Media
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Beware the Blue Monday myth
Over the next week, you’re likely to see stories about ‘Blue Monday’ in your social media…
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50 years as a Guardian reader
Above: shades of the 1930s. My copy of the Guardian reporting over 3 million out of…
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Videoing London Edinburgh London 2025
This is the latest in my series of posts about the London Edinburgh London audax event in August…
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Celebrating World (Audio) Book Day
World Book Day. A inspired way of getting children to read books, or an annual chore…
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abrdn: an end to irritable vowel syndrome
It was the most mocked rebrand in years. In 2021, when most companies were worrying about…
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Headlines from my 50 year old childhood scrapbook
Do any children today keep a scrapbook? It seems very unlikely given almost every aspect of…
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Reputation ruined: Bruce Ismay and the Titanic disaster
Everyone’s heard of the loss of Titanic in April 1912, the world’s most famous peacetime shipping…
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Pointless jargon: my latest letter in The Times
Over 40 years ago, I bought a wonderful book called The Complete Plain Words by Sir…