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Thursday
Jan242013

Plane wrong

You see, I don’t think he was right, that Tim Harford. But as he’s a journalist for the FT and BBC, I’d better set my case out.

In a talk about great leaps of genius versus smaller incremental tippy-toe steps, he mentioned the Spitfire as one example of mould-breaking innovation. What would have become of us, ran the subtext, if it hadn’t been for the inventor of the chariots of Spitfire? Thank goodness they had the cleverness and daring to come up with something out of the blue that could fly straight back into the blue and fight the Hun.

Well, no

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Sunday
Nov252012

An Act Of Faith Too Far

This week the Church of England decided to maintain discrimination against women, when it decided to preserve the age-old divide between the sexes. The General Synod voted against the idea of allowing women priests to be promoted to the role of bishop. Consequently, they are allowed to serve as foot soldier priests, but not as senior managers.

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Wednesday
Nov142012

On Lost Leaders

Leadership is a perennially interesting subject. I’ve worked under leaders who were captivating, interesting, engaging, who knew what they were doing and who I was quite happy to follow. I’ve also worked under the usual British sort.

Two of them have recently been of interest – one who rose from complete obscurity and sank back down there in less time than the life of a Virgin Rail open return. The other has a long record of previous to take into consideration. Both are naturally paid a king’s ransom for their troubles.

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Friday
Feb132009

Not the NHS - but the RTD

There's only one thing that people of any nation hate more than their fellow countrymen, and that's people from another country. To help them sustain the idea that they themselves are greater collectively than any other people, they need myths. In the UK, we have several myths - among them are the belief that we gave democracy to the world, that we have the best police force in the world and that our TV is the best in the world. But one of the most enduring is that our health service is the best in the world.

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