Everything Changes

February 10, 2012

Hatch, Match and Dispatch ..the three occasions when most people go to church. Since 5th December 2005 with the Civil Partnerships Act 2004  couples of the same gender can form a legally binding partnership although couples of different genders cannot. Marriages are no longer restricted to priests or registrars although the practitioners have to be licensed. Funerals can be [...]

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So what is Loyalty?

February 8, 2012

 Déjà vu all over again? There I am thinking that George W Bush invented the above phrase, but it turns out to be Yogi Berra and brings back one of those moments when you read something that just stops you in your tracks. Previously, it was Why did Steve Jobs choose not effectively to treat his [...]

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An atrocity worse than the Holocaust?

January 30, 2012

Cancer cures going cheap Blog pundits tell me that articles should be kept 400-800 words as people won’t read longer stuff. Well let me break this rule as the video is over an hour long, but I urge you to watch it all the same. Think of it as an online documentary, which it is. A few [...]

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California’s oldest resident dies at age 111

January 28, 2012

Keeping her legs together and staying off the casting couch…. As the first of the baby boomers are retiring now, it is easy to think back on times when our parents were born and grandparents had their youth, as if they were very staid boring times. And strangely too, didn’t realise either that silent movies [...]

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On the shoulders of giants

January 24, 2012

“What Descartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, and especially in taking the colours of thin plates into philosophical consideration. If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants“ While science was the subject of Isaac Newton’s above quote in a 1676 letter to his rival [...]

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What on Earth is a Rab C Nesbitt Annuity?

January 21, 2012

Or what is an Annuity? This is a question that comes up at every The Pensions Advisory Service  TPAS presentation I give although the audience often doesn’t need to worry, as they are typically in public sector pension schemes where pension income is protected from the daily changes of annuity rates. An annuity is where you [...]

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Silicon Valley? Just another ghetto

January 19, 2012

Opposites Attract  – but Likes cluster First meeting of 2012 of George’s favourite networking group 3Cs Community  is another humdinger hosted again by Simmons & Simmons at their City Point Office. Few minutes of listening to first speaker Andrew Humphries of Tech City and you wonder where the recession went. Styling itself as The Digital Capital of Europe, [...]

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Fire Down Below

January 14, 2012

We Shall Not Remember Them First full week of the new year and nearly everyone is back at work. Only three weeks after the festivities and several weeks since Remembrance Sunday, the official time of year to be sad and think back. But not everyone is remembered and certainly not all with gratitude, reminding us [...]

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Nomoreirishjokes please

January 5, 2012

No More Irish jokes please! Giving my age away here, but comedian Charlie Chester (1914-1997) said humour is “really about cruelty!” Might even have seen him say it on B&W TV but the point is, we usually laugh at somebody. All very well but it depends which end of it you are. Let me restrain myself [...]

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Before Starbucks

January 3, 2012

Starbucks nearly ended up being called Pequod.. Taking its name from the first mate in the story of Moby Dick written by Herman Melville , the world’s largest coffee chain now has over 16,000 stores worldwide. Prior to this, coffee bars were typically individual or family businesses where the most famous included Café Hawelka in Vienna and Les Deux [...]

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