by William Tate | 24 March 2018 | Uncategorized
Star Trek fans argue about what Captain Kirk said to Mr Scott and what he meant. It is also claimed he said “There is no intelligent life here”. It sometimes feels like that. What I actually meant by misquoting Kirk is that the long-awaited future is now with us...
by William Tate | 13 January 2011 | Uncategorized
At age 53, Miriam O’Reilly wins her case against the BBC for age discrimination. With a strange quirk of timing, today also sees the Government announcing that, despite employers’ objections, it is pressing ahead with plans to scrap their compulsory retirement age of...
by William Tate | 7 May 2010 | Uncategorized
We all have a personal take on what leadership means. Words count better than polls. On a depressing political morning in which few people will be jumping for unalloyed joy, two positive-sounding words come to mind, and two negative ones. The positives are renewal and...
by William Tate | 23 April 2010 | Uncategorized
‘One of the fallacies earnestly and unquestioningly maintained by New Labour is that we live in a primarily individual economy. We don’t. To adapt Adam Smith, it’s not through the efforts of the individual baker, farmer and consumer that toast, eggs and...
