Lifestyle topics
Drinking as little as one fizzy drink a day appears to significantly increase the risk of diabetes in later life. Researchers found that those who drank one sugary soft drink a day had a 22% higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes than those who drank one can a month. Partly, this was down to …
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The Most Rev. Justin Welby, the new Archbishop of Canterbury, who sits on the parliamentary Banking Standards Commission in Parliament, has criticised “the culture of entitlement” among London bankers, calling for them to pass professional exams, and advocating the break-up of at least one state-backed institution into smaller regional banks. Naturally, the not disinterested financial …
Google has always portrayed itself as a “new style of company”: cool, hip, enlightened and compassionate, so different from nasty capitalist enterprises of the past.” But don’t be fooled. For all its “pious rhetoric”, Google is in fact one of the worst offenders when it comes to corporate tax avoidance. In 2011 the firm made …
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Apparently, 49% of British workers would be prepared to accept a pay cut if only they could work for a better manager. Is good management learned in school or college? (probably not). Is it learned in business school? (almost definitely not!). Or is it simply the ability, or inability, of so many people to put …
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On a recent flight into Heathrow airport we were able to collect all our luggage, except for a bag belonging to my wife. We were told it would certainly be recovered and delivered to us within 24 hours. It turned up eight hours later (the point being that I couldn’t have been left by accident …
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