admin | December 18, 2008
I went into Woolies yesterday and you can feel lack of motivation from every member of staff working there. This is the dying throes of a business. I was given a black bin liner for my purchases for Mike’s sake! Reading this article http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/7788729.stm is probably the reason why.
I have no doubt [...]
admin | December 18, 2008
Or woman in this case. I just love it when big corporate enterprises are brought to attention by a person working with resolve and right.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/7789256.stm
Original post blogged on b2evolution.
admin | December 12, 2008
“This is a landlocked country. And its formal and informal economies would suffer. Within a week, it would bring the economy on its knees,” a senior US official said in Washington on condition of anonymity.
If the world’s highest inflation rate, last estimated in July at 231 million percent but now believed to be much higher, [...]
admin | December 3, 2008
Boing! Boing! Boing! Hello, here is the something o’clock news. England has come to a stand-still again due to the half inch of snow that has fallen in the last 24 hours!
Heh? Am I missing something? Isn’t it coming to something when the weather makes the headlines? Now I [...]
admin | December 2, 2008
“Only one group is more miserable than the retailers: the bankers and investment bankers.”
[see http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/2008/12/winter_of_discontent.html]
Original post blogged on b2evolution.
admin | November 20, 2008
Peston’s blog touches on the the sickness prevalent in corporate Britain. He notes that quite a lot of small to medium companies are in better positions – financially – than the bigger corporations. I can agree with that, I was just two years ago in one of those small businesses. In [...]
admin | November 19, 2008
The story that 5 senior Zanu-PF have resigned from the ruling party in Zimbabwe should be putting a smile on many peoples’ lips for this should be the beginnings of the end for Zanu PF. [ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7738406.stm ] But wait, this is a break based on tribal affiliations and that does not bode well [...]
admin | November 19, 2008
Africa has gained a reputation over the years of corruption and many Western countries have made big noises especially when discussing aid. So well versed are these arguments that you hear normal ‘on the street’ Joes using that as a reason ‘not to give aid to African countries’.
Many of us in [...]
admin | November 14, 2008
Well, you could have knoced me over sideways – The administrators of the UK and European arm of bankrupt investment bank Lehman Brothers are making better money than the bankers. [See http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/3460876/Lehmans-administrators-paid-more-than-the-bankers.html]
Is there any more to be said?
Original post blogged on b2evolution.
admin | November 13, 2008
World War I veteran dies aged 108 – http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/7712943.stm.
Three of the four surviving British veterans, Henry Allingham, 112, Harry Patch, 110, and Bill Stone, 108, of World War I have helped mark the 90th anniversary of the end of the conflict – http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7720601.stm.
I remember that one of, I think it was, Nostradamus’ predictions was that [...]
