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The Westminster village prefers to peddle irrelevant tittle tattle these days rather than offer practical assessment of Government action. So I was happy to catch almost by fluke the current Coalition’s intent to instil an horizon shift in their approach to management. Cameron and Clegg determine [http://www.telegraph.

A current news story confirms our current austerity times. The UK and France are about to save costs by sharing warship capability. The cash saved amounts to the billions any new, now redundant, aircraft carrier costs. One tv talking head was aghast that the idea wasn’t already firmly lodged

I was in the company of lawyers the other day.  Yes, I did need a few cheeky whiskies to survive.  I enquired of them exactly how pitiful must legal training be when it comes to objection handling. Despite the supposed level of intelligence necessary to enter their brethren, and the

I got chatting to a couple of people in a coffee shop yesterday as we moved tables around to provide elbow room for barista maintenance. After a few minutes of entertaining asides, one asked me what I did for a living. It made me realise what an incredibly revealing question

I chuckled the other day, after work in a cafe unable to avoid hearing rantspam by a local. He was moaning about a company he’d thought of working for. The job it seemed, was as a commission-only financial advisor. He rocked up to their premises. It was a prestigious

I’ve as yet not seen a full episode of American sitcom How I Met Your Mother [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_I_Met_Your_Mother]. But I have stumbled across the closing seconds of one. The scene was set in an office, and the character Ted Mosby was

I caught an American current affairs talk show from Sunday, Meet The Press. I was intrigued by observations from ‘presidential historian’ Doris Kearns Goodwin. I found the transcript [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38487969/ns/meet_the_press-transcripts/] online (you’ll need to click on viewing more text at