, moneysaving and microcars (opens the original)
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One of the few benefits of the light nights drawing to a close is that grass cutting can be abandoned until next yearâs month of summer. Iâve spent a lifetime cutting grass despite, never doing anything on my own lawn apart from mowing it. So, really, what was the point? The closest it got to being any fun was when I had a petrol lawn mower, and that was just because it had an engine. The change in seasons also involves playing chicken with the heating system, waiting until the last possible
STEERING COLUMN: Electric vehicle uptake lags well behind government targets even with heavy subsidies (opens the original)
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Thanks to my old chum embedded trauma, every mention of exam results caused my stomach to do a small lurch. Itâs amazing how anxiety from four decades ago lurks in the subconscious. The No Wrong Path social media posts have a middle-aged person holding up a card telling how they left school with a Diploma in Balloon Animal Construction, and now they run a multinational company. However, no one is explaining how they started well and managed to mess up. Iâm going to use my platform (using the
STEERING COLUMN: Itâs official - driving a manual makes you brainier (opens the original)
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Thereâs been some good news for all of us lovers of the manual shifting motor. A recent study from Tohoku University in Japan concluded that driving a manual car stimulates the prefrontal cortex - thatâs the brainy bit that handles attention span, memory and decision-making, and is severely underdeveloped in teenage boys, especially when it comes to household chores. The research, led by neuroscientist Dr Ryuta Kawashima, shows that the physical coordination and decision-making required to u
Resignations, a new Hyundai and a car thatâs covered in mud (opens the original)
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Why is everyone resigning? Folk had had enough of Kier Starmer, and he chucked it. Steve Clarke had had enough of everyone, probably including himself, and he chucked it as well. Itâs been a resignation frenzy as the nation grapples with disappointment. As they say, itâs the hope that gets you. So, we keep moving along the freeway of failure towards who knows what? Politicians swap chairs but say the same things - thereâs no money for anything. You name it, we canât afford it. You want t
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