Category Archives: Music
A time of trust – not guarantees.
About the time that I was ranting to TISA about the complacency with which we are dismantling the retirement promises made to those who were promised a DB pension based on the years they worked with the company;- this happened! … Continue reading
Posted in CDC, DWP, FSA, Music, pensions
Tagged alex Cunningham, annuity, BHS, BSPS, DWP, FCA, Frank Field, Labour, pensions, Royal Mail, TPR, USS
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Face to face with a man who changed the world
his website looks like he hasn’t come across social media yetThe man in the blue suit is Bernard Rhodes, who delivered a spell-binding monologue for nearly three hours last night at the British Library. Bernard Rhodes If you don’t know … Continue reading
Posted in Music, pensions, punk
Tagged #punk40, Bernard Rhodes, British Library, music, punk, The Clash, The Sex Pistols
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The worst kind of paternalism
They’re all , fat and old, queuing for the House of Lords Continue reading
Posted in Music, pensions, Popcorn Pensions, Public sector pensions, RBS
Tagged Civil Servants, DWP, House of Lords, Paternalism, Remote Control, Steve Webb, The Clash
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Abbey Road Studios – WOW!
I’ve never been anywhere in Britain that so caught the zeitgeist of our last fifty years than Abbey Road Studios. Continue reading
Posted in Music, pension playpen
Tagged Abbey Road Studios, Hammond, Hammond organ, Organ, Penny Lane, Piano, Steinway, Steinway & Sons
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What award ceremonies are all about
The vast majority of the people who turn up for these events, do so because they’re frightened not to Continue reading
Posted in life insurance, Management, Music
Tagged ABBA, Arts, Award, Award ceremony, Company, Jimmy Carr, Site Awards, twitter
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The growing epidemic of stats misuse
Hilary Salt is founder of First Actuarial plc. She is currently the Actuarial Post’s Actuary of the Year. Late in 2011 she was asked to contribute a piece to the Independent’s Battle of the Ideas. This is what she wrote . Twenty years ago, … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, Martin Lewis, Music, pensions, Trades Union Congress, Treasury
Tagged Harvard University, Journalist, Math, Nate Silver, New Zealand, SpongeBob SquarePants, Statistics, United States
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“From Kent where we are not” – Leonard Cohen’s Wembley Arena Show
They are from Kent, where we are not So Cohen introduced the Webb sisters – Hattie and Charlie, who have grown in vocal stature since Cohen was last seen here and now dwarf the considerable talent of Sharon Robinson. The three hour show … Continue reading
Posted in Leonard Cohen, Music, Olympics 2012
Tagged Cohen, England, Leonard Cohen, London, Roscoe Beck, Sharon Robinson, Webb, Wembley Arena
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