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Philip Whiteley

Philip Whiteley

Maria and Lwitiko

There was once a girl, growing up in the west of England in a low-income household, whose father was an agricultural labourer. Let’s call…

3 min readApr 2, 2024

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Philip Whiteley

Who should lead?

Studying for my History O-Level in 1979 at the age of 16 (you have to be British and above a certain age to know what an ‘O-Level’ was) I…

2 min readMar 19, 2024

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Philip Whiteley

The pace of progress in business is painfully slow

When I was 18, in 1981, I wrote an essay as part of my application to Cambridge University. The theme was the importance of switching from…

3 min readApr 10, 2023

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British understatement can be deadly

A few months ago a British citizen angrily demanded, in response to a BBC series on black history: ‘Why is there never a White History…

3 min readMar 30, 2022

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Philip Whiteley

On living alone in lockdown

It helps that I live near a prison. When I go for my daily run in the common, I glance up. I am thankful my daily exercise is on this side…

6 min readNov 29, 2020

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Philip Whiteley

UK silences whistleblowers

In late 2019 a doctor tried to alert Chinese authorities to a dangerous new virus, with the potential to become a deadly pandemic. He was…

5 min readSep 3, 2020

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Philip Whiteley

Explaining sarcasm to an AI machine

AI: I’ve learned that the intended meaning of a sentence can be different, even the absolute opposite, of the literal meaning of the words…

3 min readApr 29, 2020

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Philip Whiteley

In defence of difficult books

I write accessible books. The language is clear, the characters quickly identifiable; two of my three published novels follow the arc of a…

3 min readFeb 13, 2020

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Philip Whiteley

There’s sweetness in life sometimes. Get over it

There’s a word that recurs in readers’ and critics’ reactions to A Love of Two Halves, my new novel. I expected it, but the frequency of…

2 min readJan 10, 2020

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Philip Whiteley

Data is not life

When I was in my 20s, my partner and I spent several weeks walking and backpacking, in the woods and the mountains of France, Portugal and…

3 min readSep 1, 2019

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Philip Whiteley

Philip Whiteley

Author. Non-fiction reminds business that employees are human beings. Fiction has been praised by Louis de Bernieres. I also do journalism & play 5-aside

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