Like many people of my generation (the over-50s), I have retired from work and will not be going back. This is why.
I could do non-executive director work. I have a good enough CV, with a wide variety of operational and executive experience gained in global firms, emerging companies and start-ups. I have line management experience in sales, marketing, project management, development, tech support and a good understanding of finance, administration and IT systems gained from selling them to global companies. I ran country and regional operations. I have been a founder, investor and working director in five tech companies that went on to four trade sales and one IPO. I am not Elon Musk but this is useful stuff.
Academically, I worked alongside Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman as a visiting fellow at KCL and Professor Tom Kirkwood (BBC Reith Lecturer) at Newcastle University. For both I brought bite, speed and determination from startups to bear on projects that delivered value from their world-leading academic efforts. U.K. universities massively underperform by comparison with the U.S. when attempting to ‘spin out’ academic knowledge into the economy. Someone with personal experience of fighting that battle (it’s mainly against internal enemies) would surely have something to contribute as a non-executive or adviser.
On projects, where the U.K. is world class at disaster, (can any country compete with our record for bringing them home late, over budget and failing to deliver their promised benefits?) I combined decades of industry experience of running successful projects with a postgraduate Masters at Oxford University that allowed me to see my career out by helping organisations take straightforward steps to avoid failure. I have been invited back to speak to Masters students at Oxford on this, and to organisations that turn to Oxford for help when they are about to start a high risk and strategically significant project.
I have published technical papers in serious journals and been invited to give lectures at conferences to real experts, including that most exclusive and intellectually superior audience – medical doctors – who I sucked up to by starting my lecture with “It’s not often I can say I am definitely the most stupid person in the room” before pistol whipping them with the social ‘science’ of why it is unethical to mandate compulsory prescription of statins to everyone over 60, even if it would increase average life expectancy across the herd.
Finally, I am socially okay. I am not arrogant, domineering, greedy, power-grabbing or any other toxic behaviour that we correctly associate with many ‘successful’ people. I know how to operate in a team. I don’t want the glory. I derive enormous satisfaction from helping other people achieve their potential. I actually care about people!
Put that lot together and it’s a useful bag of spanners that could be turned to the advantage of many an organisation, and I would love to do it, but I won’t.
The reason is the one that I feel is responsible for many of my generation choosing retirement and walking away with our knowledge and experience. To go back, we would have to conceal our views on a set of subjects that would cancel us. In fact, if I mentioned my views out-loud to HR they might arrest me on the spot. Here they are a perfectly legal and reasonable spread of beliefs.
• I believe there are some situations where women who do not have a penis are entitled to separate treatment.
• I don’t believe all migration is good.
• I don’t believe all white people are racist.
• I believe scientific based knowledge is superior to cultural belief systems.
• I don’t believe it is okay for activists to break the law.
And, to cap it all, I voted for Brexit, and would like to say so, without suffering the bigotry that flows from that. I am not a Daily Mail reader, little Englander, racist, xenophobe, populist, fascist, gammon, uneducated football hooligan etc. etc. My concerns about EU membership stood me alongside Frank Field, who in my judgement was the most principled ‘social and economic justice’ politician of the last 50 years.
Given a modicum of unemotional time and space I can explain and defend every one of these positions, while maintaining a pristine set of liberal democratic values. Unfortunately, that is not on offer. One word ‘off message’ and the response is swift and emotional. To use words such as “can we calm down and examine the evidence” is now seen as provocative and is dismissed as ‘tone policing’ by shouty people who believe they have a moral monopoly and a right to be angry and offended.
It’s a shame but I no longer want to sit silently in the presence of HR and PR culture guardians. Not only is it bad for my blood pressure but I risk internal injury from suppressing laughter. But somehow, DEI and ESG has captured CEOs and organisations. Dissent is career suicide. For me, as with most mature (both senses of the word) employees, survival is contingent on constant, vigilant self-censorship. I wouldn’t go back to that for all the tea in a global consumer goods company. Regaining the power of free speech is something I looked forward to in retirement and I don’t want to give it up.
It’s sad that even from the safety of retirement I hesitate in making these statements. It is sad that people who are old, white and male face so much hostility. If you talked to me at a bus stop you would find a nice, friendly, smiling, tolerant, supportive person who throughout his career has fought to open opportunities for people regardless of gender, ethnicity, religion or class.
Back in 2016 I nearly laughed when I passed the Oxford University training course on ‘unconscious bias’. It was funny because I had been invited to review the Oxford Admissions process after spending years criticising it for being biased against minorities. Ironic or what? The training (which was influenced by the White Fragility works of Robin DiAngelo) was as laughable as anything I have ever seen from sociology. A stupendous achievement. It’s not that bias or racism doesn’t exist. It does and there is something of value in Critical Race Theory and intersectionality. But the absolutism and malignant spite of this mob is unacceptable. Academic careerism and opportunism at its worst. It is too extreme. It goes too far. It is counterproductive. It reaches its peak of condescension and offensiveness in its treatment of black people. This isn’t the way to build on progress against (real) racism. if I went back to work, I would never be able to say such things.
As a part-time academic I devoted a lot of effort to applied work to reduce income inequality which I believe is tearing society apart and was the real cause of the Brexit protest vote. It exasperates me that the trendy Johnny-come-lately diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) activists are now in control with their mission to make organisations ‘look good’. Looking good is the game, not being good. I have sat in rooms with top lawyers and their global clients when I have proved we can track pay inequality even down to the most complex ‘intersectional’ comparison in an instant with modern tech and at this news they stop the meeting. For all their high talk about diversity and equity, they don’t want to risk a legal ‘discovery’ liability. In other words, they know they have skeletons in their cupboards and like to hide behind the defence that they haven’t heard it is possible to track them down. This is what ‘good’ looks like.
I have also heard of DEI execs, usually from HR, who petulantly demand pay and job equity data on ethnicity, and when technicians request tangible definitions of ethnicity, they are criticised for being obstructive. Sorry, for being white, male and old about this, but surely we need tight definitions to present reliable data. We can provide data if they can provide definitions. The trouble with ethnicity (as anyone who has done a DNA heritage test will know) is that it does not divide into sharply, biologically defined, objective, measurable and distinct buckets. Ethnicity, as presented by DiAngelo et al., is dependent on subjective generalisation. Most people have a view of what they are and what other people are, but this is not a scientific test to accurately divide individuals into white, black or any other ethnicity, and woe betide you if you get it wrong. The fact is everyone is a mix. Ethnicity definitions vary by culture, country and regulatory environments. Unfortunately, raising legitimate technicalities is “obstructive” in the Lewis Carrol world of HR – or is it Violet Elizabeth Bott, whose catchphrase when she can’t have what she wants is “I’ll scream and scream until I am sick”? Either way it’s impossible to have a grown-up conversation. Ask for a definition of ethnicity, and the reply will be “you know what I mean”. Six-year-olds argue like this.
To supply another example, now HR systems can record more than two genders you might think ‘job done’. Put your tick where you identify and away we go. But, as systems persons who have wider responsibilities than simply making activists happy, we must think of the consequences now that the data have changed. Gender data are used in many ways other than determining which toilet you can use. For example, actuaries refer to it to calculate life expectancy and health insurance risks, which must then be priced and budgeted for. Putting a tick in a new box based on your self-identification today (or even part way through today and back again tomorrow) undermines these calculations. That’s okay, but we need to discuss how we accommodate that in a calm, logical, rational, quantitative way. Except to suggest such a discussion will risk all the usual accusations of tone policing, micro-aggressions, gas lighting, X shaming etc. etc.
Anyway, you get the message. I am sorry but I prefer to watch daytime telly rather than suffer all this to make a lifetime of hard-earned experience available to help organisations who would benefit from it. And it’s not just me but all those other 50-plus middle managers, trade and craft professionals and scientists who no longer want to spend every day tying their tongue in knots to avoid revealing their perfectly sensible and legitimate but unfashionable views. To our tormenters in HR and PR, most of whom would struggle to wire a plug: you won, but you lost.
Ken Charman is CEO of the Build-a-Plane CIC. He retired as CEO of uFlexReward, a Unilever tech startup. As a tech startup founder, he has experienced four successful trade sales and an IPO. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and was a Visiting Senior Fellow in War Studies at KCL.
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Some enterprising lawyer should remind them the JAB manufacturers are legally immune from damage claims, but those incentivising medical treatments and thus mangling consent are probably not…
Its obvious the government are paying these companies to offer bribes for jabs! I pray none of the youngsters are stupid enough to be scammed.
In the US, the funding came from the huge stimulus bill, I do believe. Taxpayers paying to have themselves propagandized.
Still, there is the upside that it will be the dim and unthinking who join the cull!
I’m guessing that from these derisory offers they believe 18-30’s will do anything to save themselves £10 !!!
Bargains galore lol
This is misinformation. Where are the fact-checkers?
“Where are the fact-checkers?”
I think the translation was wrong : for ‘fact-checkers’ read ‘arse-lickers’.
What we need to do is somehow build a ‘Wall of defiance’. Turning off the app is a start if the majority of us haven’t done so already or never downloaded it in first place. Same with refusing to provide contact details.
Paaaaaaaathetic.
These bribes are so lame they would not tempt a Scottish Jew. What is needed are some decent incentives such as the £10,000 plus a free year’s accommodation Leeds University is offering to students who are prepared to defer their place for a year. This year’s cohort of A level students really hit the jackpot – vastly inflated grades and now this wonderful offer which will finance their gap year.
Looks to me as if the offer, should it be required, of a full paid-for, slap-up funeral, complete with black horses, and several mutes in crape-wound top hats and frock coats, would be more appropriate.
This quote along the lines of ‘when you are coerced or incentivized to get something by an authority, you can be absolutely sure that it’s not in your best interest’ is always my first and sole reaction to the plethora of such news.
“ ….as we continue to build the wall of defence through every jab given.”
… but, but, but I thought it was now accepted that these vaccines don’t stop spread. Either I am going insane or the government are lying!
They are lying
they seem to carry on saying things about a month after ‘the evidence’ changes
gaslighting
They are also insane.
Mmm, not sure that I would agree with you there, I think they know exactly what they are doing. It’s all part of a globally co-ordinated plan for micromanagement of people’s lives. It’s never been just about the virus.
Criminally insane. Actually no, just criminal. Psychopaths aren’t insane. Bad not mad.
They are being hung up by the short and curlies. How else would it be possible for so many world leaders to fall prey to this insanity? Everyone has skeletons in the cupboard – I suggest politicians have more than a few that wouldn’t stand daylight scrutiny.
“ Mr Javid said: “It is fantastic to see more companies backing the phenomenal vaccine rollout”
So phenomenal that they have to stoop to bribery and coercion to get healthy young adults to take the ‘death jab’ for fuck sake. Sick bastards all of them!
Absolutely, but helpfully they are highlighting the businesses that will need to be added to the ever increasing list of those to be held to account at some point in the future when we win against this world takeover, although possibly not in my lifetime!!
In the meantime I am making a list of companies never to do business with
The more these abject politicos spout their rotten mantra the more I seek, find and read dissenting voices of medics and other scientists who have systematically destroyed the CCP/WHO/Pharma/Gavi/Fauci/PHE/JCVI/SAGE CDC et al policies – do these criminals not realise they have long ago been unmasked (sorry) and the cat is well and truly out of the bag.
Question is , how much longer before matters get really serious with violence/economies stalling etc and other issues get dragged in…refugees/attempts at radical Islamisation of western countries…..very dangerous times
A few more names for my little black book. Their day will come.
Piss off, you sanctimonious bullshitter!
I don’t really get the urge to jab people who are not at risk with a leaky vaccine that can only drive variants
should have stopped after ‘offering’ it to those deemed vulnerable
but really should have just ignored the whole bloody thing. it was panic that got the infected sent to care homes
Really? Really? These companies are prepared to offer derisory bribes to persuade the young to engage in the biggest medical experiment the world has ever seen. You couldn’t make this up.
Ummmm….
I wouldn’t mind if the jabs worked and this was really a deadly virus – I mean if this was really a deadly virus and the vaccines worked then there would be no need to bribe and coerce people into taking the vaccine.
My take from this desperate act in resorting to bribing people (freebies) and coercion (no holidays abroad) is that not nearly as many people are taking up the jab offer as we are being led to believe.
The wheels are coming off this manufactured crisis and like everything else about this pandemic it all just more bullshit from a government that i sometimes suspect has another agenda.
They wouldn’t have to constantly tell us how deadly it is, we’d know just by looking around.
The first indicator for me that something wasn’t right, was VERY early on when the media was saying that there was nothing you could do about it and that there were these “scammers” pushing vitamins and other remedies, and just healthy living in general.
I know more people in the last 2 weeks with covid than the entire 18 months up to now
all under 50. all mild – not even worth mentioning if it wasn’t such a “deadly disease”. some just positive tests. a few pings
now I’ve got a bit of a cold. started yesterday with a sore throat. i reckon its a hangover though
all jabbed as well?
as far as I know all jabbed
I have the same observation…
It seems being jabbed makes you constantly ill
Nobody at my job got sick this entire time, up until people started getting the shot. The people hacking and coughing now are the ones who got jabbed.
We did have a few people test “positive” last year after they found out they would get two weeks paid vacation if they caught “it”. Not actually sick, though.
I posted this in today’s comments but worth a permanent record here as it’s relevant to this news item
This is a link to a family doctor practice in Mohringen, Germany who have exited the experimental vaccine programme
https://moehringer-hausarztpraxis.de/
The following is a translation of a section on their website that has now ‘disappeared’
Vaccinations in practice
Exit from the Covid-19 vaccination campaign
Dear patients,
For medical reasons, after a long internal struggle, I decided to withdraw from the Covid-19 vaccination campaign until further notice.
The motto “primum nil nocere” – “first of all do not harm” applies to all medical treatment. This means: the potential benefit of a medical measure must always be greater than the potential risk. The benefit of a Covid vaccination for the seriously ill or elderly patients originally referred to as priority 1 and priority 2 is in all probability higher than the risk of the vaccinations. These patients have therefore received a vaccination offer from us and we will also complete the vaccination cycles that have started.
In my opinion, the ratio of benefit to risk for all other patients can no longer be stated so clearly on the basis of the current data. On the one hand, there is the risk of a serious Covid 19 disease. Statistically speaking, younger people have a low risk of a severe course of Covid-19. The risk increases with age and previous illnesses. The aim of the Covid-19 vaccinations is to prevent the severe courses – whether they also prevent so-called long-covid syndromes has not yet been sufficiently investigated.
On the other hand, there is the safety of the available vaccines. All vaccines have only a conditional approval, as safety and efficacy have not been sufficiently proven to date. Technologically, all currently approved vaccines are breaking new ground, the safety of which has not yet been proven in the short or long term due to a lack of time. Consistently formulated, the current vaccination campaign is therefore a huge study in which all those willing to vaccinate take part as test subjects.
At least in the short term, the new vaccines show a side effect profile that we would not have tolerated as doctors at other times. Almost every day since the vaccinations for young people were opened, I have seen patients with symptoms that occurred shortly after the vaccination (e.g. fever, pain, nausea, skin rashes, lymph node swelling, sensory disorders, autoimmune diseases). This has already led to hospital admissions. Thank goodness I haven’t seen the potentially fatal diseases (such as myocarditis and blood clots) that are currently associated with vaccines in my practice.
At this point in time, we cannot have sufficient data on the long-term safety of the vaccines, because this assessment takes time that cannot be replaced by a lot of money or a large number of test subjects. There are also gaps in the data on fertility in women and men and on possible consequences for unborn life. This makes it almost impossible to compare benefits and risks. With other vaccinations (e.g. tetanus, measles or TBE), this is possible for us through many years of use and our knowledge of good short-term and long-term tolerance. That is why I recommend these vaccinations to you in accordance with the STIKO vaccination recommendations.
There is a risk that the Covid-19 vaccination will harm you in the short term. Nobody can tell you at the moment whether I will harm you in the long term. Whether I will benefit you with the vaccination in the long term, either. I therefore cannot reconcile it with my conscience to continue vaccinating. So please allow me “first of all not to harm you”!
I would be delighted if you continued to place your trust in me and thank you!
Dr. J. Weiffenbach
I have emailed this to my MP and once again reminded him he will be unable to say he was unaware.
An honest and brave man, just wish that we had more of his ill here in the UK!
Copied and shared.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210814073914/https://moehringer-hausarztpraxis.de/
Oh German! I’m sorry. I thought there was something wrong with you.
Dr Ryan Coles in the US has disclosed that the FDA’s own rules on experimental use only approval apparently states that after 25 deaths from the EUO drug, it HAS to be pulled; absolute dynamite implication the FDA is ignoring its own rules therefore a potentially illegal act; in addition the Pfizer FDA authorisation also states that the EUO approval is only given such that if there are no other treatments available – is this true of the UK EUO approved Pfizer/Astra Zeneca jabs….
Please see on Rumble “Dr Ryan Coles/Stop the mandate” if you have not already done so.
What would once have been incredible – touting vaccines like a snake-oil salesman.
uh …ohhh … what did you say? They are hick snake-oil salesmen?
It reminds me of this public information film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzWKK86rMTQ
Charley and I were in the park. Then this man came up and said would I like a £10 voucher off some George clothing. And I said yes, and I was going to go to the vaccination centre to get my voucher but Charley reminded me that my mum said I shouldn’t take experimental gene therapies that might cause myocarditis or death. We went and told mummy, and she said we had been really good.
Brilliant!
Love it!
Wonderful!
If walk-in centres are dishing out free sweeties, what’s to stop the kiddie pwinkies getting jabbed a dozen times so’s to get the sweeties?
Lastminute.com will offer gift cards for travel abroad, which, at the last minute, the government might deny you!
These sick bastards are ALL culpable! The truth WILL out.
True – but maybe only in 50 years or so.
Why are they still calling the medical treatment a ‘vaccine’?
Interesting to note that the photo shows the skin being pinched for the injection. This is strongly advised against because it increases the likelihood of the needle not reaching the muscle but, instead, going into a vein. I understand that the skin should be gently stretched before inserting the needle.
I agree it’s important to highlight this given the concerns around how this impacts how the vaccine is distributed. But is the skin actually being pinched in that photo?
A fucking disgrace. That aside, how many 18-30 year olds are going to rush to get a voucher for the frumpy Asda clothing?
Asda also got the contract for the uniforms for the “isolation” camps?
Here in the People’s Republic of San Francisco, a preview of what’s coming your way soon no doubt: https://sf.gov/information/vaccine-required
The best part is really this (sentences reordered):
We’re requiring vaccines to protect everyone against the continued spread of COVID-19.
You will still need to wear a mask, even if you are vaccinated.
We’re requiring vaccination to protect against COVID-19 and we’re requiring masks to … er … well … protect against the problem that we don’t really believe that what we’re requiring to protect against COVID-19 does protect against COVID-19.
And then, of course, COVID-19 protection by vaccinated masks is only required for spare-time activities we really disapprove of.
Jesus this shit has to fucking STOP!!!!
If this was a ‘real’ pandemic where the stench of death was everywhere, and everybody knew someone effected there would be no need for inducements, but its not.. is it. Its a cooked up hoax, so therefore the need for massive advertising (propaganda) and sweeties to attract the ill-informed, naive and just plain stupid.
Lets get this straight.. they need the vax for the passports, they need the passports for the digital ID, and they need the digital ID for the digital banking and social credit system they have planned… have I missed anything.. ???
Yep, nothing else makes sense. Continuing to think that this is all incompetence is delusional.
Everything makes sense, events are driven by design. The next crisis will be were all doomed by climate change, and to give you all a bit of light relief here’ a cunning plan…
Baldrick: I have a cunning plan to get us out of getting killed sir.
Blackadder: Ah yes, what is it?
Baldrick: Cooking.
No, got it in one! Our government have sold us out to the globalists and the health mafia. Our supine MPs have just sat back and let it happen . I hesitate to guess why.
No its all there, doesn’t mean it will happen though..
That’s why I’m not complying. The less we comply, the less likely it is to happen.
More of this
I’m not sure.
I figure there has to be something particularly sinister about these injections.
If the sole aim was “social credit”, via the digital Id, etc., as you outline, I believe they would have run with an influenza “pandemic” and a relatively well established influenza vaccine, “tried and trusted” technology. (Don’t mention Pandemrix!)
Instead, they’re doing a global roll-out of weird shit. mRNA – a technology never used for any licensed treatment. Or viral vector – a technology only slightly more established: two, or three, viral vector treatments were licensed in late 2019, “vaccines” against Ebola. (So, lots of folk you know have received them, and been perfectly fine!)
That’s it summed up very succinctly
I have
“Yes we have no pandemic, we have no pandemic today”
running through my head.
BBC News (sorry) article about a plague vaccine bring developed. How long before that is made mandatory?
Companies to avoid
Question: why would these companies be so interested in getting children injected with the experimental shit? Answers on a postcard please.
Wonder if it will come to hanging around school gates.
Bit by bit, everything Geert Vanden Bossche predicted is beginning to happen Someone somewhere really needs to, at least, take notice of what he is saying. In his latest blog post he writes,
https://www.geertvandenbossche.org/post/how-remaining-in-the-dark-and-turning-in-vicious-circles-inevitably-leads-to-erroneous-decisions
Yep and the data coming out of Israel shows vaccines wane after about 5-6 months.
Yes Mayo, you are spot on. I can only think that feeding the financial interests of big Pharma and their institutional investors by a ‘vaccine orgy’ takes precedence over the interests of the population. No other word for it, it’s a sell out, by western governments in particular, to the globalist oligarchs. In other words treason against the people.
we continue to build the wall of defence through every jab given
I wouldn’t usually quote Pink Floyd but: You are not a human being. You are a brick in the wall.
A full £10 off at Asda!? Oh boy! That sure is a tempting offer.
Seriously, these bribes are insulting to our intelligence.
History repeats itself!
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/shocking-dehumanizing-discrimination-against-unvaxxd-about-make-life-very-difficult
The CDC released a study which shows the “vaccinated” and “unvaccinated” have the same viral load when infected. If they believe everything else the CDC spouts, why are they not paying attention to this study?
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7031e2.htm?s_cid=mm7031e2_w
The truth hurts!
How many more scientists and medics do we need to say kids should not take these inoculations. Their risk of injury and death from inoculation is higher than their risk of injury and death from the invisible virus.
If you have a child in this age bracket please follow the advice of Dr. Ryan Cole, Dr. Peter McCullough, all FLCCC docs, and literally thousands of other medics begging parents not to inoculate your child with a experimental genetic biological. Many cases of myocarditis in this age group. A life long cardiac injury.
Agree 1 million %
Javid is coming across as Wancock’s glove puppet, using his master’s voice
No….Javid is a puppet all by himself and even more sinister sounding than Hancock. Javid was likely kept in ‘reserve’ for this point in the cabal’s agenda. Exit Hancock via a set up to let in the new man, the ‘banker’s man’.
Offers for a slight discount on vacations abroad? Don’t forget your
3rd vaccination.Booster jab.Outbreak in a Dutch care home.
https://nos.nl/liveblog/2394052-website-voor-gratis-zelftesten-werkt-weer-uitbraak-in-gelders-verzorgingstehuis
It is among vaccinated residents and employees in the De Beekwal nursing home in Eerbeek. At least seventeen of the 125 residents and seventeen employees have tested positive.
Can these companies be sued by any one taking advantage of their marketing campaigns for an unlicensed drug if they cause injury or death as surely they are complicit in enticing the youngster.
Asda and Deliveroo on have just joined the illustrious list of businesses who will never get a penny from me ever again. Hope a few million others do the same.
I have lived a long time but have never heard such a load of barlocks in my life. I hope this shameless attempt at bribery of the young will set alarms ringing across the land.
Covid blood tests are STILL banned, I was told by an angry pharmacist yesterday. The fact that this government remains determined to stop us knowing if we’ve had covid (as many show no symptoms) highlights that it really is ALL about the vaccine.
Those of us with naturally-acquired (and far better) immunity are acting as a control group, which is why we’re being demonised into accepting the jab, since a control-group which will show their lies is the last thing they want.
How wonderful! You can get a £30 voucher for travel abroad to slightly offset the hundreds of pounds extorted from you in exchange for the useless and invasive tests you’re forced to take! Come on Government, where is the million pound prize draw and the shiny car, you can do better than this…