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…
It’s only half way through 2019 but an early contender for agency of the year is surely ‘Led By Donkeys’. And I mean that only…
Most see the act of saying something that has absolutely no chance of ever coming to fruition or doing something that has absolutely no chance…
Twyla Tharp is one of America’s greatest choreographers. In a long and prodigious career, she has created over 130 dances for her own company as…
Recently I have got really interested in the concept of creative vehicles. Indeed I wrote about them for Campaign magazine in a piece about how…
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…
This post has an intent, something that I advise that you do immediately you have read it. And that is to join a choir. And…
In August 2003 Alistair Campbell, Tony Blair’s Director of Communications, resigned. For some months he had been at the centre of allegations that the intelligence…
