Hints and tips:
...“I don’t want to be caught up in this cycle.” Letter in response to this article: Training our ex-offenders makes economic sense / From Roger Statham, Wass, N Yorks, UK, Wass, N Yorks, UK...
...“We don’t know what it is, yet, that causes this synchronous brain activity,” says Sam Wass, one of the Cambridge team....
...Wass concurs....
...“And don’t forget the deep-sea fishing and diving markets,” he adds, warming to his subject. “If there isn’t great fishing off this island, where is there? And the Napoleon market is underestimated....
...Most people don’t go through such suffering.” He paused, then kept going....
...“They have made hay while the sun has shone and they don’t want to work in the new environment.”...
...Sir Douglas Wass was permanent secretary at the Treasury from 1974 to 1983...
...I don’t live on a rough estate, but otherwise I lead a normal life.”...
...But we don’t see the extraordinary pianistic figures we used to.” Indeed we don’t: we have no contemporary equivalent to Glenn Gould, Vladimir Horowitz or Sviatoslav Richter. Why should this be?...
...“If you’re not happy about investing in things you don’t understand or approve of, why not invest in a teak forest in Brazil?” it read. “I thought well, that’s absolutely fantastic,” Wass remembers....
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