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'Mission creep' in the HR function - change HR back to 'Payroll Dept'  ;)  I'm afraid this rings true  >:(

" . . . . . a trend in workplaces across the country, from the public to the private sector, from schools to banks, charities to multinational conglomerates. That trend is the growing, destructive and unaccountable power wielded by HR departments.

“It’s a basic power grab,” said one finance industry veteran, blaming “young revolutionaries”. “They think they’re saving the world [but] the power mania I would say is the more driving factor.”

Formerly humdrum bureaucratic backwaters, charged with processing paperwork, HR departments have in recent years morphed into real centres of power: controlling who keeps their job, what workers can say or do, and, in some cases, even determining the entire mission of an organisation. Fuelled by the pandemic and social unrest, these office bureaucrats have used workplace policies and practices to become all-powerful arbiters of social norms – professional and political.

It has expanded its influence into every part of the economy. The UK now employs more than 400,000 workers in HR, representing 1.3 per cent of the entire workforce in 2019. That’s up from under 1 per cent in 2004. There are serious questions about what share of these workers are engaged in any productive activity or whether they are a symptom of an economy throttled by growth-stifling bureaucracy. In an economy like the UK, where productivity growth per hour has risen just 4 per cent in a decade, it is an urgent question.

Academics and lobbyists make grand claims for the beneficial effects of HR on work, but there is little definitive evidence to support these. Len Shackleton, professor of economics at the University of Buckingham, says that though some studies claim a link between HR initiatives and productivity, most fail to account for external factors like general economic growth and may not apply across all sectors.

Aside from the economic effect, there is a basic question of whether HR is actually making life better for managers and workers, or making it harder. Matt Young, a corporate affairs consultant who formerly worked at Lloyds, says that thanks to HR “mission creep”, businesses are “struggling with policies that often run counter to their commercial interests”.

Along the way, many HR departments have become a channel for the dissemination of radical political ideas like critical race theory. In many cases, managers are simply too afraid to contradict them.

“A great many bosses are cowards and they do not stand up to this sort of ideology,” says one veteran of the hospitality industry, who did not want to be named. “There’s a degree of fear,” says another chief executive, who also asked to remain anonymous, “a sense that if we don’t do this, we’re going to get into trouble.”

In other words, captains of industry, just like lily-livered ministers, fusty professors and complacent mandarins, are quaking in their boots before the chirpy HR person wielding the bureaucratic tools of the trade – the staff handbook and the ubiquitous Zoom link.

This extraordinary inversion demands an explanation. We need to know how this came about and what it means. How has the conservative, technical function of HR grown to wield so much power over our professional and private lives and how much damage is it doing
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/17/hr-monster-destroyed-workplace/
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This article is absolutely true. I would add 'compliance departments' into the same category of 'land-grab' departments that make no positive addition to the productivity of a company. Once upon a time they would have been a function of administration, now they are all-powerful arbiters of who, what, where and how. Talk about the tail wagging the dog.


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Stories like this seem to appear every day :-

" . . . the Health Secretary, who accepted the report’s recommendations in full, has been criticised by colleagues after the final document appeared to focus on “equality, diversity and inclusion” (EDI). Lord Lilley of Offa, who was the trade secretary under Margaret Thatcher and Sir John Major, pointed out that the phrase was used many more times than “patients” after government and NHS officials involved in EDI were recruited to help write the review. Whitehall sources said that draft versions of the report went even further, advocating “crazy anti-racism targets” and creating “legions of diversity and inclusion experts” but were watered down by Number 10. “They wanted wholesale wokery,” a source said of the authors.

Writing in The Telegraph, Lord Lilley cited the report as an example of the Government succumbing to “the prevailing woke ideology”, saying the document appeared “totally obsessed with EDI
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/06/18/nhs-management-review-hijacked-wholesale-wokery/

Peter Lilley again:-

"What the public wants from government and what our public servants want to deliver have never been more different. Ask the public their priorities and they will likely say; help with the cost of living, a functioning health service, schools making good the learning lost during the pandemic, and economic growth to pay for services without higher taxes.

What they don’t ask for is more focus on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, obsessing over multiple definitions of gender and sexuality, or “decolonising” everything from the curriculum to our buildings. Yet, these are the priorities for many who dominate the public service
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/19/government-outwitted-woke-whitehall-blob/
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Cheers CK.

Thanks for your reply. Here's more - the venerable Charles Moore in the DT banging that HR drum again. I must say I agree with him generally even though he's writing here about what goes on in our bloated Universities.

"What is emerging, however, is that the worst threats to freedom of speech in universities (and in other workplaces) do not come from explicit prohibitions. They are to be found in the vast multiplication of human resources (HR). What used to be called personnel, dealing with things like pay questions and dismissals, has become a monster machine for imposing new rules of behaviour and language not necessarily wanted either by management or staff. HR is a third force in the workplace, politically driven.

HR tools include encouraging the anonymous denunciation of colleagues, accepting an accusation against someone just because a person (not even, in all cases, the accuser) says someone else was made to feel “uncomfortable”, and the mandatory training of all staff that forces them to accept HR’s own definitions of what is “inappropriate”. Probably the best way to defend freedom of speech in the workplace would be simply to cut HR departments by 90 per cent. Government could set an example by starting this in the public sector.
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/21/hr-machine-undermining-free-speech/
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Here's another one CK   ::)  It's really shocking to read this stuff given all the other terrible incidents with the Police that are occurring.

"Police have failed to solve a single burglary in neighbourhoods covering nearly half the country over the past three years, a Telegraph investigation has found. Of more than 32,000 neighbourhoods analysed, 16,000 of them (46 per cent) had all their burglary cases in the past three years closed with no suspect caught and charged by police.

Almost 2,000 of the neighbourhoods - each containing approximately 3,000 residents - recorded at least 25 burglaries, but none were solved. The worst neighbourhood, in Sheffield, went three years without any of its 104 burglaries being solved.

Despite the devastating impact break-ins can have on victims, burglary has not been regarded as a policing priority. Some forces no longer routinely dispatch an officer to investigate the crime. If there is no CCTV or forensic evidence readily available, the case will often be closed within hours.
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/19/police-fail-solve-single-burglary-nearly-half-country/

The UK is a bl**dy madhouse atm after years of Tory Govt.
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I'm thinking I'll be glad to get back to Thailand asap . . . .

The NHS - parlous or wonderful ? Alison Pearson in the DT commenting on General Messenger's recent review of the NHS, commissioned by our Govt :-

Pearson responds to the General being  “mindful of the strain that you (NHS Staff) are working under” -  "what about the strain that more than 6.5 million sick people are under as they languish on a hospital waiting list? How about the strain on the taxpayer caused by a National Insurance hike designed to pour extra billions into the NHS frontline which, so far, appears to have delivered a huge increase in the number of managers and only a 7 per cent rise in nurses[/b]?"

" . . . a health service that is outperformed in nearly every area (stroke, cancer survival and heart attack recovery) by 18 comparable countries? A service which, furthermore, has seen its clinical negligence bill soar from £582 million in 2006-2007 to a staggering and scandalous £2.2 billion in 2020-2021?"

" . . . institutionalised mediocrity, colleagues on semi-permanent “sick leave”, a culture of secrecy and bullying to keep clinical staff in line, exorbitant non-disclosure agreements to silence whistleblowers, chronic misuse of public money and a gravy-train which sees managers given big pay-offs only to jump aboard again after yet another futile reorganisation."

"I have had several emails from angry NHS staff drawing my attention to scandals, dumb priorities and cover-ups. In one county, a source says the NHS got rid of Clinical Commissioning Groups, only formed in 2013, and replaced them with Integrated Care Boards. “We previously had six or seven directors and a chief officer,” says the source. “All have been made redundant, many with 20-plus years’ service in the NHS, so their severance packages are eye-watering. The six redundant directors are being replaced by eight or nine chiefs (not kidding!), all on more money than the old directors. You truly couldn’t make this stuff up.” " 

" . . . a reader tells me about a recent operation at a leading fertility clinic where a woman had an operation to become a trans man, and her eggs were frozen. All paid for by the NHS, which won’t fund “social egg-freezing” for ordinary women. I’m reliably informed that everyone concerned with the procedure was “sworn to secrecy” and threatened with dire consequences if the story got out."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2022/06/22/nhs-wasting-money/

Just scandalous IMO and worrying to think, if a Tory Govt can't sort this out, who the hell can !!
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Maybe this is not a widespread problem (yet) in the UK, the fact that it exists at all says something . . . .  ;)  More from barmy Britain   >:(

"Perhaps it’s no surprise, therefore, to find that the British Left are so keen on the latest progressive import from the US. Drag queens reading stories to primary school children.

In America, the trend has already caused bitter controversy. US liberals tend to think it’s wonderfully inclusive, while US conservatives tend to think it’s wildly inappropriate. There was particular uproar in June over “Drag the Kids to Pride”, an event at a gay bar in Texas. Photos showed children watching a drag queen dance in front of a pink neon sign that read, “IT’S NOT GONNA LICK ITSELF!”

This week, council libraries in Britain have started hosting drag queen storytelling events, too. Younger Labour MPs seem thrilled. On Tuesday, Stella Creasy (Lab, Walthamstow) tweeted that she’d had “a lovely afternoon” attending one. “So wholesome,” replied Nadia Whittome (Lab, Nottingham East).

Not everyone, however, shares their enthusiasm. On Monday, a drag queen storytelling event in Reading was stormed by a group of furious mothers. The drag queen ended up being given a police escort. Now, I certainly wouldn’t condone any threats or abuse. I simply wonder why we’re importing a new culture war, when we’ve got quite enough culture wars going on as it is.

In any case, what exactly is the purpose of this idea? Small children already have stories read to them by their teachers. So where is the demand for drag queen storytelling coming from? Are five-year-olds across Britain saying, “I very much enjoy having a nice story read to me in class. But I’m afraid I find our teacher Miss Jenkins tediously heteronormative. Please can we henceforth have stories read to us by someone genderfluid, presenting as female?”

If it isn’t children demanding it, it must be adults. But again, why? Do our librarians think books are so boring that children will only take an interest if they’re read aloud by a man in a sparkly frock?
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2022/07/27/why-do-left-want-little-children-taught-drag-queens/
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"Britain is a poor country pretending to be rich. Strikes, early retirement, and a me-me-me culture at work all point to a nation living in a fantasy world"

"The 50-somethings have all taken early retirement, looking forward to a few decades of cruises and yoga undisturbed by anything so unpleasant as work. The 20-somethings are fuelling a boom in designer goods sales while still living with their parents. Much of the public sector is out on strike, demanding double-digit pay rises, while the private sector is loafing around in its PJs – officially known as working from home – expecting perks for occasionally showing up at the office. The British seem to have decided that this is so fantastically wealthy a country that they can afford every form of luxury they want while working less and less."

"Among those people who do work, a growing “me-me-me” employment culture prioritises employee “well-being” over such mundane matters as productivity or, even worse, profits: witness the constant demands for “flexible working” (which, funnily enough, always means “less working”), four-day weeks, and quarter-life gap years."

"We have been running one of the biggest trade deficits in the world, meaning that we consume more than we produce year after year."

" . . . to cap it all, private debt has soared as well, hitting another 83 per cent of GDP compared with less than 60 per cent at the start of the decade".

"Sooner or later the bills for extravagance always fall due. It is just a matter of time – and the UK is in for a nasty shock when everyone realises that we can’t afford nearly as much as we thought we could."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/12/21/britain-poor-country-pretending-rich/

I'm afraid I recognise these points only too well   >:(   ::)


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The demise of an ultra woke Sturgeon is widely anticipated after her quite crazy antics with a male rapist, but this madness is everywhere. Even taught in Schools. I guess I will not be the only one who can't quite believe their eyes reading this . . . . .,

"Tampons are now on offer in the men’s lavatories at the Labour-controlled Welsh Parliament. The Senedd has rolled out the period products in all its male bathrooms, in an apparent attempt to help transgender civil servants. But critics said it is the latest “virtue-signalling” waste of taxpayer cash in Wales under First Minister Mark Drakeford, who this week rolled out the devolved Government’s long-awaited LGBT+ action plan, which pushes for controversial self-identified gender as in Scotland.

The tampons, introduced for all politicians and staff in Wales’s legislative centre in Cardiff, are accompanied by a sign that says: “These products are provided free of charge for all those that need them, following negotiation on your behalf by the Senedd Commission Trade Union Side
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/02/11/tampons-offered-mens-toilets-labour-run-welsh-parliament

 ::)   >:(   
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I had no idea the kid sadly murdered a couple of days ago was trans. I see they are already suggesting JK Rowling and Ricky Gervais have 'blood of their hands'. What is a very personal tragedy will now become a circus. Nobody has any idea what happened (and I'm not even sure if they know it was murder or manslaughter).


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Alison Pearson in the DT - how do you react to these questions - 'A'  'B' or 'C' ?

"I’m sick of people with an ounce of common sense being labelled ‘far-Right’ - Justifiable annoyance is stigmatised by a sanctimonious class that largely escapes the consequences of its own idealistic opinions"

""Good morning, we begin today with a topical quiz, How Right Are You? After each question, please pick one of the following three options:

1. In Knowsley, Liverpool, a video circulating online which appeared to show a young migrant harassing a 15-year-old schoolgirl led to a protest outside a hotel housing asylum seekers descending into violence with 15 arrests being made. Were the protesters:

A. Far-right racists?
B. Left-wing agitators trying to shame the Government for downplaying the threat from far-right extremists?
C. Mainly local mums and dads concerned about the safety of their kids after scores of undocumented young male migrants were billeted without consultation in their area?

2. On Twitter, Jeremy Corbyn said: “The horrific far-Right riot in Knowsley is what happens when the Government warns of an ‘invasion’ and demonises refugees.” How likely is it that most of the Scouse protesters in one of the safest Labour seats in the country (maj: 39,942) were actually members of the “far-Right”?

A. Highly likely; what else do you expect from white, working-class bigots?
B. Not very likely. Locals famously hate the Tories
C. You’ve got to be kidding! 

3. A drag queen story event for children is held at Tate Britain. There is a noisy protest outside. Are all the protesters:

A. Transphobes?
B. Nasty members of the “far-Right”, probably homophobic to boot?
C. Parents concerned about the premature sexualisation of small children who feel that it’s time to take a stand?

4. Following 371 grassroots, anti-migrant protests in the past 18 months, rallying around the slogan “Ireland is Full”, Leo Varadkar says Ireland needs to be “fair and firm and hard” with people who arrive in the country with a false story and return them to their countries. Is the Taoiseach:

A. Pandering to far-Right sentiment?
B. Betraying his liberal, globalist credentials?
C. Finally waking up to the fact that ordinary, decent Irish people have had enough, notably a large number of female protesters following reports of migrants mistreating women and children?

5. Convicted murderers and would-be suicide bombers are among 53 foreign terrorists the UK is not allowed to deport because of our continuing membership of the European Convention on Human Rights. One Islamic State member from Bangladesh won the right to remain because he would “lose access to free NHS care”. Another terrorist, an Iranian who had ingredients for a bomb in his Surrey garage, managed to stay in the UK by claiming he suffers from “depression”.  How does this news make you feel?

A. Delighted our country continues to provide refuge for fundamentalist nutters and people who want us dead? 
B. Slightly nervous to be honest, but we don’t want to risk damaging our international reputation with liberal allies, do we
C. Roughly as depressed as that would-be Iranian bomber. Have we totally lost our minds?   

Thank you for completing the quiz.
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Time to 'fess up ! I regard myself to be 'practical socialist' hue but this quiz has me down as a clear 'C', and all that entails . . . .

"If you mainly answered “A”, congratulations, you can count yourself among the liberal, metropolitan elite and you are also highly unlikely to be living in an area chosen to house illegal migrants (because the Government generally places them where the poorer people live).

If you mostly picked “B” you’re probably in the Tory Cabinet.

Anyone who gravitated towards “C”…  Oh, dear, I’m afraid you’re “far-Right”. Don’t worry, we can put you on a course to re-educate yourself out of your hateful, retrograde views.
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That type of pseudo quiz where all the answers are skewed to facilitate the last concluding paragraph make me laugh! Expect something similar appearing in a Daily Mail sometime soon.


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CK - just a bit of fun - for a convicted anti woke nutter (me).

Here's the rest of the article :-

"I am so sick of the demonising of ordinary, decent people by their supposed betters, aren’t you? Judging by the headlines over the past week, it is astonishing how the media has been persuaded to categorise the common-sense views of millions of Britons as utterly beyond the pale. Parents who worry about the warping of children’s minds by highly ideological, self-styled “role models” are somehow cast as the bad guys. (What is “far-Right” about not wanting your bewildered five-year-old to be read nursery rhymes by a drag queen?) Men and women with genuine concerns about the presence in their community of undocumented young males, from parts of the world which often hold appalling views about women and girls, are caricatured as racist, ignorant and, inevitably, “far-Right”.

Yet, at the same time, we learn that four Afghan “boys” who arrived in small boats across the Channel last year have just been arrested in connection with the alleged rape of a 15-year-old girl at a school in Dover. So, are all of us who warned that there was a potential safeguarding issue around putting asylum seekers of indeterminate age into British schools still “far-Right”?

Over the weekend, I watched Grooming Gangs, a salutary documentary on GB News about the horror story of 1,400 girls being raped, trafficked, even murdered, in Rotherham, largely by Pakistani taxi-drivers and kebab-shop-owners. (Later, it was revealed that tens of thousands of girls had been similarly abused in towns and cities across the UK).

Back in 2003, the journalist Andrew Norfolk started looking into concerns raised by Labour MP Ann Cryer about gangs which were targeting vulnerable, underage girls, but Norfolk was apparently put off because the story “felt like a Right-wing fantasy”. Unfortunately, that appalling, far-Right “scaremongering” turned out to be true.

As the worst child-sexual-exploitation scandal in British history unfolded in plain sight, the middle-class establishment averted its eyes. It fell to a handful of courageous, working-class women like Jayne Senior (a senior worker with local youth project Risky Business) and policewoman Maggie Oliver to fight the brutalised girls’ corner against furious, politically-correct resistance. Senior recalled her horrified astonishment at being told by councillors that  “we were breaching their human rights – but it was never the human rights of the children, it was the human rights of the perpetrators”. Sound familiar?

I thought of Senior and the shameful, decades-long cover-up in Rotherham after the riot in Knowsley when a news story appeared saying “politicians urged to take stand against violence towards asylum seekers”.

When did you last hear of politicians being urged to stand up for local residents against unvetted, illegal migrants inflicted on them because their government cannot police the UK’s borders and has lost control of immigration?

Let me be clear. Violence is never justified under any circumstances and asylum seekers in the Suites Hotel, which was surrounded by protesters, were very scared as fireworks were thrown. That is not the British way.

Although the far-Right didn’t lead the protest, a group called Patriotic Alternative had delivered leaflets in the area with the slogan, “5 Star Hotels for Migrants While Brits Freeze” and some of their members were spotted at the demo.

The blame, however, lies squarely with the state which has allowed the migration crisis to spiral out of control and now seeks to pass the buck to people who never voted for a shocking number of the country’s hotels to be requisitioned at a cost of £5.5 million a day to mop up the almighty mess. It’s the Government which has created these inflammatory conditions.

Unlike other European nations, the United Kingdom has not seen the rise of a far-Right or neo-Nazi party. That happy state is now in jeopardy as justifiable public annoyance is stigmatised as racist hatred by a sanctimonious class that largely escapes the consequences of its own idealistic opinions.

If the asylum seekers currently housed in underprivileged places like Knowsley and Skegness were put in a camp on, say, leafy Barnes Common, how long do you reckon the middle-class idealism would last?

Let me leave you with the devastating insight of Colin, a reader who responded when I asked how on earth someone like Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai (found guilty of stabbing 21-year-old Tom Roberts to death) was allowed into this country posing as a 14-year-old asylum seeker. 

“Because the default position has to be accepted as the result of a court case,” explained Colin. “Last year, the claim of a migrant to be a ‘child’ was not accepted by Border Force and they classified the individual as an adult – a decision proven correct by an age test which confirmed the man was, in fact, over 25. The man’s lawyers argued that the officers were not qualified to make that decision and he should have been treated as a minor until the tests proved otherwise. The judge agreed. Costs were awarded against Border Force and the migrant was awarded compensation despite the fact he knowingly made false claims.

“Essentially, he was compensated because Border Force officials would not believe his lies. Now, Border Force officers are instructed to accept any claim that a person is a child.”

Most sane people would still be horrified by what Colin reveals about our immigration system, although some dozy dolts would no doubt defend it on the increasingly laughable grounds of “human rights”  If the Government and a liberal elite continue to stigmatise and silence working-class people for a perfectly rational reaction to policies which threaten their children and their communities then I’m afraid they must prepared to reap the whirlwind.

Are those who think this way far-Right? Or could it possibly be that we are just right? /color]"


The DM would never carry that CK, (IMVVHO). Just fun. ATB
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More woke nonsense . . . .

" “Firemen” is a sexist and exclusionary term that should be “erased from our vocabulary”, a top city official has said. Dave Russel, Greater Manchester’s chief fire officer, has said the singular and plural forms of the word will “not be tolerated” because they are “a form of micro-aggression that is damaging to our culture”."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/02/23/no-thing-fireman-term-decried-sexist/

But signs of a fight back   . . . .

"The publisher of Roald Dahl has announced that it will produce uncensored versions of his stories following a backlash over changes to his work. Puffin UK said it would release "The Roald Dahl Classic Collection", to keep the author’s "classic texts in print"."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/02/24/roald-dahl-publisher-gives-ground-woke-changes-caused-storm/
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The madness in the UK seems to have no bounds Roger and a lot of it is to do with changing history..............hello History cannot be changed it is something that has actually happened.

I get my regular UK madness updates from this chap https://www.youtube.com/@HistoryDebunkedsimonwebb makes more semse than all the idots coming up with their nonsense.

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SFS thanks for that - I'll have a real look later. The bollocks continues :-

"James Bond novels have been rewritten to remove a number of racial references from Ian Fleming’s work, The Telegraph can reveal. All of the author’s thrillers featuring 007 are set to be reissued in April to mark 70 years since Casino Royale, the first book in the series, was published. Ian Fleming Publications Ltd, the company that owns the literary rights to the author’s work, commissioned a review by sensitivity readers of the classic texts under its control."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/02/25/james-bond-books-edited-remove-racist-references/
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England certainly seems to be mired in a quicksand of  negative factors ranging from strikes, serious NHS problems, bureaucratic ineptitude, immigration and the increasingly virulent surge in 'wokeness' and 'PC'ness'!   The incidents referred to in this thread and similar crass situations one reads about are all indicative of this, although I am sure that, as usual, the Press ratchets up the problems and concentrates on the idiocy. 
We don't have too many of the same problems over here – apart from bureaucratic ineptitude -  but Thailand is due an election in May and the dirty tricks brigade has long been hard at it to ensure that the ex-military coup lot stay in power.  It's quite amusing to watch as an outsider, but it would be arrogant for a Brit these days to poke fun at political shenanigans in another country! 


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I am surprised the woman was jailed but she indirectly caused the death of the 77 year old woman and was found guilty of manslaughter. Seems fair enough to me. With good behaviour, she'll probably be out of jail before Christmas next year. Hopefully, she'll be less gobby after her release.
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