Writer at Crime Guy and Pen & Sword Books, Smart Talk AI on Substack, Working Class Heroes podcast. UK: Bucks + Anlaby.
AI
The executive summary of this section of the guide is that anyone in office work needs to become expert at Copilot as quickly as humanly possible. We had such a gargle blast with this that we did it all again!
AI
The executive summary of this section of the guide is that anyone in office work needs to become expert at Copilot as quickly as humanly possible. Either that or adjust to a future you who no longer works.
Culture
Another delve into the 2017 archives of The Z Review. So many of these stories are still relevant.
AI
Are all sports data sports now?
AI
2025 will be the year when the big vendors realised their ambition outweighed their talent.
Culture
I find it amazing that in 2017, I could have written this article about women's football being shown on mainstream television for the first time. Now that England have won the Euros, and with the Euros back again in 2025, I feel like we have made big progress.
Musicians
In 2017 I saw Stevie Nicks and the Heartbreakers live in Hyde Park at British Summertime. Just weeks later, Tom Petty would be dead.
Musicians
Another piece from 2017 and my time on The Z Review
Sophie Toscan du Plantier
Time is a funny thing. It has a habit of marching on, for some reason. Time flies too. It marches sometimes and flies at others. Time. A conundrum.
Culture
This is adapted from an article I wrote in 2017 for The Z Review in New York
Culture
More from the 2017 Z Review archive
Culture
We lose a great mind tonight. It's difficult to choose a few words or a single image to summarise the life of David Lynch, the man behind Twin Peaks. He won multiple Oscar nominations for 1980's The Elephant Man, a film so terrifying I can still remember a short clip we were shown at primary school.