Potholes and a penny
Ozzy Osborne bit the head off a bat onstage in Des Moines in 1982. We could have done with some of that chutzpah to liven up yesterday’s effort from the other Ozzy. Don’t get me wrong, it was an oratorical display to be proud of, but there was relatively little to be interested in otherwise. […]
Johnny shall have a new master
See saw, Marjorie Daw, Johnny shall have a new master, He shall have but a penny a day, Because he can’t work any faster. Speaking recently at an Insurance Society of Edinburgh do at a newly-yellow-pointed-hatty Standard Life House, I had occasion to muse publicly on seesaws and their unique relevance to the UK life […]
Johnny shall have a new master
See saw, Marjorie Daw, Johnny shall have a new master, He shall have but a penny a day, Because he can’t work any faster. Speaking recently at an Insurance Society of Edinburgh do at a newly-yellow-pointed-hatty Standard Life House, I had occasion to muse publicly on seesaws and their unique relevance to the UK life […]
The Telegraph, mineral water and wrap OR why added value doesn’t work
While pausing in one of this nation’s fine railway stations last week, I found myself fancying a bottle of water. No problem. There was a newsagent, I had legal tender in my pocket and we were all set for a nice bit of free enterprise. Being a legendarily tight Scotsman, I rumbled that whereas a […]
The Telegraph, mineral water and wrap OR why added value doesn’t work
While pausing in one of this nation’s fine railway stations last week, I found myself fancying a bottle of water. No problem. There was a newsagent, I had legal tender in my pocket and we were all set for a nice bit of free enterprise. Being a legendarily tight Scotsman, I rumbled that whereas a […]
Dogbert’s secret wrap consultancy
Couldn’t resist this…I know it’s not about wrap but boy have I been in some strategy sessions where it felt very, very like this…
Dogbert’s secret wrap consultancy
Couldn’t resist this…I know it’s not about wrap but boy have I been in some strategy sessions where it felt very, very like this…
the lang cat gets published
Forgive the self-puffery, but a bit of a landmark moment for the lang cat. My first feature not as part of the corporate machine was carried in the fine publication we know as Pensions Management in their December issue. It’s a longer version of this post – what’s the right price for a platform? You […]
the lang cat gets published
Forgive the self-puffery, but a bit of a landmark moment for the lang cat. My first feature not as part of the corporate machine was carried in the fine publication we know as Pensions Management in their December issue. It’s a longer version of this post – what’s the right price for a platform? You […]
Why platforms are so complicated
If you listen very closely you can hear the faint gnashing of teeth in various large office buildings round the country. It’s said sometimes that providers are now run by accountants, not actuaries. But actuaries, like certain water-borne infections, are hard to kill and they’re hard wired into the DNA of these large companies. Why […]
