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Farmers Weakly
Farmers WeaklyThere’s an old joke about a group of procrastinators on a demonstration march. The cry goes up:“Whaddawe want?”“Procrastination…”“When do we want it?”“Er….later?” I was reminded of this as several thousand angry farmers descended on London last week, ostensibly to protest at the government’s change of policy on inheritance tax. Where previously, agricultural land was exempt from…
Read MoreA Tale of Two Secretaries
Lest anyone think our new-ish Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, is turning out to be a bit confrontational, spare a thought for the people of America, as Robert Kennedy Junior is appointed their new Secretary of US Health and Human Services (HHS). Following his announcements about shaking up the NHS with his Ten Year Plan, this week, Streeting chose the NHS Providers’…
Read MoreWhat the Elphicke
The week’s you-couldn’t-make-it-up stories… Here’s the latest edition of Salix Insight with some observations on the week’s you-couldn’t-make-it-ups from the worlds of health, social care and reputational management. And, what a week to return. Let’s start with Sperm Whales. Or at least with the scientists who claim to be making great progress in understanding their…
Read MoreTruth 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 MoreActs of Asininity
I walked into our shared workspace yesterday and proudly informed Senior Management that I had completed some task or other – and that I had sent her an email about it. Instead of even a cursory acknowledgement, I was somewhat taken aback to be told that I was just like so-and-so who “sends send me…
Read MoreMen behaving badly
Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman….so sang Tammy Wynette in the 1968 hit, Stand by your Man. While the lyrics will no doubt sound hollow to many women, for the past week, it’s been quite hard to be a man – at least to live with the shame of being one. Men – for…
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…
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