Back in June last year The Times in London gave the following statistics: Almost 60 million people around the world have been driven from their homes by war or persecution. About 14 million people were displaced last year alone, with the Syrian civil war the single biggest cause. Half of the displaced are children. Since …
To The Daily Telegraph The absurdity of Maurice Ravel’s music enriching his brother’s wife’s masseuse’s husband’s second wife’s daughter exemplifies our over-generous copyright laws. The original copyright act of 1842 set the term at seven years from an author’s death. This has been extended, first to 50 years from death, then to 70. In the …
The number of babies born to teenagers in England and Wales has fallen to its lowest level in almost 70 years. 25,977 women aged under 20 had babies in 2014 – the fewest since 1946. (ONS/The Guardian) On the other hand: British parents are having more children than at any time since the 1970s. In …
America’s civil asset forfeiture laws, another product of law enforcement’s failed war on drugs, originally designed to deprive suspected drug dealers of the spoils of their illicit trade — houses, cars, boats — now regularly deprive people unconnected to the war on drugs of their property, without due process of law and in violation of …
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According to an amazing statistic from the Bureau of Labor Statistics the average job tenure of all American employees in 2014 was 4.6 years. What words of wisdom may we glean from this fact? Experience suggests that, depending on the job and the organisation, it might take, say, a year or two for a new …
