After graduating from the London School of Economics in 1977, Richard qualified as a chartered accountant and then became a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. During his time working for a large firm of chartered accountants, he spent two years on secondment to the Bank of England. He has practiced as a management consultant since the late 1990s.
Over the last 25 years or so Richard has been a prolific writer of letters to a national newspaper and to a weekly political and current affairs magazine on a wide range of subjects.
He was born and brought up in Porto, Portugal, and he and his French wife and their two daughters live in southwest London. He speaks Portuguese and French.
Vive la Différence!
Everybody knows that the histories of England, and then Britain, and of France have, one way or another, been closely connected since at least the time of the Norman Conquest. And yet, this long-standing warm, and sometimes not so warm, relationship has been accompanied by different ways in which ev...
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