“All things are ready – if our minds be so.” Henry V – William Shakespeare Only for the sake of it here’s Kenneth Branagh giving the St Crispin’s Day speech from the film version in 1989.
Author Archives: Alun Rees
Ten years after the financial crisis..
Good series of articles in the Weekend FT magazine marking 10 years since the start of the financial crisis. The commencement is recorded as the day the chairman of Northern Rock, Lord Ridley, went to the Bank of England to beg for money from the Governor, Mervyn King. Ridley (5th Viscount Ridley & Baron Wensleydale)Continue reading “Ten years after the financial crisis..”
The Monday Morning Quote #445
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” Mark Twain via Peter Thomson
More people producing less..
From the RBS Chief Economist’s Weekly Briefing. As far as the jobs market is concerned, we’ve rarely (if ever) had it so good. Yet the link between jobs and pay remains severed. This is unlikely to reunite until productivity improves. And with that, there are few quick fixes. Rude health. The last time theContinue reading “More people producing less..”
The Monday Morning Quote #444
“Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be.” H.F.Amiel – The private journal of Henry Frederic Amiel (1899) (quoted in Strangers to Ourselves by T.D.Wilson)
The rising north–south divide in health in the UK
This doesn’t make great reading. ….in the past 20 years, age- and sex-adjusted excess mortality has increased by as much as 46 percentage points in people aged 35–44 years in the north of England compared with the south, and by 27 percentage points in people aged 25–34 years… ….One cause of this higher mortality isContinue reading “The rising north–south divide in health in the UK”
The Monday Morning Quote #442
“The solutions are all simple – after you have arrived at them. But they’re simple only when you know already what they are.” Robert M. Pirsig – Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Monday Morning Quote #443
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.” John Muir aka “Muir of the mountains”
“Intelligent Tracking Prevention.”
From John Naughton’s Memex. What’s coming in IoS 11 Ah, at last something interesting: In September, Apple will release new changes to Safari with iOS 11 called “Intelligent Tracking Prevention.” These changes will have large effects on the ad tech industry and create new winners and losers. In short, the iOS 11 changes will really helpContinue reading ““Intelligent Tracking Prevention.””
Life After Dentistry Seminar at The RAF Club
A Very Special Evening at a Very Special Venue. LIFE AFTER DENTISTRY – HOW TO PLAN AND LIVE YOUR IDEAL RETIREMENT Join Lily Head from Lily Head Practice Sales, Matt Smith from New Life Financial Planners & Alun Rees, The Dental Business Coach at The Royal Airforce Club, Piccadilly, London on Thursday 14th September. IfContinue reading “Life After Dentistry Seminar at The RAF Club”
The Incisal Edge 