Episode three of this year’s series of The Apprentice graced our screens last night as the boys’ and girls’ teams mixed it up to become Team Affinity and Team Apex. Would this be more good mannered as the gender mix changed? Or would the claws really come out? The task…

It’s the second week of The Apprentice and after the opening episode and the shambles of a performance from the girls’ team — what was in store for us in this next episode? Would the girls step up this week or would the boys steal the show again? The task…

It’s the return of the BBC TV series The Apprentice 2023! Well it’s begun for another year, my guilty pleasure, the longest interview for investment — and the ‘business in a tv box’ series — The Apprentice. …

I loved the film Avatar — just as I love the world of JRR Tolkien, Philip Pullman or JK Rowling — this film represented an iconic opportunity for losing yourself in a world of fantasy, magic and mystery. When I went to see that film more than a decade ago…

It will not have escaped the notice of many people who live in countries without a national health service that in the UK we’re having major problems with this service. At the moment we are subject to strikes from all sorts of public sector workers who are dissatisfied with pay…

JOURNALISTS like me know the power of the written word, the visual image and the video clip. We’ve always known it and we know that hidden in those tools lies a power untapped and sometimes it’s unimaginable. With the growth of social media over the last 20 years, that power…

I write this post about this subject because it’s something I come across a lot and two of my most popular posts on the social media site LinkedIn attracted 1000s of impressions and many comments when I talked about it. As some of you will know I am a caravanner…

IF YOU ARE BEREAVED RIGHT NOW, I SEE YOU… The world knows that the UK has lost its Queen with the passing of Elizabeth II last week. If you are not in the UK, you will have no idea what it’s like to experience what this nation is feeling. Our main news channel, the BBC, has had wall to…