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"We have no business leaders anymore, just special interests. Our city is in a coma." These are views I read around a current election campaign in a major city of Western democracy. The lament of someone there who was apparently 'a long-time architect of infrastructure improvements made

So I watched the British documentary with unprecedented access to the Salvadoran mega-prison. The imagery was indeed astonishing. The sole inmate allowed to be interviewed by the way - named Psycho no less - was candid, resigned, remarkable. As was its conclusion. On balance, the lives of the honest, hardworking

Bestselling author, Philip Pullman, recently voiced disquiet at not relating to much present day fantasy. A genre especially revered in, he now bemoans the lack of psychology held within. Where a novel does consider that, he posits there's merely surface concern with how people think or feel. Missing

assay (verb, noun): testing of a metal or ore to determine its ingredients and quality Let's start with that definition. Aware of it as I am in part child of Birmingham's famed Jewellery Quarter, I read about such process lately with the annual age-old Trial of

If there's one genre to be incredibly wary of, it's surely that of self-help. I myself have little time for the Robbins' of this world. One of many self-styled guru problems, is that whenever there is a kernel of a decent idea, it is swamped

Dubai. Been there couple o' times. Has its issues. But has a crackle of business. London. Longtime in and around. Has its issues. Now there's the clatter of everything falling apart. A business owner - with a super online service up and running a few years now

I've long railed against what I like to call inertians. Those we encounter on a bid with first instinct always to retain the status quo. They are avowedly change-averse. Everything's fine as it is, well if not quite so rosy, then will be, soon. Firmly in

I've long remembered the above cartoon. Once more tangentially reminded of it when talking someone through the Ratchet Effect. Technically, it refers to when a direction is so set in train, it's almost impossible to stop. On a bid, you can see this when what you