Procrastination and the allure of social media

Procrastination: the curse of the writer. Sometimes the hardest thing in the world can be sitting with a blank screen in front of you and waiting for divine inspiration to strike. At these moments, absolutely anything seems preferable to actually getting on with the job in hand and starting to type your thoughts onto the […]

Forget the political spin – use the active voice

Politicians are not exactly renowned for giving you the straight facts. Their reputation is one of evasiveness and persuasiveness, mixed with a healthy dollop of self interest to top things off. But recently I’ve noticed more and more examples of how politicians achieve this ability to evade the question. They, or their creative spin doctors […]

Leaving the corporate machine behind – a new job and a change of direction

Yes, I’ve been very lax on the blog front so far this year – note to self: must write more! But I do have an excuse. I’ve changed jobs and have spent the last three weeks moving from being a marketing executive at a massive professional service firm to becoming a writer in the marketing […]

The P45 Diaries by Ben Hatch – a book review

We’ve all been 18 once: and once is generally enough for most people. But sometimes it’s good to look back at this age of overridingly unrealistic ambitions and naive innocence to realise how much you’ve changed for the better – or got old, boring and predictable, depending on your viewpoint . Reading The P45 Diaries […]

The beauty of slang – knowing your twerk from your selfie

Good to see that the Oxford English Dictionary – not usually an institution you’d imagine as being ‘down with the kids’ – has included both ‘twerking’ and ‘selfie’ in its new edition. People can get rather sniffy about slang, but it’s the colloquial and social changes to our language that give it that essential colour. […]