An article by Jo Littler on March 24th this year in the Guardian Weekly savaged the concept of meritocracy. Meritocracy, a word that only dates back only to 1956, was originally a word of abuse, describing a ludicrously unequal state that no one would want to live in. Now it is espoused by Theresa May …
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Applying for a job can be a soul-destroying process. For the past few years, the world’s biggest firms have been using AI recruitment software to filter job applications and streamline the process. Existing applicant tracking systems (ATS) typically scan applications for keywords that the employer has selected. Any CVs that don’t fit the bill are …
From the Financial Timesi: “The Ruling by the Court of Justice of the EU would be an excellent opportunity for the EU to reverse one of its bigger recent errors in trade policy. It should ditch the whole idea of having rules on investment, or at least rules allowing companies to sue a government directly, …
This is a long posting, for which I apologise, but I offer it for a good reason: to illustrate what a really “good life” looks like, a life that would have been greatly admired by Epicurus and all his fellow philosophers. I have disguised his real identity as W.H for the sake of his family …
In the UK the huge rise in the number of people going to university (now 1.4 million) has been paralled by a collapse of the apprenticeship system, the number of apprentices falling from 250,000 in 1973 to 50,000 in 2016. Technical training for the less academic was dealt a death blow by the transformation of …
