Now Oxfam have been rocked by scandal. Where did it go wrong? February 12, 2018 OXFAM IS IN the news. On Sunday, the charities watchdog demanded that the world-famous anti-poverty organisation explain whether there was any truth to the accusation that staff used prostitutes in Haiti in 2011 and then covered it up, allowing at least one of those people to work for another aid agency. The suggestion is [...]
Why we’re right to condemn YouTube star Logan Paul January 2, 2018 On Sunday, YouTuber Logan Paul uploaded a video of an apparent suicide victim in Japan. Paul, who has 15 million subscribers, was with his friends at the base of Mount Fuji, in a forest notorious for suicides. It wasn’t long before the criticism started. One commenter called out Logan Paul for the ‘disrespectful’ way [...]
As 2017 ends, what is the state of the British Labour Party? December 21, 2017 I’ve spoken in the past about my longtime membership of the Labour Party and my admiration for Tony Blair’s government. And just as often I have expressed disappointment with Labour’s current direction and with its current leadership, who have tried to force an unworkable brand of politics onto the party. Why am I still [...]
Gold, Frankincense and Sausage Roll: When Bad Publicity Is Good Publicity November 16, 2017 YESTERDAY, THE BAKERY chain Greggs was forced to apologise to Britain’s Christian community. The reason? Because, to promote its advent calendar, it used an image showing the three wise men gathered around a crib containing a sausage roll. Various Christian and right-wing groups and people had piled in. Simon Richards of the Freedom Association [...]
McKinsey proves that the gig-economy is a matter of choice October 20, 2016 A few days ago, McKinsey published a landmark report. You probably missed it. Most people did. It was called ‘Independent work: Choice, necessity, and the gig economy’. But it may well go down in history because it’s the first time anyone has really studied 21st Century freelance workers in what we’ve come to call the ‘gig-economy’, and [...]
