Apparently the Afghan police have an attrition rate approaching 25%. Consequently there is huge pressure to recruit, just to keep the numbers up. The Afghan authorities have clear policies about who makes a suitable recruit, but tragically these are not being followed. On the 3rd November 5 British soldiers and 2 Afghani police officers were […]
You Are Kidding Me, Right?
A BBC photographer has been stopped from taking pictures of St Paul’s Cathedral by the police. The PC did this because there was a risk that the photographer could have been an al Qaeda operative planning on blowing the building up. You can see the BBC news clip here. I doubt very much that the […]
Just How Bad Could It Be?
Yesterday I posted a comment about risk assessment and how it leads to some really stupid activity. This is not to say that risk assessment is a waste of time, just the over zealous, avoid risk at all costs type. This leads to the question “what does good risk assessment look like?” Rather than banging […]
Global Warming? Pah!
I am sitting in my office, slowly turning blue, looking at a good 4 inches of snow. I thought it was supposed to be getting warmer, the ice caps should be melting and half of East Anglia is going to be under water, yet here I am slowly freezing to death. Clearly the scientists are […]
Are You Worth £150k?
A very interesting article today about how the government plans to cap the salaries of top earners. The BBC was called out as a particular problem. Apparently everybody with a salary of more than £150,000 who works in the Public Sector will have to explain to the government why they are worth so much. In […]
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