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Flew to Milan very early on Monday to take part in a 3-day session at the Bellagio Centre with Jeremy Oppenheim of SystemIQ and some 20 people working for the Business & Sustainable Development Commission. Our own report for the Commission – Breakthrough Business Models – is now completed and launched.

Great people and fascinating discussions, though off-the-record. One nice moment was going down into the town to get some wine – and having the wine merchant recognise me from when we were here 4-5 years ago.

Nice piece in today’s Times on the Arctic convoy veterans’ Archangel visit this week, quoting Tim. And here’s a picture of him in his element with three young Russian, today I think. He must be twice their combined ages. No doubt remembers their grandmothers.

Quite an adventure. Last night, Tim and Tessa flew to Archangel for a reunion of veterans involved in the WWII Arctic convoys. Quite an adventure for someone now aged 95-going-on-96. Princess Royal joins Wednesday, if all goes well.

Boaty McBoatface was funny, momentarily, but thrilled to hear that Britain’s new Antarctic vessel will be called the RRS Sir David Attenborough. Last time I came across his spoor was several weeks ago, at a WWF Council of Ambassadors meeting in the Bishop of London’s home. The next seat to mine was marked out for Sir David, but he failed to materialise. Now he has, in rather magnificent reds, whites and green, with splashes of yellow – and with a helicopter pad on his nose.

The latest Volans newsletter, emailed out today, kicks off with Marilyn Monroe on the New York subway grate, before moving on to consider the winds of change in our area of business. As we move towards our seventh anniversary next April, we are considering a big pivot, to use Andrew Winston‘s term.