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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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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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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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If there was no need for this type of business then why does it exist?

It was Rene Descartes who wrote “I think therefore I am” – the starting point for a method of analysis whose foundations were to be impregnable. Descartes was so certain of his own certainty he believed he’d proved the existence of God. Even a genius can be wrong! Like all of us, Descartes was limited [keep reading...]