Author Archives: theqbitblogger

Those days after Christmas and before New Year often feel like being in between, stranded in No Man’s land. About to leave the past , about to enter the new, the next chapter in your journey. Wondering what the next holds, knowing all you’ve seen, wild speculation mixed with acceptance. Of course life should beContinue reading “No Man’s Land”

Though I swept my Chimney this year Father Christmas was restricted from coming down it by Tier 4 regulation. Never mind Amazon took over and the cardboard kept coming in. Amazon are so busy that they don’t have even time to eat the mince pie. The Reindeers are also redundant their places taken by whiteContinue reading “Christmas Britain 2020”

If someone predicted an event 700 odd years before it happened you might sit up and listen next time he spoke. Isaiah the prophet did this and his words were recorded in that best selling book the bible written around 1500 years later. Now 2000 years on we still hear this story of the event.Continue reading “Unto us a Child is Born”

The County of Kent has become a Lorry park. 3000 lorries including other vehicles waiting to cross from Britain into France. In Chinese there are over 50,000 characters in their written language and knowledge of 18,000 is required to get by. In the West we have 26 characters in the alphabet. The letter P precedesContinue reading “Q before P”

Though in 1807 the UK Parliament outlawed slavery, we find that for the next 25 years almost 700,000 people remained in Slavery. The powerful West India Interest supported by leading Prime Ministers including Times and Spectator ensured slavery lasted till 1833. At that point the people were compensated not those who were enslaved but toContinue reading “Is this just the way it is ?”

‘ Have yourself a Merry little Christmas ‘ was written by Martin and Blane in 1943 and sung by Judy Garland. The song featured in the 1944 MGM movie ‘ Meet me in St Louis and reached number 27 in the charts. It was written at a time of war, an era of battle, itContinue reading “Have yourself a Merry little Christmas.”

No sooner as we have discovered the long awaited miracle cure vaccination for Covid 19 we face yet more uncertainty. As a verb jab is a short sharp prick with something pointed like a needle administering the vaccine. As a verb jab is a short sharp punch to the stomach similar what Boxer Anthony JoshuaContinue reading “Jab, Jab, Jabber”

The Chinese Belt Road Initiative was described by a contributor to a midweek Webinar this week as a ‘ brilliant marketing campaign’. What exactly was being marketed was unclear but China have to date spent $2 trillion reaching out across the nations to create Ports, Robotic Centres and technology in many nations. The strategy wasContinue reading “Belt and Braces”

In a previous posting I highlighted the financial losses at TFL. These losses were already happening Pre pandemic and obviously exacerbated these last 10 months. To add insult to injury there has been an uptick in the share price of Stagecoach Plc which amongst other things run the red buses those iconic to the LondonContinue reading “Haemorrhage London 2”

The Financial Times publication today of Europe’s league of top Business Schools makes interesting read. Presumably this is the last year UK contends as we prepare for the EU Exit , Brexit. Interestingly the UK barely makes the bulk of the top 10 which I find worrying for the UK. Numero Uno or I shouldContinue reading “Business Schools.”