“Be more PC 2.0” A bold prediction for 2020. One made even now, at a time of focus on the economic and personal ravages of the Coronavirus pandemic. That hard-nosed businessmen and women, the high profile, the high taxpayers, the pink page warriors and woke alike, will adopt PC 2.0. This is not a reference Read more about Be more PC 2.0[…]
Carpe Mori There appears to be a fad, a cult, indeed a requirement for seizing the day. Now. It’s all Horace’s fault. He impeached us (Odes 23 BC) to “seize the day, trusting as little as possible to the future” (carpe diem quam minimum credula postero). Little did Horace know how his words would be Read more about Carpe Mori[…]
The millennials are avid consumers and connectors. No one, and especially no business, is immune from their influence. They care. About the environment. About equality. About their mental wellbeing. About society. About transparency. They hold us to account. Probably because they can quantify their views. In likes. In numbers of posts. In followers. Numerical activism. Read more about Counting on Wellbeing[…]
“Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.” Eleanor Roosevelt We all take democracy for granted. If I had £1 for every time someone said Read more about With freedom comes responsibility[…]
The best punters take all the knowledge they can get, analyse the data and bet where the price is wrong, not on what they hope will happen. In 2011 the most senior Pilots from the wider betting and gaming industry gathered in a private room in Mark’s Club. A proposal had been tabled. The data Read more about In data we should have trusted…[…]
They were the Aycliffe Angels. Munitions workers dressed in distinctive white turbans to keep gunpowder from their hair. Engaged in dangerous work, subjected to air raids. They manufactured munitions for their men on the front. Tirelessly. Continuously. With pride passion and purpose. He was a Jewish chemist enslaved in Auschwitz. A chronicler of the outrage, Read more about from Bullets to Democracy…[…]
The feeling of sickness has just about subsided. The complete disbelief has been replaced by a realisation. A realisation that I live in a bubble and my bubble has burst. Irreparably. The fears still lurk. History teaches me that since the Treaty of Westphalia (1648), Britain, Great Britain, has played the role of “honest broker” Read more about JUSTGETONWITHIT[…]
The issue of choice – and the inherent freedom of man to choose – lies at the heart of existential thought and practice. Sartre made it pretty clear; “every choice made has its pay off and price and which is which, in many of the choices either willingly undertaken or forced upon [us], is not Read more about “The Existential Stakes”[…]
Governments simply cannot cope. The demands from an increasing world population are just too great. Too much for healthcare; for social services; for education; for security in the face of terrorism. The modern, government led, societal model is broken, whether capitalist, communist, dictatorship or monarchist. It is inevitable that the model needs to change and Read more about A return to Victorian foresight or invest in barbed wire[…]
The overriding rationale for the banking scandals of the last decade “have among their root causes a failure of culture as manifested in governance, remuneration, risk management or tone from the top” (Andrew Bailey, head of PRA, 09/05/2016). This cultural failure has apparently spread far wider than just corporate Britain. Bernard Jenkin, writing in the Read more about Value Based Transformation[…]