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Politician TV debates. Head-to-heads, nowadays hyped up beforehand by broadcasters like a superhero movie trailer. Late-Autumn 2019 it’s Britain’s turn. The first-ever televised General Election duel took place this week of the binary pair vying for residence in Number Ten as Prime Minister. “Hazardous”, as the FT termed

Big data, bigger worries? The rising flood of lifelogging capabilities seem to have plateaued. Perhaps, like one pre-2.0 pioneer [https://www.computerworld.com/article/3048497/lifelogging-is-dead-for-now.html] , you feel technology’s march now makes such recordings redundant. Maybe you’ve simply learned to filter out the myriad input fields

As Piers Morgan reveals, there are no Right leaning journalists at the tax-funded BBC. Even the loons that are currently running amok on The Left of British politics don’t trust the nation’s self-appointed arbiter of views either. This is not a demonstration of BBC News being impartial. Don’

Time to consider skunking on your bid? A “skunked term [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunked_term]”, according to a lexicographer called Byran Garner, is a word that becomes difficult to use because it is in the middle of transitioning from one common meaning to another. ‘It can’t be

Yes, there’s yet another General Election campaign kicked-off in the UK. Already, eye-watering sums of money seem to be promised to various worthy recipients. Of the two main parties vying to supply the next Prime Minister, despite their spin to the contrary The Leftists are looking to magic up

There’s plenty of chatter right now about grassroot quasi-political movements. Bands of disparate activists who mobilise together to try and face down some seemingly enormous, heinous perceived foe. They prefer to ‘organise’ around cell structures, co-ordinate without appointed leadership, and use snap polls on messaging apps to determine protest

I happened upon a digital agency. On their homepage, I was delighted to find writ large the above ‘problem statement’ teaser. I remember meeting the very first such outfits back in the mid-90s. They were mainly all about the tech. Occasionally you’d meet one that’d come from a

An addition to the recent (especially slide-based) presentation tricks gleaned [http://salespodder.com/show-ads/] from a trade fair I walked around in the heart of Conference England. This time, reading the “selling” language used by the 75 companies showing their wares. Warning. It wasn’t pretty. First, let’s make

Quite the title for a blog post at this moment in Anglo-Continental time, hey. I’d been thinking about this phrase – from purely a Sales perspective – since it first emerged. The new UK Prime Minister of Summer 2019 flaunted it among many a freshly sticky slogan. Even installing it as