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Kew Gardens: Summer in bloom
With thanks to corporate membership I visited Kew Gardens. After a long slog of a week through a heatwave, like every other worker I looked forward to the weekend and leaving home which had become my office. With the threat of thunder storms it was a cloudy muggy day. But Kew Gardens was in full…
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Brighton art
A day trip to Brighton gave me the opportunity to wander through the streets and take in Brighton art.
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The allure of the movie sequel
Having experienced three movies (A Quiet Place Part 2, Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard and, Fast and Furious 9) recently through the welcome return to the experience of the cinema, the industry is easily tempted by the allure of the sequel and creation of the franchise, but not always to the most attractive results.
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Wayfair: a case study in customer experience
Wayfair is all over the telly and web at the moment. Never mind the flood of emails. An online retail company for the pandemic era. There appears to be nothing you don’t need for your house and garden they do not sell. So I decided to take a dip and buy one of their goods…
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What is the future for the Labour Party?
The Chesham and Amersham by election victory for Liberal Democrats is a key moment in Kier Starmer’s term as Labour leader – his party managing to achieve its worst by-election result in the party’s history. Winning only 1.6 per cent of the vote and losing its deposit, Labour finished in fourth place behind the third-placed…
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Taking the Knee at football and tackling racism in social media
Football is often compared to religion True fans are born in to supporting their team; leaving your team and supporting another will cost you friends, and possibly family members. On the other hand you meet fellow fans who are your instant friends, just because. In his Unherd article Giles Fraser starts by suggesting there are…
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Free speech and why it matters by Andrew Doyle – Checking our thinking
Early on Andrew Doyle sets out how the definition of social justice has changed due to a new identity-based conceptualisation bringing with it a mistrust of unfettered speech. He goes on to point out how this has given us the confusing and rare phenomenon: the well-intentioned authoritarian. With authoritarianism comes censorship – or as it…
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Oxford botanical gardens: oasis in city
A bank holiday visit to Oxford have us the serendipitous joy of accidentally visiting the Oxford Botanical gardens by the river
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Leeds United 3 West Brom 1 – Hernandez and Berardi – End of an era
It was great to see Leeds fans in full force after 15 months of fake football noise. Hernandez and Gerardo started for their last match and at Elland Road with a crowd – this was just as important as the match itself
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Granta 155: The Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists 2: An Indigenous Take
There were high hopes with this Spanish literature issue. Having read latin American novels before I’ve enjoyed the creativity especially Gabriel Garcia Marquez.