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Looking at that chart would this be your first reaction? Brexit failures arrive as regularly as London Underground trains, while six years of economic stagnation since 2016, born mostly of a lack of...
View ArticleGoing woke at Vogue
“Buy less and buy better” has become a common refrain in fashion’s sustainability movement. Magazine that exists to get folk to buy more and more expensive clothes runs article suggesting all should...
View ArticleBollocks
The Tosser has misunderstood what was said: In an email sent just before Thanksgiving, Musk told employees that “all managers are expected to write a meaningful amount of software themselves” and...
View ArticleRobert Townsend had the right idea
Wanted: “An interpersonally talented and strategic bridge builder … responsible for establishing and maintaining the highest levels of Lived Experience Practice and amplifying the voice of those using...
View ArticleUp the organisation
The NHS has hired “lived experience” tsars on salaries of up to £115,000, despite ministers vowing a war on waste in the health service. Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT) is recruiting a...
View ArticleThis is going to end up as a lovely little test
Could anyone really be this incompetent? Musk’s leadership has been so bizarre that it has even given rise to theories that the billionaire is intentionally trying to sabotage Twitter. These theories...
View ArticleMysteriously communicable disease
Russian magnate Pavel Antov dies after window fall in India One of the points – in a depressingly hard headed analysis – of Putin was that he decided the asset allocation. Rather than murder, violence...
View ArticleRight company name for it
A supermajority of workers at Activision Blizzard’s Proletariat studio have announced that they are forming the Proletariat Workers Alliance/CWA and have filed for a union representation election
View ArticleNo, this doesn’t work as a piece of logic
The sheer frequency of unusual deaths befalling so many prominent businessmen who have criticised Putin is bound to lead to questions. Even without pointing fingers, it is hard not to spot a pattern....
View ArticleToday’s business idea
But Kiwi shoe polish, once a household name, is soon to be a thing of the past, after the manufacturer decided to stop selling the product in the UK. Gap in the market then. It’s not that no one still...
View ArticleSo, Elon was right to fire all those very bad engineers then?
The data that appeared on “Breached” this week was actually stolen during 2021. Per the Washington Post, cybercriminals exploited an API vulnerability in Twitter’s platform to call up user information...
View ArticleThe British Gas example
Or was it British Telecom? Removing layer upon layer of management to reduce costs and, over and above that, increase productivity. The experience of the vanguard suggests it should be possible to...
View ArticleNot just space, but everything
This is actually the secret: Comparisons with Musk’s SpaceX are not entirely fair. Though SpaceX rockets have repeatedly exploded on the launchpad, Musk appears to have learned from his mistakes more...
View Article‘Orrible supermarket profits
Supermarkets are facing a political backlash after projecting bumper earnings at a time when shoppers are struggling with soaring inflation. After strong Christmas sales, Sainsbury’s said pre-tax...
View ArticleIt’ll take time, yes
“I retired at 60 just over a year ago, as I got fed up with all the wokery. This included compulsory online courses in pseudoscience like unconscious bias and microaggressions, relentless curtailment...
View ArticleThe word “fungible” is important here
The giant Jamnagar refinery on India’s west coast imported 215 shipments of crude oil and fuel oil from Russia during 2022, four times as much in volume as it bought in 2021, Kpler data analysed by...
View ArticleReally? My word, that is a surprise
Job-seeking can be a real exercise in immersive futility. It often feels like you’re tossing your resume into the abyss and praying to the recruitment gods for a response. If and when you get that...
View ArticleWell, there’s your answer then
Britain must start reshoring computer chip production before it’s too late, Rishi Sunak has been told. Two of Britain’s pre-eminent microprocessor design companies have urged the Prime Minister to...
View ArticleSir Keir isn’t quite getting this
Sir Keir Starmer has vowed to stop investing in new British oil and gas fields if Labour wins the next election. Not convinced that Sir Keir’s money makes much difference to be honest. I know political...
View ArticleIt’s amazing what people don’t know really
The high academic bar contrasts with the increasingly laissez faire attitude to degrees in the City. A growing number of finance and professional services companies have scrapped demands for a 2.1...
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