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Nicholas Craig

Nicholas Craig

Nicholas Craig column

This is about the time most of us give up on New Year resolutions. Thank goodness.Read

Nicholas Craig column

When did we all become so co-ordinated? Being a `co-ordinator' appears to be the booming profession of this decade. My sanity has been more or less retained in recent weeks thanks to a house moving co-ordinator. Weddings, Christmases, lifestyles, training schedules, gardens and travel are all being `co-ordinated' to create memorable, if costly, events.Read

Nicholas Craig column

One column in The Journal about my problems with builders, and the Government introduces a new crackdown on cowboys.Read

Nicholas Craig column

This is the Year of the Dog. It will be celebrated this Sunday in Newcastle during Chinese New Year festivities. As a frequent traveller to China, this is a favourite time of year for me. The New Year is a family affair for Chinese, a time of reunion and thanksgiving. Everyone who can do so goes back home, even if it means a gruelling 30-hour train journey.Read

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I'm living the English nightmare. Moving house is driving me to distraction.Read

Nicholas Craig column

For the first time in many happy, peaceful years I have experienced the full horror of a day at the sales. I may recover in time: my bank balance may not.Read

Nicholas Craig column

If you thought the first day back at work this week was bad, or that nothing could plumb the depths you suffered on New Year's Day, grit your teeth.Read

Nicholas Craig column

From the relentless crowds shopping in our cities, I can well believe leading retailers' optimism about healthier sales this Christmas.Read

Nicholas Craig column

Stop the statistics. We are drowning in pools of percentages, seas of surveys.Read

First impressions last longest and should be a top priority…

Front of house staff are so important to the way in which we regard a business.Read

Nicholas Craig column

Far be it from me to pour scorn on politically correct policies.Read

The alternatives are public transport, or to get on your bike

We should introduce our own version of taxi driving `knowledge' in the North. Too many drivers don't know where they are headed, to our cost in time and money.Read

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Now is the season to listen to after-dinner speeches. I used to do quite a few such speeches myself, and I've listened to many, many more.Read

Nicholas Craig column

Beijing, into which I flew on Wednesday is, like London, proudly preparing to host the Olympic Games.Read

Shanghai – city of superlatives

The sight of Shanghai as I arrived today is extraordinary. Some of the world's tallest buildings huddle on what is, in effect, a drained swamp. In the last 10 years at least 3,000 high-rise buildings have been built; another 2,000 are on the drawing-boards.Read

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Do you enjoy Sudoku? The addiction appears to have gone worldwide.Read

Nicholas Craig column

We are halfway through British Food Fortnight, which encourages us to choose local produce. I need no persuasion.Read

Nicholas Craig column

I now know how the Oscar nominees feel. Thank goodness I didn't prepare my humbly grateful acceptance speech on video because I was out of the region.Read

Nicholas Craig column

Newcastle's streets are suddenly full of new students. For many families this will be their first year as "empty nesters".Read

Nicholas Craig column

What a series. The cricket has been sensational, the result fantastic, and the effects of England's success on young and old, business and media, surprising.Read

Author Profile

Nicholas Craig is a partner at Watson Burton law firm. Previously one of the leading commercial and corporate law partners with Eversheds Newcastle, Nicholas has particular inward and outward investment expertise. He also has unusually broad experience of acting for clients with interests in the Far East and Asia, and decided to join Watson Burton LLP to broaden the development of his interest in inward and outward investment.

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