Had a chat with a teacher who informed me of declining standards of behaviour and respect in English schools. Apparently the children these days are going off the rails. Yet there is hope. She helpfully informed me that a handful of teachers naturally avoid falling victim to the teenage devil.

From Zac Goldsmith to Joseph Stiglitz, the need for alternative measures of prosperity seeks traction. I wholeheartedly agree that GDP is both outdated and misleading. But in keeping with most unwanted regimes, it’s one thing knowing it must go, but quite another knowing with what to replace it. UK

The plight of local fauna along the KwaZulu Natal coast is dire. The accidental introduction from the Americas of possibly the world’s most invasive plantlife is causing environmental chaos. Chromolaena chokes indigenous shrubland, diverts huge swathes of precious water and ravages regional biodiversity. Thousands of hectares of grazing land

One for those with particular interest to wholesale environments and in general keen on the sniper’s rifle rather than blunderbus on their territories. Is philosopher Nassim Nicholas Taleb one of an emerging band of thinkers who believe Pareto’s long held principle does not apply? He suggests that instead,

This was a phrase uttered to me during the mid-90s. I was self-employed for a couple of years, doing various sales and strategy projects for small growing firms. I loved it. Then I went full-time inside one of my customers. The chap that knowingly mentioned this to me was himself

I was never on the receiving end of severe dressing downs from management in my sales youth. Yet I did partake in several raging ding-dongs with them. One surrounded the fall-out from a key meeting, cancelled clientside. Our ‘champion’ hadn’t quite been able to execute our plan for progression.

I am of the long-standing firm belief that you never solve a problem by simply throwing money at it. I saw a brief interview with author Greg Mills discussing his latest bookWhy Africa is Poor: And What Africans Can Do About It.  As his publisher’s blurb explains, he “controversially