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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

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

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

An Autumn 22 survey of most annoying business jargon in English offices produced these fifteen worst offenders. Well, can 4,500 people be wrong? For starters, surely that definition of synergy is not quite right? The classic b-school shorthand has long been; 2 + 2 = 5 Even the google's

Solution Selling does love a touch of Pareto. Oh the fun - and truckloads of orders - I had in the late 90s in my days that what would now be called Data Warehousing or BI. All those must-have queries of execs lovin' the new superpower to know precisely

The CCP, as regular readers will doubtless know, I hold in the greatest of contempt. Now the lunacy of Xi Jinping's zero-covid diktat for the sake of his eternal power has boiled over among swathes of China's enslaved populace. Mass demonstrations taking place. Unshackling demanded. Regime

O-oh. Our Bru Elon. His mid-November midnight missive to Twitter staffers featured this widely reported nugget; "Going forward, to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly competitive world, we will need to be extremely hardcore. This will mean long hours at high intensity. Only exceptional

Rudi Dornbusch, German economist whose final post was teaching at MIT, passed on plenty of acclaimed insight. Like this, later recounted by one of his students who became a Harvard professor; "Unsustainable situations go on for longer than you think. And when they collapse, that happens faster and harder