The right person for the job is the right person

The problem for Harriet Harman…

…to assume that [this] balance* can best be achieved by a tick box quota…
*Plus, IMHO, most else.

However, in today’s world, and especially its governance, this seems pretty much to be the way things are ‘run’.

Which might explain our current, and future, predicaments.

However, in just a few areas, those of lifetime job security, unwarranted pay awards, index-linked salaries, etc, in just a few sectors, this policy does at least still seem more than rewarding.

Oddly.

Race you

You want a British Obama? Try open primaries

Don't forget weight. Oh, and degree of grey/quantity of flowing locks. And height, of course. Plus any and all combinations of what currently exists thrown in, plus a quango with a boss on an index-linked, golden-pensioned package to fight the corner. Well, issue self-serving daft statements even dafter media give publicity to.

How many "offical" black telegraph bloggers are here

Now, there's the thing; I could give a rat's derriere. So long as the argument is sound, well articulated, factually supported and shared in a civil manner.

Does that make me 'ist', or rather illustrate those that show the unhealthiest interest with such things may now need to look closer to home before opening any of the Pandora's Boxes that have been allowed to riot too often up to now.

For this symbolical reason at least, President-elect Obama's selection should have provided a welcome dose of reality and introspection in some quarters.

Shame Mr. Phillips, and those who share his divisive views, still don't seem to do irony.

Gaurdian - Half-white is an insult -

As a parent of of half-white (well, by some definitions of me that even our PC census guys seem happy with, even though they have managed to give my ethnic Chinese, Singaporean wife cause to find them less than market rate talents by giving her the choice of being either 'Asian' OR 'Oriental') kids who seem pretty chilled on both aspects of their genetic heritage ...

Have Obama grow a three day beard...

This may of course lead to a whole new industry in threedaybeardism, which may only be resolved by the election of our first threedaybearded President in years to come. With luck, she'll be a woman.

Of course, the taxi thing can work both ways, as a certain BBC employee in Bristol has discovered. Oh the confusion of it all.

Anyhoo, I am counting the number of angels dancing on this pin, and am halfway through. At least I think it's half...

Johnny Nice Painter

MediaLens - Appearance And Reality In The Relaunch Of Brand America

Positive discrim... spin

Seems our government is thrashing about again, and our national broadcaster is well on board. To summarise a piece on 'positive discrimination' seems an amazing attempt at sticking oars in that would seem almost unworkable, we have suggested in conclusion:

'Labour wants to craft a fairer society'.

Quite a statement. Which is how it came across. I have written to ask if that was drafted elsewhere and just read out, or generated from within the BBC who already have the necessary officers in place to comply, be seen to comply and tell all and sundry that the are complying?

Especially for what appears yet another piece of misguided, intrusive, and ultimately pointless and doomed policy floating more for spin than substance, by an increasingly desperate, meddle-addicted government.

Why do I sense the only thing that will happen is a ton more jobsworths are created, a bunch of relative innocents hung out to dry and the vast majority sail on by simply working around the system?

Guardian - Not all women want to run the firm - I might also add that if this is the calibre of input we are getting from our accelerated sisterhood, it might not be all it's cracked up to be simply on plain evidence of our own eyes.

BBC - Law 'will ban age discrimination' - If not, in my experience, actually prevent it.
BBC - Harman pushes discrimination plan
Telegraph - Equality Bill: Labour's latest attempt at social engineering