Just a quickie. Watched the ‘big #ScotsDecide debate on STV. Trouble with these debates is they are not really about the issues, they are more about the impact the scare stories have had on the audience? What I mean is, a sensible question might be ‘will Scotland remain in Europe?’. Instead we get, ‘What will happen to Scotland when we…
Category: This makes me mad
Scotland 2014 the triple whammy
This evening I lifted my personal embargo on the BBC to watch Scotland 2014 where Alistair Darling was taking questions from Sarah Smith. My expectations were not great, I have to admit; Sarah Smith has not lived up to the original programme hype, but with Darling in the hot seat there was a morbid curiosity sitting within me. Not long…
Thatcher (May79 – Sep14) – give her a good send off
Margaret Thatcher (3 May 1979 – 18 September 2014). Let’s give her a good send off! Thatcher meant a lot of things to a lot of people. To me, when she came to power on 3 May 1979 she immediately introduce the ‘ME, ME, ME’ society to the UK. ‘I’m all right, Jack’ quickly became the new UK mantra. She…
Ode to a village idiot
In my last blog I explained a little about contingency planning, why they are necessary and why within Financial Services they are mandatory when faced with a potential change, such as the new Independent Scotland after 18 September 2014. But let’s rewind and think about why we are having to explain the bleedin’ obvious. Some journalist got sight of a…