In 1993, between the end of the Relax ban and the Spice Girls first LP, I was briefly the UK's prime minister. It was only for about three weeks. However, one of the benefits of being an ex-prime minister is that you get invited to official functions. And so, last night I had to turn up at 10 Downing Street. I didn't really see much of it, just a spacious entrance hall. There were also relatively few ex-prime ministers, just Harold Wilson, Margaret Thatcher, and Gordon Brown. I shook hands with Gordon and Harold, but didn't get the opportunity to meet Margaret. She was a little way away from us, and, in the advanced stages of dementia, wasn't very responsive anyway.
My spin doctor and I (yes, I had my own spin doctor) wandered about for a bit. We didn't see anything really interesting, although there was a small whiteboard that detailed the agenda for the week, and what was going to be the focus of the following day. I can't remember what the focus was going to be, but we changed it to cheese and biscuits.
We were then all gathered together, and walked out of the front door towards an enormous limousine. For some reason three women in traditional African dress were waiting to cheer us out. Into the limousine we piled, together with David Cameron and his wife. Samantha Cameron didn't say anything (I'm not sure she ever does) but David was discussing with an adviser who should be appointed to have responsibility for early years education. He didn't appear to be taking it too seriously, but I was surprised that he was getting involved with this level of detail.
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A raptor used to be a bird of prey, but now...
RAPTOR aims to build a digital ecosystem of SMEs developing real-time smart urban applications on a secure brokerage platform creating new value chains from government, industry and Start-Up's to citizens.I have no idea what this means. I'm getting old.
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