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Pass the Tequila I have just been thrown a lemon!

Sarah Arrow — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:00:05 +0000

Pin It I have always worked. From a young age I was taught that if I wanted something I had to pay for it and a job was the way to go. If I remember rightly, I think I was around 9 when I got my first paper round. Well let’s skip through the years [...]

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Big Society – Bigger Issues

RhiannonHill — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:53:01 +0000

Forget altruism. Everyone is self interested. My experience of those who set up benevolent, non profit making organisations is that it is a very short while between getting the great warm fuzzy feeling that comes from helping the apparently helpless, to the idea that, well, there should be some greater reward.

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Doing Business in challenging environments

IdaHorner — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 14:00:00 +0000

Pin It Last year I wrote about the implications of doing business in areas of conflict . I was pleased to see that in some places things have moved on when I attended a panel discussion in London last Thursday. The event was entitled Unlocking Africa’s potential through partnership- and the central question the panel had to address was, How can the [...]

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Pension reform 101

Special Guest — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 10:00:45 +0000

Pin It The Pension Reform From October 2012 onwards all eligible workers will have to be automatically enrolled in a Qualifying Pension Scheme. There will be minimum contributions required from each worker and employer. The Qualifying Scheme could be your existing company scheme if it meets the qualifying criteria, or the National Employment Savings Trust [...]

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“We let it slip”

Special Guest — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 09:00:06 +0000

Pin It “We let it slip” Image by howzey via Flickr Mervyn King is apparently only the second governor of the Bank of England ever to address the TUC in its 142 year history. Well that’s nice. He even started with a wee bit of humility and a grudging acceptance that he and his cronies [...]

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What kind of people are we?

Special Guest — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:00:00 +0000

Pin It My last blog (not untypically, come to think of it) was a bit of a rant, and I’m afraid this one is too. We’ll blame it on the painkillers rather than the fact that advancing years are making me grumpier every day, I think. Anyway, this one isn’t about any particular issue – [...]

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Personal violation, Robbery, Theft and Larceny

Lynn Tulip — Sun, 30 May 2010 13:00:00 +0000

I know I am not the first, and I am definitely not the last but earlier this week I was the victim of a robbery. The house I was staying in was burgled. An ingenious entry – gemming off a sliding patio door and forcing open the window. This happened whilst the house was empty [...]

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Breaking the final taboo – secrecy around salaries

Special Guest — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:00:27 +0000

Pin It Very few subjects seem to be taboo these days. People talk about death, and sex, and how much their car cost. But one of the last areas of secrecy – how much salary people are paid – could be about to fall. A new piece of legislation has just been passed through parliament [...]

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Benefits or jobs?

JaneHatton — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:00:37 +0000

Many disabled people are unable to do paid work because their disability prevents them. However, for those who are able to work, their disability may still prevent them getting work, because of the myths surrounding the issue of employing disabled people. 20% of the working population are disabled, and eight out of 10 disabled people [...]

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Are there circumstances in which corruption is justifiable?

Sarah Arrow — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 10:00:55 +0000

Thursday 17 December 2009, I am in a cab in Uganda on my way to our family cemetery so I could leave flowers on my late father’s grave. We get stopped by a female traffic Cop and before she uttered a word the driver offers to buy her a soda! This is a by word [...]

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