Fixed term parliaments

I am very much in favour of fixed-term parliaments. Slightly uncomfortable with the company I keep on this issue (especially the bloggers). I am surprised that no Labour MPs have joined.

We need better number education

Ben highlights an astonishingly important misuse of statistics around survival rates in early births. As he says, the figure being quoted has no scientific backup. It suggests we should do further research to see if specialist units are that better. But currently,...

Is Google vulnerable?

Interesting thinking around issues for Google – I hadn’t thought through the implications of its not being number one in many locations. The third-generation search engines might bring new pieces to the party, but they will need to be transformational...

What’s up with James Watson

A thoughtful summary which explains to me why I had a bipolar reaction to the reported comments of James Watson last week. His quoted comments are very close to the bone: but you have to do the “what if” test and see how you would react if you assume he is...

Innovative management

Good McK with Hamel and Bryan on how management needs to change to respond flexibly to the new global working structures.

Horrible story

I hope that this sort of stuff happens very rarely, given the limited number of times we read similar items. I was expecting a laugh when I read the headline. Quite the opposite.Man jailed for urinating on woman