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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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“The brains, the boss, the number one”

These were the words of Mr Justice Anthony Pitts describing Samsul Haque at Southwark Crown Court when sentencing him to 5 years in prison. “The brains, the boss, the number one” – whether intended or not, these words sound like the description of a 1930s gangland boss. And perhaps this is how these men see [keep reading...]

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Dorries dogma

“Like 73 per cent of the country I am Church of England, I do have Christian beliefs, but I am not sure when that became a crime.” These are the reported words of Nadine Dorries, Conservative MP for Mid-Beds. Local MP. Well, localish. Not Luton but just down the road. Nadine Dorries has attracted much [keep reading...]

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Priests in PJs – will they forgive?

I fear I will incur the wrath of God. Or, if not God, certainly the local Catholic church. It all started with that Father Ted-like story – three aged priests sitting – yes, sitting – on a burglar in the presbytery of St Mary’s Church, Dunstable. Strangely the Luton on Sunday story doesn’t identify the [keep reading...]

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Whose bluffing who?

I trust neither politicians nor newspapers. Both are driven by the needs of the moment. Neither have much in common with integrity or truth. Mr Cameron says Liam Fox is doing an excellent job. Really? The BBC have reported as much, so it must be true. I, for one, find this judgement odd. Two days [keep reading...]

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The gatekeepers

Data. A word so used and abused it doesn’t occur to us what it means, where it came from, why it matters. Yet it’s perhaps the most dominant concept of our time. How to reduce any and all aspects of human life to data. How to sell that data as many times as possible, preferably [keep reading...]

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