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Read MorePolitics
Modern liberal conservatism
“To change one’s life,”
Start immediately, do it flamboyantly and allow no exceptions. The psychologist and philosopher William James, quoted in the BMJ.
Read MoreSomething to ban before ketchup sachets.
As everyone knows, ketchup sachets are wrong; indeed sachets of anything are wrong. A friend commented: When I’m Prime Minister, the first thing I’m banning is ketchup sachets. I have rediscovered something even more banworthy: “resurfacing” the road by spreading tar and gravel then asking people to drive at 10 […]
Read MoreLunch with Beth by K1200S
With the wind rising and a number of tandem students waiting, I came off the manifest and took Beth out for lunch by K1200S. We went to a charming pub near Woodborough. I forget the name, but the location and food were good. It’s here. Returned via Pewsey, Hungerford, Wantage, […]
Read MoreResponsibility
I love my KTM, and giving it a good pasting, but I’m fed up of seeing KTM riders monowheeling a couple of feet off the bumper of the car in front, or soaring through the traffic with a huge speed differential. In the last ten months, I have seen the […]
Read MoreTeach First
From the Teach First site: Teach First attracts, selects, trains, places and supports top graduates to work in challenging schools and also for leading employers. Read about how Teach First and its partners deliver outstanding teacher and leadership training, internships, coaching and networking to develop its people while achieving its […]
Read MoreReasons people do the wrong work
Why don’t people do the right work? They don’t know what to do. They don’t know how to do it. They don’t have the skills to do it. They don’t have the confidence to do it. You are in their way. All these reasons are management failures. The other reasons […]
Read MoreIn London, you can tell it’s Christmas!
And not because everyone is being so kind to one another. Yes, all the restaurants are full, all the time. All the roads are chocca, and all the drivers are even more pushy. The scooter riders are worse too, incredibly. One muppet nearly rode into me at a standstill because […]
Read MoreIt’s as if the FSA heard me
Only the next day, the FSA do something about sub-prime lending. It would be implausible to think I had influenced them from this blog.
Read MoreHousing, mortgages and the FSA
It struck me as I woke – ! – how hopeless is the FSA’s regulation of the mortgage lending industry? Now, every time you buy something which could potentially involve credit, whether or not you take it, you have to listen to, or read, some pointless blurb about that firm’s […]
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