Great Lies of The 21st Century

Airline reward schemes.

Great Lies of The 21st Century

"This stock will fly!"

Power

Countries and individuals with power over others should exercise that power with humility and sparingly.

The more the power is used, the less effective it becomes and one day the situation may well be reversed.

Great Lies of The 21st Century

"There will be a slight delay to your journey."

Losing Office

Losing office gives one the taste of freedom that presidents and CEO's can only dream of.

Ignorance

It is wise not to display your ignorance on a bulletin board.

Deadlines

Deadlines are the liberators of human drive and energy.

Scales

Scales can lie, trousers cannot.

The Yoke

The yoke on the oxen feels no guilt.

Laughter

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people, and is the best way to break down barriers.

Laughter

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people, and is the best way to break down barriers.

Expunge The Past At Your Peril

Those who seek to change the present and enhance their own power by expunging comments, people and actions from history are in danger of themselves being expunged.

Carpe Diem

It is quite possible that some people, because of their parsimonious attitude to life, will die without ever having been alive.

Political Parties

Beware political parties or leaders that make repeated emphasis of the words "the people" (a loathsome expression), they do not seek to serve the citizens who vote for them but their own self interest and the self interest of a chosen elite.

Emperors

It is not usually an emperor's privilege to hear the truth spoken to his face.

People

The best laid plans, and well thought through strategies, will often "come a cropper" as a result of the one unpredictable element essential to all of them...people.

Were it to become possible to remove people from a plan, then you would be assured of success.

Hope

A regime or government that offers it subjects no hope of better things to come, but merely offers them a perpetual struggle against a state hyped "threat", is destined to be consigned to the funeral pyre of history.

Advice To Rail Passengers

Seats are for people, not; feet, bags or any other assorted crap that you choose to try to isolate yourself from other passengers with.

With regards to mobile phones; no, we are not at all interested in hearing about Chloe's latest date or what John said during that urgent business meeting. In short, keep your voices down when talking on mobile phones.

Alarm Clocks

Beware alarm clocks, their shrill early morning tones can be injurious to your health and mental well being.

Great Lies of The 21st Century

High speed high capacity broadband for domestic users.

Politicians and The Media

Politicians who leak policy announcements and related information to the media, without using the normal political channels (eg parliament) have nothing but contempt for the political and democratic system within which they operate.

These politicians should be removed from office immediately.

Slouching

Advice to teenagers.

Do not slouch, a slovenly and lazy posture adds nothing to your "status" in the world.

Leaders

Leaders with sick minds tend to pass on that sickness to those that they lead.

Sick leaders should be removed from office immediately.

Insanity

It is unwise for an insane man to hold high office, whether he is a CEO or prime Minister.

When insanity becomes apparent, it is the duty of those around him to remove him from office.

Press Releases

It is unwise to issue press releases when suffering from a hangover.