Swart Donkey

Corporates aren’t democracies. They have shareholders who employ (or are) managers, who set the goals and manage the performance of their t...

“This isn’t a democracy” was a common phrase in my corporate career. Although there are legal minority shareholder protections, the realit...

People without money aren’t infants. They don’t need decisions made for them. They need money. Money is the fundamental unit of decision m...

British East India Company Before Capitalism, under Mercantilism, the lines were blurred between Companies and the State in the same...

I am part of a group of men that meets twice a month to support and challenge each other. I don't have the colleagues a 9-5 job provide...

Words are chunky. The more time we spend together, the more layers of agreed meaning a work can have. Each word in a sentence can mean a se...

" What do you want to be when you grow up? " is an old question for a time when there was a set menu. In a more flexible world, a...

Trev: I got my British Passport a year before the Brexit Referendum. As someone who believes the C20th introduction of passport control wa...

I am fortunately not allergic to any food that I am aware of. I don't like messy fruit, but that isn't an allergy... it is a childh...

Trev: You don't have to commit a crime to enjoy the right to remain silent. Two urges I am working hard on are my "Righteous Indi...

I believe in bottom-up empowerment. Rather than finding people to represent a theoretical "The People", I believe in empowering i...

When I was 19, I went to Europe for the first time. I was in the UK for 18 months before that working, an d did my traveling in one big bin...

Empowerment isn't getting your own way. Democracy isn't majority rule. I am part of a generation that is getting married much later...

I am a Soutie. One foot in South Africa, and one foot in the United Kingdom. These two places, where I have lived the longest, are full of...

Before elections in the United Kingdom, political parties release Manifestos. These are supposed to detail the mandate they are given. In S...

Король Георгий, Кайзер Вильгельм и Царь Николай были первыми кузенами. Их бабушка была королева Виктория. Когда мы говорим об Восточном Вес...

The English Civil War tore England apart. Thomas Hobbes was 64 years old when the conflict began. He became one of the leading thinkers ar...

Part of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was due to the realisation that we were being manipulated. That other people were trying to do to u...

Chile is on the long, narrow strip between the Andes and the Pacific Ocean. Squeezed in, the Spanish colony (after 1541) had fierce...

The world is noisy. Once you accept that it is not particularly fair, you still have to treat it as if it is. Even though there is so much ...