Polly Toynbee has an excellent article in The Guardian on June 14th. She points out that, however well the dangers of Brexit are explained, people simply are not listening. Immigration and Turkey are what is on their frontal lobes. The reality is that An actual Brexit will mean little change, except a big drop in …
A letter from Portugal “The criterion behind this choice of paintings by Manuel Amadon, now shown at Casa das Historias , that is to say, the various possibilities of creating groups and relations within this universe of images, is freely devised in a curatorial approach that is unrestrained by any kind of systematic vision or …
“The ‘self-service revolution’ has been wonderful for companies. What better way to strip out costs than to replace supermarket cashiers with machines, or make passengers print out their boarding passes? In a new book, Shadow Work, Craig Lambert argues that “the reason why so many people feel overworked these days is that they are constantly being …
Continue reading ‘The perils of heaping work on customers’ »
Letter to the New Scientist from Laura Re: “Your article on having kids does not take into account one crucial factor contributing to happiness: fitting in with your peers. My grandmother, talking about the war, used to say: we were poor but it didn’t matter, because everybody else was. My aunt once stated that she eventually …
Owing to possible unavailability of wireless it may be impossible to post on this blog during the next ten days. Please keep reading ( and commenting!) but if there is a break in transmision it will only be occasional and, at worst, short. Thank you for your support.
