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Bossy Cow – Female-Dominated Workplaces Are Less Flexible

26/01/2018

Working in female-dominated workplaces means worse access to flexible working arrangements...

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Comic Creators, Ex-Presidents and Oprah

12/01/2018

Elderly males can get frisky. It’s a post-pubescent flare before death....

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Uncorking Keith Floyd to accompany leftovers

27/12/2017

Trebuchet is taking a seasonal break until Jan 2nd. In the meantime we've selected some fine moments for you to enjoy...

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New Puritans, Pearlclutchers and Inquisition by Tweet

07/12/2017

Puritans, religious zealots, and demagogues call for protection. Who protects us from them?...

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Tune in, Turn On, Don’t die with your novel still in you.

08/08/2017

One man's wisdom is another man's trite platitude, but who wants to spend their life guarding dust?...

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Get Over It! Achieving Freedom by Mastering Emotion

28/07/2017

Between stimilus and response lies the opportunity for conscious choice...

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Write Better Words: The Nuts and Bolts

27/07/2017

The good stuff is there in your mind - getting it onto paper just takes discipline...

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Write Better Words: A Step by Step Guide

21/07/2017

Turn up at the page (and avoid cliches like that one). How to be a better writer....

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Quit Dithering: Making Good Decisions Efficiently

07/07/2017

Stop being over critical, and instead release your inner coach...

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We Don’t Need New Politics, We Need New Gods

15/06/2017

What deities should be placed before the God of Money?...

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Mastering Fear: A User Guide

20/04/2017

What if fear could be used not as a wall, but as a gate? ...

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Can Music Ever Be Sustainable?

27/03/2017

Pop music can create not just idols, but shaman-like figures who help us negotiate our way through life and death. How do we keep it coming?...

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Towards a Sustainable Music

18/03/2017

Making a living is just one aspect of the sustainable music industry that isn't happening...

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Is It OK if I Take A Quick Shot? The Trials of Curation

06/02/2017

Art, controversy, exhibition. In introduction to the curator's metier...

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They Say the Devil’s In the Deep End

28/01/2017

When you meet the devil, the only response is to wake and bake...

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Bad Vibes in the Jersey Punchbowl

09/01/2017

Sex, Strippers and Staph Infections in the Jersey 'Burbs...

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Pee and Loathing in New Jersey

04/01/2017

Of all the strippers' pools to be cleaning, it had to be this one.......

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Are You Ready For Parenthood? Try This Simple Test!

16/09/2016

The essential guide to whether you're ready for kids. Tongue may be slightly in cheek....

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State-Scrounging and the Single Mother

11/08/2016

Work, motherhood, singledom - the no-win blame game that winds the taxpayer right up...

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Make Better Music 82: Monetizing Music (Part Two)

27/05/2016

Working musician Simon Laffy ponders the recurring problem of making music pay...

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Mantra for Fulfilled Living: Battling distraction, addiction and domination

20/04/2016

Be weak, for strength in a violent world is an ignoble tool...

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Make Better Music 81: Monetizing Music

23/03/2016

Doing it for the love will only last so long. What happens when you have to eat? How to make better music, and make money doing so....

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Genocide By a Thousand Tory Cuts. (Employment and Support Allowance Slashed)

11/03/2016

Make no mistake about it: Persistent Tory cuts to disability benefits are a gradual, unglamorous, and barely reported-upon genocide. Essay...

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Strive to Shirk, Why Hard Work Doesn’t Work

14/11/2015

No wonder governments like to advocate 'hard work'. The last thing they want is people with minds and lives of their own. Overworked people know their place. ...

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Freelancing, self employment and accountants.

19/04/2015

A gross day rate multiplied by 365 sounds impressive to some but the take home reality is generally less… much, much less. Plan accordingly....

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An illustration by Dan Booth

When The TUC Abandoned Unions

19/09/2014

The power of labour to challenge capital is to be absorbed into the benefits system. Trade unions are no longer necessary....

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Less Than Zero Hours?

10/08/2013

As the number of workers on 'zero-hours' contracts is estimated at over a million, new fees for employment tribunal claims put justice out of reach for many...

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