[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="168" caption="The EBM, thumbnail"][/caption] London has just seen its first espresso book machine become operational, in a West End branch of Blackwell's. I've been watching eagerly for signs of the demise of print as the digital revolution gathers ...Read More

Musing on the espresso book machine

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Not long back, somebody Googled me and reported to me all sorts of instances of my name on the Net. This led me to do the same, looking to see whether my portfolio, so to speak, was available online. The answer ...Read More

My articles online part 1

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Last night I went to see The Damned United, essentially the story of Brian Clough’s disastrous 44 days as manager of Leeds United in 1974. It stars the ever-present Michael Sheen as Clough, and Colm Meany as his nemesis, Don ...Read More

Thoughts on The Damned United

It’s another sunny day in London and we city folk are milling about slightly happier than we were a few months back, when it was cold and oppressive, and we were waiting for the bump at the bottom of the ...Read More

A quick thought on summer and Twitter

What is it to be a 'writer'? I've placed the word in inverted commas, because, I suppose, I wanted to pull the word out, really look at it. Writer. I get asked, 'so what do you do?' Invariably I say ...Read More

A short meditation on writing for a living

And here it begins. Again. This isn’t the first blog I’ve written; in fact, it’s really an update to one I began back in February this year. But I thought I should raise my game, really get down to serious ...Read More

The start of something wonderful