Oh no!
What next - buying a robot hoover company so that they can check out your interior too?
Oh, wait.....
Posts by johnmayo
11 publicly visible posts • joined 19 May 2017
Amazon has repackaged surveillance capitalism as reality TV
MPs slam UK's £22bn Test and Trace programme for failing to provide evidence that it slows COVID pandemic
Friday 12th March 2021 16:51 GMT
Re: Queen of Carnage
A-Harding-reigns-gonna-fall:-
https://twnews.co.uk/gb-news/from-news-a-harding-reigns-gonna-fall
1995: After a stint as a trainee management consultant at McKinsey, 27-year-old Dido gets her first proper job: marketing director, no less, at Thomas Cook. “Thomas Cook spends a long time contemplating its navel,” an exec from a rival firm tells Marketing Week. “It is in character for it to recruit a consultant rather than a doer.” Harding takes the criticism in her stride: “It is common for consultants to be thought of as eggheads who don’t know what they’re doing. I want to prove I can do things before the label sticks.”
1997: Interviewed by Travel Trade Gazette, Harding makes a virtue of her ignorance. “I am not ashamed to say I do not know the travel industry as well as my colleagues. But in a team I think I bring a new perspective.”
1998: When she was hired, Thomas Cook said Harding would “look at the future for the business in five to 10 years’ time”. But after four years she is off, moving to employment services group Manpower as “senior vice-president, strategic marketing Europe”.
1999: Time for another change of horses: Harding becomes commercial director of struggling retail group Woolworths.
2000: After less than a year she gallops off to join Tesco as “commercial director for value added foods”.
2004: She is now Tesco’s “international support director”, responsible for its overseas ventures. In 2003, Dido told the Guardian that she hopes “still to be with Tesco in five years’ time”. So, inevitably…
2007: Dido deserts Tesco for arch-rivals Sainsbury: after an obligatory few months of gardening leave, in March 2008 she starts work as head of Sainsbury convenience stores. But not for long.
2009: In December, Harding announces she will join TalkTalk as chief executive in March 2010.
2011: TalkTalk incurs a £3m fine from Ofcom for sending thousands of customers inaccurate bills. The firm has to shell out a further £2.5m in refunds. During her time at TalkTalk she twice wins the Daily Mail’s wooden spoon award for providing “the worst customer service in the UK”.
2014: Dido’s old university chum David Cameron gives her a seat in parliament as a Tory peer.
2015: Cyber-criminals access the financial and personal details of more than 150,000 TalkTalk customers. Asked if the data was encrypted or not, chief executive Baroness Harding sighs: “The awful truth is that I don’t know.” Almost 100,000 customers leave TalkTalk and profits are halved.
2017: Harding leaves TalkTalk to try her hand at “public service activities”. She becomes chair of NHS Improvement, responsible for overseeing all NHS hospitals, but tells MPs on the health select committee: “I have not worked in health and social care and would be the first to admit I have a lot to learn about the sector.” She also airily rejected the MPs’ call to resign the Tory whip while holding what should be an independent post. Then along comes Covid…
2020: Following her brief, calamitous spell as track-and-trace supremo, Lady H is to chair the new NIHP. Matt Hancock dismisses MPs’ mutterings about her lack of health credentials, assuring ITV News she has “excellent experience”. Indeed, by her previous standards three years at the NHS probably do count as a wealth of experience. With Dido on board, the NIHP can now look to the future as confidently as, say, Thomas Cook or Woolworths...
NO HORSE SENSE…
An incident at the Cheltenham Festival back in March suggests Dido Harding, boss of the new health protection body, has much to learn about public health.
Someone got so fed up with GE fridge DRM – yes, fridge DRM – they made a whole website on how to bypass it
Post Office burned £100m in UK taxpayer cash on Horizon IT scandal legal fees, MPs told
Tuesday 10th March 2020 21:01 GMT
I've been reading through the comments (so far).
It's not 550 subpostmasters that we're affected.
550 is the number that mounted the case against POL.
Hundreds more were affected, but didn't come forward for many reasons.
They were all told by POL that they were the "only ones having a problem"
I have followed this case for a while now.
I highly recommend the blog and reporting by Nick Wallis, who tweeted the trial proceedings out in real time, summarised and posted interpretations of the days proceedings, and championed the cause of the subpostmasters.
https://www.postofficetrial.com/
I'm holding out for the overturning of criminal convictions for the innocent victims and those in charge at the time to be held accountable.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
