My wife and I were sitting in a Lisbon square, drawing. A Frenchman leaned over to see what I was doing and we had a brief conversation. “Are you British”, he asked. “Yes”. “May I see your visa, please? ” Don’t laugh. It could happen.
Let’s accept that, (in the Disunited States) we’re “stuck with the guns and instead should focus on the bullets. If we required people to have a licence to buy ammunition, and stamped bullets with serial numbers so that shell casings from crime scenes could be traced back to stores, we could potentially save many lives …
Earlier in the year the New York Times carried an article on a management tool I was unaware of – the 360-review. In my time as a manager we had annual staff performance reviews, strictly confidential and conducted between the manager and each of his/her staff. The latest wrinkle on this is to encourage everyone …
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For those who grew up believing in an open, accepting, outward- looking country, where the government at least tried to govern for all the people, where there was a feeling of community and a desire to get along with everyone, regardless of age, gender and country of origin; for those who still believe in cooperation …
Going, going, gone. Five of the Solomon Islands have been swallowed whole by rising sea levels, offering a glimpse into the future of other low-lying nations. Sea levels in the Solomon Islands have been climbing by 7 millimetres per year over the last two decades, due to a double whammy of global warming and stronger …
