Doing it our way

Doing it our way

Culture. It’s an emotive word. It can be defined as ‘the ideas, customs, and social behaviour of a particular people or society.’ Or simply, the way we do things around here. (more…)

What a difference a word makes

What a difference a word makes

Last week, Sir John Chilcot outlined his findings on the UK’s involvement in the 2003 Iraq War and the lessons to be learned from it. He produced a report of 2.6 million words, complied from hundreds of interviews, documents and other evidence.

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Debating lessons

There are some massive decisions to be made in the next six months – beginning with Brexit and ending in Trump. (more…)

I am a presenter … the real cost of skill

I am a presenter … the real cost of skill

At last our winter evenings are complete. We have a perfect excuse not to go out. We can’t possibly drag ourselves off to the gym.  While October signals Halloween, November can only be “I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here.”

Series 15 started last night. The real reason for watching #IACGMOOH is not the D list celebrities, however much they bring out our masochistic dark side; it’s because of the nightly master class in presenting given by Ant & Dec.

See Ant and Dec and some other not-so-talented presenters in action…

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