1 The assassination of Jo Cox has brought out a number of thoughtful articles on the way that communication in society is becoming ever more hateful as social media permit unpleasant people to hide safely behind fatuous aliases while ‘senior’ politicians resort to ever more... Read More

This question was posted on the Guardian‘s Dear Jeremy (no relation) webpage [*1] I’m going for job after job but feel more and more that I am only being asked to attend interviews to make up the numbers as every time the job appears to go to internal staff. For example,... Read More

There has been a lot of work in recent years by António Damásio and many others on what states the brain is in when its owner makes a decision (maybe, thinks they are making a decision). Damásio’s finding, and it has been corroborated by empirical studies, particularly of well... Read More

Many situation that arise in member countries can be managed by the countries, possible in conjunction with their nearest neighbours.  For example, the foot and mouth disease outbreak that hit the UK in 2001 (and which ultimately cost £8000 million) [*1]. Refugee crisis But there... Read More

Four very common misconceptions: 1   The purpose of the application is to get the job. No, the purpose of the application is to get an interview. This is not the same thing and, unless the jobs you seek are offered without interview, you have to get through the interview before... Read More

The excellent Full Fact website reports [*1] The European Court of Auditors (ECA), an EU body set up to examine the accounts of the Union, signed off on the 2014 accounts as reliable—something it’s done for every set of figures since 2007. But it did find that payments made... Read More

BBC Radio 4 has a number of issues.  One of them is that it seems it cannot see that it has these issues.  And, while Feedback (Radio 4) is to be praised for getting BBC producers and managers to come onto the programme and defend their work (something which I suspect many of... Read More

Is the sensitive and humane nature of Mr David Cameron, our prime minister, taking a battering? He may well remember what happened when the Berlin wall fell.  The easterners were beside themselves with joy to start with.  Many flooded to the west, and stayed, placing strain on... Read More

I believe the Guardian is facing a period in which its long term future is to be decided.  Because it is owned by a trust it doesn’t have quite the same commercial imperatives as other UK newspapers.  However, the trust does not have bottomless pockets.  The cover price of... Read More

1 “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” This maxim ranks high on the list of quotations attributed to Peter Drucker. There’s just one problem: He never actually said it.—Drucker institute [*1] I agree that that is a problem.  For a variety of reasons, the internet is... Read More