PowerPoint Ban

Are you sick and tired of looking at endless lists and photo montages flashed before you in PowerPoint presentations? Then you might move to Switzerland and campaign for the Anti-PowerPoint Party which is running in October for parliamentary elections. Founder Matthias Poehm claims €350bn could be saved globally each year by ditching the software which he believes takes people away from their work and teaches them little. ‘Call me old-fashioned,’ he said, ‘but I believe in having a real discussion as opposed to force-feeding a sleepy crowd with graphs and bullet points projected onto the nearest wall.’