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Victoria, a Fools’ Paradise
The workers’ paradise is alive and well in Victoria. Trouble is, that's one of the many reasons the state is circling the drain Mar 24 2026 2 mins Israel's cardinal sin is its success. In the fetid minds of leftists, success implies wrongdoing and oppression. Only losers count in the Left’s pantheon Mar 23 2026 22 mins In the 'history' promoted by Jason Clare, missions, food depots and modern medicine are nothing less than acts of war Mar 23 2026 16 mins Victoria is becoming a workers’ paradise.
Happy Birthday John Lloyd, 74 today! Together with Douglas Adams he wrote The Meaning of Liff - a Hitchhikers Guide to the Dictionary
In my early twenties, my best friend was a tall, clumsy genius called Douglas Adams (1952-2001). In 1978, he had got stuck writing the first series for BBC Radio 4 of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and asked me to help him finish it. We’d written together often before – so I said yes.
The next act
Three characters are in search of an audience. These are large characters, accustomed to playing the part of principal boy, greedy for attention and applause, and expert in obtaining it. They are, to the distress of those whom they distress, unemployed, active and looking for work.
Quite Interesting Things about … the Olympics. John Lloyd
Get prepared for the upcoming Paris Olympics with some 'quite interesting' facts from John Lloyd The ancient Greek city of Megara held a version of the Olympic Games which included a kissing contest. Only boys were allowed to enter. The fastest 100 metres run by an eight-year-old today would have won bronze at the 1896 Olympics. The 1900 Paris Olympics included live pigeon shooting and long jump for horses. Horses competing in the Olympics today have their own passports and fly business class.
Quite Interesting Things about … November - John Lloyd
Playing host to both National Jealousy Day and National Button Day, November offers some fascinating facts. By John Lloyd Russia’s October Revolution is celebrated in November. 25th November 2012 was the first day since 1960 on which no murder or manslaughter occurred in New York City. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town was first sung in November 1934. By Christmas, it had sold 400,000 copies.
Quite Interesting things about... skin - John Lloyd
"The Oldie is an incredible magazine - perhaps the best magazine in the world right now" Graydon Carter, founder of Air Mail and former Editor of Vanity Fair Blog Magazine Podcasts Greatest Hits About Us Literary Lunches The Directory Courses & Tours Shop Blog | By John Lloyd | Sep 19, 2022 The skin is the largest organ in the human body. It makes up about 15 per cent of the body’s weight and is about 20 square feet in area.
The Sceptics Within
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Britain’s breaking point
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October 2022 - Prospect Magazine
Essays Britain’s breaking point Looming recession, the cost-of-living crisis and rising inequality are pushing Britain to the brink. Is a popular uprising on the way?
Quite Interesting Things about... trees - John Lloyd
"The Oldie is an incredible magazine - perhaps the best magazine in the world right now" Graydon Carter, founder of Air Mail and former Editor of Vanity Fair Blog Magazine Podcasts Greatest Hits About Us Literary Lunches The Directory Courses & Tours Shop Blog | By John Lloyd | Jul 04, 2022 Do trees speak? Can they die of old age? John Lloyd answers all in these surprising facts about trees Some biologists believe trees speak a language human beings can learn.
Enlightened advocate, or the great delayer? Henry Dundas’s complex relationship with slavery
Two scholars in Edinburgh, both knighted, are at each other’s throats. Their enmity—pursued through social media and newspaper columns—vividly illuminates and pushes into opposition two sets of beliefs, both at issue in contemporary argument. One, that racism on the part of distinguished past figures must be brought into the open; the other, that historical fact must be the paramount criterion in deciding the outcome of disputes.
Enlightened advocate, or the great delayer? Henry Dundas’s complex relationship with slavery
Two scholars in Edinburgh, both knighted, are at each other’s throats. Their enmity—pursued through social media and newspaper columns—vividly illuminates and pushes into opposition two sets of beliefs, both at issue in contemporary argument. One, that racism on the part of distinguished past figures must be brought into the open; the other, that historical fact must be the paramount criterion in deciding the outcome of disputes.
The break-up delusion: why the United Kingdom has life in it yet
Andrew Linscott / Stockimo / Alamy Stock Photo “The England delusion” by James Hawes doesn’t prove its thesis. Its sweeping statements (“the UK took a bullet in the head… when Boris Johnson romped home”; our politics has been “blast-frozen” but “come the thaw, [the Union] falls”) are unprovable and increasingly unlikely. The “Future of the Union” is not a break-up determined by inexorable laws of post-colonial Britain.
After Alexei Navalny the opposition to Vladimir Putin has no single leader
Vladimir Putin, who famously complained that the destruction of the Soviet Union in 1991 was “the greatest political disaster of the 20th century” has, in the fourth term of his Presidency of Russia, significantly reversed that tragedy, as if rewinding a film. The grip of the state, the power of the Kremlin and the suppression of civil society all increase, it seems almost daily.
Ireland's Uncertain Peace
By John Lloyd September 1, 1998 (Cathal McNaughton/Courtesy Reuters) BEATING UNIONIST DRUMS Northern Ireland stutters and grumbles its way toward a peace which is still uncertain. April's Good Friday Agreement, whose signing in Belfast was celebrated on both sides of the Atlantic, did no more than sketch out a middle ground on which unionists and nationalists who reject violence might together govern this province of 1.6 million people. But that ground is still narrow.
Bureaucrats Immersed In Canberra Bubble Out Of Touch With Nation
Last month’s federal election result throws up a worrying anomaly. The ACT electorates diverge markedly from the nation. In the ACT, the electors embrace the ALP big time. In the Canberra-based Australian Public Service, one group is under-represented: people who vote for the Coalition government. Federal bureaucrats apply an intense focus to diversity and inclusion. It is the subject of endless meetings, conferences, workshops, strategies and taskforces.
Horticulture's booming markets sprout confidence and unity
With a Federal election campaign in full swing, any semblance of bipartisanship in Australia's political landscape has been dumped as parties and politicians battle to differentiate, to hold their margin or force a swing and claim the win on May 18. Australia's agriculture landscape often struggles with its own version of bipartisanship. But one sector is quietly uniting for the common good, overcoming internal differences and ultimately winning.
Horticulture's booming markets sprout confidence and unity
With a Federal election campaign in full swing, any semblance of bipartisanship in Australia's political landscape has been dumped as parties and politicians battle to differentiate, to hold their margin or force a swing and claim the win on May 18. Australia's agriculture landscape often struggles with its own version of bipartisanship. But one sector is quietly uniting for the common good, overcoming internal differences and ultimately winning.
Booming markets sprout confidence and unity in $13b hort sector
With a Federal election campaign in full swing, any semblance of bipartisanship in Australia's political landscape has been dumped as parties and politicians battle to differentiate, to hold their margin or force a swing and claim the win on May 18. Australia's agriculture landscape often struggles with its own version of bipartisanship. But one sector is quietly uniting for the common good, overcoming internal differences and ultimately winning.
Booming markets sprout confidence and unity in $13b hort sector
With a Federal election campaign in full swing, any semblance of bipartisanship in Australia's political landscape has been dumped as parties and politicians battle to differentiate, to hold their margin or force a swing and claim the win on May 18. Australia's agriculture landscape often struggles with its own version of bipartisanship. But one sector is quietly uniting for the common good, overcoming internal differences and ultimately winning.
Booming markets sprout confidence and unity in $13b hort sector
With a Federal election campaign in full swing, any semblance of bipartisanship in Australia's political landscape has been dumped as parties and politicians battle to differentiate, to hold their margin or force a swing and claim the win on May 18. Australia's agriculture landscape often struggles with its own version of bipartisanship. But one sector is quietly uniting for the common good, overcoming internal differences and ultimately winning.
Booming markets sprout confidence and unity in $13b hort sector
With a Federal election campaign in full swing, any semblance of bipartisanship in Australia's political landscape has been dumped as parties and politicians battle to differentiate, to hold their margin or force a swing and claim the win on May 18. Australia's agriculture landscape often struggles with its own version of bipartisanship. But one sector is quietly uniting for the common good, overcoming internal differences and ultimately winning.
Report Into The Victorian On-Demand Workforce
Report Into The Victorian On-Demand Workforce John Lloyd 27 March 2019 , IPA TODAY, PUBLICATIONS, Research Papers, RESEARCH AREAS, Dignity of Work The IPA’s Submission to Inquiry into the Victorian on-demand workforce The Inquiry’s terms of reference are very broad ranging.
The Myth Of Our Stagnant Wages
The ACTU has claimed Australia is facing an “incomes recession”. Secretary Sally McManus says working people “are ready to take action to restore our living standards”. She plans worker protests before the federal election. Economic forecasters are puzzled by the behaviour of wages. We are approaching full employment. Bosses and recruitment firms complain about labour shortages. The economy continues to grow. In these circumstances, the price of labour should be increasing.
Now it’s personal
Nothing convinces like personal experience. To have a view of the British media as prone to constructing worlds of half truths, fantasies, defamations and rumour (Prospect, October 2002) is one thing; to have these worlds constructed about oneself is quite another. Two different worlds were spun about me last month. They came substantially from the political editors of the weekly journals of right and left: the Spectator and the New Statesman.
Subdued Wages - Missing The Point
The ACTU has claimed Australia is facing an “incomes recession.” Ms McManus, ACTU Secretary says that working people “are ready to take action to restore our living standards.” She plans worker protests before the federal election. Economic forecasters are puzzled by the behaviour of wages. We are approaching full employment. Bosses and recruitment firms complain about labour shortages. The economy continues to grow. In these circumstances the price of labour i.e. wages should be increasing.
Sale Of The Century
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Lloyd defends APS workplace bargaining policy | The Mandarin
I wish to respond to the article published yesterday in the Mandarin titled Bargaining policy: clock ticking on government’s toxic war with its own workforce by Ms Verona Burgess. I contest a number of the claims made in the article. The article included significant commentary from Ms Flood. It included critical comment about the APSC. We were not offered the opportunity to respond.
HIA in “solid position” on back of grower advice
By their very construct, Research and Development Corporations are partnerships between industries who pay levies and the Australian Government. So how the RDC model looks now, and how it will look in the future, is really out of my hands. What I can say is Hort Innovation is in a solid position currently, and the three years from when the previous horticulture RDC was dissolved in favour of what is Hort Innovation today has been both challenging and rewarding.
HIA in “solid position” on back of grower advice
By their very construct, Research and Development Corporations are partnerships between industries who pay levies and the Australian Government. So how the RDC model looks now, and how it will look in the future, is really out of my hands. What I can say is Hort Innovation is in a solid position currently, and the three years from when the previous horticulture RDC was dissolved in favour of what is Hort Innovation today has been both challenging and rewarding.
HIA in “solid position” on back of grower advice
By their very construct, Research and Development Corporations are partnerships between industries who pay levies and the Australian Government. So how the RDC model looks now, and how it will look in the future, is really out of my hands. What I can say is Hort Innovation is in a solid position currently, and the three years from when the previous horticulture RDC was dissolved in favour of what is Hort Innovation today has been both challenging and rewarding.
John Lloyd, Between the Sheets: Events will recognize dedicated hospitality professionals
Monterey County’s hospitality businesses employ more than 24,000 hardworking individuals. Collectively, these hotel clerks, housekeepers, restaurant servers, line cooks, winery workers, spa professionals, golf course groundskeepers, retailers and others keep the area’s $2.7 billion tourism industry running smoothly. Locally, hospitality generates approximately $73 million in sales tax revenues and transient occupancy taxes, which are surcharges added to nightly hotel room rates.
1,342 QI Facts To Leave You Flabbergasted
The sock-blasting, jaw-dropping, side-swiping phenomenon that is QI serves up a sparkling new selection of 1,342 facts to leave you flabbergasted. Google searches for ‘How to put on a condom’ peak at 10.28pm. There is no word for time in any Aboriginal language. Emoji is the fastest growing language in history. Astronauts wear belts to stop their trousers falling up. The name Donald means ‘ruler of the world’. The anti-spam industry is worth more than the spam industry.
Between the Sheets: Luncheon honors hospitality professionals
This year, more than 23,000 people earned a living working in Monterey County’s thriving hospitality industry. These restaurant servers, cooks, hotel clerks, housekeepers, winery workers, golf course groundskeepers, spa professionals and others are the same neighbors who also support the nonprofits, schools, civic groups and businesses that make Monterey County a vibrant place to live.
Helen Macdonald’s H is for Hawk swoops on Costa Prize 2014
In the end, it had to be the hawk. Helen Macdonald’s captivating memoir about training a goshawk has already won the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction, and last night it added the Costa Prize for book of the year. The Costa is a complicated award, which chooses five winners from different categories—novel, first novel, poetry, non-fiction and children’s—and then pits them against one another for an overall £30,000 prize.
The shock of free trade
“We can’t continue to allow China to rape our country, and that’s what they’re doing. It’s the greatest theft in the history of the world.” The words were Donald Trump’s at a rally in Indiana; the subject was the United States’s trade deficit with China. The language in which Trump chooses to frame America’s challenges is a large part of why Prospect-reading types recoil from him: again, Trump has gone beyond the pale. But it is arguably also a large part of what attracts his supporters.
Bronwen Maddox, Editor of Prospect, in conversation with Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
On Wednesday, Prospect held a discussion event with Philip Hammond the Foreign Secretary. Before an audience at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Bronwen Maddox, the editor of Prospect, asked him about the forthcoming referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union, Britain’s relationship with Saudi Arabia and how relations with the United States might be affected if Donald Trump were elected President.
Review: How Good We Can Be by Will Hutton
How Good We Can Be: Ending the Mercenary Society and Building a Great Country by Will Hutton (Little, Brown, £14.99) If a book’s worth writing once, it’s worth writing several times. This homely maxim has often proved a recipe for success. Will Hutton is a case in point. Twenty years ago, he had a runaway hit with The State We’re In. He followed that up with The State to Come (1997), then came The World We’re In (2002).
Ziggy genius | Prospect Magazine
When I worked on a recording project with the music producer Tony Visconti in the late 1990s, I was eager for stories about his friend David Bowie. After all, Visconti had produced some of his best works, including Young Americans and Scary Monsters. “Bowie’s a cunt,” he said when the topic was raised, as if it was common knowledge. The subject was never discussed again. Ground-breaking pop star Bowie has been accused of many things during his career, often for perfectly good reasons.
Boek | Familiezaken - John Lloyd, Emlyn Rees
Uitgeverij Archipel, Uitgeverij Uitgegeven als Hardcover • Paperback Eerste editie 01-01-2004 Laatste editie 13-06-2006 Vertaald door Esther Ottens ISBN 9789046300008 • 9789063051280 • 9789063052409 Aantal pagina's 415 Taal Nederlands Hoogste positie Hebban Rank 5155
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