Getting Started

Friday has been like the first day of a new school. A whole new bunch of people to know, a new layout, new rules, and the optimism that the Gorse Fox always feels when faced with new challenges.

• How will he gather the data he needs?
• Who should he interview?
• What are the political ramifications?
• How will he analyse what he finds?
• How will he draw the right balance in coming to his conclusions?
• A mind map starts to form

…and so it begins.

Disappointed by last night’s football. Really though Germany would go all the way – but they didn’t deserve to win last night, so cannot really complain.

Now whilst in this optimistic mood, perhaps the Gorse Fox should just go through his trust checklist:

• Politicians, no (see expenses scandal and virtually anything promised to the electorate);
• BBC, no (see treatment of Global Warming, anti-Government bias, anti-Israeli bias, etc.);
• Climate scientists, no (see corruption of the scientific method, politicisation of process, stifling of debate);
• Journalists, no (see Leveson inquiry);
• Lawyers(*), no (see ambulance chasers who have created the whole compensation culture through their own greed);
• Bankers, no (see credit crunch and rigging of LIBOR interest rates).

A parlous state of affairs.

(*)The Gorse Fox distinguishes between Solicitors who tend to be trusted advisors and agents acting during major life events and who, by and large, are fine and upstanding individuals – and Lawyers who are parasitic pond life and have created a sub-culture of blame and litigation that has done more to corrupt the optimism and joy of living than anything since the great flu pandemic.