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Time to Stop Fighting Hate With Hate?

One of the great things about my short trip to Dorset is that the rolling Purbeck Hills are blissfully ignorant of military coups, trucks ploughing through kids on a night out and American cops shooting black people as well as getting shot back at as patience snaps. Welcome to the new order of the world, where the masses appear to want to vote in governments that ...

A Few Days in the Purbecks

My tens of regular readers will have noticed that I have not been blogging for a few days, however,don't worry, I am not dead just yet, I have been away on a campervan trip with my youngest son, Harry. If you have not been to the Isle of Purbeck before, you really should, as despite only being 6o odd miles away, it feels a lot further, probably due to the rolling ...

A Corporate Tale of Two Joe’s!

I was talking to my girlfriend this morning about her fears of giving up working part-time and returning to the corporate world of bullshitting and backstabbing undertaken by people either trying to secure their positions or achieve loftier ambitions, despite their lack of discernible talent. I was a spectacular failure in corporate life, not because I was bad at ...

May the New Leader as Apathy Starts Winning Without a Fight!

I saw Tessa Jowell (Labour) and Francis Maude (Conservative) sagely nodding in agreement at each other on Newsnight last night and it kind of dawned on me that the centrist political class are slowly but surely winning the day as the proles becomes bored of politics now the referendum is becoming yesterday's chip paper. The pro-EU Prime Minister has gone, the ...

A Tale of Immigration

Back in the early noughties, I was doing a lot of recruiting and payroll work for an Irish company in North London. Because of the false building boom of that period, they were incredibly busy and expanding rapidly. One of the issues they had at the time was that the Celtic Tiger was roaring and a lot of Irish labour was moving back to Southern Ireland to make ...