Andrew Hill

@andrewtghill.ft.com

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Journalist, speaker, writer. Forthcoming: 'Take Note: A Nimble History of Shorthand' (Profile Books, 2026)

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in flower-pattern dress on stage and on the big screen at #FTWomen in Business summit
Joseph Stannah’s Rules of Life 1. Have a plan before-hand for everyday. 2. Acquire a habit of untiring industry. 3. Cultivate perseverance. 4. Cultivate the habit of punctuality. 5. Be an early riser. 6. Be in the habit of learning something from every man whom you meet. 7. Form fixed principles on which to think and act. 8. Be simple and neat in your personal habits. 9. Acquire a habit of doing everything well. 10. Make constant efforts to be master of your temper. 11. Cultivate soundness of judgement. 12. Observe a proper treatment of parents, friends and companions.
Putin sitting at the far end of a very very long table
Whence it appears that many of the persons commonly considered wealthy, are in reality no more wealthy than the locks of their own strong boxes are, they being inherently and eternally incapable of wealth, and operating for the nation, in an economical point of view, either as pools of dead water, and eddies in a stream (which, so long as the stream flows, are useless, or serve only to drown people, but may become of importance in a state of stagnation should the stream dry); or else, as dams in a river, of which the ultimate service depends not on the dam, but the miller; or else, as mere accidental stays and impediments, acting not as wealth, but (for we ought to have a correspondent term) as "illth," causing various devastation and trouble around them in all directions;
The problem is not, and has never been, the words we use. The problem is that the people whom those words make visible and attempt to protect remain unwelcome. As organisations navigate these challenges, they would do well to remember that history has rarely judged kindly those who, when faced with moral choices about human dignity and equality, chose the path of least resistance.
Unwanted sheltered housing publicity, ripped into tiny pieces
Screenshot of Chris Roush and me online for our Qwoted podcast