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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…

Brighton art

A day trip to Brighton gave me the opportunity to wander through the streets
and take in Brighton art.

The allure of the movie sequel

A Quiet Place 2

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.

Wayfair: a case study in customer experience

Wayfair

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 for the first time.

What is the future for the Labour Party?

Kier Starmer

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 Green Party.

Free speech and why it matters by Andrew Doyle – Checking our thinking

Free Speech Andrew Doyle

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 has now been termed – cancellation