Happy snaps: Gordon Brown and Tony Blair get to grips with cameraphones. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/AP
Once, a certain kind of middle-aged man would enjoy pipe dreams about setting up his own camera shop down the local high street, and turning his passion into a business. But today, I'd suggest such potting shed whimsy may be getting brutally knocked on the head, with one of his favourite haunts - Jessops - announcing disappointing results today.
Our man in the shed might feel he could do better, but I'd suggest what's hitting Jessops is not just down to what Edmond Warner, writing in the Guardian in March, called the company's "fundamental deficiencies".
Jessops looks like it's being buffeted by three storms, any one of which would give even the most inspired management pause for thought.
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