Maybe it is because I am soon to be moving nearer to coast that made me have the sudden desire to travel in the other direction and go to the Midlands for the weekend. And a wise choice it was eventually to be.
The trip actually came about from an aborted trip to London after my fiancée and I realised that the 'National Wedding Show' was at the NEC in Birmingham and not Earls Court.
As with the case with most blokes, my enthusiasm towards ...
Tuesday of this week was a pivotal day for me as it was the day when I finally accepted that a Kindle is useless for emailing, networking or blogging. Yes, I have succumbed to the iPad and this morning is the first opportunity I have had to write a blog post from my bed rather than my desk, with the added bonus of having Radio 6 on in the background.
I am doing this because after getting up at 6.00am with a headache that has had me flipping ...
When you think about, our whole life is dictated by religious and political ideologies, some we benefit from, some we find abhorrent and in extreme cases such as Catholicism, some that can involve abuse protected by a rabid fear of damnation.
Unless you are living on Saturn, a major political storm blew up this week when The Daily Mail newspaper wrote a derogatory piece about Ralph Miliband, an alleged Marxist, who in their opinion, ...
I have always known that the Daily Mail is a spiteful paper; it has a long history of supporting the likes of Mussolini and other far right groups such as the Blackshirts headed by Oswald Moseley.
However, by smearing the dead for political gain they have succeeded in surpassing my expectations of them. Paul Dacre knows that you can't face charges for libel when the persons character you are assassinating is dead, so that is why, being the ...
Because I am essentially a salesman, I am always on the periphery of the marketing profession and those within it. Marketing people are generally held in higher regard than sales people but just like any other business or trade some of them are useless whilst others are remarkably creative with utilising words to make an otherwise bland product seem incredibly exciting.
One of my favourite examples of marketing creativity was an advert for a ...