There is eternal battle that I fight every single day of my working life. It’s by no means exclusive to strategists and planners in advertising…
I am a big fan of Twyla Tharp. She is one of America’s greatest choreographers, creating over 130 dances for herself alongside work for Paris…
I’m a big fan of crying. And laughing for that matter. They are raw and overt demonstrations of the intensity of our emotions. Of course,…
This is a love letter. To the most enduring love of my life. I first came across the object of my affection a little over…
At the end of last year I wrote a piece celebrating 50 years of Saatchi & Saatchi. We aren’t much given to looking backwards as…
Advertising and agriculture feel at opposite ends of the universe we all inhabit. Perhaps the only similarity being the way both our professions are vilified…
Our countryside has taken a bit of a hammering this summer, or at least parts and parcels of our countryside. As lockdown has eased and…
Winston Churchill once described democracy as the worst form of government except all the others. When it comes to our economy, the same might be…
We don’t save people’s lives. It used to be a joke didn’t it? With a laugh in our throats, we would chortle that what we…
I have always hated hobbies, even the very idea of hobbies. They seem to me to be childish pastimes attracting a childish name. The word…
Language matters. In 1994 the Conservative Government abandoned one of Margaret Thatcher’s flagship policies, the Community Charge. The charge was intended to replace domestic rates…
Tribalism has got an awfully bad name of late. Built on identity and identification, it has a noble birth. But the problem is that tribalism…
A while ago I wrote a post on deep work, that seemed to go down well. So, I thought I’d try another slightly off topic…
