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Voting systems can be confusing things. And tomorrow's vote on the voting system couldn't be more confusing if it were a confusing thing. Luckily, Guru knows his onions and can provide a handy guide to the confused. After all, a change in voting system could rock the boat, knock the eggs out of the basket and make life generally a tad less predictable...

Guru was just pondering just what exactly it is that makes great leaders tick, when a rumble in his tummy alerted him to the fact it was time for an iced bun and a cup of java. However, just as he was about to answer the call of the colon, his eye was attracted to the fact that David 'just call me bellyboy' Cameron, also listens to the call...

Ever the Royalist, loyal subject Robert 'the crow' Crow has vowed to take his members out in the run up to the wedding of Prince William and 'that commoner' Kate Middleton at the end of April. In a shock move, the union's top bird-named pillar of stubbornity has boldly stated that 'his workers' deserve triple pay and an extra...

While Yours Truly may have missed out of the Nobel Prize, his Disciple Jonathan has alerted him to the far more important and prestigious Personnel Today Awards , which took place on 30th November. While Guru once again failed to win a gong - he senses a concerted effort here to keep him from the trophy-winning elite - he can recommend that all HR practitioners...

While Chas and Cam were getting gunked in their Roller as ejerkashun protestas lost their tempers in central London, Yours Truly was skulking around the corridors of no power in Oslo today, awaiting his last-minute call-up for the Nobel peace prize , having been 'encouraged' to be available by his... um... 'suppliers' from far away across...

Guru has been alerted to a possible cure for the plight of the jobless. And it's a rather dangerous occupation so will require serious training and monitoring - thereby creating lots of lovely jobs. With nearly 500,000 jobs expected to be 'culled' from the public sector, Yours Truly was inspired to investigate other culls and weigh up how...

Proof that Guru is the leading workplace thinker came yesterday when the so-called 'leading workplace thinktank' the Work Foundation fell on its own sword having faced a winding up petition in the High Court. The country's 'leading workplace thinktank' apparently did not have big enough brains in place to notice a massive pension...

News from the Ministry of Pointless Research suggests that fit workers are healthier and less stressed on account of having lower blood pressure. Yours Truly knows all about this, having cast aside all bad habits to live a fuller more enlightened Guru-like existence many moons ago, but it's hardly a breakthrough. Of course, being fitter makes people...