
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