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Why A Good Book Will Always Beat Eurovision

18th May

There comes a point, usually somewhere between the third shrieking key change, a dancer dressed as a metallic woodland creature, and a voting sequence that appears to take longer than some constitutional reforms, when one begins ...

Has LinkedIn Lost Its Mojo?

11th May

Once upon a time, LinkedIn knew exactly what it was. A professional networking platform. Business-focused. Career-minded. A place to connect, recruit, share expertise, and perhaps quietly promote your latest promotion while pre ...

Books 1 Kindle 0. Rejoice!

4th May

For a while, we were told the book was finished. Not the story. Not the words. The book itself. Replaced, we were assured, by the glow of a screen. By the swipe, the scroll, the convenience of carrying a thousand titles in you ...

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 decid ...

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 ...