So, you are hosting a major event. You want to bring in a firm that is “fit and proper” to provide security. You want a firm that treats its employees with appropriate “care”. Well according to the Security Industry Authority, you can get all of that and more from Close Protection – the firm whose [...]
My name’s Kate, and I’m English. It’s like admitting a shameful secret, isn’t it? I’d much rather tell people that I was British, or Mancunian, or a communist, for that matter. Thanks to Ed Miliband and his new diatribe about “Englishness”, I’ve been thinking about why it is that being English doesn’t matter to [...]
There have been distressing reports about the conditions under which unpaid and apprentice-rate stewards at the Jubilee were expected to work and sleep. According to reports published in the Guardian, workers were compelled to sleep under London Bridge, to get changed in public, and to go for 24 hours without access to a toilet. They [...]
You may have read the fairly distressing story in the guardian about the treatment unpaid, unemployed stewards at the Jubilee. They were bussed into London by coach, and told to sleep under London Bridge. This is Molly Prince, the director of the company that was “training” them. Ironically she is receiving a training award. She [...]
If you stare long enough at the Queen’s face, you see that the Queen is a modernist project. To examine her we must start by divorcing the Queen from the Royal Family – most of all, from the previous Kings and Queens of England. Queen Elizabeth II, even though by her title she assumes the [...]
