For several months now I’ve walked down Charlotte St – the traditional home of advertising in the UK – and looked at the old Saatchi & Saatchi building; boarded up, windows empty but open, its corporate signage still on show and a black flag hanging over the entrance (with all the symbolism and metaphor that black flags have taken on over the past few years). At first I wondered whether this was some kind of deliberate installation - the juxtaposition of the external, quasi-d

I am a dreadful dancer. I am bad enough on my own but the problems really start to develop when I am dancing with a partner. Tradition dictates that the male will lead in a dancing couple, thus making it a hapless experience for the two of us. Now, perhaps that is down to not being taught leadership skills at school. After all, every school and university seems to want to boast that it teaches its students Leadership (with a capital L). But I think it’s more to do with the fa