I’ve repaid all my credit cards, just as David Cameron requested. It took two nights looting the local Currys to raise the funds, but that’s The Big Society for you.
This morning President Obama said “The world has lost a visionary.” My first thought was that Specsavers had gone bust, but of course it was actually the news that Apple’s Steve Jobs has died. It is sad, but to value his life above any other 56 year old taken at so cruel a young age is arrogant. Next week the local papers around the UK will be full of stories about people taken before their time. Kind, gentle, giving people. Nice People. Some of them may have actually made something out of washing up bottles and sticky backed plastic. Achievement is in the eye of the beholder. Obviously some will have been complete arseholes. But that’s life. Steve Job’s Stanford speech of 6 years ago is doing the viral rounds, and he concludes by offering the advice, ‘Stay young, stay foolish.” Great stuff. I may go and hula-hoop in the fast lane of the M1.
