Light hearted blog posts from our consultants
Bad Habits in the Workplace Our professional working lives last about 45 years. Let’s say you worked a 40 hour week, 48 weeks of the year, that’s a total of 86,400 hours of work time! With all those hours worked it’s understandable if you let a few bad habits slip out whilst spending time in [...]
Ever since the Governments austerity measures were implemented after the financial crash of 2007-08, Manchester has seen a reduction in police budgets. This has led to, rather unsurprisingly, a decrease in the number of officers protecting Mancunians from crime. Greater Manchester’s deputy mayor for policing and crime Bev Hughes stated that “GMP has lost £250m, [...]
Last month Donald Trump made it known that he would like to introduce the death penalty to drug dealers and traffickers. Inevitably, this polarising topic caused a small stir, primarily for all the hurdles such a suggestion would have to go through to become a reality. The death penalty was abolished in the UK in [...]
Britain’s last taboo has made its way back into the public conscience recently with Guernsey’s parliament due to hold a vote in May regarding allowing terminally ill people the right to die, so long as they have only six months to live and are mentally competent. Assisted dying has been illegal in Britain since the [...]
A lot has been said recently about the connection between Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. The firm used personal information harvested from more than 50 million Facebook users without permission to help them help Donald Trump win the American election. At the same time this was exposed, CEO Alexander Nix was secretly filmed boasting of using [...]
On Thursday the world celebrated International Women’s Day. Past celebrations have generally focussed on the promotion and encouragement of women to be who they want to be and achieve what they want to achieve. But this year was different, the usual encouragement of women was promoted however, this year there was a sense of anger, [...]
It’s 14th February 2018, a mere 45 days into the new year and an expelled student by the name of Nikolas Cruz, armed with a Smith & Wesson M&P 15 .223 (also known as an AR-15 assault rifle), smoke grenades, a gas mask and magazines of ammo walks into his old school in Florida and [...]
This week it was announced that a statue of suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst will be displayed in St Peter’s Square by the end of the year. The bronze sculpture was approved by councillors and will be only the second statue of a woman in the city centre after Queen Victoria. Designed by sculptor Hazel Reeves, [...]
No doubt many of you will have read about the collapse of Carillion this week. A private sector business dealing with public sector contracts went into liquidation after racking up debts of £1bn and a £500m pension deficit. Whilst the ‘how and why’ is yet to be established, the knock on effects are already starting [...]
During the festive season it’s not uncommon for people to feel the urge to give something back. More often than not, this manifests itself in the form of helping the homeless over Christmas. Whilst it is a noble gesture for sure, a recent article by Derek Mace, Operations Director at Coastline Housing’s homelessness service has [...]
