…to solve the UK’s immigration problem 1 What is the UK’s immigration problem?  It is that some people already resident in the UK think that too many people, currently not resident, are being allowed to come and stay. The indigenous people (some of whom are just the... Read More

A recent blog has caught my eye. It’s Why Hate Speech is Not Free Speech by Professor George Lakoff, Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley, where he has taught since 1972, and it’s... Read More

This blog is about how to talk to people at networking events If people tell me what they do at networking events, I rarely remember for any length of time.  (That is, after all, why we hand out business cards that say what we do.)  If I do remember, I have may wel... Read More

1 The UK needs a regulator for internet sites, in much the same way as the telecomms regulator, Ofcom.  Compliance by internet sites should not be optional and failure to comply should result in a site being shut down in the UK. 2 The new regulator would have the power to impose... Read More

  As discussed here, in all projects, things go wrong.  In a gigantic project, things will go wrong big time. 1  No plan It is realised that there isn’t a plan.  Or what there is is so inadequate that it’s worse than useless. Given that the Leave side in the referendum did... Read More

As discussed in part 1, the British seem unable to “think things through”.  Here are twelve major brexit problems which those in charge of implementing whatever is agreed will have to face. Even though I am no fortune teller, this is so close to fact, rather than... Read More

An analogy Think of a small business, say thirty people.  Its financial software is out of date and increasingly failing to support all the business’s needs.  So the board decides to invest in a new package.  An exercise is carried and a new package is identified and purchased. ... Read More

1 On 14 june 2017 Mr Tim Farron resigned from his position as ‘leader’ of the Liberal Democrats in the UK.  I put ‘leader’ in quotation marks because I am not sure that Mr Farron is or was a real leader and I am certain that the bosses of the other parties, including Mrs Theresa... Read More

—— I am resigned to my local rag, Stroud news and journal, telling me that a particular story it is running is “incredibly moving”—even within the editorial content, where such remarks have no place at all, and even if they have no hope of substantiating it. Here are... Read More

[This article was originally written for commenters on the Guardian‘s ‘below the line’ Comment is free facility.] When posting your comments, do bear in mind the following principles and precepts.  You can increase the value of your posts by up to 50% if you do!... Read More