In which I ruminate and gloominate on the scale of the problems facing small business as they try to hire people these days, and identify a brilliantly simple way to allow all of us to choose the degree of legal risk (and legal security) we want to have. Thereby transforming […]
Professor Hal Lewis, a scientist of formidable distinction, has resigned from the American Physical Society in disgust at the way the Society’s leadership have (he says) been manipulating discussion on Climate issues. His letter is here. Read it – powerful words indeed: This scheming at APS HQ is so bizarre […]
The tragic death in Afghanistan of aid worker Linda Norgrove as US Special Forces closed in, seconds away from rescuing her, makes us think about Negotiation again. At the International Bar Association annual conference in Vancouver last week I heard various people say that some major corporations were changing course, […]
First we had Labour politician G Brown in the UK ranting in the supposed privacy of his official car about a voter, Mrs Gillian Duffy. Now we have Democrat politician J Brown in California gearing up to describe his opponent Meg Whitman as a ‘whore’, not realising that his odious/sexist language was […]
So, here I am in shiny modern Vancouver, gearing up for the long flight home this evening. Our ADR Group session on Mediation at the Sharp End at the International Bar Association annual conference went well, with a joint presentation on the diplomatic, legal, negotiating and psychological issues arising from […]
The worthy newspaper Blic in Belgrade asked me for a short commentary on my recollections of the Fall of Milosevic a decade ago. Here is the result. All in Serbian and with an eccentric picture of me by way of bonus. But Google Translator should help you get the gist. Of […]
Off I go to the International Bar Association annual conference, this year in lovely Vancouver. A vast gathering of lawyers. I am there with ADRg Ambassadors to help present a session on the different levels of mediation and negotiation skill needed when a racing yacht is grabbed by pirates. The point being […]
In case you don’t have quite enough to read, check out my gentle gallop round some of the issues arising from spying down the ages, over at the latest issue of DIPLOMAT: French spy, Francois Henri de la Motte’s vivid execution in 1781 attracted an enthusiastic crowd of some 80,000… […]
I have to say it. Frankly. I am disappointed in you, my readers. I deliberately do not clutter up this website with Internet advertising and other distracting marketing gimmicks. I wish to offer you a calm and agreeable intellectual experience. Nonetheless, in return I hope that you take seriously my […]
Is hosted by Matt Wardman. Check it out. Especially Retro Home Tips: … the world needs more than just lawyers, doctors, and scientists, and ad executives. In fact we could probably live with out the ad executives. But we will fall flat on our faces as a society, and some […]
