Let this serve as a warning to those who minimise the importance of maths in our society.Steve LeeLos AngelesSIR – Car accidents and smoking cause more deaths than terrorism, yet people worry more about terrorism because they distinguish between "fair" and "unfair" risks.
But with the situation on the ground already perilous, others say the accusations are unfair and risk putting aid workers at an even greater risk of becoming targets.
While agreeing their landlord had failed to consult properly on the cost of the works, his judgement concludes that such a "disproportionate" discount was unfair and risked bringing the whole legal system into "disrepute".
The CFA believes a deal between the government and the union to give 800 career firefighters a pay rise and require seven paid staff to be dispatched to a fire incident in certain areas is unfair, and risks unionising the CFA and diminishing the role of its volunteers.
Labour has set out how we would make fairer choices on welfare spending, including scrapping winter fuel payments for the richest 5% of pensioners and abolishing the bedroom tax, which is not only cruel and unfair but risks costing more than it saves.
The unfair share of risk and value in the supply chain, is one.
Too many worker entitlements can stifle the agility of an enterprise and overload it with cost; too few and the world of work is turned into a high risk, unfair hell.
The big story is of politics driven by ideas that are wrong – public debt phobia, the belief that market economies are like corks with a natural capacity to bounce back which is only inhibited by the action of the state, and that people should help themselves, whatever the brutal and unfair distribution of risk and opportunity.
Many working conditions perceived to be unfair and to risk educator mental wellbeing stem from educators being classed as self-employed, independent contractors and having different 'legal and market status' to employees[ 73].
Ms. Brand Frank's camera moves fluidly to show us that the transaction is at once grossly unfair, given the risks to the childbearer, and yet at the same time its own kind of godsend because the money can and does make a difference to poorer women with otherwise limited opportunities.
