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Playing out from the back
Regular readers will know I like a tortured metaphor so here’s my late e ort to explain a concept I believe in.
Almost every top flight football team in the world now plays out from the back. In case you have no interest in the game this simply means that instead of starting a passage of play with the goalkeeper or a defender booting the ball forward, teams now pass their way out of defence to maintain possession as they progress up the pitch. The problem with this is that every now and then even the elite teams will make a mistake with a back pass and gift a goal to the opposition – it’s embarrassing and traumatic but an inevitable cost of the strategy. When this happens there could be a temptation to change tactics and hoof the ball upfield at every opportunity, you wouldn’t give away silly goals any more but the statistics show that you would score less goals overall and win fewer games. How interesting would it be to know what happened in the supermarket boardroom the first time somebody came up with the suggestion of self checkout! ‘Run that by me again – you’re going to let people scan their own shopping and trust them to be honest?’ They were probably laughed out of the room, but eventually trials will have proved that the gains in reduced sta ing and customer satisfaction far outweighed any losses. It’s a long proven thesis that people are far more afraid of loss than they are motivated by gain and this can make for bad business decisions, especially if you are reacting emotionally to something. This is what can happen with many of the decisions we make with marketing holiday lets – short breaks, large parties of adults, Airbnb, toddlers. All of these have the potential for a problem but if you want to try and eliminate everything negative you’ll end up losing good bookings and revenue, what we have to do is find the right balance. When a new owner joins us the question of allowing dogs comes up and they may ask if we’ve ever had any problems. I can give you a lot of scary stories – we’ve had dogs chew cushions, ornaments, a door and a sofa, plenty of wee on the carpets and worse. They have attacked neighbours cats, brought mud and sand into the house and howled all day when left alone. I can guarantee that we are going to see these issues again this year but I can put it into context. If I had to guess I’d say we have a problem with 1-2% of dog holidays or once every 2-4 years per owner. This is balanced against perhaps an extra £10,000 a year in rental income for an average property that accepts pets. Maybe you are willing to pay £30,000 to avoid a dog incident but I know what I’d choose! There’s some risk in most decisions we make from investment to going on holiday and it’s important to make a sensible decision on the data, not an emotional one.
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BBC unveil unseen footage of the Queen in documentary featuring engagement
A BBC documentary featuring never-before-seen footage of the Queen taken from her personal archive will include clips of the monarch beaming at her engagement ring – months before the announcement was made public.
The Queen granted the BBC unprecedented access to hundreds of home-made recordings shot by her, her parents and the Duke of Edinburgh in honour of her upcoming Platinum Jubilee.
The home movies, which had been held privately by the Royal Collection in the vaults of the British Film Institute (BFI), capture the Queen’s life from being pushed in a pram by her mother to her coronation in 1953.
The 75-minute documentary, titled Elizabeth: The Unseen Queen, captures the first extended visit of Prince Philip to Balmoral in 1946 while the couple’s engagement was still not public.
It depicts a beaming Princess Elizabeth showing the camera her engagement ring. The Queen was a young princess when she first met naval cadet Prince Philip of Greece in 1939, during a visit to the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth where he was studying.
Philip, who was just 18, was introduced to 13-year-old Elizabeth at the house of the captain of the college.
The pair began writing to each other and Philip was invited to spend the Christmas of 1943 with the royal family at Windsor. It has previously been suggested the couple became unofficially engaged in the summer of 1946 while they were staying at Balmoral but the official announcement was delayed until after Princess Elizabeth reached the age of 21 and returned from a royal tour of South Africa the following year.
The couple wed in November 1947 and were married for 73 years before the Duke of Edinburgh died last April, just a few months before his 100th birthday.
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BBC handout photo from the BBC documentary, 'Elizabeth: The
Unseen Queen' of then Princess Elizabeth showing off her new
engagement ring soon after Prince Philip's marriage proposal
at Balmoral in 1946
The BBC documentary depicts rare moments including footage of Princess Elizabeth with her uncle Prince George The Duke of Kent, who tragically died in a plane crash in 1942 while on active service, and the King’s last visit to Balmoral in 1951.
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BBC handout photo from
the BBC documentary,
'Elizabeth: The Unseen
Queen' of Princess Margaret
and Princess Elizabeth with
their beloved father King
George VI onboard HMS
Vanguard in 1947
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BBC handout photo from
the BBC documentary,
'Elizabeth: The Unseen
Queen' of 20-year-old
Princess Elizabeth enjoying
a visit to South Africa in 1947
It also shows the Queen as a young mother with the King and Queen fond grandparents to Prince Charles and Princess Anne.
BBC Studios reviewed more than 400 reels of film, discovering lost newsreel and behind the scenes recordings of state events, believed to have been privately commissioned by the royal family.
Filmmakers listened to more than three hundred of the Queen’s speeches, spanning over eight decades, to make the film which will be narrated by the Queen’s own voice and words alongside newsreel audio.
Simon Young, the BBC’s commissioning editor for history, said: “We are honoured that the Queen has entrusted the BBC with such unprecedented access to her personal film collection. This documentary is an extraordinary glimpse into a deeply personal side of the royal family that is rarely seen, and it’s wonderful to be able to share it with the nation as we mark her Platinum Jubilee.”
Claire Popplewell, creative director for BBC Studios Productions, said: “As programmemakers who have previously worked closely with the Royal Household on ceremonial and celebratory broadcast events and programmes, the production team were under no illusion quite how special having access to this very personal archive was.
“Being able to draw upon the self-recorded history of a young Princess Elizabeth and her wider family – and allowing the Queen to tell us her own story – is the very heart of this film.”
Elizabeth: The Unseen Queen aired on BBC One and BBC iPlayer on May 29.
Words by Ellie Iorizzo, PA Senior Entertainment Reporter
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