Poker Players

Experienced poker players do not take advice when at the table in the middle of a game.

Modern Communications

The danger of the speed of our modern communications systems (eg internet, email, phone, video, TV etc), is that the advantages of news/information/data being disseminated in the blinking of an eye are more than outweighed by the disadvantage that our stone age brains cannot properly process or calmly react to the data.

Today's Word

Today's word is "gilded".

Advice To The Chancellor

Capitalist economies thrive on confidence, unfortunately your budget speech provided precious little confidence to foster an economic recovery.

Emotions

People become exceptionally malleable when they allow their emotions take control.

Happy Budget Day

Expect higher taxes, broken promises and "bigging up" rhetoric from Darling and Brown today.

Green Shoots

Beware the politician who claims to see the "green shoots" of economic recovery. These "green shoots" may in fact be only weeds.

Monday Mornings

A curse upon Monday mornings!

The Art of War

Ensure that the other side's troops do the dying, rather than your own.

Advice To Prime Ministers

The poison that you spread about others will eventually infect you.

Bank Rescue Packages

Those who complain about the existence and size of the bank rescue packages put together by governments should bear in mind that the packages were not designed to save the banks, but were designed to save the economy from the banks.

Great Con Tricks of The 21st Century

Leisure club membership agreements, whereby the member commits to pay for 6-12 months irrespective of the functioning of the facilities/equipment of the club.

How To Spot a Conman - Part IV

He refuses to provide an accounting of his expenditure of the company's money when asked to do so by an investor.

How To Spot a Conman - Part III

He attempts to enforce an agreement that has time expired, whereby consideration, title and control never passed from one party to another.

How To Spot a Conman - Part II

He attempts to claim expenses, that were not contractually agreed, from more than one individual/organisation for the same amount.

How To Spot a Conman - Part I

He misspells "Prejudice" when writing a threatening "legal" letter that uses the phrase "Without Prejudice".

Bold Actions

Sometimes bold, headline grabbing, actions are required to kick start diplomatic processes and unblock logjams.

Advice To Webmasters

Before requesting link exchanges, visit the site that you want to exchange links with to see if it has any relevance at all to your site.

Advice To The Media

Re Jacqui Smiths TV expenses, it's not the "adult" films that are the issue, it is the fact that she claimed expenses for which she had no entitlement.