Yes, yes,  I know that the best blogs, the ones written by people with Very Big Megaphones standing on Very Big Soapboxes have ‘Top 10 ways to write lists of Top 10 lists’ and so on. But if there’s a […]

“The thing I really like about you,” said a client recently, “is that you give it to me with both barrels.” A back-handed compliment, or a genuine vote of praise? I wasn’t sure, so I silently winced and left a […]

“How do you write so clearly?” somebody asked me recently. Clearly, me? Do I? Well, yes, I suppose I do, but it’s not because I’ve got some secret that nobody else has access to. I didn’t climb a mountain and […]

A few months back, a pop-up popped up in Skype. Would you like to win £1,000? it trilled. Of course I would. I was excited at the prospect – positively thrilled, in fact. All I had to do, it explained, […]

OK, let’s jump on in. Oh you thought there’d be a witty intro, a scene-setting anecdote, did you? You thought you could just sit back and enjoy the ride? Well you can, in just a moment. But first, here’s a […]