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I'm Antony Mayfield - to find out more about me take a look at my LinkedIn profile (see the button on the home page). You can contact me by email at antony [dot] mayfield [at] gmail [dot] com. Google
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Antonym Vol.4 A 31-day-long year

Posted on January 31, 2021 by Antony Mayfield / 0 Comment

A runner on Brighton seafront. Cross-posted from Antonym at Substack, where I am trying out the newsletter format. I’m not sure where it is going yet, but I’m e...

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Antony No.3: Sick Bern

Posted on January 25, 2021 by Antony Mayfield / 0 Comment

This is a newsletter cross–posted from my Substack newsletter. That’s hope I know he can be beaten. Because he’s a fanatic — and a fanatic is always hiding a se...

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The insurrection will be monetised.

Posted on January 17, 2021 by Antony Mayfield / 0 Comment

Learn the facts, Steed-Asprey used to say, then try on the stories like clothes. — Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, by John le Carré This email newsletter has been cr...

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Review of Robert A Caro’s Working

Posted on January 10, 2021 by Antony Mayfield / 0 Comment

This isn’t a review, it is a reflection, an act in keeping with the lessons shared by a master of his crafts – of writing, research and explaining power. ...

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My best reads of 2020

Posted on December 31, 2020 by Antony Mayfield / 0 Comment

This is cross–posted from my new Antonym Substack – an email newsletter/blog platform. I published it there as a series of five posts – but have combined them h...

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Invisible bombs

Posted on May 7, 2020 by Antony Mayfield / 0 Comment

This article is adapted from a letter to my team at Brilliant Noise last week. It has a special resonance on the eve of the 75th anniversary of VE Day.&nbs...

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Why you should read Machiavelli

Posted on January 15, 2020 by Antony Mayfield / 0 Comment

A friend asked on Twitter: “What two books would you recommend a new people manager reads and why?” One book I recommended was The Prince, by Niccol...

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Brave enough to not be busy

Posted on January 12, 2020 by Antony Mayfield / 0 Comment

Sometimes we talk about being less busy as a kind of dream or a luxury. Not being overworked is not a luxury that you earn through success –it’s the key to bein...

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My best reads of 2019

Posted on December 28, 2019 by Antony Mayfield / 0 Comment

Writing about what I read in the past twelve months has become an annual ritual, part of the seasonal no-man’s-land between Boxing Day and New Year’s Eve when w...

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The Hero

Posted on December 27, 2019 by Antony Mayfield / 0 Comment

My lovely sister-in-law and her husband gave me this TLS monograph as a Christmas gift: The Hero, by Lee Child. It’s rather magnificent, so I’m post...

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