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January 2008
Averting insanity
Thursday, 31 January 2008 4:57 P GMT+01
News of a co-pilot losing his marbles three-quarters through a flight means more needs to be done about addressing mental stability in high-responsibility job roles in the workplace.
Dickens Lives in New York
Monday, 28 January 2008 12:28 A GMT+01
An English family visiting New York relives a Dickensian nightmare.
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The Chief Corporate Counsellor
Saturday, 26 January 2008 1:25 P GMT+01
There are more rogues than the presumed scapegoat rogue trader at Société Générale.
The bank was lax, culpable and derelict in their responsibility to due process, checks and the welfare of their staff.
A corporate counsellor might have averted this.
Rogue Trader II - 4 times Bigger
Thursday, 24 January 2008 9:46 P GMT+01
A 31-year old "rogue-trader" loses $7.1 billions at Société Générale Bank - questions and no answers to satisfy me yet.
Dogged by Goth prejudice
Thursday, 24 January 2008 5:20 P GMT+01
A Goth couple are hounded off buses in Yorkshire because one of them is on a dog leash.
Concerns about safety are one thing but when prejudice is expressed in hurtful words - we have another matter at hand.
Interest rates: Hammer hits nail (thumb)
Wednesday, 23 January 2008 5:16 P GMT+01
As far as interest rates are concerned in the US, the hammer has hit the nail quite hard - only that the nail is on the thumb - Ouch! Ouch!
And there would be a few more of those before things turn out right.
I have a nano-dream
Monday, 21 January 2008 9:52 P GMT+01
As we commemorate the Martin Luther King Day 2008, I do not think we are any nearer fulfilling the words of that "I have a dream" speech given almost 45 years ago.
We have individuals, fine, but not great numbers of people who have really made it.
Drugs: Chavez is NOT the problem
Monday, 21 January 2008 5:50 P GMT+01
A US Illicit Drugs control official accuses Hugo Chavez of Venezuela of colluding in allowing drugs to be trafficked through Venezuela to the United States.
I contend that Venezuela has other priorities than trying to solve the US drug problem.
Widespread Gusset Anxiety
Monday, 21 January 2008 3:11 P GMT+01
Jeremy Paxman asks a question about why his underwear is not more providing the support he is accustomed to. I hope Marks & Spencer has some good answers.
Cloning: Vitually indistinguishable shit
Sunday, 20 January 2008 8:38 A GMT+01
Cloned food might be virtually indistinguishable from conventional produce but it does not give the FDA the right to not require cloned foods be specifically labelled.
Coward, the Courageous Pilot
Sunday, 20 January 2008 12:29 A GMT+01
This is like life imitating cartoons from Courage the Cowardly Dog to Coward the Courageous Man who landed a distressed airplane safely just before the runway at London Heathrow Airport last Thursday.
The child shall be called - Bingo
Saturday, 19 January 2008 4:58 P GMT+01
People given foreign names they cannot pronounce correctly - it just makes fools of both the parents and the child.
Category: Commentary Nigeria
Nigeria: An Exposé on influence peddling
Friday, 18 January 2008 11:30 P GMT+01
The Gbenga Obasanjo divorce proceedings contains detail we should not ignore. How he and his wife have peddled influence as relations of the President then and ex-president now.
The "corrupt" liaisons have to be probed.
Handling Internet Intimidation
Thursday, 17 January 2008 11:58 P GMT+01
Handling an Internet menace of harassment can be a time-consuming and resource intensive business. However, sometimes one has to be tenacious enough to gather the evidence and bold enough to involve the police before it terrorises your existence.
Nigeria: Divorce mentions adulterous incest
Tuesday, 15 January 2008 4:12 P GMT+01
The son of the ex-President is sending social shock waves through the country by attesting that both his father and father-in-law have been in adulterous liaisons with his wife.
He thinks his kids are theirs.
I hate being a pawn
Monday, 14 January 2008 1:13 P GMT+01
I have been out-manoeuvred but I would not play this game. I'm out.
Category: Commentary General
Nigeria: Another two oil cremations
Sunday, 13 January 2008 12:57 P GMT+01
News of Nigerians caught in the flames of oil burning amongst them hits the wires - two days in a row.
The tea cosy
Saturday, 12 January 2008 1:37 P GMT+01
In and out of the kitchen in an apron keeping time and having hot tea.
Category: Commentary General
Boats, Threats & Videotape
Friday, 11 January 2008 7:48 P GMT+01
The boats, the threats and the videotapes from both the United States and Iran about a confrontation in the Strait of Hormuz show that someone is up to no good - but who?
Brood of vipers or leaders?
Friday, 11 January 2008 6:45 P GMT+01
The children of African leaders are making the news and many for the debauched reasons of living lives of excess. Should other children of Africa have access to some the opportunities wasted by these children of privilege
Back home
Thursday, 10 January 2008 5:31 P GMT+01
All on my way back home and now reflecting on yesterday.
Category: Commentary General
He´s Barack but she´s back
Wednesday, 9 January 2008 1:51 P GMT+01
You cannot trust the polls in US Elections and we need to give less credence to their influence and allow the votes to be counted fully before declaring victors.
Jeremy Clarkson teaches Data Protection
Monday, 7 January 2008 11:59 P GMT+01
Jeremy Clarkson takes us to the Top Gear of data protection after being stung by publishing his bank details pooh-poohing the risk of identity fraud from the loss of personal data.
The wonder of a man and his maid(en)
Monday, 7 January 2008 2:09 P GMT+01
The man-woman dynamic never fails to amaze me - on holiday this time, I thought I would write about my observations.
A triplicate is one not three
Saturday, 5 January 2008 4:31 P GMT+01
What chance has the customer when the concierge does not know what filling forms in triplicate are for? Before I had time to iron out other issues.
Category: Commentary General
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