The problem is really about trying to freeze values. The standard, everyday values of even 1950s Britain would be unacceptable today. The standard, everyday values of 610 Britain? If someone showed u… (View Post)

There seems to be a plague of such people in the Charitable/Third Sector. They are incompetent managers to a staggering degree, moving around, collapsing organisations. A common factor is their belie… (View Post)

No, no, no. The ideology is that you need to deliver the Far, Far, Far Right government so that the whole system collapses and everyone joins in the Pure Socialist Revolution. The fact that every tim… (View Post)

In regular life - I think he was the only one. Apart from an activist type who got herself arrested in Turkey back when it was run by the military. As a student, I was helping run the student union. … (View Post)

It's may also be the difference between the rank and file and the Senior Management Team (SMT). The SMT are uniformly (ha!) held in contempt by the rank and file. The classic was the senior officer w… (View Post)