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Hurray for St George’s Day today! As ever, the left-leaning British press can be called on for their usual negativity surrounding events of national well-being and reflection on glories of yore and the more to come. The Independent decided to turn their nose [http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/

Radio 4 this week past broadcast a fascinating Reunion show. 18 November 1987, 31 people perished by fire on the tube [http://www.healthandsafetyatwork.com/hsw/kings-cross-disaster]. Given the comments of the fireman present, the intense heat formed through flammable paint and fumes, was something they’d never realised could

I heard [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rv8dv]neuroscientist Barbara Sahakian discuss the ethics around ‘smart drugs’ the other day. Apparently a staggering one-fifth of all professors take some form of narcotic to sharpen their mental wires. And we’ll all clamour to soon as well by the sounds

Yes, I’m old enough to know the crackpot compulsion of seeing a foot square tile of incredible artwork and simply having to have the music contained within. Many such covers were created by the greatest designer, Storm Thorgerson. I delighted in flicking through several of his iconic images last

Material World [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rr7ry] is not a show I actively seek out on BBC Radio 4, given its usual rocket science slant. Yet the issue I caught this week contained a lovely sales  insight. It heralds from the current scientific community’s publishing shake-up. In

So today is the funeral of the greatest British Prime Minister since Churchill. The airwaves in my homeland were awash with truly amazing debate. Toxic vitriol or teeming veneration. Dependent upon whether you are Left, or Right. Disrespectful or decent. So it was to the Left leaning press that I

Here’s an interesting couple of chats I’ve had over the past few days. A chap big in call centre design wondered if I could help evolve a microchip maker’s German and Filipino set ups. I could help with all the people aspects. Moulding the agents around new