Arnold Donald, the CEO of the world’s largest cruise line, thinks his industry is getting a bad coronavirus rap. COVID-19 hotspots on seven of his now shut-down Carnival cruise ships have left 39 dead. But Donald has been busy insisting that “a cruise ship is not a riskier environment.” His vessels, says Donald, more resemble …
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Not that long ago, but it feels like a lost age, the Big Worry used to be that there was nothing to talk about over the water cooler any more. Because we watched our own flavour of streamed television and were targeted with personalised ads on Facebook, we in the 21st century had no common …
A local opinion poll was taken in our district the other day. It asked which local facilities are you missing most, being locked in at home. The sample was modest, just under 2000 respondents, but the results were interesting: Going out to restaurants. 38% …
Over the summer of 2019 the president indicated that his team thought low-income families were getting a too greedy about food. He announced a new plan designed to exclude hundreds of thousands of people from the food stamp program. This was done last December by tightening work requirements for able-bodied adults with no dependents, the U.S. …
“The most misleading idea I picked up at school was that success is the result of intelligence. It’s not: it’s the result of doing things. This seems so obvious now, I can’t believe nobody drummed it into me at school. So I never did an internship or tried to get myself elected to a prestigious …
