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Entries by Laurel Hixon
(5 entries)
Risky Business
I don’t remember the exact quote, but I do remember laughing (out loud). It was something like: “who knew there’d be three six-sigma events in one week?” This was a banker&r...
Social care funding: a modest proposal
This weekend, we had a street party in my Oxford neighbourhood as part of the Great Get Together to honour the memory of Jo Cox, the MP who was killed last year. For some of us with busy live...
Longevity and music as meaning
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” -- Nietzsche To celebrate his 75th birthday, Maurizio Pollini is playing two concerts at London’s Royal Festiv...
Complex Decision Making
In a speech last May, Andy Haldane, Chief Economist for the Bank of England, admitted that he was unable to understand pensions because they were so complicated. Moreover, he suggested countl...
Delay of the Dilnot cap gives us time to rethink how best to spend new money on social care
Many experts now believe that implementation of the long-promised cap against catastrophic social care costs, that was recently delayed four years to April 2020, will never happen. Local gove...