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Deep and Narrow or Broad and Shallow? Let’s try for broad and deep! – where we can add value. I’m delighted to have passed my written assignment and achieved the “Primary Certificate in Psychodynamic Theory and Practice”. Many thanks to fabulous Course Leader Kate Williams and the Temenos team. As
Forget the rhetoric – How key demographics actually voted and what it means My degree is in statistics and economics (UCL)…I particularly liked Statistical Inference, in other words, what CAN and CAN’T you reliably say (infer) from a set of data. And then The Presentation of Statistical Data matters too – what to show,
The Democrats could have won easily with disciplined policies. To make the US election result about personalities – and demonisation of the candidates or the voters – is to miss the point and learn nothing. If someone with a character record like Trump can win against a candidate with the
How ‘anti-racism’ becomes blanket totalitarianism – and racist. The ‘wrong kind of black people’ are now not safe from left-wing totalitarianism. For those of us who genuinely care about continuing to reduce racism of all kinds, and provide genuine equality of opportunity in the UK as fast as we can,
Our grandparents risked and died for us. Now it is our time to stand as moderates against totalitarianism of both left and right. “We will remember them…” An incredible and poignant piece of writing and delivery in Blackadder Goes Forth (below). My infinite thanks to those, like my grandad and grandma (and
I see a lot of misuse of statistics, some deliberately dishonest, on all sides of arguments. As a Statistics graduate I think this should be a criminal offence, of course! In particular now, we need fair and accurate narratives to avoid encouraging polarisation within society and within organisations’ working populations.
My favourite quote on simplism Steven R. Covey said (and he probably got it from someone else) a brilliant quote, “I would not give a fig for the simplicity on this side of complexity; but I would give my right arm for the simplicity of the other side of complexity”.
It’s a difficult area to address. But important. Here’s a Top 10 for organisation leaders to work on before they even start. On LinkedIn I was asked…How can businesses and colleagues be effective allies to Black employees year-round? hashtag#BlackHistoryMonth hashtag#LinkedInNewsUK I get the intention. And I get the desired outcome of us
People are starting to ask if it’s possible for UK society to become totalitarian. They’re behind the curve – it’s started. Totalitarianism has many names – authoritarianism, Marxism/Fascism, the Controller society, etc. At least two billion people in the 20th century lived under totalitarian regimes – regimes where the individual’s
The philosopher Friedrich Nietszche wasn’t religious, but had this part right I have a religious faith. I wasn’t born with it, I’m a convert. It became clearer and clearer over time to me that God exists, loves me, and we are all God’s loved children on a path of potential.
Reform doesn’t have it all wrong, or all right – here are two shifts needed The UK Reform Party – like them or loathe them – gained 4m votes (14.3%) in the 2024 UK General Election. They haven’t got it all wrong, or all right. What they have right is
We must reject totalitarianism from both Right and Left Clear writing from Matt Goodwin and Luke Conway. If we are to avoid totalitarianism – an eternal vigilance – we must notice it emerging in both Left and Right. For me, the only way to tackle real racism, sexism etc, and
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Democracy in the UK is at a low and needs saving. It’s a difficult time politically in the UK. Democracy is at a low and set to get lower. The Conservatives deserved to lose the last election; Labour didn’t have much support to win it. Labour won only 20% of
An example from today – keep thinking, all! So Esheru Kwaku and and Isobel Oakeshott disagree today. No surprise. But see the arguments… Isobel: “Met Police Federation Chair Rick Prior appears to have been SUSPENDED for telling the truth on @TalkTV about how officers fear false accusations of racism. This
