Author Archives: Hugh Salmon
NHS reform: can your doctor be trusted or not?
In what may be my most read post to date, DLA Disgrace, I discussed the shameful process that our Government inflicts on the disabled people in our community. It is outsourced to ATOS – ‘an international information technology services company’. … Continue reading
National debt: who do we owe?
What is it about the ‘national debt’ that I am not getting? Please forgive me for not being an economist but, when you owe loads of money, you can’t keep up with the repayments and you plunge deeper and deeper … Continue reading
When you don’t know thine own self
Last week, I heard Jeffrey Archer promoting his latest book on the radio. In the light of Chris Huhne’s jail sentence for perverting the course of justice, the presenter insisted on asking Archer about his own experiences in prison. Monosyllabic were the answers. Not … Continue reading
When you need someone to do something they don’t want to do
Cynics might interpret the title of this post as a definition of marketing and, thus, the world we live in today. But, as marketing is my job, how could I agree? One of the advantages of working in creative businesses … Continue reading
Education: every child has a talent at something
For how long will we say that our educational system is our country’s greatest failing? It won’t surprise you when I say for as long as our inadequate career politicians are in charge:
Tuition fees: evidence of an unkind system
It was revealed last week that, following the introduction of tuition fees, there has been a 40% drop in university admissions. What a surprise. You don’t have to be the world’s most sophisticated marketing or behavioural expert to know that … Continue reading
Benefit cuts: a call to mobilise the disabled
So now we are here in another New Year and, in the UK, the savagery of social welfare cuts continues to slice through our society. We have had: 06 January: ‘Soldiers, nurses and teachers hit by benefit curbs’ 07 January: … Continue reading
Kindness
This post on kindness was going to be my Christmas message until the massacre in Newtown forced me, and many others, to rage against the inhumanity of the US gun laws. Mind you, even at Sandy Hook, there was evidence … Continue reading
US Gun Laws: Could Twitter and Facebook be forces for good?
What a world. Twenty-six children have been slaughtered. To protect them, teachers have thrown their bodies into hails of gunfire. ‘Carnage’, as President Obama said:
When people expect you to behave as they would
Once, I was Managing Director of a London advertising agency. After a couple of years, I felt I had done a good job. I had secured all the important clients, recruited a new generation of staff and, in the face … Continue reading