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A recent blog has caught my eye. It’s Why Hate Speech is Not Free Speech by Professor George Lakoff, Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley, where he has taught since 1972, and it’s... Read More

This blog is about how to talk to people at networking events If people tell me what they do at networking events, I rarely remember for any length of time.  (That is, after all, why we hand out business cards that say what we do.)  If I do remember, I have may wel... Read More

1 The UK needs a regulator for internet sites, in much the same way as the telecomms regulator, Ofcom.  Compliance by internet sites should not be optional and failure to comply should result in a site being shut down in the UK. 2 The new regulator would have the power to impose... Read More

—— I am resigned to my local rag, Stroud news and journal, telling me that a particular story it is running is “incredibly moving”—even within the editorial content, where such remarks have no place at all, and even if they have no hope of substantiating it. Here are... Read More

Problem [*1]:  I am a 40-year-old man who has always suffered with incredible shyness and insecurity around women. My shyness is better now; I can talk to women, and have female friends, but I have never really had a proper relationship. The few times I have had sex with women... Read More

There has been a lot of work in recent years by António Damásio and many others on what states the brain is in when its owner makes a decision (maybe, thinks they are making a decision). Damásio’s finding, and it has been corroborated by empirical studies, particularly of well... Read More

Four very common misconceptions: 1   The purpose of the application is to get the job. No, the purpose of the application is to get an interview. This is not the same thing and, unless the jobs you seek are offered without interview, you have to get through the interview before... Read More

I believe the Guardian is facing a period in which its long term future is to be decided.  Because it is owned by a trust it doesn’t have quite the same commercial imperatives as other UK newspapers.  However, the trust does not have bottomless pockets.  The cover price of... Read More

The British public is to vote in a referendum on the country’s membership of the European Union.  This blog is about whether a referendum is a suitable way of deciding the question.  Whether or not we should stay is for another time.  It gives my views on why a referendum... Read More

Welcome to this year’s rant at the worst of email marketing.  It will probably be my last on this subject.  At 7000 words, it is by far the longest blog I have written.  Why?  Because I want to illustrate the wide range and number of issues, all of which need to be addressed well... Read More