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Latest — Jun 23, 2025

Choose Proceedable Buyers

I came across shameless MSM clickbait recently. Middle-England likely rushing to discover eight insider tricks for getting the lowest price for your new home. Negotiation generally is not a skill I see in sharp supply throughout salesteams. Mainly as it is a scarcely 'taught' proficiency. Indeed, earlier in the century

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Does Your Track Record Beat AI Project Success?

Blimey. I hope so. I read through stats with fingers over my eyes published into AI project implementation results, as surveyed of 2,000 chief execs by IBM. Their press release announced eleven bulleted findings. Here's the first of them; "Surveyed CEOs report that only 25% of AI initiatives have

Going Giral

This week I learned about ... giant viruses. Or a girus, as scientists labelled them upon their discovery since the turn of this century. Sounding like the stuff of B-Movie horror, one may well soon be coming to a streamer near you. They seem to inhabit - the ones we've seen

Does Arnie Think Your Bogus Idea Brand Sucks?

"Net Zero is bogus" So says Arnold Schwarzenegger. Widely quoted from his annual Vienna climate conference. Which irks him greatly, as he is an avid campaigner for it. Here's his thinking, as read in London's Times broadsheet; “Go to a town like Leeds or Manchester and ask people, what’s

Colour versus Black & White

“When I watch cycling, I’ll be watching in colour and you’ll be watching in black and white. But, in football, I’m watching in black and white.” An analogy you've possibly heard before. This version comes from 'performance' guru and Mr Marginal Gains, Dave Brailsford. Making news at

Black Hole Event Horizon Escape Velocity

Do we non-astronomers know what any of that title means? Lately, I've suffered frustration in how 'black hole' becomes a label applied to anything resembling simply a big hole. This is inaccurate. Yet such irritating metaphor persists. You don't have to be a physicist to be a pedant on this.

Tuchel Three Lions Love and Connections and Care

A dispiriting watch. The 'mighty' Ingerlund stumble to a drab, uninspiring "playing with fire" one-nil World Cup qualifier win. Against Andorra. Yes, they're a footballing nation too. Then three days later, the first ever loss to an African team. Inevitable one day perhaps, yet in this case, a listless abject

Rolls-Royce Spec Influence

I've followed this story fairly closely. Mini-nuclear reactors, aka Small Modular Reactors (SMRs), are the future. After all, as the lay would say, 'we've had nuclear powered submarines for how long...?'. One of those long logical technological evolutions that only now can be seemingly realised. A safe, small-scale, mobile

A-List Stylist Mood Board Tip

The world of stylist Jamie Mizrahi is one in which few roam. Creating red carpet looks for Oscar winning actresses like Jennifer Lawrence and superstar singers like Adele. Making me happy to learn of her central visual building block; “I always think it’s good to put together a mood

Your Birmingham Crane Report

Presently summering in the world's first great industrial city. I have, against expectations, witnessed a shimmering orb emitting warmish rays gliding across the imperma-grey skies above. A growing civic structure but a century-and-a-half ago. Then hailed as the exemplar of how to run a city. Such halcyon age sadly long