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Two's Company, Three's A Cloud

This was a subhead title for the final section of a recent broadsheet piece on banking. Specifically, that they're all now moving everything they can to the cloud. The last piece being the race to place all back-office infrastructure there. Well done. Only taken twenty years. In many

Jefferson's Best Selling

> Thomas Jefferson’s dictum; that the best government is the least government and that government should concentrate on doing well what only government can do. So sums up Scottish-born political journalist nonpareil Andrew Neil. In part, railing against the capture of institutions by what he labels The Left Blob.

Political Leader Shortlist Pitch Tips

The UK system does not explicitly vote for a supreme leader. The default Prime Minister - foreigners long since ditching a monarchy claim de facto President - being head of political party winning the latest General Election. This allows, encourages even, the mid-term 'refresh'. Just such situation occurs

Tang Ping Buying

The general rule is, anything banned by the Chinese Communist Party, was in fact likely something useful, uplifting and good. They just banned the Tiktok spread hashtag for 'lying flat'. #TangPing in English-rendered Mandarin. Appearing to refer to doing the bare minimum at work to get by. Thankfully,

Guess The Data Lines

Reading the always insightful economist writer and broadcaster, Liam Halligan, I noted his publisher's approach to graphs. In this case, London broadsheet The Telegraph. The country's most read paper of its type. This chart especially caught my interest. When clicking on it to peruse further, the

Belief When Bottom Of The League

The latest fly-on-the-wall peak behind the curtain into the EPL dressing room caused its expected afluttering. This season's treatment - hot on the heels of title winners of Pep Guardiola then perma-chaos of Jose Mourinho - followed Mikel Arteta trying to recapture glory days for one-time UCL stalwarts.

Blunt Razor Burn

Why oh why do so many companies fall into this trap these days? In the case of many, it is reported as when someone relatively fresher into the workplace mistakenly feels that updating their employer's social media allows them to be a political activist. Hint: it does not.

Beware The Illusory Breakthrough

> Can you press with this squad? [Manchester] United managed just seven pressures in the final third all game, 14 fewer than Brentford. Ralf Rangnick last season despaired of the lack of basic tactical understanding in the squad; most, he said, had simply never been drilled in ball-oriented pressing. He

Who's In Your Band?

These 200 seconds from late '21 will no doubt be of little surprise to you as it trundles well beyond halfway. The now familiar 'hybrid is staying' mantra. Widely promoted as the enlightened bandwagon from around that time. Just after a minute in, the co-located to distributed

Is Time For A Change Enough?

> "Time for a change is the most powerful political slogan in any election campaign in the world" The Caledonian burr of heavyweight political analyst and interview terrier, Andrew Neil. As seen from his zoomscape above, commenting on the Summer '22 ruling party race to replace the