“In the new world of work, unemployment is high yet skilled and talented people are in short supply.”

Apparently, many children today will be the first generation to be worse off than their parents. Imagine a 6 car pile-up – pensions, housing inflation, sovereign debt, unemployment, student debt, mortgage scarcity…well, you can see the point.

Similar sentiment from this year's Maritime Cyprus conference – plenty of gloom and doom of course about medium term prospects from the market but it’s also clear that if we're nothing else, shipping folk are opportunists.

“Sanitising your memory is the name of the game when leaving an old employer” According to author Robert Kelsey, bad mouthing your former employer is a no-no.

Gray Page again. The intrepid Oxfordshire gang have teamed up with the North of England P&I Club to vet armed maritime security providers on behalf of the club's members.

Whistleblowing is a hot topic these days and there have been a number of cases reaching the courts recently all around the world.

Looking for a new place to set up an office? International law firms are moving into Africa, we gather, in response to rising Chinese investment in the continent.

Everyone knows that Freemasons give each other a special handshake but what does your handshake say about you? Are you the type who gives a bone crushing handshake leaving the recipient wincing? Do you have to wipe your hand on your sleeve so you don't present a clammy palm?

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