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Quite the phrase. Attributed to the late English journalist Christopher Booker. Specifically when describing incoming laws with significant over-reach, vast creep and disastrous unintended consequences. Finding fresh light as Westminster just enacted such legislation. The Online Safety Bill aims to do what we all desire. Namely protect children on the

Creative evasion. Not what at first you might think the label describes. When I came across it, my mind raced through perhaps more pinpointing versions; collective delusion, cross-silo denial, departmental deflection, scapegoat projection. Writer Matthew Syed cites this term as follows; "I have a small business that diagnoses company culture

What a photo. In another timeline this would have been a great meme template. The motive for this will be very telling. Was the shooter someone with a bone to pick with Blackstone/Capitalism? A personal beef? Former employee? This photo will have a whole new meaning once we know.

Here's a couple of screenshots from the pair of camera angles deployed by an ad forced upon me whilst scrolling MSM. The inference from the start being that this "Generic Sales Ltd HQ" is not a desirable workplace. The flash of background colour happens to be remarkably similar to the

“I’m just saying we’d collect more nectar if we weren’t in meetings all day” From the new Private Eye, out now. pic.twitter.com/ylXhB7A5cL — Private Eye Magazine (@PrivateEyeNews) July 11, 2025 Speaks for itself. Also enjoying the comment, been there. Indeed. From apian to Sales. Rudderless,

Active Listening was instilled in me as cubrep. Yet limited in scope back then, basically summarised as 'say what they just said back to them, and check you heard right'. Well, it's a start. Not many reps I met during the mid-90s had heard the term. So I'd be unsurprised

"... only on well-isolated mattresses will a wine glass stay upright when a heavy weight (or jumping child) lands on the other side of the bed". I came across this unbuckable nugget discovering how 'hybrid' mattresses have come along [sub'n req'd]. You can't help but be shaken by the feeling there's

I read with relief, whilst mindful we have been here before, that the latest Russian 'Summer offensive' stalls without making gains in the sovereign territory that is democratic Ukraine. An historian and former battlefield commander assess this from their English viewpoint. Their withering assessment; Russia isn't any good at fighting.

Gushing with gallows humour from the internally precipitated collapse of Western civilisation here are promising contender Nick Dixon and peerless champ Simon Evans. Above I've set up the relevant 90 seconds. Centred on 'a saying of the toy industry'. In general there's quite the rubble to try emerge from. All