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... on previous years. Management is closely monitoring turnover in line with our objective to maximise commitment and retention of our people. Um, hello? Isn’t ‘non-voluntary turnover’ a euphemism for the sack?? And if management forced some people to lose their jobs (i.e. sacked them), surely they have a hide to state that their objective is to ‘maximise commitment and ...

... In practice, the principle gets scaled back when disorder is seen to emanate from our own, i.e. the people to whom we owe loyalty and protection. So Bronner, all too easily, picked up the shocking euphemism "cutting the grass" to give the quality of a suburban chore to the IDF suppression of Palestinian disorders on the West Bank. Why the easy adoption of a prejudicial usage? Because it ...

When I wake up in the morning, I worry about what to wear. I’m not worried about how my outfit will look; instead I’m worried about how it will hold up under the pounds of wet clay sure to come flying at me during the day. That’s right: wet, gooey clay. My clay wheel throwing class is tucked away in the beautiful Addams Fine Arts building. Most unique about the ceramic studio — a fact ...

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Foreign Office and MI6 are backing efforts to remove 'reconciled Talibs' from UN sanctions list British officials are increasing pressure on the Afghan government to talk to Taliban leaders as part of a major attempt at reconciliation, it emerged today. The move is strongly backed by the Foreign Office - notably Sherard Cowper-Coles, the government's special representative for ...