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Bad Behaviour on campus

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A debut novel about Helen, a graduate student who follows her disgraced mentor to a university that gives safe harbour to scholars of ill repute, igniting a crisis of work and a test of her conscience and marriage. Helen is one of the brightest minds of her generation, a young physicist on a path to solve high-temperature superconductivity which could perhaps save the planet. When she discovers that her brilliant adviser is involved in a sex scandal, Helen is torn, should she give ump on her work with him? Or should she accompany him to a controversial university, founded by … Continue reading Bad Behaviour on campus

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STEVE WRIGHT – CHAMPION OF THE BBC’S AIRWAVES DIES AT 69

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“Wrighty” had four decades on Radio One and Radio Two and also hostednumerous Top of The Pops programmes. He once flew to New York andbooked into a hotel and listened to local radio stations to garner good materialand concepts for his own shows. His amazing sense of humour was popularlyregarded as “zany”.Recently he had been on a weight loss journey, his heaviest weight havingbeen 18 stone and he was trying to achieve 12 stone. He was married forfourteen years to Cyndi Robinson and the couple had two children – Tom andLucy. “Wrighty” was said to have been a multimillionaire. Tom … Continue reading STEVE WRIGHT – CHAMPION OF THE BBC’S AIRWAVES DIES AT 69

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Formula for living your best life

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Communication is superpower and the best communicators understand that whenever we speak, we’re actually participating in one of the three conversations practical, (What’s this really about) , emotional (How do we feel?), and social (Who are we?). If you don’t know what kind of conversation you’re having, you’re unlikely to connect. Supercommunicators know the importance of recognising  and then matching each kind of conversation, and how to hear the complex emotions, subtle negotiations, and deeply held belief that colour so much of what we say and how we listen. Our experiences, our values, our emotional lives and how we see … Continue reading Formula for living your best life

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How British Empire was propped up for financial survival

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Sir John Henry Rivett-Carnac wrote about his company house in his memoirs “ a quite magnificent house on the Ganges at Ghazipur, surrounded by a good garden and fine grounds”. The incentives of this job was the Benares Opium Agency that Sir John headed from 1876. When the poppy  growing season got under way in November, Sir John would embark on a grand regional tour, interspersing inspections of opium farms with shooting expeditions and visits to colourful bazars, despite the poor Indian farmers under his watch, who fed Gizarpur’s opium processing factory who were coerced into cultivating the crop to … Continue reading How British Empire was propped up for financial survival

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Life of abuse at Goldman Sachs

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Jamie Flore Higgins, one of the few women at the highest ranks of Goldman Sachs, spurred on by the obligation to her working-class immigrant family, rose through the ranks and saw it all: out-of-control, lavish parties flowing with never-ending drinks, affairs flouted in the office, rampant drug abuse, and most pervasively, a discriminatory culture that seemed designed to hold back the few women and people of colour employed at the company. Flore Higgins reveals Goldman Sachs having the right talking points and statistics, which provided a veneer to cover up what she found to be an abusive culture. Her account … Continue reading Life of abuse at Goldman Sachs