Category: Tangled bank

The gender pay gap is a very blunt measure of anything – because it does not measure whether both (or more) genders get paid the same amount for the same job. But the data are out there. This is what I’ve discovered so far (data rounded to nearest whole number):   If you’d like me…

The disclosure of the salaries of some, not all, of the BBC’s ‘talent’ hit the headlines yesterday – we’re all interested in how underpaid we are and how overpaid ‘they’ are. Before the news came out, I thought about it a little, and I was expecting John Humphrys’s salary to be somewhere between £200k and…

Last week, 11 environmental NGOs wrote to TM the PM and then she called a general election.   Here is the letter: Dear Prime Minister, We are alarmed by recent media reports suggesting that the UK’s commitments to tackling climate change and ending the illegal wildlife trade could be watered down to secure post-Brexit trade…

The news that the National Lottery is helping to fund the conservation of threatened species of animal and plant in England is very welcome – I almost wish I’d ever bought a lottery ticket. There’s a little bit of confusion about which species are in and out as there are 20 main species (and the…

‘A 21st century charity must rediscover the urgency, passion and anger of the volunteers that started the great causes in the Victorian period. Our organisation depends entirely on our supporters and our future depends on our ability to empower them to act and generate ownership of the strategic direction of the organisation. We will find…