Top stories published by Literate Business in July of 2016

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Graham Stewart in Literate Business

Jul 6, 2016

The loss of an apostrophe signals the end of a dream

When I returned from a year of teaching English on Crete in the mid 80s I was lucky enough to land a job at Waterstone’s. Tim Waterstone himself interviewed me and I was taken on at the Charing Cross Road branch of the recently launched…

Graham Stewart in Literate Business

Jul 29, 2016

Business as usual for bubbles within bubbles

John Lanchester has an excellent article in the latest issue of the London Review of Books called Brexit Blues. This is not another shirt-shredding piece in which a cosmopolitan liberal bemoans the actions of the deluded masses who voted to tear…

Graham Stewart in Literate Business

Jul 27, 2016

Real business deals are struck while caring for an ageing parent

There was a time when my business meetings would usually be followed by many hours in the pub. This was always with the excuse that drinking — heavily — was the way to bond or to make the business relationship more…

Graham Stewart in Literate Business

Jul 4, 2016

Is there no place for honesty in Westminster?

Further proof of the increasingly common desire for a race to the political bottom (see my previous post on this) came in a number of conversations I had over the weekend. Although Brexit was a common topic, the conversations soon came round to…

Graham Stewart in Literate Business

Jul 11, 2016

Labour’s right wing finally show us what they mean by electable

At last we have been given a glimpse of what electable looks like. Angela Eagle is to stand for the leadership of the Labour Party. The Labour Party already has a leader, of course, who was elected by around 60% of the…

Graham Stewart in Literate Business

Jul 18, 2016

Telling stories to connect, to heal others, and to discover yourself

Perhaps we have a duty to tell our stories. Sharing what we have experienced — and feel and think about those experiences — is a way we help others. And ourselves.

Graham Stewart in Literate Business

Jul 12, 2016

Was the plan to force a split in the Labour Party all along?

The Labour NEC has made the decision that Jeremy Corbyn will be on the ballot for another leadership election. This makes the challenge by Eagle a farce and a waste of time. It is less than unlikely that any outcome other…

Graham Stewart in Literate Business

Jul 19, 2016

Renewing nuclear weapons is the ultimate supply-side joke

The simplest definition of supply-side economics — which has been the dominant economic policy since Thatcher and Reagan and which forms the basis of the neoliberal plundering of the state — is that to make the rich work harder…

Graham Stewart in Literate Business

Jul 20, 2016

Even the UK’s ‘quality’ press shares the tabloid approach to politics

I was in a local Costa coffee shop this morning. As with many such coffee shops that claim — however vaguely — Italian heritage, the walls are adorned with blown up photographs — always monochrome — of scenes…

Graham Stewart in Literate Business

Jul 7, 2016

Let Chilcot sound a warning against ‘electable’ politicians

It’s worth thinking a little about what electability means in this week of the Chilcot report. The appearance of the report into the Iraq crime probably also means that the coup against Corbyn will come to an end. After all…

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