Category Archives: poetry

Get up! Stand up! For your pension rights!

Posted on May 9, 2013 by henry tapper

Governance on these schemes cannot be imposed by Government, it needs to happen organically – bottom up. Continue reading →

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Starting a company

Posted on April 12, 2013 by henry tapper

Thanks to twitter and in particular Rory Cellan-Jones, the BBC’s ace technology commentator for finding this piece . Rory talks of the “constant, daily upheaval of emotions” of anyone who starts a company Millions of people start companies and few … Continue reading →

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Interesting….spin is self-defeating

Posted on March 28, 2013 by henry tapper

every time we say one thing and mean another, we are creating distrust in the person who we are talking or writing to Continue reading →

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Spurgeoning

Posted on March 18, 2013 by henry tapper

This morning the river spurgeoned under Windsor bridge. “Spurgeoning is” a word created by Anthony Burgess to describe the motion of a fast flowing river as it eddies after passing a fixed impediment (such as Windsor or Stratford bridge). Watching the … Continue reading →

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How the banks try to f*ck us – and how we deal with them

Posted on March 10, 2013 by henry tapper

It’s Sunday morning and I am reading a poem written around 1936 by Ezra Pound. It is about Usury , in this context the bad practice of the Medici Bank which Pound claimed screwed up the great artistic achievements of medieval … Continue reading →

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“Three into two won’t go”- NO EXIT at Playpen lunch!

Posted on March 5, 2013 by henry tapper

Three into two won’t go – but I can say this was the hardest but most rewarding meeting I have yet chaired Continue reading →

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The RDR has scotch’d the snake not killed it!

Posted on December 31, 2012 by henry tapper

the FSA has “scotched the snake not killed it”. Continue reading →

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Ten reasons to join the Pension Play Pen!

Posted on August 31, 2012 by henry tapper

I’m excited! Driving through Berkshire and Hampshire to work it showed 8 degrees  on the dashboard, I drove open-top and imagined I was Jane Austen in a pony and trap (the pony called Frankel)! I’m excited because there are 2499 members … Continue reading →

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Beautiful women, beautiful boats and beautiful days on the river!

Posted on August 29, 2012 by henry tapper

Ye distant spires, ye antique towers, That crown the watery glade, Where grateful Science still adores Her Henry’s holy shade; And ye, that from the stately brow Of Windsor’s heights th’ expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey, … Continue reading →

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“The Employer’s Duty”

Posted on August 15, 2012 by henry tapper

We talk blithely of the employer’s duties as if these obligations were pre-ordained. Economic Liberals may ask how we got to a world in which the Pension Regulator can issue a document entitled “Employer Duties and defining the workforce – an … Continue reading →

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