In this Remembrance week I was moved to watch a gripping doc [http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2i4um2] on the most “courageous and imaginative” Allied raid of WWII. Under enormous pressure from the German fleet, we simply had to resolve “The Bordeaux Problem”. That was the French city the Nazis

I was a fan of bubbly Italian telly chef Antonio Carluccio and his eponymous restaurants as soon as they appeared in London around two decades ago. The large presence who single-handedly sought to improve upon what he dismissed as Britalian restaurant blandness. With his sad passing aged 80 [http://www.

I’m okay with oysters. I don’t actively seek them out. Yet have thoroughly enjoyed them all over the world. From New York’s dedicated Grand Central bar [http://www.oysterbarny.com/] bearing their name, to the buzzing Knysna Festival [http://www.oysterfestival.co.za/] in their honour, to

[/content/images/wordpress/2015/05/whowantstobeamillionaire-salespitchfirstquestion-player-salespodder.jpg] A while back I helped a firm’s large-scale technology sales. It became apparent that a new way to class suspect buying likelihood existed. Their target market was turbulent. Lots of M&A activity. Big re-structures aplenty. To frame this new view, I

Some labour-saving devices change your world. The spork. Spreadsheet auto-sort. A wife. Others are doomed to the robot-controlled dustbin of failure. Gmail’s ‘smart reply’ feels like the latter. It’s invaded my mobile inbox [https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/17/google-brings-smart-replies-to-gmail-on-ios-and-android/] since the Summer. And annoys me each time