Anyone who’s worked in British industry may well recognise the duplicitous tone of Danny Alexander’s “change is good for you” speech on public sector pensions on June 17th. We’ve heard it all before in the decades of evaluations, restructuring, reorganisations and rebrandings by the bean counters. It’s all about “change” in the pessimistic Dylanesque sense. [...]
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News that people are leaving Facebook in droves should come as no surprise to anyone using the ageist, algorithm-driven phenomena for more than a few years. It’s as tiring as being in the kitchen at a dull party watching noisy bores ad nauseum. Not that my Facebook friends are noisy bores, of course, but there are [...]
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Which of the following destroyed the British economy. Was it: a/ Gordon Brown b/ Alastair Darling c/ Ed Balls or d/ None of the above. Related articles: Exam board watchdog investigates question paper errors
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Around May 12th I tried to add some facts about Margaret Thatcher on her Wikipedia entry. It took me a couple of days to enter all the laborious citations and references required. Sadly, it was all removed a week later by a Wikipedia editor on grounds that I was coatracking, ie “entering a Wikipedia article that [...]
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