The Independent today runs the story of deaf diplomat Jane Cordell’s claim that the FCO unlawfully discriminated against her in refusing to post her to Astana (Kazakhstan) as the cost of the ‘reasonable adjustments’ needed to allow her to work there would not (said the FCO) have been reasonable. And […]
The Independent today runs the story of deaf diplomat Jane Cordell’s claim that the FCO unlawfully discriminated against her in refusing to post her to Astana (Kazakhstan) as the cost of the ‘reasonable adjustments’ needed to allow her to work there would not (said the FCO) have been reasonable. And […]
James Lileks: They can talk for hours about how wrong it was to kill babies, busboys, businessmen, receptionists, janitors, fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers – and then they lean towards you, eyes wide, and they say the fatal word: But. And then you realize that the eulogy is just a preface. […]
Which category of believers is the more irrational? A brilliant passage: If the point is that Jones has the right to burn the book, but he should refrain from exercising it and be sensitive to the feelings of others, then Obama is contradicting the approach he took to the close-to-Ground-Zero […]
I have mentioned previously the crafty wiles of Spammers attempting to sneak in to my comments area. Here is a new droll effort, a comment from a Spammer which does not mention potency chemicals, replica watches or furry boots at all, no doubt hoping that I’ll approve it and thereby […]
This existential question was solved once and for all by English judges in the eternally famous 1927 case of Fardell v Potts which explored the core legal concept of the Reasonable Man and considered whether it should be extended to include the Reasonable Woman. The facts were clear enough: In this case the appellant […]
The important Employment Tribunal hearing into a disability discrimination claim made by an FCO employee against the FCO raises all sorts of intriguing dilemmas for public and private sector employers. Such as this one. Suppose an employer (Frank) has a good, motivated and ambitious employee (Sasha) who is disabled (in […]
A new step in the Serbia/Kosovo story: the UN General Assembly has passed a unanimous resolution whose sense is to open ‘dialogue’ between Belgrade and Pristina supported by the European Union. Note that the BBC can not even get the simplest facts right. Its report says that: The European Union […]
Full Disclosure I know many of the people involved in the issues described below and now and then have been privately helping JC formulate her arguments. World Scoop Today I spent some time in an impressive frontier territory, full of exotic geological formations and mysterious goings-on. Namely […]
Via Tim Worstall, this magnificent essay by Michael Lewis in Vanity Fair about the cultural and other problems which have led Greece far down the road of folly. It’s quite long, but all the more devastating for that as the writer follows the mysteries of corruption and tax-cheating into almost unbelievable […]
