Thursday, 29 December 2011
UK Government procurement
Train contract brings hope for Derby jobs
National Audit Office, the spending watchdog,
to review the decision to award the Thameslink contract to Siemens.
We look forward to having greater clarity on procurement for the Crossrail project and welcome the transport select committee’s recommendations that future tenders separate train financing decisions from train design and manufacturing
Is it true UK goverment stood back through ignorance and unwitting allow Siemens to game the EU procurement rules in their favour?
No to HS2 Valid statement?
Builders scorn Osborne’s infrastructure plan
MoD faces big bill for equipment cancellations
National Audit Office, the spending watchdog,
to review the decision to award the Thameslink contract to Siemens.
We look forward to having greater clarity on procurement for the Crossrail project and welcome the transport select committee’s recommendations that future tenders separate train financing decisions from train design and manufacturing
Is it true UK goverment stood back through ignorance and unwitting allow Siemens to game the EU procurement rules in their favour?
No to HS2 Valid statement?
Builders scorn Osborne’s infrastructure plan
MoD faces big bill for equipment cancellations
Wednesday, 28 December 2011
Sunday, 25 December 2011
conservatiism Toryism conservative Values Beliefs
The Brave and the Proud
Love is patient
the Beatitudes
The ten commandments
Love is patient
the Beatitudes
The ten commandments
Develop the ability to see clearly the border-lines in life
and the wisdom not to cross them.
Help me never to stray over the narrow lines between:
and the wisdom not to cross them.
Help me never to stray over the narrow lines between:
Helpfulness and Interference
Self-confidence and Arrogance
Love and Possessiveness
Enthusiasm and Fanaticism
Frankness and Tactlessness
Admiration and Idolatry
Enjoyment and Excess
Idealism and Naivety
Self-reliance and Obstinacy
Compassion and Sentimentality
Righteous Indignation and Vengefulness
Self-awareness and Self-centredness
Self-confidence and Arrogance
Love and Possessiveness
Enthusiasm and Fanaticism
Frankness and Tactlessness
Admiration and Idolatry
Enjoyment and Excess
Idealism and Naivety
Self-reliance and Obstinacy
Compassion and Sentimentality
Righteous Indignation and Vengefulness
Self-awareness and Self-centredness
Christmas 2011 David Cameron in a speech suggested we revisit Christian values, so I tested this by visiting the Christian book shop in Birmingham and asking them for a list of these values. They were Stumped - Some marketing campaign - not geared up to sell anything - no product on the shelves.
A quick google search using the string
'Christmas 2011 David Cameron in a speech suggested we revisit Christian values'
returns these links
DAVID THOMSON, THE BISHOP OF HUNTINGDON 7 Virtues & 7 deadly sins
Friday, 23 December 2011
Thursday, 22 December 2011
Thought provoking statements
Thinking about tennis coaching (but not restricted to)
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then what is a video worth in pictures. What made me think of this was watching some random You Tube tennis clips
1 Video = ? Pictures = 1000 Words
All the world's a stage,And all the men and women merely players:They have their exits and their entrances;And one man in his time plays many parts,
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then what is a video worth in pictures. What made me think of this was watching some random You Tube tennis clips
1 Video = ? Pictures = 1000 Words
All the world's a stage,And all the men and women merely players:They have their exits and their entrances;And one man in his time plays many parts,
How banks the city work and financial terms finacial education
Libor rate - never really understood relevance. My understanding so far is that bank must lend to each other as normally they can trust one another - the reason they must lend to each other is that they have to balance their books everyday
Repo
Carry trade
Coupon
Rent seeking
Repo
Carry trade
Coupon
Rent seeking
Lord Leveson enquiry tabloid press phone hacking
"As the fame machine grew in size, it squeezed out the tabloids’ more admirable side. They became less concerned to, as Mr Dacre phrased it,
“give voice to the voiceless and
expose the misdeeds of the rich, the powerful and the pompous”.
If the popular press is to regain popularity, that has to change" John Gapper FT
“give voice to the voiceless and
expose the misdeeds of the rich, the powerful and the pompous”.
If the popular press is to regain popularity, that has to change" John Gapper FT
Wednesday, 21 December 2011
Tuesday, 20 December 2011
Politics
"Thirty years before Havel, George Orwell identified the corrupting influence of discourse based on the repetition of pre-packaged phrases. A corrupting influence not just on language but on society itself. He described the speaker who “has gone some distance towards turning himself into a machine”, observing: “The appropriate noises are coming out of his larynx, but his brain is not involved as it would be if he were choosing his words for himself.” We often hear such speakers at business conferences and on political platforms"
"Orwell insisted that the meaning should choose the word, and not the other way about. For Havel, in the more desperate environment of communist Czechoslovakia, the issue was “the rehabilitation of values like trust, openness, responsibility, solidarity, love”. We miss the unflinching intellectual integrity of these great writers"
"Orwell insisted that the meaning should choose the word, and not the other way about. For Havel, in the more desperate environment of communist Czechoslovakia, the issue was “the rehabilitation of values like trust, openness, responsibility, solidarity, love”. We miss the unflinching intellectual integrity of these great writers"
Václav Havel
Václav Havel
PRAGUE – Does an intellectual – by virtue of his efforts to get beneath the surface of things, to grasp relations, causes, and effects, to recognize individual items as part of larger entities, and thus to derive a deeper awareness of and responsibility for the world – belong in politics?
PRAGUE – Does an intellectual – by virtue of his efforts to get beneath the surface of things, to grasp relations, causes, and effects, to recognize individual items as part of larger entities, and thus to derive a deeper awareness of and responsibility for the world – belong in politics?
Put that way, an impression is created that I consider it every intellectual’s duty to engage in politics. But that is nonsense. Politics also involves a number of special requirements that are relevant only to it. Some people meet these requirements; others don’t, regardless of whether they are intellectuals.
It is my profound conviction that the world requires – today more than ever – enlightened, thoughtful politicians who are bold and broad-minded enough to consider things that lie beyond the scope of their immediate influence in both space and time. We need politicians willing and able to rise above their own power interests, or the particular interests of their parties or states, and act in accordance with the fundamental interests of humanity today – that is, to behave the way everyone should behave, even though most may fail to do so.
Charlie Rose interviews Vaclav Havel
Vaclav Havel
"The power of the Powerless" Respect for family, guest, fellow humans and nature.
Charlie Rose interviews Vaclav Havel
Vaclav Havel
"The power of the Powerless" Respect for family, guest, fellow humans and nature.
Monday, 19 December 2011
OWS Cronyism representative democracy Capitalism V 4.0
“the most open and transparent government in the world” Is this an absolute or relevant statement
"Mr Gove conducted government business using a private email address registered in his wife’s name – the so-called “Mrs Blurt” account. He then refused to disclose emails from it to FoI requesters; the Department for Education claimed that private email accounts are outside FoI law"
Truth, deceit and word play have an odour EVERYONE can smell, using rules to defeat openness and examination similarly smell. reactions to MP's expenses and OWS evidence that. That's why accountable representative democracy is crucial and must now be actively worked at - voting at elections is only a start - Consider what a real time validated "like" / "+1" button and provocative pieces such as Black mirror 3/3 can contribute - Retails Marketers are collecting this sort of judgemental data already via FB, Google etc for assessing the reputation of products and brands.
Mr Gove seems like a "decent chap" this event undermines that reputation - In business ultimately everything - because that's what and employee and capital provider invests in - he owes an honest explanation. Each person is s Brand
New York Times How Anger Took Elites by Surprise By Chrystia Freeland Reuters
Transforming the Industrial State: The Ultimate Complex System Challenge — Nicholas A. Ashford, PhD, JD Professor of Technology and Policy, MIT Director, MIT Technology and Law Program
Twenty reasons why it's kicking off everywhere Paul Mason Saturday, 5 February 2011
FT editorial Capitalism is dead; long live capitalism
John Kay The invisible market hand that feeds us
Sunday, 18 December 2011
Bill Hicks
Its just a ride - Quotations website Its just a ride - You tube
"It's just a ride and we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money, a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one."
wikiquote wikipedia
"Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration—that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we're the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather"
"It's just a ride and we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money, a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one."
wikiquote wikipedia
"Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration—that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we're the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather"
Saturday, 17 December 2011
The Big Society
Public Administration Select Committee Smaller Government: Bigger Society?
A noble phrase everyone subscribes to which is found "on the street now approaching the gutter" but everyone "walks on by" on the basis its someone else' job because "I am too busy" the narrative is held hostage by the term "voluntary work" for which disposable time is required. In former times "retired people" did a certain amount of this BUT more and more are required to continue remunerative work - and as I am (Born 1950) finding out you get tired and don't have as much energy as in earlier years.
So, In that context still how can/must everyone still contribute to the Big Society, I suggest aspire to be a better citizen, read widely , assemble a set of well considered values, work at understanding the other persons point of view and practice it with rigour,strength at home, at work, in public.Search for the truth through
"The dialectical method a dialogue between two or more people holding different points of view about a subject, who wish to establish the truth of the matter by dialogue, with reasoned arguments"
"Different from debate, wherein the debaters are committed to their points of view, and mean to win the debate, either by persuading the opponent, proving their argument correct, or proving the opponent's argument incorrect — thus, either a judge or a jury must decide who wins the debate"
"Different from rhetoric, wherein the speaker uses logos, pathos, or ethos to persuade listeners to take their side of the argument"
Notice what Socialists like Ed Balls say they like to debate!, Parliament debates
The dialectical method may be idealistic but give it a chance by studying Greeks Socrates Plato Aristotle for starters. Human nature does not change our machines do and they are getting smaller.
Inequality - remember the French revolution was founded in inequality of taxes, treating the masses as cheap subsistence labour - The monarchy built a ring road around Paris to avoid the stench and disease! We have built another sort of aristocracy, the Rich celebrity reality show , we believe we can "inherit their world" if we become "famous" enough to endorse
"product".
Post to the FT dated Sat 17 Dec 2011 Big Society is ‘damaged’ brand, says charity leader Sir Stephen Bubb
Big"ger" (better) Society (more people in that demographic)
A "big" Society is made up of "better" people - now comes the "biggie". Define "Big"
Assumption !
"In the early days the Big Society was “mired in wacky speeches about more volunteering and more giving,
Definition 1
and I’ve always felt the real heart of the concept is about empowering people, empowering citizens, empowering communities”".
My definition
Self motivated people aspiring and wanting to be better individuals so they are Better Parents, better spouses, better work colleagues, better drivers, better pedestrians etc. Its not prescriptive of legislatable it comes form within and our education system (as distinct from our training system - they are distinctly different. I always thought a University was for getting educated - not so sure they all perform that function. Sixth forms ditto.
Like a house its built brick by brick on solid foundation (not idols built on feet on clay)
"Adam Smith's discontent at Oxford might be in part due to the absence of his beloved teacher in Glasgow, Francis Hutcheson. Hutcheson was well regarded as one of the most prominent lecturers at the University of Glasgow in his day and earned the approbation of students, colleagues, and even ordinary residents with the fervor and earnestness of his orations (which he sometimes opened to the public). His lectures endeavored not merely to teach philosophy but to make his students embody that philosophy in their lives, appropriately acquiring the epithet, the preacher of philosophy. Unlike Smith, Hutcheson was not a system builder; rather it was his magnetic personality and method of lecturing that so influenced his students and caused the greatest of those to reverentially refer to him as "the never to be forgotten Hutcheson"––a title that Smith in all his correspondence used to describe only two people, his good friend David Hume and influential mentor Francis Hutcheson." I have the impression that Adam Smith needs to be read as does Machiavelli as both are misrepresented
A noble phrase everyone subscribes to which is found "on the street now approaching the gutter" but everyone "walks on by" on the basis its someone else' job because "I am too busy" the narrative is held hostage by the term "voluntary work" for which disposable time is required. In former times "retired people" did a certain amount of this BUT more and more are required to continue remunerative work - and as I am (Born 1950) finding out you get tired and don't have as much energy as in earlier years.
So, In that context still how can/must everyone still contribute to the Big Society, I suggest aspire to be a better citizen, read widely , assemble a set of well considered values, work at understanding the other persons point of view and practice it with rigour,strength at home, at work, in public.Search for the truth through
"The dialectical method a dialogue between two or more people holding different points of view about a subject, who wish to establish the truth of the matter by dialogue, with reasoned arguments"
"Different from debate, wherein the debaters are committed to their points of view, and mean to win the debate, either by persuading the opponent, proving their argument correct, or proving the opponent's argument incorrect — thus, either a judge or a jury must decide who wins the debate"
"Different from rhetoric, wherein the speaker uses logos, pathos, or ethos to persuade listeners to take their side of the argument"
Notice what Socialists like Ed Balls say they like to debate!, Parliament debates
The dialectical method may be idealistic but give it a chance by studying Greeks Socrates Plato Aristotle for starters. Human nature does not change our machines do and they are getting smaller.
Inequality - remember the French revolution was founded in inequality of taxes, treating the masses as cheap subsistence labour - The monarchy built a ring road around Paris to avoid the stench and disease! We have built another sort of aristocracy, the Rich celebrity reality show , we believe we can "inherit their world" if we become "famous" enough to endorse
"product".
Post to the FT dated Sat 17 Dec 2011 Big Society is ‘damaged’ brand, says charity leader Sir Stephen Bubb
Big"ger" (better) Society (more people in that demographic)
A "big" Society is made up of "better" people - now comes the "biggie". Define "Big"
Assumption !
"In the early days the Big Society was “mired in wacky speeches about more volunteering and more giving,
Definition 1
and I’ve always felt the real heart of the concept is about empowering people, empowering citizens, empowering communities”".
My definition
Self motivated people aspiring and wanting to be better individuals so they are Better Parents, better spouses, better work colleagues, better drivers, better pedestrians etc. Its not prescriptive of legislatable it comes form within and our education system (as distinct from our training system - they are distinctly different. I always thought a University was for getting educated - not so sure they all perform that function. Sixth forms ditto.
Like a house its built brick by brick on solid foundation (not idols built on feet on clay)
"Adam Smith's discontent at Oxford might be in part due to the absence of his beloved teacher in Glasgow, Francis Hutcheson. Hutcheson was well regarded as one of the most prominent lecturers at the University of Glasgow in his day and earned the approbation of students, colleagues, and even ordinary residents with the fervor and earnestness of his orations (which he sometimes opened to the public). His lectures endeavored not merely to teach philosophy but to make his students embody that philosophy in their lives, appropriately acquiring the epithet, the preacher of philosophy. Unlike Smith, Hutcheson was not a system builder; rather it was his magnetic personality and method of lecturing that so influenced his students and caused the greatest of those to reverentially refer to him as "the never to be forgotten Hutcheson"––a title that Smith in all his correspondence used to describe only two people, his good friend David Hume and influential mentor Francis Hutcheson." I have the impression that Adam Smith needs to be read as does Machiavelli as both are misrepresented
Christian beliefs British values
Dawkins: PM Wrong On Christian Values
Mr Cameron told senior Church of England clergy that a belief in "live and let live" had too often become "do what you please".
David Cameron: the Church must shape our values
Cameron's Big Society needs Christian values behind it, says Blond
When I get hold of a list I will post them here! _ I suspect they are mainly Universal humanitarian values
Christian Values
14 christian values the first list I have found
Mr Cameron told senior Church of England clergy that a belief in "live and let live" had too often become "do what you please".
David Cameron: the Church must shape our values
Cameron's Big Society needs Christian values behind it, says Blond
When I get hold of a list I will post them here! _ I suspect they are mainly Universal humanitarian values
Christian Values
14 christian values the first list I have found
Friday, 16 December 2011
IF Rudyard Kipling
IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
Christopher HitchensClass left and right capitalism socialism marxism
Orwell, in all his complexity and contradictions, was his particular passion.
Hitchens said he “decided to write as if people could be addressed as if they were humane and intelligent and democratic” – which defined Hitchens himself, at his best.
“I have found out … that the separation between the public and the private is not so neat,” he wrote.
Influences John Wilkes The Levellers David Hume George Orwell Thomas Paine Thomas Jefferson
Daily beast Christopher Hitchens Dies: His Best Writing, Photos, and More
"He rained his righteous wit on figures such as Mother Teresa, Henry Kissinger, Bill Clinton, Gore Vidal, Noam Chomsky, and even God, but always with a rush of wrathful passion for justice and the truth"
A polemicist compare with Dialectic Rhetoric debate
Trotskyism This is an idealistic view - Surely the working class is a dynamic category - Dropping into , leaving, Remaining, so surely Democracy through enfranchisement is the route to idealistic utopia,
Is any force wrong (what did rousseau Thomas Paine say)
Orthodox Marxism Socialism I can't see how prescriptive system can be better than a system which defends Freedom to succeed and fail letting social morality and fairness be the judge, Private ownership, self development, and the free mass market Adam Smith it seems that capital formation is similar to the "like button" but with an attached bet for an enterprise - then you work towards the goal.
Maybe the Chinese have cracked it - their activity does not seem to be an idealogical experiment , changes will emerge according to the market as it changes.
Left and right politics the materialist conception of history Iconoclasm
For left and right to exist you have to believe in US and THEM - how is this proposition tested? Should history, its results, its symbolism be destroyed, what would each new human birth have to refer to (no escape from family and community) who would teach and what should be taught? political centre seems to allow for free aggregation and association.
Everyone is born with talents and propensities which can be traded.
Charlie Rose interviews Christopher Hitchens
Voltaire Voltaire concludes with Candide, if not rejecting optimism outright, advocating an enigmatic precept, "we must cultivate our garden", in lieu of the Leibnizian mantra of Pangloss, "all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds".
Candide It begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism (or simplyOptimism) by his mentor, Pangloss. The work describes the abrupt cessation of this lifestyle, followed by Candide's slow, painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world.
Heart on fire and brain on ice - Lenin (sounds like a businessman)
Christopher Hitchens on the Daily Show
"The
Christopher Hitchens on the Daily Show on God
Noam Chomsky
The Immortal Rejoinders of Christopher Hitchens Vanity Fair
We Are Not All Created Equal you have no chance Class still counts
Hitchens said he “decided to write as if people could be addressed as if they were humane and intelligent and democratic” – which defined Hitchens himself, at his best.
“I have found out … that the separation between the public and the private is not so neat,” he wrote.
Influences John Wilkes The Levellers David Hume George Orwell Thomas Paine Thomas Jefferson
Daily beast Christopher Hitchens Dies: His Best Writing, Photos, and More
"He rained his righteous wit on figures such as Mother Teresa, Henry Kissinger, Bill Clinton, Gore Vidal, Noam Chomsky, and even God, but always with a rush of wrathful passion for justice and the truth"
A polemicist compare with Dialectic Rhetoric debate
Trotskyism This is an idealistic view - Surely the working class is a dynamic category - Dropping into , leaving, Remaining, so surely Democracy through enfranchisement is the route to idealistic utopia,
Is any force wrong (what did rousseau Thomas Paine say)
Orthodox Marxism Socialism I can't see how prescriptive system can be better than a system which defends Freedom to succeed and fail letting social morality and fairness be the judge, Private ownership, self development, and the free mass market Adam Smith it seems that capital formation is similar to the "like button" but with an attached bet for an enterprise - then you work towards the goal.
Maybe the Chinese have cracked it - their activity does not seem to be an idealogical experiment , changes will emerge according to the market as it changes.
Left and right politics the materialist conception of history Iconoclasm
For left and right to exist you have to believe in US and THEM - how is this proposition tested? Should history, its results, its symbolism be destroyed, what would each new human birth have to refer to (no escape from family and community) who would teach and what should be taught? political centre seems to allow for free aggregation and association.
Everyone is born with talents and propensities which can be traded.
Charlie Rose interviews Christopher Hitchens
Voltaire Voltaire concludes with Candide, if not rejecting optimism outright, advocating an enigmatic precept, "we must cultivate our garden", in lieu of the Leibnizian mantra of Pangloss, "all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds".
Candide It begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism (or simplyOptimism) by his mentor, Pangloss. The work describes the abrupt cessation of this lifestyle, followed by Candide's slow, painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world.
Heart on fire and brain on ice - Lenin (sounds like a businessman)
Christopher Hitchens on the Daily Show
"The
Christopher Hitchens on the Daily Show on God
Noam Chomsky
The Immortal Rejoinders of Christopher Hitchens Vanity Fair
We Are Not All Created Equal you have no chance Class still counts
Thursday, 15 December 2011
Growth The squeezed middle class Inequalty, demographic changes -labour supply aging and Automation
Stuck in the middle
Back to supply and demand and markets BUT there are serious structural problems at work.
It seems commercial paid work may be on the decline. A desire to find a way of contributing doing value added work. BUT how do you resolve wage/income inequality.
E.g. in movies and music - its easy - screw up and nobody buys your records or visits your concerts. How to break out of minimum wage - get more skills .
unskilled semi skilled even artisan labour (selling ones hands) versus Supervision (organising the hands) v Management/entepeneur(deciding what the hands are going to do) Versus owner (placing organising investing forming capital)
Everyone needs to understand this and serve the customer (stop the class war) - usually your inherent skill or developed skill will find its level.
Equality of rights and responsibilities contribution -respect of labour feedback at all levels.- anyone should want to be called to task and argue rationally their standpoint - seek the truth
Explore/understand other culture German Japanese French - broaden the mind - you may not be a boss but there is every chance your line could give birth to a boss
Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials William R. Kerr
Europe’s Market-Led Integration Joschka Fischer
Look Past Taxes to Fix Global Puzzle of Inequality: Clive Crook
Back to supply and demand and markets BUT there are serious structural problems at work.
It seems commercial paid work may be on the decline. A desire to find a way of contributing doing value added work. BUT how do you resolve wage/income inequality.
E.g. in movies and music - its easy - screw up and nobody buys your records or visits your concerts. How to break out of minimum wage - get more skills .
unskilled semi skilled even artisan labour (selling ones hands) versus Supervision (organising the hands) v Management/entepeneur(deciding what the hands are going to do) Versus owner (placing organising investing forming capital)
Everyone needs to understand this and serve the customer (stop the class war) - usually your inherent skill or developed skill will find its level.
Equality of rights and responsibilities contribution -respect of labour feedback at all levels.- anyone should want to be called to task and argue rationally their standpoint - seek the truth
Explore/understand other culture German Japanese French - broaden the mind - you may not be a boss but there is every chance your line could give birth to a boss
Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials William R. Kerr
Europe’s Market-Led Integration Joschka Fischer
Look Past Taxes to Fix Global Puzzle of Inequality: Clive Crook
Genius Einstein Leonardo DaVinci
Insanity being the act of doing the same thing again and again expecting different results - Albert Einstein’s
If applied to the eurozone, political leaders would be well on their way to being institutionalised
If applied to the eurozone, political leaders would be well on their way to being institutionalised
Wednesday, 14 December 2011
Jobs Work machines Growth productivity labour job losses Computers automation robots German union worker business relations
See also Related blog
cadbury job losses and investment announcements december 2011
cadbury job losses and investment announcements december 2011
“Our view is that if Kraft is investing £44 million for the expansion of its UK factories there should be no job losses and we will be strongly pressing for that outcome when we talk to management about this issue in the new year.
“We are also concerned that the company continues in its refusal to share its mid-to-long term business plans with us and its refusal to say that there won’t be compulsory redundancies in the future.
“We also deplore Kraft’s tactics of announcing this by press release – to the media first – without the courtesy of telling the workforce in advance. It is wrong that the first that hundreds of employees will hear about the threat to their jobs will be through the media.”
How does this compare with the German union worker business relations, supervisory boards?
"... view.... no job losses..." where is the logic in this quote?
Labour is overhead and investment is capital expenditure, there seems to be a confusion.
The population seems to lack financial and business concepts education.
Capital must not be confused with income. Capital can can only last so long when used to pay wages.
I suspect in the German "mittelstand" model there is more pragmatism and thinking that the customer is king and that forms the commercial environment
E M Forster The Machine Stops
Transforming the Industrial State: The Ultimate Complex System Challenge — Nicholas A. Ashford, PhD, JD Professor of Technology and Policy, MIT Director, MIT Technology and Law Program
The Job Guarantee as an Alternative to Enforced Idleness. But What Will They Do? Examples from the WPA
State of Nature Public works Programmes state subsidies
Production processes: A lightbulb moment
The Robot Hiring Boom Has Arrived
Europe’s Market-Led Integration Joschka Fischer
Look Past Taxes to Fix Global Puzzle of Inequality: Clive Crook
Reasons for poor productivity remain a puzzle
“We are also concerned that the company continues in its refusal to share its mid-to-long term business plans with us and its refusal to say that there won’t be compulsory redundancies in the future.
“We also deplore Kraft’s tactics of announcing this by press release – to the media first – without the courtesy of telling the workforce in advance. It is wrong that the first that hundreds of employees will hear about the threat to their jobs will be through the media.”
How does this compare with the German union worker business relations, supervisory boards?
"... view.... no job losses..." where is the logic in this quote?
Labour is overhead and investment is capital expenditure, there seems to be a confusion.
The population seems to lack financial and business concepts education.
Capital must not be confused with income. Capital can can only last so long when used to pay wages.
I suspect in the German "mittelstand" model there is more pragmatism and thinking that the customer is king and that forms the commercial environment
E M Forster The Machine Stops
Transforming the Industrial State: The Ultimate Complex System Challenge — Nicholas A. Ashford, PhD, JD Professor of Technology and Policy, MIT Director, MIT Technology and Law Program
The Job Guarantee as an Alternative to Enforced Idleness. But What Will They Do? Examples from the WPA
State of Nature Public works Programmes state subsidies
Production processes: A lightbulb moment
The Robot Hiring Boom Has Arrived
Europe’s Market-Led Integration Joschka Fischer
Look Past Taxes to Fix Global Puzzle of Inequality: Clive Crook
Reasons for poor productivity remain a puzzle
Sayonara, industry Japan’s manufacturing moves abroad
Robert Reich Capitalism and insatiable consumers
Tuesday, 13 December 2011
Charlie Brooker Black Mirror Trilogy part 2 15 million merits
Black Mirror 15 million merits - Charlie Brooker & Konnie Huq
Its only a matter of time,Soon only the brightest, best trained and educated will left fiscally employed the rest on benefits driven voluntary work or there is always a bike -.No need to learn to ride it as its bolted to the floor
Panorama:How to Survive the Meltdown
Panorama: How to survive the downturn
The world economy appears to be in meltdown, the euro is in turmoil and the economic future looks bleak. But does it have to be this bad? Panorama investigates how Britain plc could survive the crisis. Reporter Adam Shaw explores the potential for growth away from Europe in the fast-growing economies of places like Brazil, China and India. He also asks what our government needs to do to chart a path to a brighter future.
The classical definition of tragedy:
"Hubris (arrogance), Ate (folly); Nemesis (destruction).”
The world economy appears to be in meltdown, the euro is in turmoil and the economic future looks bleak. But does it have to be this bad? Panorama investigates how Britain plc could survive the crisis. Reporter Adam Shaw explores the potential for growth away from Europe in the fast-growing economies of places like Brazil, China and India. He also asks what our government needs to do to chart a path to a brighter future.
The classical definition of tragedy:
"Hubris (arrogance), Ate (folly); Nemesis (destruction).”
Money: episode 2 of 3 Duration 1hr
The second episode in Vanessa Engle's three-part documentary series exploring our personal attitudes to money.
The second episode in Vanessa Engle's three-part documentary series exploring our personal attitudes to money.
This film about couples looks at how money affects our personal relationships. The top five causes of conflict in relationships are money, sex, work, children and housework - in that order. Couples from around the country - young and old, rich and poor - reveal the intimate truth about the role money plays in their relationships
Two Doctors. What do you argue about? Stumped! Thought about it for a moment - answer: One incident concerning who needed a toilet roll most; a technical/philosophical/arcane debate ensued resulting in an agreed judgement based on the facts.
Monday, 12 December 2011
Debts Budgets Deficits
In the late-1980s, the UK ran a budget surplus alongside a current account deficit
budget surplus
current account deficit
budget surplus
current account deficit
Sunday, 11 December 2011
Concervative V Labour V Liberal
Atlee and Churchill at the pissoir at the House of Commons in 1946. Atlee was peeing and Churchill went to the booth farthest away "not very sociable" said Atlee "on the contrary said Churchill, when you see something working you nationalise it".
NHS
“Hello, I’m Andrew Lansley, the health secretary. I just want to take a few moments to say that your care while you’re here in hospital really matters to me. I hope it’s as good quality care as we can possibly make it and I do hope you’ll join me in thanking all the staff who are looking after you while you’re here.“
This message will repeat on a loop every three to four minutes. I note that this “service” isprovided by private company and is nauseatingly called Hospedia
Is it ? Hubris, first flush of power
Saturday, 10 December 2011
EU, EZ and UK
BBC Glossary on EU Qualified Majority Voting (QMV)
Council of the European Union - Unanimity Voting rights and Vetos
Voting Rights
The veto is a way of keeping national sovereignty over sensitive areas of decision-making.
The veto can be used when ministers from national governments vote in the Council of Ministers under the unanimity system.
Member states have steadily given up their powers of veto over time, broadening the areas subject to qualified majority voting in each successive treaty change.
In negotiations over the EU constitution in 2003/4, the UK insisted on keeping vetoes over tax, criminal justice, social security, treaty changes and EU funding.
"The measures, however, were overshadowed by the dispute with Mr Cameron, who demanded safeguards for UK-based financial services before he would agree to any EU treaty change. Mr Sarkozy said Mr Cameron’s demands were “unacceptable”. The UK premier’s veto also caused a breach with Ms Merkel, who had been fighting for new eurozone fiscal rules to be enshrined in an EU treaty agreed by all 27 members.
Mr Cameron’s insistence that he would go along with the treaty only if he won a series of technical concessions for the City of London – including allowing Britain to set higher capital ratios for London banks than the EU norm – was rejected out of hand."
It forced the eurozone’s 17 members, led by Germany and France, to opt instead for an intergovernmental deal that will have to be negotiated outside the EU legal framework
“breakthrough to a stability(& Growth) union” that would open the way for full fiscal union in the eurozone. At least six EU members outside the currency bloc will also participate in the agreement.
Council of the European Union - Unanimity Voting rights and Vetos
Voting Rights
The veto is a way of keeping national sovereignty over sensitive areas of decision-making.
The veto can be used when ministers from national governments vote in the Council of Ministers under the unanimity system.
Member states have steadily given up their powers of veto over time, broadening the areas subject to qualified majority voting in each successive treaty change.
In negotiations over the EU constitution in 2003/4, the UK insisted on keeping vetoes over tax, criminal justice, social security, treaty changes and EU funding.
"The measures, however, were overshadowed by the dispute with Mr Cameron, who demanded safeguards for UK-based financial services before he would agree to any EU treaty change. Mr Sarkozy said Mr Cameron’s demands were “unacceptable”. The UK premier’s veto also caused a breach with Ms Merkel, who had been fighting for new eurozone fiscal rules to be enshrined in an EU treaty agreed by all 27 members.
Mr Cameron’s insistence that he would go along with the treaty only if he won a series of technical concessions for the City of London – including allowing Britain to set higher capital ratios for London banks than the EU norm – was rejected out of hand."
It forced the eurozone’s 17 members, led by Germany and France, to opt instead for an intergovernmental deal that will have to be negotiated outside the EU legal framework
“breakthrough to a stability(& Growth) union” that would open the way for full fiscal union in the eurozone. At least six EU members outside the currency bloc will also participate in the agreement.
Britain’s summit price for backing treaty change was a financial services protocol packed with half-a-dozen complex, arcane regulatory fixes that left most European leaders “baffled”, according one official at the summit.
Contrary to widely believed French claims, the protocol was neither a demand for a general veto, nor a manifesto for light-touch regulation. Instead it covered more technical guarantees to address British gripes across 20 or more pieces of regulation in the Brussels pipeline.
Five economic tests
Five economic tests
Friday, 9 December 2011
The Party is Over How the West Went Bust by Robert Peston
The Party's Over How the West Went Bust Episode 1
The Party's Over How the West Went Bust Episode 2
@Peston Thx 4 making the effort. One day a stripped down root cause analysis : 5 why's. Trade balances, balance sheet , whose job to fix ?
The Party's Over How the West Went Bust Episode 2
@Peston Thx 4 making the effort. One day a stripped down root cause analysis : 5 why's. Trade balances, balance sheet , whose job to fix ?
Prince Hal's Soliloquy Henry IV, Part 1 William Shakespeare
Prince Hal's Soliloquy (I.ii.173–195)
I know you all, and will awhile uphold
The unyoked humour of your idleness.
Yet herein will I imitate the sun,
Who doth permit the base contagious clouds
To smother up his beauty from the world,
That when he please again to be himself,
Being wanted, he may be more wondered at
By breaking through the foul and ugly mists
Of vapours that did seem to strangle him.
If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work;
But when they seldom come, they wished-for come,
And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.
So, when this loose behaviour I throw off
And pay the debt I never promisèd,
By how much better than my word I am,
By so much shall I falsify men’s hopes;
And like bright metal on a sullen ground,
My reformation, glitt’ring o’er my fault,
Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes
Than that which hath no foil to set it off.
I’ll so offend to make offence a skill,
Redeeming time when men think least I will.
Explanation for Quotation 2 >>
I know you all, and will awhile uphold
The unyoked humour of your idleness.
Yet herein will I imitate the sun,
Who doth permit the base contagious clouds
To smother up his beauty from the world,
That when he please again to be himself,
Being wanted, he may be more wondered at
By breaking through the foul and ugly mists
Of vapours that did seem to strangle him.
If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work;
But when they seldom come, they wished-for come,
And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.
So, when this loose behaviour I throw off
And pay the debt I never promisèd,
By how much better than my word I am,
By so much shall I falsify men’s hopes;
And like bright metal on a sullen ground,
My reformation, glitt’ring o’er my fault,
Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes
Than that which hath no foil to set it off.
I’ll so offend to make offence a skill,
Redeeming time when men think least I will.
Explanation for Quotation 2 >>
Jobs Work Humans machines Robots Automation Computers, RFID and Sim chips
Meter reader called today, I asked when the "smart" meters will be fitted - programme still rolling out, but still very busy. Parting comment "I am being replaced by a Sim - I hope to be upskilled - fitting them"
The future of work in UK - The rise of the Sim, Computer and Robot, we are insidiously being superseded. Humans just can't "hack" it any more (geddit)
Humans vs. Computers Infographic – How smart is your Laptop?
Job-devouring technology is conundrum for US workers By Richard Waters in San Francisco
Are we heading (pro-tem) for the labouringworker masses aspiration where one option could be - Minimum wage for 31ish hours 5 days per week 52 weeks per annum travel time total 1 hour. Dropping to to 4 days per week at 65 reducing by 1 day every 5 years including holiday pay - short term sick pay scheme would be handy as would a private pension (one that buys an annuity - so private pension turns into a long term sick pay scheme because your too ill or body broken to work (creaky and leaky)) upon qualified unfit to work note issued.
Its as good as it gets. trouble is its our nature to turn every activity into a process (rules make software programmes) standardise and automate it. As a previous poster "Mastery" is a declining/lost aspiration - My Childhood hero/role model was Leonardo (he seemed to me to be the best unobtainable target to strive for to make it all pointlessly worthwhile)
Plus Workfare - simple public works for benefits via agencies for private companies and make it function ( not be abused). As with the outsourcing concept - its about flexible overhead beyond the Core of the company. Play the cards your dealt and make the best of em.
Rudyard Kipling "IF" is not a bad guide - An education, preparation for life (its more than just training)
E M Forster The Machine Stops
Transforming the Industrial State: The Ultimate Complex System Challenge — Nicholas A. Ashford, PhD, JD Professor of Technology and Policy, MIT Director, MIT Technology and Law Program
The Job Guarantee as an Alternative to Enforced Idleness. But What Will They Do? Examples from the WPA
State of Nature Public works Programmes state subsidies
Production processes: A lightbulb moment
The Robot Hiring Boom Has Arrived
Reasons for poor productivity remain a puzzle
Sayonara, industry Japan’s manufacturing moves abroad
The future of work in UK - The rise of the Sim, Computer and Robot, we are insidiously being superseded. Humans just can't "hack" it any more (geddit)
Humans vs. Computers Infographic – How smart is your Laptop?
Job-devouring technology is conundrum for US workers By Richard Waters in San Francisco
Are we heading (pro-tem) for the labouringworker masses aspiration where one option could be - Minimum wage for 31ish hours 5 days per week 52 weeks per annum travel time total 1 hour. Dropping to to 4 days per week at 65 reducing by 1 day every 5 years including holiday pay - short term sick pay scheme would be handy as would a private pension (one that buys an annuity - so private pension turns into a long term sick pay scheme because your too ill or body broken to work (creaky and leaky)) upon qualified unfit to work note issued.
Its as good as it gets. trouble is its our nature to turn every activity into a process (rules make software programmes) standardise and automate it. As a previous poster "Mastery" is a declining/lost aspiration - My Childhood hero/role model was Leonardo (he seemed to me to be the best unobtainable target to strive for to make it all pointlessly worthwhile)
Plus Workfare - simple public works for benefits via agencies for private companies and make it function ( not be abused). As with the outsourcing concept - its about flexible overhead beyond the Core of the company. Play the cards your dealt and make the best of em.
Rudyard Kipling "IF" is not a bad guide - An education, preparation for life (its more than just training)
E M Forster The Machine Stops
Transforming the Industrial State: The Ultimate Complex System Challenge — Nicholas A. Ashford, PhD, JD Professor of Technology and Policy, MIT Director, MIT Technology and Law Program
The Job Guarantee as an Alternative to Enforced Idleness. But What Will They Do? Examples from the WPA
State of Nature Public works Programmes state subsidies
Production processes: A lightbulb moment
The Robot Hiring Boom Has Arrived
Reasons for poor productivity remain a puzzle
Sayonara, industry Japan’s manufacturing moves abroad
Robert Reich Capitalism and insatiable consumers
Thursday, 8 December 2011
The Big Society
Is there any resonance with the tea party, Occupy Wall street?
Or simply that Leader's of private and public institutions and organisations
Or simply that Leader's of private and public institutions and organisations
Migration, Immigration, emigration Migrants and Youth employment unemployment
This is a very sensitive subject area, so it must be discussed with care and balance, BUT discussion must not be ignored or suppressed as is subject to a lot of qualitative emotion so a quantitative appoach is essential.
The sensitivity is a result of perceived steady encroaching religious and ethnic geographic concentrations, anecdotal experiences and critically the universal emotional FUD (fear uncertainty and doubt) of foreigners. Unfamiliar disparate cultural, and religious take two sides to integrate - it takes work, tolerance on both sides.
Its does not help when our leaders appeal to these emotional dimensions
What is the case for migration to UK applies to any country - we can't get too prissy about immigration when we migrate to "Eldorado" communities in Spain, even closer to home Wales, Scotland, NI.
Anybody who is different is treat with suspicion it becomes an issue when volumes increase - i.e. fear of being overwhelmed and switching from an established majority to the subject minority.
Inflammatory rhetoric only stokes discord.
One must be open minded realistic and pragmatic.
Migration is a dynamic process, current narrative only deals with inflow's with no discussion of outflow's or resultant demographic
Think about Hokey's in USA dust bowl era.
Christos Tsiolkas Wikipedia
BBC Hardtalk Christos Tsiolkas
Christos Tsiolkas Dead Europe Quote Greece "the fear of the immigrant" Consider that fear springs from Insecurity powerlessness lack of understanding, its the same for any new comer to any organisation - differentness is immediately suspicious until the newcomer establishes that he is no "threat" - Imposed immigration is dangerous with out explanation. UK problem is that we have not employed all our available population - its a leadership (business and political) failure. If you could compress time then employ all UK residents , then top up with immigrants - i.e. justify immigration level. Its just not explained to populations so that they buy in -
It just should not be a problem and there should not be a debate BUT there has to be one because it's perceived as an issue.
It is a very difficult conversation But is must be had - e.g. differential birth rates between all extractions - l'm not suggesting competitive breeding or controls - maybe a specimen problem solving approach - that's what happened in Nazi Germany - that is really scary - its laid bare.
We are all Aliens - and must be encouraged to work at getting on with each other
Polarization, immigration, education: What’s behind the dramatic decline in youth employment?
The sensitivity is a result of perceived steady encroaching religious and ethnic geographic concentrations, anecdotal experiences and critically the universal emotional FUD (fear uncertainty and doubt) of foreigners. Unfamiliar disparate cultural, and religious take two sides to integrate - it takes work, tolerance on both sides.
Its does not help when our leaders appeal to these emotional dimensions
What is the case for migration to UK applies to any country - we can't get too prissy about immigration when we migrate to "Eldorado" communities in Spain, even closer to home Wales, Scotland, NI.
Anybody who is different is treat with suspicion it becomes an issue when volumes increase - i.e. fear of being overwhelmed and switching from an established majority to the subject minority.
Inflammatory rhetoric only stokes discord.
One must be open minded realistic and pragmatic.
Migration is a dynamic process, current narrative only deals with inflow's with no discussion of outflow's or resultant demographic
Think about Hokey's in USA dust bowl era.
Christos Tsiolkas Wikipedia
BBC Hardtalk Christos Tsiolkas
Christos Tsiolkas Dead Europe Quote Greece "the fear of the immigrant" Consider that fear springs from Insecurity powerlessness lack of understanding, its the same for any new comer to any organisation - differentness is immediately suspicious until the newcomer establishes that he is no "threat" - Imposed immigration is dangerous with out explanation. UK problem is that we have not employed all our available population - its a leadership (business and political) failure. If you could compress time then employ all UK residents , then top up with immigrants - i.e. justify immigration level. Its just not explained to populations so that they buy in -
It just should not be a problem and there should not be a debate BUT there has to be one because it's perceived as an issue.
It is a very difficult conversation But is must be had - e.g. differential birth rates between all extractions - l'm not suggesting competitive breeding or controls - maybe a specimen problem solving approach - that's what happened in Nazi Germany - that is really scary - its laid bare.
We are all Aliens - and must be encouraged to work at getting on with each other
Polarization, immigration, education: What’s behind the dramatic decline in youth employment?
Labour's immigration muddle, and a conference of confusion ...
The immigration riddle | Total Politics
Wednesday, 7 December 2011
The balance of payments debt crisis the 2007 to ....
Link Storyville: Inside job
Charles Ferguson's Academy Award-winning forensic analysis of the 2008 global financial crisis. The film traces the emergence of a rogue culture within the finance industry.Trust in certain leadership classes (public and private) = 0 - how can it be regainedA shocking, incendiary and sickening documentary (if taken at face value), those who are perceived to have screwed up need to be held to account very publicly and explain themselves - USA seem to do this better than Europe.Plus some real examples of companies and individuals who borrowed unwisely Analysis, not convinced that root cause was identified.
try the 5 why's
Why, Why, Why, Why, Why.
I suggest:
The West didn't manage or deal with the growing trade imbalances, the surpluses just lazily shovelled into over leveraged prime property mortgages and then sub-prime property mortgages not to forget over leveraged companies including sale/leaseback deals to liberate cash!!!
Ed Balls may have had a point but it was a qualitative statement rather than a quantative statement compare with this
'Substantial fiscal consolidation is needed, and debt levels must decrease. But it should be, in the words of Angela Merkel, a marathon rather than a sprint. It will take more than two decades to return to prudent levels of debt. There is a proverb that actually applies here too: “slow and steady wins the race.” ' so George Osborne may have difficultly defending his approach - accused of rushing and a using crisis to settle perceived scores with Public service unions rather than objective rational - Its all still smacks of class and party dogma - lucky liberal Democrasts were on board.
Revolution Through Banking?
BBC Hardtalk John Llewellyn
How Goethe’s masterpiece is shaping Europe
The classical definition of tragedy:
"Hubris (arrogance), Ate (folly); Nemesis (destruction).”
Charles Ferguson's Academy Award-winning forensic analysis of the 2008 global financial crisis. The film traces the emergence of a rogue culture within the finance industry.Trust in certain leadership classes (public and private) = 0 - how can it be regainedA shocking, incendiary and sickening documentary (if taken at face value), those who are perceived to have screwed up need to be held to account very publicly and explain themselves - USA seem to do this better than Europe.Plus some real examples of companies and individuals who borrowed unwisely Analysis, not convinced that root cause was identified.
try the 5 why's
Why, Why, Why, Why, Why.
I suggest:
The West didn't manage or deal with the growing trade imbalances, the surpluses just lazily shovelled into over leveraged prime property mortgages and then sub-prime property mortgages not to forget over leveraged companies including sale/leaseback deals to liberate cash!!!
Ed Balls may have had a point but it was a qualitative statement rather than a quantative statement compare with this
'Substantial fiscal consolidation is needed, and debt levels must decrease. But it should be, in the words of Angela Merkel, a marathon rather than a sprint. It will take more than two decades to return to prudent levels of debt. There is a proverb that actually applies here too: “slow and steady wins the race.” ' so George Osborne may have difficultly defending his approach - accused of rushing and a using crisis to settle perceived scores with Public service unions rather than objective rational - Its all still smacks of class and party dogma - lucky liberal Democrasts were on board.
Revolution Through Banking?
BBC Hardtalk John Llewellyn
How Goethe’s masterpiece is shaping Europe
The classical definition of tragedy:
"Hubris (arrogance), Ate (folly); Nemesis (destruction).”
The big Society
When ever this subject arises it is shortly followed by the word volunteering.
That surely volunteering is not the only activity. Many people are just too busy working, ferrying children from one activity to another etc.
Surely as important if not more is who you are as a human and how you interact with,behave towards and understand your family, friends, work colleagues and the general public, in addition to ones application to valuing your democratic vote.
To see ourselves as others see us
To see others point of view.
That surely volunteering is not the only activity. Many people are just too busy working, ferrying children from one activity to another etc.
Surely as important if not more is who you are as a human and how you interact with,behave towards and understand your family, friends, work colleagues and the general public, in addition to ones application to valuing your democratic vote.
To see ourselves as others see us
To see others point of view.
Average and Median incomes
I wish guests, hosts ans commentators would make crystal clear what they mean by these terms.
Median and average incomes are different (Would be interesting to know each)
Individual or household income (good to know both)
Median and average incomes are different (Would be interesting to know each)
Individual or household income (good to know both)
RBS: Inside the Bank That Ran Out of money
RBS: Inside the Bank That Ran Out of money
Charting how the Royal Bank of Scotland came near collapse in 2008 after a loss of £24bn.
FSA Board publishes report into the failure of the Royal Bank of Scotland RBS
Hurbris, arrogance, Fraudulence, incompetence, negligence, (little boys in long trousers) ?
definition of tragedy: hubris (arrogance), ate (folly); nemesis (destruction)
FSA Board publishes report into the failure of the Royal Bank of Scotland RBS
Hurbris, arrogance, Fraudulence, incompetence, negligence, (little boys in long trousers) ?
definition of tragedy: hubris (arrogance), ate (folly); nemesis (destruction)
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