It’s no Woss

Jonathan Ross’ agent has announced he won’t be seeking to renegotiate his contract with the BBC. Although Ross claimed his decision was ‘not financially motivated’ this is an important lesson for all senior managers who often accept without question what remuneration consultants tell them: if you pay an employee you value a ridiculous £18 million [...]

Gordon Brown on Fiscal Fantasy Island: Fraudster Madoff with the cash of hardworking families

Bernie Madoff was today sentenced to 150 years in prison for defrauding thousands of innocent victims. When his Ponzi scheme was rendered unsustainable by the financial crisis, the exposed Madoff admitted his guilt and stated he was too ashamed even to seek his victims’ forgiveness.
Yet Madoff’s theft of £40 billion ($65 billion) over two decades is [...]

Government defeats motion to hold Iraq War Inquiry in public ‘whenever possible’

Hard to see the idea of holding an inquiry in public ‘whenever possible’ as undesirable, isn’t it?
Unless of course, the war was started by your party contrary to your party’s and public opinion. And if the British public was misled about the intelligence justification, purpose and legality of the war. And if the war was [...]

Can we believe the NHS’s management ratios?

An extremely well-informed source within a leading NHS trust has spilt the beans to cantankerous on how NHS trusts, and the NHS in general, have managed to hide the fact that the number of managers in the NHS has been growing out of control.
Here is how the statistics are manipulated: when compiling the number of [...]

Waster of the Month – June 2009 – Lord Karan Bilimoria

Cobra Beer tastes bitter to unsecured creditors

Sorry Nadine, the Prime Ministers were right

Nadine Dorries get hysterical about the public exposure of MPs expenses. Prime Ministers have understood the public mood all too well. Mass suicide is only likely if Brown calls a snap general election.

Expenses are only a symptom, not the cause, of the Middle Class Tax Revolt

Many MPs and journalists have been worrying about the damage that the Telegraph’s daily exposés are having on the reputation of Parliament.  Iain Dale, writing about his friend Nadine Dorries’ treatment by the Daily Telegraph, questioned, as have many other commentators, for how much longer the media frenzy can continue:
The Telegraph is publishing yet another raft of allegations against MPs [...]

Connecting for Health Strikes Back

Connecting for Health (Cfh) seeks to delay Newcastle’s timely and successful implementation of an alternative electronic medical record system to the failing £12.6 billion National Programme for IT (NPfIT).

Waster of the Month – May 2009 – NHS IT Purchasing

Another NHS IT disaster?

GOSH! A reason to think twice about giving to Great Ormond Street Hospital

Should we reward the NHS Trust that failed Baby Peter with more of our cash?