Muphry’s Law Spotted In The Wild – Mixed Race Relay
Murphy's Law we all know - whatever can go wrong will go wrong. Muphry's Law is a corollary, that in any complaint about grammar...
Cultural Appropriation Much? Jacinda Ardern’s Maori Cloak
Cultural appropriation is where the members of a dominant grouping in society use and - well, appropriate - take the signifiers of the culture...
Memo To The Observer – Children’s Teeth Fall Out, Sugar Tax Or No
The Observer is showing a touching faith in the power of government to change our lives. They seem to think that passing a law...
Complete Genius! *Smacks Forehead* Why Didn’t We Think Of This?
As someone who was part of an insurgent British political party, one that never did win a Westminster seat directly and from a standing...
Oh Yes, Violent Youths To Be Banned From Sending A Letter
This is one of those things which will so obviously work, isn't it? The postal system is used by criminals to coordinate their activities....
Norway’s Gender Quotas Hold Women Back In Management
Or perhaps we should say that he imposition of quotas in Norway concerning the number of women on company boards seems not to have...
Mind the Gap
A fixation with equality leads us to examine possible ‘gaps’ in outcomes. Is there, for example, a gender pay gap, in which women are...
An Established Principle – The International Market For Management Talent
One of the more absurd contentions of modern life is that there's no need to worry about what Johnny Foreigner pays his people. We...
Do we get Bank Holidays right?
As the UK slides unto another long weekend of days off in the rain and traffic jams headed for the coasts, attention turns once...
Recycling Increases Littering
Or perhaps we should make the observation that collecting rubbish less often in order to promote recycling increases littering. This is most certainly true...