How broad is your library?

For some years I have been working on a memoir themed around the books that have shaped my world view. The concept is to discuss how the books we’ve read since childhood shape our world-view, and may have influenced our... Read More

The future is human

I love paradox. And unexpected consequences (which are often paradoxical). They are some of my favourite things, having spent much of my writing career critiquing psychologically naïve, linear modelling about economies and businesses, such as the notion of the human... Read More

Let’s protect creative spaces from digital concrete

In the city in which I live, Leeds, in northern England, there is almost constant construction work going on: redesigning traffic junctions, constructing cycle lanes, building pedestrian bridges with gradual inclines, improving access to the main train station, creating pedestrianised... Read More

Languages as they are spoke – and written

In my career as ghostwriter or editorial consultant, I have often been working with individuals for whom English is a second language. They often speak quite fluently, and have excellent understanding of the written and spoken word in English, typically... Read More

In defence of nerdy facts

I have, on occasion, been asked when penning a non-fiction work, ghostwritten or under my own name, whether to emphasize the facts of the story or the emotions aroused. My reply is always: ‘Both! Both!’ The one makes little sense... Read More