There’s a lot of commentary around Donald Trump at the moment, far too much to delve into it in a single post, but there was a great article about Patrimonialism in The Atlantic magazine last week.
One Word Describes Trump is still available for free on the Atlantic website and it is very much worth a read.
Patrimonialism for me is very much the word to describe Donald Trump.
A sign of the times! DanePost has announced that they will be ending the delivery of letters from the end of 2025.
Is this a trend that will now move out across the whole of Europe? Certainly, as more Postal Services are privatised, prices will go up – it currently costs £3.35 to post a letter in Denmark!
With the sale of Royal Mail recently being approved by the UK Government, might we see similar dramatic changes to UK letter deliveries?
Shock Horror, Skype is closing down!
Certainly it is the end of what was a very good app, I used it a lot many years ago, but it seems to have been overtaken by App’s like Zoom & WhatsApp to name two.
Microsoft has posted a ‘Transition to Teams‘ article, I guess that’s where I might end up!
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