Herbert Kennard: 1919-2020
27 Mar 2020It is with great sadness that HCB reports the death of long-time contributor...
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NOS: Unhealthy living
23 Mar 2020Regular readers will know that here on the Back Page we have little truck with...
Learning by Training: VUCA and Corona
16 Mar 2020I have just returned from Rotterdam where, despite the Coronavirus crisis, the...
Editor’s letter from self-isolation
10 Mar 2020Talk about bad timing… Only last month in this column I was exhorting you all...
30 Years Ago: March 2020
2 Mar 2020Thirty years ago, then-editor Mike Corkhill opened the March 1990 edition of...
Confession from the Porch Swing
2 Mar 2020I hate to admit it, but it’s true. The ‘From the Porch Swing’ column...
Not otherwise specified: Bang bang you’re dead
27 Feb 2020It must be an interesting life being involved in emergency response. We dare...
Editor’s letter on the road
21 Feb 2020When I joined HCB in 1993, I knew next to nothing about the regulations that...
Learning by Training: Davos
7 Feb 2020Every year since 2009 I have read the Global Risks Report issued just before...
NOS: Fresh air fiends
3 Feb 2020As regular readers of the Back Page may well have spotted by now, there are...
30 Years Ago: February 1990
3 Feb 2020The February 1990 issue of HCB kicked off with comments from editor Mike...
Editor’s digital letter
28 Jan 2020Once upon a very long time ago, when I was but a nipper, I had an uncle who...
Learning by Training: Governance by information
13 Jan 2020President Trump’s approval of the killing of Iranian General Soleimani in...
Editor’s letter on substandard cargo
6 Jan 2020It has historically not been easy to make money in the shipping industry –...
30 Years Ago: January 1990
1 Jan 2020HCB began its second decade of publication inauspiciously, with a rather...
NOS: Got a light boy?
10 Dec 2019Here’s one of those headlines that pull us up short: “Man ‘could have...
Learning by Training: Sustainability
6 Dec 2019You have probably heard about the United Nations’ Sustainable Development...
30 Years Ago: December 1989
29 Nov 2019Thirty years ago, HCB celebrated ten years of monthly publication with a bumper...
End-of-year letter from the editor
28 Nov 2019This is the time of year I like the best. It’s not the impending...
Learning by Training: The Kodak effect
14 Nov 2019The Kodak Effect is a well-known phenomenon. The erstwhile industry leader in...
Not otherwise specified: Playing with fire
1 Nov 2019Regardless of what they would like to believe, humans are – by and large –...
