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1 It would be churlish to complain that Mr Jeremy Corbyn is/was no leader, when no other high profile politician (with a very few exceptions) has been a leader either *.  I like to think that Shirley Williams is one, but I would have to go back to Churchill to think of another... Read More

Not necessarily in this order: 1  Gove wins Conservative leadership election and proves wholly incapable of uniting the party.  Conservative party splits into right/far-right group (incorporating UKIP, BNP and the rest) and more centrist group 2  The UK has an early general... Read More

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

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

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