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Jack Nicholas

Jack Nicholas

Rewording from a hostile to a compliant environment

For many years now, UK authorities have operated hostile environments. Officially, in the area of immigration, unofficially towards many…

May 7, 2018

Rewording from a hostile to a compliant environment

May 7, 2018

Jack Nicholas

Falsehood and incompetence: the politician’s sweet spot.

To succeed in politics, a politician has to tread not one but two tightropes. You have to get the balance of incompetence, just right. You…

May 1, 2018

Falsehood and incompetence: the politician’s sweet spot.

May 1, 2018

Jack Nicholas

What matters goes

Cold and grey

May 1, 2018

May 1, 2018

Jack Nicholas

And himself jail — poetry beats grammar

In a Language Log post by Neal Goldfarb on 21 April 2018, there is a great analysis of the phrase “and himself jail”:

Apr 26, 2018

And himself jail — poetry beats grammar

Apr 26, 2018

Jack Nicholas

The hype cycle, six stages of a project, and more…

Always kicking around in my head is a mis-remembered saying that “the final stage of any successful project is praise of the uninvolved”…

Mar 8, 2018

Mar 8, 2018

Jack Nicholas

Hurrah, we have our glorious passport back. It’s the real blue.

Everything will now go back to being just as it always was, or if it wasn’t, as it should have been.

Dec 23, 2017

Hurrah, we have our glorious passport back. It’s the real blue.

Dec 23, 2017

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How to solve any problem with limited effort

Sherlock Holmes used to talk about n-pipe problems where n represented the number of pipes he would smoke while solving a case, and…

Feb 16, 2016

How to solve any problem with limited effort

Feb 16, 2016

Jack Nicholas

Jack Nicholas

Writer: prose poetry hypertext | Director: Community Navigator Services | Partner: Nicholas Allen | Stammerer helping others find a voice, tell their stories

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