DATALITE UK Ltd - Company Topical Essays on SOCIETY & CULTURE

How Crime Injustice Victims Can Turn Negatives into Positives. This article is the third of a trilogy of essays

examining the causes of crime and anti-social behaviour in the United Kingdom. The focus is on victims injustice, and how the criminal justice system can often appear to favour the criminal rather than the victim on the receiving end of their crime. A small Cul De Sac Meaders Road, in Ryde on the Isle of Wight is further examined as a case study in which a formerly peaceful area was turned into a crime hotspot, to the extent that the author and family were effectively driven out of there home within 3 months of a new Oakvale estate and connecting walkway being built. Despite all the inherent injustices, the article adopts a positive slant, with strategies and anecdotes on how to turn a negative crime experience imposed onto victims (survivors) into a positive.

How To Manipulate Statistics for Ideological & Political Gain. According to the comedian Vic Reeves 82.5 per cent of statistics are made up on the spot. This article examines the mathematical subject of Statistics and illustrates how they may be manipulated to support ideology and political agendas. This essay examines the proliferation of statistics in the UK, challenging some of the assumptions made and highlighting the mathematical science that should (but often doesn’t) underpin accurate statistical analysis. Distorted statistics can be used to provide misleading views of such items as crime statistics and political outcomes. The sad conclusion is that stats can all to easily be manipulated or corrupted to provide data misleading to the point of deception to support certain ideology and political agendas.

How To Create A Yobs Paradise for Crime & Anti Social Behaviour. 2nd part of a trilogy of

essays examining the causes of crime and anti-social behaviour in the United Kingdom. This article looks at the outcome of a decision to link a quiet cul de sac Meaders Road in the Isle of Wight to a rough area against police advice and resident wishes. The result was a crime hot spot featuring: swearing, drunkenness, vandalism, urinating, drugs, stealing, littering, dogs mess, assaults and other lowlife habits from yobs. This piece examines low level crime and anti-social behaviour, and details how a formerly quiet cul de sac on the Isle of Wight was turned into a crime hotspot. Some people can be quick to blame the police (or lack of police) for the proliferation of crime & anti-social behaviour. This article reaches a different conclusion.

How To Increase Crime by Overpopulation and Welfare Dependency Part 1 of a trilogy of articles on

causes of crime in the UK. This article examines crime in relation to over population and welfare state culture of the UK in recent years. As an illustration of government creating environment and conditions for crime, an affordable housing estate called Oak Vale was built adjacent to the formerly quiet Meaders Road, in Ryde on the Isle of Wight. The resultant walkway connecting these areas dramatically increased incidents of crime and anti-social behaviour to the point of being a top crime hotspot on the Isle of Wight, driving residents out of their own home within a few months. The sad conclusion is reached that government policy can create crime hotspots and imposed these on to decent law abiding citizens.

The Sheer Hell of Telephone Call Centre Voicemail Telephone Call Centres and their horrendous

voicemail systems can often provide the ultimate in bad customer service experience. Just about everyone has experienced the sheer hell of telephoning a call centre. The endless voicemail mantra of ‘your custom is important to us’, the torturous piped music, the waste of time, and to rub salt in the wound invariably having to pay money for this nightmare. For many companies and organisations their voicemail is nothing short of a public relations disaster, and some of the worst examples can be found in the telecommunications business and government organisations. This article examines the current call centre vogue and questions why it is used in the first place.

Is The UK's TV LIcensing Agency Just Plain Evil? Some organisations are inefficient, some are over

bureaucratic, but in the United Kingdom the TV Licensing is concluded to be just plain evil. This agency assumes every address is using a television and if their records shows there is no TV harasses potentially innocent persons to the point of using language that treats them as criminals without checking their facts first. The UK is rather unique in having a compulsory television license . This is to fund the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) whether watched or not. The TV Licensing Agency is tasked to collect the fee, but as Datalite UK Ltd discovered they assume every business has a TV, and treats does that don't as criminals!

Is Global Warming Climate Change The Ultimate Con? Climate change has existed during the Earth's history without any influence of man whatsoever, and was around long before even the existence of life itself. Indeed mankind owes its very existence directly to the Earth’s episodes of Climate Change. The science supporting the postulation that manmade CO2 emissions will lead to global warming and hence disastrous climate change is not as indisputable as government and other authorities would have you believe. It is quite possible that mankind is being conned into a philosophy that may well be a waste of time, money, resources, and the possibility of doing more harm than good. Is this the ultimate con?

Is The Customer Always Right? An old adage is ‘the customer is always right’. In most cases this is a sound

principle for a business to adopt, but customers cannot always be right and extremely bad and obnoxious clients not only waste much time and money, but can be bad for future business and put off existing valued customers. It is useful to remember that business owners can ultimately choose their customers. The key is drawing a line between offering excellent customer service for a reasonable complaint from a reasonable person, to not wasting an undue amount of time, money, and effort on the patently unreasonable. This article explores the provision of customer service and aims to establish where this line may be drawn.

Should Our Countryside Be Regarded As An Economic Resource Or As Natural History? - This essay was written in the mid 1980s by the Managing Director of Datalite UK Ltd, John D Henry BA BSc whilst he was serving in the Royal Navy. This work won a national Royal Navy essay competition. With the current focus on Carbon Dioxide emissions (CO2) a flawed priority in the author's view; it is interesting to compare what was of eco concern several decades ago to the current vogue of focusing on CO2 emissions.

The Grinding Square Wheels of Bureaucracy - What is it with the United Kingdom at the moment? It currently provides numerous examples of what can and does go wrong in modern western 'democracies' at their worst. This article contrasts the differing philosophies of the private business world in contrast to the taxpayer funded public sector. The latter not being equipped with a simple measure such as profit, can grow uncontrollably to the point of achieving the exact opposite of their original intention. The United Kingdom's HM Revenue and Customs tax collection department provides numerous examples of an out of control bureaucracy.

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