Archive for March, 2007
Ofcom is a regulator. It should not act like it owns the airwaves
BBC NEWS | Technology | Spectrum plan threatens radio mic If you go to any kind of large public event, music-theatre production, even a well done school play or a big church service, chances are that it depends at least in part on radio microphones. For the non-technically minded, radio mics, as a general rule, just work, and everything is [...]
Freedom Sunday — why I entered politics
Today is Freedom Sunday, 25 March 2007, the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire, and the focus of a new generation of campaigners against the modern slave trade. It coincides with the release of the film Amazing Grace recounting the life of William Wilberforce. Wilberforce was a politician who became an [...]
Royal Bank of Scotland’s treatment of employees makes no sense
The Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS) has warned its UK staff that they must have their primary bank account with the firm or face disciplinary action. BBC One of the funnier jokes in Scott Adam's Dilbert Books is the suggestion that employees (of particularly poor employers) be forced to only buy that company's products. Of course, under the [...]
