Thursday, 5 November 2015

Luci's diary: I can celebrate a birthday even if I don't understand it

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Luci's Diary. I haven ’t the faintest idea what a birthday is , but hey, who isn ’ t into celebration? 5 November T...
Tuesday, 3 November 2015

Something for nothing: a dangerous mentality. Especially in government

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There’s often talk of the science of business. In reality, though, it’s all about instinct. This is particularly true among many senior exec...
Monday, 2 November 2015

A children's story with sad roots; women fighting for their rights; a man struggling to survive on a lifeless planet

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The thing I really liked about the Mary Poppins books is that there was absolutely nothing soft of candy-flossy about her. She was stern. ...
Sunday, 1 November 2015

The trouble with Halloween...

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For a long time, I found Halloween attractive in a slightly perverse way.  It provided me with an annual opportunity to be terribly Britis...
Thursday, 29 October 2015

Callous indifference and lack of compassion: they may just reflect a Prime Minister's inability to make an effort

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The Devil, they say, makes work for idle hands. With an idle mind, however, it’s far worse: the Devil makes its owner his tool. Undernea...
Tuesday, 27 October 2015

The Tory Tax Credit cuts: observations and warnings and even a few ironies

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It’s painful when the party you’d like to see in government is, in fact, in Opposition. But it’s even worse when it fails to oppose. Not t...
Sunday, 25 October 2015

600 years on, haven't the few, the happy few, done well?

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It’s a good time for the centuries-old English sport of Frog-bashing, or being nasty about the French. In fact, it’s a good year for it, ...