Thanks to Stowe Boyd’s Twittering I recently found Umair Haque’s articles at Harvard Business Publishing. My favourites are: Detroit’s 6 Mistakes and How Not to Make Them How To Be a 21st Century Capitalist A User’s Guide to 21st Century Economics Whilst I’m not sure Haque has the right answers all of the time, I [...]

As I drove home tonight, I noticed a disturbing thing. All across the city, gangs of masked youths are prowling the streets. They are working from house to house, threatening acts of wanton destruction against anyone who refuses to give in to their demands. Suddenly, it feels like I’m living in America…

Yesterday we went on a trip to the seaside at Hornsea. On the way back we stopped off at various points along the Holderness coast, which is eroding at quite a pace. We saw several places where roads near the cliff edge have been closed. Looking at an old map, it seems that this road [...]

Lynne Truss may have cornered the market in missing punctuation, but it’s good to know that other brave souls are committed to exposing superfluous punctuation. Foremost among them is The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks. Hopefully it will provide you with a little post-Christmas mirth.

Limitations engender creativity (or so the theory goes). Sometimes it’s better to play with only two strings on the guitar, or carry only one lens for the camera. Having snagged a 500mm catadioptric lens on eBay last year, it seemed like a good idea to wander round Bristol with it, trying to find interesting shots. [...]