Cuba: insights for a post-Brexit Britain
I did not vote for Brexit. I thought it an idiotic, retrograde concept that would most hurt the poorest in society, accelerate the dismemberment of the United Kingdom, and lead to diminution of British influence on the world stage. I craved a validatory referendum.
A sour taste in my mouth
This essay is a review of Cubic Construction and its principal proprietor, Qulzam (Cooly) Mahmood. I am surprised by the absence of other reviews on the internet, either positive or negative, since my experience was so extreme.
The British Army 2020: a chronic failure of organisational design
“The first duty of Government is the defence of the realm”. This truism comes from The Armed Forces Covenant, a Ministry of Defence document articulating the relationship between the state and the soldier.
The Power of the Union
The first single I ever bought was Geno by Dexy’s Midnight Runners. It sat in a red, drop-front box for nearly five years before I found something worthy of joining it, Billy Bragg’s Between the Wars EP.
Please do not sit here - a cultural study of Ryanair
I am going to be working abroad for a couple of months. My client is a manufacturing company with a loss-making plant located half way across Europe. There are two options for getting there: the Jet2 flight from Leeds or the Ryanair flight from Manchester.