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Two examples of the short and sweet approach to the blogger’s art: one pointing out how offensive euphemism can be, and one asking a question that really should be easy to answer but seemed to perplex...
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Standing in the Shadows of Giants
24 March was, of course, Budget Day. To hijack one of the phrases of our times, a good day to bury pretty much any kind of news that wasn’t about NI contributions, duty rates on cider or stamp duty....
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Sampling diversity: a feast, a dog’s dinner or a pelican’s breakfast?
Maybe it’s the mark of a good event that it makes you think. In which case, the organisers of WOMAD (World of Music and Dance) should take a bow, as this will be the second time that their festival has...
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Two counter-intuitive postings from around the wider world of the web, both on aspects of organisational culture and its impact on satisfaction, performance and sustainability … and on the things we...
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Roots are for vegetables?
The title is a quote, fittingly from a food critic turned journalist and documentary maker: Jonathan Meades. Equally fittingly, Meades television output has a distinctly ‘marmite’ flavour: some people...
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Going Dutch? How not to put a clog in it …
There are many ways of profiling both individuals (including a wide range of psychometric instruments, such as FIRO-B or MBTI) and broader cultures. At the level of an organisation, for example, there...
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Forgive us for hanging a broader point off a recent political headline (especially as we’ve apologised for this already this month), but the reshuffles of both the government ministers and their Shadow...
View ArticleLevel Playing Fields and Non-Sporting Types
Gender issues should perhaps join that apocryphal list with death and taxes: as long as we have more than one gender, dealing with their differences will be with us. Which aspect of ‘the issue’ we tend...
View ArticleBut there’s only room for one label …
Recently, I ‘shared’ a jokingly scathing opinion about hipsters online. (If you are thinking about 50s jazz musician slang or trousers with a lower than average waistband at this point, click here for...
View ArticlePut yourself in her shoes for a moment …
In an age where attention often has to be grabbed rather than requested, one charity hit upon a way of highlighting violence against women – and showing that men can and do care – that was fairly...
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