ood, chairman of the defence select committee, told MPs that the RAF’s former head of recruitment had identified the cases before she resigned in protest.After the revelation, Air Chief Marshal Sir Mike Wigston, head of the force, was asked if he had presided over a “lack of integrity at the top of the RAF”. [IT] comes as the Armed Forces struggle to retain female personnel amid a sex harassment crisis engulfing the military. On Wednesday, defence sources suggested to The Telegraph that Sir Mike, who authored the 2019 Wigston review into inappropriate behaviour of troops, should be considering his position." ... as [IS] being reported by The Telegraph today.
plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose ... & I can well remember, during my time as the Institute of Professional Civil Servants [IPCS] representative at the West Drayton ATCC, the number of female staff both civil and military, who approached me with a plethora of these issues, some half-century since.
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fully, you will notice that it is drawn in one single line without a beginning or an end, suggesting a continuous movement of time.
The Celts also believed that all important things came in three phases such as birth, death and rebirth; or mind, body, and spirit.
This symbol gives me an idea of our existence and the truth of our nature of being. We often try to perceive present occurrence from one point of view. Nevertheless, the present is a “hair’s breadth” of a moment, which was the future a moment ago and is already becoming the past. In this world, we are all connected, interact and inter-depend on each other; no phenomenon can exist by itself. Our life exists within the cycle of cause and effect. The important thing is to see things as a whole and to be present in each moment.
Then we can find harmony in our relationships in this world.…
... and HERE ME/WE are several centuries later [BE]ing guided by necessity to literally establishing an appropriate mechanism of survival for ALL the Peoples of ALL the NATIONS of Spaceship Earth.
. Austerity does not lead to deficit reduction. That we are continuing not to look at the facts, to me is stunning. It is the definition of insanity.”…
sually to the sound of blue grass and honky tonk. But every 13 years the banjos and basses get drowned out by the chorus of an insect that has fascinated me ever since I became a mathematician. It might seem strange for a mathematician to be interested in bugs but these cicadas are rather special. Only found in the eastern states of north America the cicadas exploit mathematics to help them to survive. They appear periodically but only emerge after a prime number of years. In the case of the brood appearing around Nashville: every 13 years.…