Waiting targets for accident and emergency to be scrapped

At last, some common sense in government. After years of persisting with the damaging philosophy of arbitrary targets micro managed from Whitehall our new government sweeps away Blair's foolishness at a stroke and hands control back to the managers. Well done Cameron, and thanks for listening.

Link to the Guardian article.

Foxconn factory ends condolence payments over suicides

One suicide note appears to have convinced Foxconn that their policy of compensating the families of suicide victims is motivating employees to take their own lives.

Foxconn factory ends condolence payments over suicides

This looks like an example of one of the two big mistakes which are commonly made when interpreting data. In this case they are treating a Special Cause of Variation as Common and reacting inappropriately. As Deming said, don't just do something - stand there.