I was thinking the other day about the Enneagram – something that Alison and I have been reading about off and on for a while* – and wondered about the characters in the West Wing and what their types are. To my absolute amazement, there seem to be no real posts about this out in …
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Environmental taxonomy
The second area Gordon could have worked some tax wonders was with the environment. It’s easy to say that the polluter should pay – though does this really work? We all think that multinationals like BP, Shell, etc., should pay more if they pump nasties into the biosphere, but what about us? If you take …
Of pressure and policy
It’s that time again – post budget and pre-end of tax year – we’re being bombarded with messages about saving in ISAs. It’s a good thing that it’s there to do tax free, etc., but it suddenly feels like a lot of pressure. In the past I’ve never really paid much attention to it, but …
Pseudohistories and pseudoparodies
I’ve just had one of those “You what?” moments in reading some nonsense online. It came about from looking up something on YouTube and then happening on another link. The link was to do with a historic theory called New Chronology from a pretty wacky Russian mathematician called Anatoly Fomenko. He reckons that the dark …
Eric raises the profile of counselling on YouTube
It was bound to happen and I’m sure that you can say that Eric is a substitute persona / alter ego for me, but I’ve posted Eric on YouTube just doing some stuff. It was from Christmas 2005 and in the background you hear my mum talking about Alison about Self Awareness. Eric is available …
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