Art springs from our need to connect
Is the book really dead?
McCauley meets Eady, the relationship that won’t kill him. Photo credit: Warner Bros
Anxious teenagers in underground passage
Lily Gladstone and Leonardo DiCaprio as Molly and Ernest Burkhart
The Surface Duo, a future that should have happened
AI tools promise new productivity, but who benefits?
A modern weaving machine: is AI the new steam?
Kwasi Kwarteng’s catastrophic mini-budget has raised many questions, but the one that intrigues me most is the claim that he’s a highly intelligent man.
Copywriters! Artificial intelligence is coming for our jobs! Or is it?
Reflections on cinema, immortality and the passage of time
Revellers at Glastonbury for Paul McCartney
On borders, myths of identity and corruption
Final happy thoughts
An emergency
Steroids and brutally stupid government economics combine for a wave of literally sleepless nights
A healthy attitude
BAck to (chemo) pain
A French break
Elation
On the NHS
Scatalogical: in the hospital
On the eve
Anticipating pain
The romance of the marsh
The physical
The full diagnosis
Loss of friends, impatience with idiocy
Fretting about politics
Food and music
Natural comforts
Friendship and family
Tests and laxatives
Consolation and courage
Test result
On identity and nationality
On doing the right thing
Conservatism's blinding ideology
Business language and bad behaviour
Communication in a different working world
Software companies' behaviour over licensing epitomises the problematic emergence of extractive capitalism, with trust becoming a growing problem for business.
Software companies' behaviour over licensing epitomises the problematic emergence of extractive capitalism, with trust becoming a growing problem for business.
The disciplines demanded by a diversity programme make a better starting point for behavioural or cultural change than top-down brand communication
A starting point for business writing
Corporate v personal values
Understanding humanity in the natural world
Democracy is a process
Vanity and love
Zombies and the spirit of commemoration
Finding a human voice
Completeness in The Warriors and Under the Skin
More on accidental meaning
Words in a visual medium
On art and accidental potency
No one battles with cancer
Nothing is free
Nothing is free
Nothing is free
Nothing is free