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Month: March 2017

Back To The Future With The New £1

Posted on 28/03/201724/05/2017 by Simon Sapper

I’m looking forward to seeing and holding our new coin. But more for the memories it recalls than anything else.

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Posted in Loudshirts BlogTagged Childhood, Decimilisation, Negotiation, New £1, Pocket Money, Rainy days, Threepenny Bit1 Comment

Shock! Gig Economy Is Not The Only Show In Town

Posted on 20/03/201728/11/2017 by Simon Sapper

New research shows retail trumping social care in jobs of the near future

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Budget 17: Tax Is The Biggest Elephant In The Room

Posted on 09/03/201709/03/2017 by Simon Sapper

The inability to have a sensible, rational reasoned debate on taxation is the biggest elephant in a room full of these beasts.

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The APR* May Be Dead But Watch Out For What Follows

Posted on 03/03/201704/03/2017 by Simon Sapper

With a “Martini” approach to performance review, where are the limits to and control on such an all-enveloping mode of assessment?

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IPSO’s Rebuke And The Sun’s Setting Standards

Posted on 02/03/201702/03/2017 by Simon Sapper

Self-regulation depends on high levels of buy-in, self-awareness and self-restraint from those regulated.

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