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Postcards from my mind, written for my reader, she knows who she is.

Month: January 2021

Covid-19 Pandemic Food for Thought

Experts of the possible

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Some public health experts argue it can be done, but the experts in carrying out that kind of thing, the politicians, believe it cannot. https://www.irishtimes.com/business/covid-19-is-now-a-global-problem-in-search-of-an-irish-solution-1.4464511 Easily forgotten, but that’s a good definition of what a politician is: an expert in what’s possible to do, which may not be what a health expert says we should […]

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Brexit Europe

“Welcome to Brexit”

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Here’s the Brexit cake you ordered, now you’ve got to eat it. At a lunch with EU ambassadors on Wednesday, the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen is understood to have given a frosty response to the volley of complaints from UK businesses about how difficult it all is, especially the rules […]

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Arts Sounds

For Tomorrow

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The previous post reminds me of this, for obvious reasons: “Jim stops and gets out the carGoes to a house in Emperor’s GateThrough the door and to his roomThen he puts the TV onTurns it off and makes some teaSays, “Modern life, well, it’s rubbish”I’m holding on for tomorrow”

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Big Business

CEO Value

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How much more is a CEO worth than the rest of the workforce? Luke Hildyard, the director of the High Pay Centre, which campaigns for executive pay restraint, said: “Pay for top CEOs today is about 120 times that of the typical UK worker. Estimates suggest it was around 50 times at the turn of […]

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