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Don’t mention the war

Education provider Intueri has been careful in describing its domestic underperformance, but there are issues warranting external investigation.
 
Tim Hunter talks about his latest column on NBR Radio and on demand on MyNBR Radio.

Fri, 25 Sep 2015

Tales of human aversion to bad news go back a long way. There’s one from the first century BC in which an Armenian king was so keen not to hear about a Roman invasion he ordered that the first person to bring him the news would be killed.

As a result “no-one afterwards presumed to mention it,”

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