Finding The Almoner
John from Bradford rang a talk radio show studio in London running a phone-in on the "envy of the world", Britain's NHS.
A health service so good that it ranks 21st out of the top 20 in the world.
Here's what he opened up
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Sales Christmas Cracker Jokes
What did the zero say to the eight? Nice belt!
That's a christmas cracker joke (I think it's mainly an English thing) I just groaned over.
No matter how corny the gag - kinda the point - the whole tradition adds to the festivities across the
Relative Age Effect
In news that will be no surprise to those born during the N Hemisphere Summer, young sports teams are comprised predominantly of those born in the Autumn.
This is due to the seasonal nature of the sporting calendar. Coinciding as it does, to run alongside the academic year of September
The Joy In Seeing A Room For Tidying
Marie Kondo's at it again.
The decluttering star launches her latest bestseller bound advice.
Among the mass of promo for her new book, one bright spark was a typically insufferable yet expressive columnist with the joyful idea of getting the great lady to tidy up her home office
Selling Your 60-Year Soggy Sector Blaster
Through my capacity for New Product Rescue, I happened upon some notes made around the mid-'16 launch of a new hairdryer. The Dyson ‘Supersonic’.
Quite the product.
I’m not an unadulterated fan of the firm. When I first bought one of their vacuum cleaners, it didn’t
12 Hooks of Christmas
You're the super busy Santa and I'll be your little helper
Merry Christmas and a Happy [insert problem solved state you enable] New Year
It's the most wonderful time buy of the year
Believe in the magic of Christmas [fixing this issue]
Walking in
Diarised Problem Bombing
Now that, unless you're Remote-only, you're likely to have found yourself sitting at a desk lately in an actual office, you've probably been (re)acquainted with desk-bombing.
Where someone can sidle beside you, only to stop and - the horror - try strike up
Vid To Stay
Neat hanging barchart treatment here from the Telegraph broadsheet graphics team last week.
Although why they chose the specific ordering eludes me.
Nevertheless, the article wrapped around it has a pretty clear message.
WFH is still a thing.
A London analysis reported via a November Future of Work event suggested
Note That Dyson Moans About Something Else
Billionaire vacuum disrupter James Dyson is naturally a serial-inventor about whom I've blogged on a few times down the years.
[Such as this gem of 'wrong-thinking' posted back in 2009.]
He makes headlines this month in the land of his birth (he appears rather based in
Think Outside The Toast
I only caught this in the aural dusk that is a Youtube video ad interrupting a flow of autoplay in the distance.
Yet it seemed a belter.
From a beans ad. Not just any old beans. No. Baked Beans.
Sold in the gazillions countrywide. Smothered in their tin can by