Monthly Archives: May 2009
Breaking news: Another Faculty SGM requisitioned!
(NB for other articles on this blog about the proposed merger/takeover, click the merger tag at the top of this article). It has just been confirmed to me that a Special General Meeting of the Faculty of Actuaries in Scotland … Continue reading
SpinWatch: bias in the UKAP merger website(2).
In the absence of any response so far (despite having raised this several times) I have just emailed the two Presidents (of the Faculty and Institute of Actuaries) to draw this matter to their attention and to ask for a … Continue reading
SpinWatch: clear bias in new UKAP merger website
(NB for other articles on this blog about the proposed merger/takeover, click the merger tag at the top of this article). I am saddened to have to report what (in the absence of a satisfactory explanation) seems to be clear … Continue reading
Shocking endemic child abuse carried out in the name of religion
I have just read a lot of the report of the (Irish) Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse (here) and am absolutely sickened. If true (and there seems little doubt of this from the consistency of accounts by witness after … Continue reading
Widow tells MPs: Here are your medals of dishonour
See this article. Quote from it: Yesterday, Mrs MacAulay, a great-grandmother whose Sutherland home is more than 600 miles from the Commons, said she would return the seven WW II medals awarded to her and husband Iain, and his military … Continue reading
No rewards for failure? Why should Speaker Martin get peerage then?
Gordon Brown claimed that there would be no more rewards for failure. That was in reference to the banking crisis, which happened on his watch, largely due to his encouragement of excessive house prices and his complacency that he had … Continue reading
AP current plans likely to waste 400,000+ sheets of paper
In “what happens next” on the FAQs page on the new AP merger website it states: “Voting materials will be sent by post in June to every eligible member of the Faculty and the Institute.” Please will this be reconsidered? … Continue reading
MPs: time for the phrase “the Honourable” to go, and for the worst offending MPs too
In the current furore over MPs’ expenses, some in the press are tending to tar all MPs with the same brush. This is unfair, as pointed out by Andrew Rawnsley in this article. However, actuary21c thinks public anger is such … Continue reading
Analysis: The proposed merger – a rocky road ahead
Introduction Joint Councils announced on 29 April that a formal vote on the proposed merger is to take place on 23 July. So far the only new detail (update 16 May 2009: apart from the scrapping of the Institute’s motto … Continue reading
UK Government car scrappage scheme a flop
Predictably, given the very small incentive on offer (up to £2,000 of the list price of a new car) , the car scrappage scheme announced by the government is reported (by the BBC, here) as likely to flop. This is … Continue reading
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