Jezza's Blog

Let's start by turning the armed forces from a cost centre to a profit centre. That way we won't have to spend anything on them at ...

I turned on the radio on Saturday morning to hear an Irish woman talking about the reaction to the Saville Inquiry and its conclusion. She t...

Watching the ‘Prime Ministerial Candidates’ debate, it was impossible not to be struck by how little difference there was between all three ...

The Government's own National Equality Pane l produced a report called Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK . It shows: The househ...

>“I don't understand! Why can't you help me?” wails the caller. “You're the fourth person I've spoken to. Everyone just p...

Muswell Hill has lots of 'health shops' - we have a Planet Organic, a Holland and Barrett, and two vitamin shops. Last week I went ...

Most of what you think you know about Jewish history is a myth, from the kingdoms of David and Solomon, through the Romans’ exile of the Jew...

I spoke yesterday at the FT World Telecoms Conference. There was a panel on 'Green Issues'. I did the "Bad Fairy" thing - ...

Seems very unfair to victimise the civil servants who get bonuses at the MoD. It's an absolute item of management dogma that everyone ha...

According to this document from Munich Re-Insurance

Already. Before they actually did anything about it. At least according to this research from the Institute of Public Policy Research. I su...

Always wondered whether those 'Lost Dog' notes posted on trees ever resulted in any dogs (or cats, or parrots) being found. Why shou...

On Friday 9 th October I attended a workshop on Climate Change and Violence organised by Crisis Forum , and held at Senate House in centra...

It's the drugs. "We" are there to ensure that the flow is uninterrupted. I realise that this sounds like weird conspiracy stuf...

Even though the author doesn't say so, I think this article in The Guardian leads to some interesting thoughts about enterprise IT and ...

For some sustainability optimists, the simultaneous crises of climate change and peak oil (to which we must now add the economic slump a...

The only comment I've found worth reading was this one by Hadley Freeman in The Guardian - about the false dream of celebrity. My first...

From the website of the Edwardian Radisson Hotel at Heathrow : "We believe in doing business with a clear c...

And all thanks to this guy who posted a fix that worked!

A couple of weeks ago I watched the Storyville programme about Kastner (entitled “The Jew who talked to the Nazis”), and it stirred me up a ...