We only want you to live forever

Sometimes, I think that people at work, particularly managers, think I spend all my time sitting on my arse waiting for them to send me urgent deadlines.

Imagine that you've just crashed your car, fallen off your bike, slipped over on some ice or have some other urgent need for the emergency services... You're also lost.  But you have a mobile phone, so you call for an ambulance.

New Bullshit words.  They're created in meetings.  Those tortuous, round-the-table official statutory-sector meetings that everyone attends because they have to, not because they choose to. 

Meetings where the secretary minutes every item under the label DRE:230506/2.3a.  Meetings dominated by a fat, balding, opinionated bureaucrat who doesn't know when to shut the f*ck up.

There is a trend currently for Celebrating Diversity - that we should embrace the differences between cultures, races, sexes and age groups.

It’s true, Celebrating Diversity is infinitly preferable to kicking peoples heads in, and for that, there is no arguement here. However, to celebrate difference, we must first identify difference, and therein lies the problem.

Far be it for us to criticise the Government, but we've noticed a disturbing trend emerging in British politics. It is the insidious rise of the Ministry of Stating the Obvious.

Not long ago, Governments would try to clip our intellectual wings, blethering on about how complicated everything is, and how there is no real easy answer to anything. But not any more...

The search for understanding our fellow humans is the self-same process that seeks, albeit unwittingly, to dehumanise them.

The Search (also known as the Psychiatric Assessment), systematically strips people of their identity, creates objects out of meaning and denies them the reality of their experiences.