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The final Straw – again

Hypocrisy. It’s a powerful word. It has the feel of a silver bullet. A coup de gras. A final kill. You feel good when you use it. He’s such a hypocrite. That’s it. Nothing more is required. The argument is over. But that, surely, is wrong. It’s not okay to stop there, to say, I [keep reading...]

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Sorry, Prime Minister, have you forgotten, you vetoed us

Yesterday was a watershed day. Yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away. Yesterday. Yes. Only yesterday – well, yesterday’s yesterday now – it was the day The Prime Minister, The Right Honourable David Cameron MP, inheritor of the mantle of Oliver Cromwell, the Puritan who freed the House of Commons from control by Charles [keep reading...]

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Why the “whiplash” committee needs whipping

There is something ever so slightly comic about the expression “whiplash”. Think of Charlie Boorman whipping himself with a bull whip. F*** f*** f*** was all he could say! I hasten to add this wasn’t pleasure. He just couldn’t get the whip flick right – timed right, that is. Unfortunately for Charlie, each time he [keep reading...]

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“One of those NO WIN NO FEE solicitors”

I’m ashamed. To be held in such contempt. Maybe I should be ashamed. At least, the person who said this would seem to think so. It didn’t appear to occur to him – as he told the story about “one of those NO WIN NO FEE solicitors” – that this could be me. It wasn’t [keep reading...]

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Zatrudnianie i zwalnianie w teraźniejszym świecie

W zeszłym miesiącu pisałem o tym, jak proponowane zmiany w prawie pracy nie były tym, o czym mówił blok konserwatywnych demokratów. W tym miesiącu, mam opowieść, jak obecnie rzekomo korzystniejsze zasady pracownicze mogą być i są ignorowane – w jaki sposób proces zatrudniania i zwalniania naprawdę działa. Wiele firm wzdłuż i wszerz Wielkiej Brytanii kocha [keep reading...]

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Hire and fire in the real world

Last month I wrote about how the proposed changes to Employment Law weren’t about what the Con-Dems spin-doctors said. This month, I’ve a tale of how the present supposedly employee favourable rules can be, and are, ignored – how hire and fire really works. Many businesses up and down the UK love Poles. They don’t [keep reading...]

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IFB – fraud? The joke’s on you!

Autocracy is wrong in any form. Of course, its blindingly obvious to anyone other than self-serving sychophants that Gaddafi, Sadam Hussain, Bashir Assad, Stalin, Mao, Hitler – and many many more – were bad people. Of course, in our enfeebled Western Society, there is no similar tyrant. We have nothing even vaguely comparable. There’s no [keep reading...]

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Hire and fire

From the Victorian Era to the 21st century the rights of labour have been at the forefront of social policy. Employee no longer means servant. Employment protection has the force of law. But – yes, there is always a but – the Con-Dem Government don’t much like employment protection. It gets in the way of [keep reading...]

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Does a name change change?

You just know when people start re-describing established norms we have a problem with truth. Not that norms shouldn’t be challenged. What a dead world we’d have if that happened. Or didn’t happen. The way something is described also determines how we think about it. And therefore how we act, what we accept, and don’t [keep reading...]

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The awards wars – the sequel

Six weeks ago I wrote a post – The awards wars – highlighting the ethos of The Community Awards by contrast to other glossed-up awards schemes. On Friday 4th November, at Venue Central, the Community Awards did it’s thing. I’ve checked out the websites of Luton on Sunday and Luton Today (Herald & Post). I [keep reading...]

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