I’m increasingly convinced that the inmates are running this asylum that I find myself in. Politicians (well, one, take a bow Sir Kier Starmer) couldn’t explain until recently what a...
We were all horrified as news came in about the air collision between a Blackhawk helicopter and a passenger plane at Washington DC Airport, which took the lives of all...
Boris Johnson's special adviser Dominic Cummings has urged “weirdos and misfits” to apply for jobs in Downing Street ahead of a planned shake-up of the civil service. I think I may qualify; here's my...
As a manager, I've had to do my fair share of performance appraisals, which (as I'm sure the employees also found) was a pretty tedious and meaningless experience. Fortunately I...
Apparently there is a world-wide epidemic of 'Zombie Smartphone Users', which I can quite believe based on my infrequent sojourns into London. A smartphone zombie is a pedestrian who walks...
With apologies to the original author, but I don't know the provenance of this piece. All I know is that it conforms to my understanding (and experience) of how the...
Stuck for what to write on your employee's personal appraisal form? Short of ideas on what to write on that reference you were asked for? Here's a few ideas (with...
I guess we've all seen them - notices that have used some form of strangled English to convey their message. Some funny, some weird, and some that defy logic. Here's...