UK Business

In these days I am amazed to see adverts to sell goods and services without an email address.  It is a deterrent to the purchaser to have to phone and speak and then possible find no-one able to answer the their question.  The plus is that if you do get through the salesperson can exert their charms.

Then there are the ones whihc are so small you need a magnifying glass!

Make it easy to buy.

Just such a day!

Today is cold, still and sunless.  Just such a day that those favouring renewable energy should and some do, fear.  There is little capability to generate electricity so a backup is needed.  That backup, unless it is nuclear, will create CO2.  It also negates the economics of renewable energy unless we are happy to ration electricity.

What happened to RSI

In the '80s every business magazine and certainly all the Unions featured RSI.  Operators of PC keyboards were seemingly more prone to it than typists.  All sorts of paraphernalia sold and good practice developed.  Now where is it?

If you watch people of all ages texting and fingering through apps there should be lots of RSI around.  Perhaps there is some, but it never hits the headlines.

Muslims

Some very dear friends of mine are Muslims and nicer people you could not wish to meet.  But we fear the popular image - why?  Is it untrue?  Yes like all generalisations, it is untrue.  But nevertheless the vocal minority preach hate against the West.  But the most fatal relationships is surely Shai vs. Sunni or of course, the reverse.

UK Society - Anglican Bishops

The Bishops in the House of Lords are throwback to times when the Church was all powerful.  It demonstrated the supremacy of the English established over the Catholics.  Now of course there Muslims, Hindu, Jewish and other Protestants faiths to name a few which may be more active than Anglicans.

Is it wise that they should publicly take on the Government on limiting benefits which being set at £26,000 net has wide public support.

Ballet

The main BBC News spent time on the unexpected quiting of a ballet dancer from Covent Grarden.  I would bet the 99% of the viewers would not have heard of him or even care.

UK Society - Scottish Devolution

I will be immensely sad to see the break up of the Union.  With EU rules of course it can be done with much less penalty to individuals, we can still have Scots in many key UK positions and to be fair they may not wish to split.  But there will be repercussions with English Nationalism and if we leave Europe life for expatriate Scots could get more difficult than they imagine.

Just get on with and decide one way or another.

London Underground

Why do the in-train announcements say ALIGHT.  In a carriage packed with foreign tourists how many understand it means GET OFF?