Posts by Angus
Truth be told…
The first casualty when war comes is truth, is a quote attributed to an American senator, Hiram Johnson. Do all Johnsons have an interesting relationship with the truth? With another gruesome shooting war about to be waged in the Middle East, the fight for the moral high ground has also started and the protagonists’ versions of truth…
Read MoreTry, try and try again…
Among Insight’s many and varied life experiences, one of the most poignant was as a member of the Independent Monitoring Board for a local prison. Every prison in the UK has an IMB whose role it is to take a fresh eye to proceedings within the walls and, when necessary, call the authorities to account.…
Read MorePassport to success
An old joke: a chap is asked why he’s only wearing a single glove on a nice sunny day. His answer was that he’d heard the weather report saying that it was going to be a day of mixed temperatures – on the one hand it promised to be quite a warm day – but…
Read MoreA Good Innings
As one wait ends, another begins. Today, the Government published its Workforce Plan – a “blueprint to boost the NHS workforce by 200,000.” The details will be pored over but, thus far, it has received a broadly positive response. Not least from Shadow Health Minister, Wes Streeting who offered his respect to the Plan –…
Read MoreGoing forward, it is what it is…
Private Eye has an occasional column – the Curse of Gnome – in which people the magazine has pursued, or been sued by, are reported as having come to a sticky end. Robert Maxwell, James Goldsmith and Sonia Sutcliffe all faced the Curse. Their hex on Rupert Murdoch has yet to materialise. Imitation being a…
Read MoreEscape from the Chateau
Insight has been indulging in a little schadenfreude this week, along with the red tops, Daily Mail and, significantly, the broadsheets. That a TV darling turns out, off-camera, to be a monstrous bully, pervert, drug addict or all three is nothing new. Think Clarkson, John Leslie, Frank Bough, Rolf Harris. It’s a long list. But, news…
Read MoreG’bye and g’day
There’s a very old canard about a traveller, on arriving at the Australian border control, being asked if he had a criminal record. To which the man answers, “I didn’t know that was still mandatory…”. It’s not a joke that goes down terribly well these days. The genesis of the quip is over two hundred…
Read MorePaws for thought
Paws for thought Never shy to point out the absurdities of life – in particular as they relate to the communications industry or the health and care sector – this has been something of a bumper week. Especially for veganism: After years of being vilified as full of sugar and salt, beans on toast have been…
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