1970s Politics

The docks, Cod Wars, the Gaul

The Housemartins Form

The Housemartins: burning bright but brief

Intro

This is more than one story. This is partly a story about music for anyone who knows where Hull is. No, it’s not. Partly, possibly. It’s…

The Venues: New Adelphi

Back in the day, the 1980s and 1990s, music needed a place to happen. Before the internet, Hull had music pubs. My brother and my friends…

Straight Outta

The big surprise was Sade. I knew about the Housemartins and the Beautiful South because they released records when I was buying them. And…

More on Choosing Software

However you choose a data platform, the most important thing is to have a process. Even if you run your own business and you’re making the…

Phoebe Price: Postcard from LA

Phoebe Price is simply the best business brain, and most genuine person, I have met in the entertainment industry. Our paths crossed ten years ago in 2010.

Lord Robert Baden-Powell of Gilwell, GCMG, GCVO

This autobiography begins with A Yachting Adventure. Having learned all I know about yachting from my dog, I found this gripping.

Twentieth Century Verse

Poetry, to the rest of us. Every so often I’ll take a look at a book in the library that is not for sale. Sometimes it is not for sale…

Google vs Facebook: Do No Evil

Doing evil is too easy out in the Valley

Sigh, Time To #DeleteWhatsApp

If this keeps up there’ll be no apps left to delete

Georgi Markov: It Wasn’t An Umbrella

We look into the details behind 1978’s famous ‘umbrella murder’