A Thinking Man

There are two types of managers that I hate: those that bully, and those that bend.  I have worked for both in equal numbers during the course of my career - two bullies, and two bendies (as well as the occasional ‘good guy’), and I have to say, I actually prefer the bullies to the [...]

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I hate bullying and hypocrisy.
Now that the furore is dying down, I feel compelled to vent my feelings about the John Sergeant debacle that has dominated the UK press in the past week.
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For those of you who don’t know, John Sergeant started life as a comedian when an undergraduate at Oxford, and grew into a [...]

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As schools across most of the UK are about to start their Autumn terms, spare a brief thought for the teachers.  Although a few of them may have been swanning around for the past couple of months doing nothing but gardening, a few have been using the time to recover from the traumas of the [...]

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There was a report by Ruth Gledhill in the TimesOnline of a British citizen who was harassed when he converted to Christianity from Islam and who was then not taken seriously when he complained to the police. When locals threatened to burn his house down he was told by officers to “stop being a [...]

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In the Bolivian city of El Alto 10 prostitutes have sewed their lips together with thread as part of a hunger strike.  Why are they so moved to such extreme action?  They are are demanding that the mayor reopen brothels and bars which were recently ordered closed after violent protests by residents last week.
Lily Cortez, leader of [...]

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