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PS: Don't forget to read the WSJ (E)

by Paul Seaman

Sorry to blow my own trumpet, but I have a piece in the Wall Street Journal (Europe) today.

I am rather chuffed to have a piece under my own name in the very best end of the quality press today.

Goodness knows, I have been behind many a piece by the CEO of this, the Chairman or Director General of that. It was a pleasure, chaps, don't get me wrong. But it is fun to toot my own horn and I hope to be doing it more often now.

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