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Everyone Is Writing A Book These Days....

27th April

“I’m writing a book.” I hear that sentence a lot. At networking events.Over coffee.In pubs.At family gatherings.Sometimes from complete strangers who have somehow discovered what I do for a living and immediately decide to con ...

Why AI Is Not 'The Enemy Within'

20th April

There is a curious accusation doing the rounds at the moment, one that arrives quickly and with a certain confidence. ‘That’s been written by AI’. It is often said as a dismissal, a quiet undermining, sometimes even a veiled i ...

Has Social Media Stopped Being Social?

13th April

I was scrolling through Facebook yesterday, nothing unusual in that, just a quiet five minutes trying to forget a certain football match and letting the world drift past. And it struck me,quite suddenly,that I hadn’t actually se ...

When Your Daily Newspaper Meant Something

6th April

There was a time—not all that long ago—when a newspaper arriving on the doormat felt like something of consequence. It carried weight, both literal and intellectual. Ink on fingers was a small price to pay for being properly inf ...

Why It Isn't The Ten O'Clock News Any More

30th March

There was a time, not that long ago, when the evening news felt like a window. You sat down, you watched, and you were shown the world. Or at least, that’s how it felt. These days, it feels rather more like a mirror. Not reflect ...

Are We Losing The Skill Of Listening?

23rd March

When did we start valuing noise over understanding? Not long ago, I found myself in a conversation-one of those slightly frantic, overlapping exchanges where everyone is speaking, no one is pausing, and the gaps between sentenc ...

Blogger Discovers The Truth About Clickbait...

16th March

…and what happened next will leave you speechless!!! (relax, nothing in this article will render you speechless). But you DID click on it. I did, of course, have myriad alternative ‘headlines’ to consider for this post. Some ...

'Why 'Breaking News' Is No Longer News

9th March

There was a time when ‘breaking news’ meant exactly that. Something significant had happened. Something unexpected. Programming was interrupted because the moment demanded it. The phrase carried weight. It signalled importanc ...

When it Comes To The News...Ignore The Noise.

2nd March

There is something about a Sunday afternoon that lends itself to thought rather than reaction. The noise of the week softens, the urgency fades just enough, and we are given that rarest of opportunities in modern life, the chan ...

The Bookshops That Know Your Name

23rd February

There is something quietly defiant about an independent bookshop. You feel it the moment you step through the door. Not the whoosh of automatic sensors, not the blast of air conditioning or the glare of a marketing table stacke ...