WSJ: Is It Better to Select a CEO Who Is an Outsider or an Insider?

By SIMON CONSTABLE

New research says the answer might be somebody who is a little bit of both, and that’s especially true during turbulent times. Read more here.

#France: Balmy with moderating commodity and food prices: Reconsidering Davos. @RealConstable @BatchelorShow Occitanie for the third winter of war,

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

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Davos circa 1900

Johannes Meiner , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Korn Ferry: Work From Home, Be Laid Off Less?

By SIMON CONSTABLE

A surprising survey finds that only 16% of UK firms with remote staff had layoffs last year. Why? Read more here.

Fox News: Klaus Schwab's World Economic Forum in Davos exposed as place where 'cronyism can flourish'

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

A turning point came in 2021 amid COVID-19, when the idea of 'the Great Reset' took off. Read more here.

World Economic Forum, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

#France: The inflation monster looms in the UK; the Post Office Scandal & What is to be done? @BatchelorShow @RealConstable, Occitanie

By SIMON CONSTABLE

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John and I discuss the outrageous Royal Mail scandal, which resulted in hundreds of post-sub-masters being accused of fraud when, in reality, a computer glitch got the accounts wrong.

We also explain the inflation beast story I recently wrote for Briefings magazine here.

Gendarmes d’Ordonnance. 

Édouard Detaille , CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

CC: It’s Getting Worse: Iran Makes War on Pakistan and Iraq

By SIMON CONSTABLE

Iranian-born British citizen and political activist Vahid Beheshti joins us from London outside the Foreign Office. He explains the latest on the conflict in the Middle East, notably the two attacks on Pakistan and Iraq, and what that means for the region. We also discuss the urgent need for the United Kingdom to remove all its diplomatic corps from Iran or risk them being taken hostage by Iran’s theocracy. And we have a lot more, too.

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Photo credit: Cropped version of a photo from Mydust, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

Photo description: Pakistani Army Position, 1965 War

The intro is a shortened version of a clip by Richard Wagner, EEF OAL-1, licensed via Wikimedia Commons, performed by:

Conductor: James Allen Gähres

Ensemble: Ulm Philharmonic

Location: CCU Einsteinsaal, Ulm

Opera: The Valkyrie (Die Walküre)

Movement: Prelude from Act 3

Date 3 June 2014

The thunderclap outro is a shortened version of a clip by Jonathan Hunt, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Briefings Magazine: Taming the Inflation Beast

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

Inflation today isn’t the same as that of the 1970s. Read more here.