Whereas the public service exists to serve the public good, the consulting firms exist for their own profit-seeking purposes which may be maximised by playing both sides as shown here: earning fees from

just the long history and delivery of benefit but the character and commitment of rank-and-filers like Ian. Ian was one of those blokes that the employer needed to be confronted with, at the right time

levels of public morality and commitment to the common good than Canada. A lot of this was determined by his astonishment at discovering honesty boxes outside orchards and places selling fruit, vegetables

Some of it shows New Zealand in a good light and it also reveals many actions that broke Government orders and that would have appalled the public, had they been allowed to know. But also the book became

The Shining” was when the character played by Jack Nicholson has gone mad and is hunting his terrified family with an axe. He uses it to smash his way through the bathroom door and then sticks his insanely

because everything is for the best". Dr Pangloss was the overly optimistic character in Voltaire’s satirical book "Candide" (1759), allegedly a caricature of Gottfried Leibniz, a philosopher who defended

Stan was one of life’s great characters, warts and all, a person in which the good vastly outranked the bad. He was an indispensable part of many, many progressive movements (including CAFCA and ABC)

That's a very good description of it. There are two stories I am telling really. The rise of the Company is the main one, but it is told against its mirror image, which is the fall of the Mughals. And

Isn’t it good that you’ve got something mature in your life?" 53 years on a glorious sugar high had to come to an end (if I told you that my nickname in my first, and longest, job at the Railways was

We’re marginally better off only than Greece. Data from 2012 indicated that one third of families were housed inadequately, living in spaces that were too cold or too small or damp or infested with