Sympathies and Kudos

Sympathies to the people involved in the car crash near Sandringham yesterday.

Kudos to the Duke of Edinburgh for managing to knock Brexit off the headlines!

The Dangers of Referendums

Many people are pinning their hopes of "deliverance" (for want of a better word) from Brexit on the possibility of a second referendum. They should not get their hopes up, in the unlikely event there is a second referendum, they should bear in mind:

1 Referendums are divisive, as the last one has amply demonstrated. To hold a second one will not heal divisions, but will worsen them.

2 Brexit is not a simple binary choice, yet the referendum will be.

3 The result may not be what you wish for, then what?

4 There has already been a referendum on this subject. Do you just keep holding them until you get a result that you want?

Negotiation Tactics

When negotiating, in order to avoid blinking first, peel your eyelids off before entering the negotiations.

Advice To May

Burning all your bridges is fine. 

However, burning the country's bridges isn't fine.

 

Advice To Trump

Bolton has vetoed your Syria pullout!

Merry Christmas

Facts vs Reality

Never let facts get in the way of your version of reality!

Advice To The Purveyors of Drones

DON'T SELL THEM TO FUCKWITS!!

Christmas Advice

The Pre Christmas Drinking Season Is Upon Us!

Closely followed by the Christmas, and post Christmas drinking seasons....

Leaders' Personalities

Organisations, countries and political parties tend to fall apart when the leader:

- dithers
- procrastinates
- is indecisive
- does not communicate with his/her colleagues
- does not tell others clearly what he/she wants
- backtracks

Meanwhile, In Baghdad

Nothing has made me smile this week like the Baghdad airport duty free shop festively hanging a Christmas tree from the ceiling pic.twitter.com/9OR0dhRSiq

— Ben Van Heuvelen (@berendvh) December 12, 2018