Thursday, May 03, 2007

Face values

The demise of BP Chief Lord Browne causes the BBC to wonder whether British business has a 'pink plateau'.





Or, given that poor Browne looks exactly like the intermediary stage in a morphing sequence between Tony Blair and George Bush, it could be that the judge just didn't like his face.

7 comments:

  1. From the article:

    and would being openly gay have hurt his career prospects?

    He was Chief Executive of British Petroleum. What "career prospects?"

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  2. What "career prospects?"

    Taking over the world and ruling it with the evil fascist US-Saudi-Kuwaiti dictatorship, of course.

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  3. Anonymous4:35 pm

    We really must do something about that pink-perjury plateau.

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  4. Peter: This is a case where the repressed Brits are far behind us enlightened Americans. We know that perjury about sex is not a crime.

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  5. How veddy veddy British.

    I cannot think of any overt homosexual executives of US businesses that I cover or that are widely and publicly known. It's a subject I never thought about before.

    But then, I never thought it part of my job as a business reporter to worry about the sexual behavior of the people I cover.

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  6. Anonymous9:53 am

    Harry, do they teach sexual profiling in journalism school today? It would be fun to see the general reaction to a Branson-like poster boy for cool capitalism who revealed in a profile that he found sex a bit of a bore and couldn't understand why everybody was always going on about it.

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  7. Harry: Then I gather you haven't reviewed this book.

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