Sir Nicholas Winton…
Category Archives: Politics
And the winner of the French elections is…
A workshop and not a museum…
You need to click through for this one.
Tony Benn’s secret suffragette plaque in the Houses of Parliament | Retronaut.
UK Tax…
Anxiety…
“By removing slack, airlines create failure. In order to increase profit, airlines work hard to get the maximum number of flights out of each plane, each day. As a result, there are no spares, no downtime and no resilience. By assuming that their customer base prefers to save money, not anxiety, they create an anxiety-filled system.”
Seths Blog: Eleven things organizations can learn from airports.
The worst part of this list is that it describes modern life; not just the worst parts of it!
Come and join the crisis…
What if money was no object?
I wish I could have found the words as well as this.
I wonder how many people gave up on a dream for the money.
In related news, often you hear bankers saying that they need to earn large amounts because it’s such an awful/difficult job. They should do us all a favor and give up for something else.
Kelvin MacKenzie…
“Where does that leave me?”
Leaves you where you’ve been for the last thirty years. Without shame or a soul.
New health secretary…
“To be clear, a Health Minister who believes in magic sugar pills is like a Chancellor who believes – literally – in money trees. Or a Transport Minister who believes in perpetual motion.”
Sounds great!
Go Edwina…
There is only one…
Last night it was Edwina Currie who tweeted that “Italians are gorgeous even in wheelchairs”.
Paralympic Opening Ceremony: The word on the Tweet – The Media Blog.