Martyn Rhisiart Jones
Galicia, 21st August 2026
I posed a question to AI:
I once asserted that antisemitism ought to be prosecuted in the same manner as any other form of racism, and in response, I faced correction, abuse, and worse. Was my assertion valid, or were those opposing me correct?
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Martyn Rhisiart Jones
Madrid, miércoles 8 de abril 2026
Hola, soy Ricky Jonesy-Innit, jefe de Becci Boo Investments. La semana pasada nos despedimos de nuestro mejor operador de materias primas. Llevaba años trabajando con nosotros.
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Martyn Rhisiart Jones
“Logistics is all of war-making, except shooting the guns, releasing the bombs, and firing the torpedoes.”
ADM Lynde D. McCormick, USN
Martyn Rhisiart Jones, Córdoba, 3rd October 2024
Martyn Rhisiart Jones, Marid, Friday 13th March 2026
In the boardrooms of Silicon Valley and the corridors of Whitehall, the gospel of agility has become a mantra for efficiency and innovation. Borrowed from the frenetic world of software development, where iterative sprints and self-organising teams promise to outpace lumbering bureaucracies, agile methodologies, scaled up through frameworks like SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework), are now touted as universal elixirs. But can these principles, honed in the digital realm, truly orchestrate the chaos of armed conflict? Or do they risk injecting perilous uncertainty into arenas where hesitation can spell catastrophe? This question, once a provocative thought experiment, gains urgency amid evolving threats, from hybrid warfare in Eastern Europe to cyber skirmishes in the South China Sea. Drawing on historical precedents, contemporary military adaptations, and a dash of Celtic scepticism, we dissect whether agility’s allure holds water on the front lines, echoing the resilient pragmatism of Welsh soldiery through the ages.
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Martyn Rhisiart Jones
My sister was part of a group that offered support to the striking miners of Wales, Scotland and England.
They organised a public fundraiser and invited the politician Tony Benn to speak.
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Martyn Jones
A balanced scorecard is a strategy performance management tool – a well-structured report used to keep track of the execution of activities by staff and to monitor the consequences arising from these actions.
The term ‘balanced scorecard’ primarily refers to a performance management report used by a management team, and typically focused on managing the implementation of a strategy or operational activities. In a 2020 survey 88% of respondents reported using the balanced scorecard for strategy implementation management, and 63% for operational management. Although less common, the balanced scorecard is also used by individuals to track personal performance; only 17% of respondents in the survey reported using balanced scorecards in this way. However it is clear from the same survey that a larger proportion (about 30%) use corporate balanced scorecard elements to inform personal goal setting and incentive calculations.
Martyn Richard Jones
Oza dos Rios 9th June 2020
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The purpose of language is to communicate—usually the conveyance of meaning from one entity to another. The value of communication is based on the availability of timely, appropriate and adequate information. In this way, it is positive. But communication can also be used to manipulate, deceive and confuse.
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Martyn Richard Jones
Bonn 31st August 2017
It doesn’t matter where you are in the world, the view of the UK government doesn’t get any better.
Edinburgh, London, Brussels, Beijing or Washington. It’s increasingly obvious that Theresa May and her cabinet are a painfully embarrassing and unfunny joke.
They stand as an obdurate aberration where once there had been some semblance of cultured diplomacy, breadth and depth of intelligence and strategic thinking. They defy the laws of reason, good sense and decency. They are the Keystone Cops, the Chuckle Brothers and the Carry On Camping of governance. (more…)
Martyn Richard Jones
Bonn 28th August 2017
In my opinion, Brexit, any Brexit, could spell economic, political and social disaster for the UK. Brexit could ensure the demise of the Good Friday Agreement, with seriously damaging consequences. It could see the independence of Scotland – not necessarily a bad thing for Scotland, but yet another unintended consequence of Brexit. And, it could significantly deteriorate the rights and conditions of workers in the UK.
So, I wish to put a Brexit question to Jeremy Corbyn.
Will the working people in the UK be better off if the UK leaves the European Union?
Martyn Richard Jones
Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany – 11th August 2017
What will the UK look like ‘post-Brexit?
Will Brexit result, as I read on Twitter, in the UK “taking back what we never lost to lose everything we currently have.”?
My concern is about what could happen to the people in the UK when we have finally run-away from Europe.
With Brussels gone, with the EU and the Single Market gone, with our EU citizenship ripped from our cold dead hands, who will Brexiteers have to complain about once we have become an isolated, tiny and populous ex-colonialist island to the east of New Jersey?