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It’s 2012 – the year the rubber hits the road. The year you finally get to achieve your dreams of success, before the Mayans return and ask for their ball back. It’s also the Year of the Dragon. With time running out, how are you going to tame your inner dragon and achieve creative mastery? Are you going […]

Me=XTC2 Einstein was a bit of a geezer. After all, he did manage to get two opposing forces to agree with him. Until recently, these two forces were clearly defined as Religion and Science. Life was either a random grouping of molecules, or it was God’s divine plan for humanity. Pick a side. Both forces […]

  Escape the city. Hit the open road. Get back to nature.  It’s the Christmas holidays – the perfect time to travel with my beloved to the Highlands of Scotland for seclusion, romance and breathtaking scenery. A mish mash of images from Performance Car and Wuthering Heights immediately morph in my head. Sadly, real life doesn’t […]

It happened every year. The first signs appeared on his commute to work. Shy reindeer and slightly embarrassed baubles edged their way into the shop windows. “Jesus Christ! it’s only the first of November” Joe Turner would rage as he stormed into the office. Joe’s staff were familiar with his contempt for “the whole Christmas malarkey.” Some of […]

Gary Speed is dead. Here are some of the words that described him before he ended his own life… Footballer. Father. Successful. Popular. Handsome. Happily married. Something is wrong with this picture but we can’t seem to adjust the set. While the media scramble to find a story angle or uncover the missing piece that […]

Last night I sat through possibly the worst thing I’ve seen on a London stage – Rock of Ages. Of course I’ve been to things before that just don’t work – The Umbrellas of Cherbourg eek! On these occasions the audience is usually polite enough to clap at the appropriate places before filing out, exchanging […]

I’m in France, land of a thousand churches.  To  be more exact there are actually about 40,000 of them,  built mainly in the middle ages.  With a medieval  population of around 6 million this would  mean one  church per 150 people. I think we can safely assume that religion was more  popular than a Led Zeppelin gig […]

Burt Bacharach was wrong. What the world needs now is a parent. Rioting, looting kids?  A parent would have picked up on the fact that the children were about to go bonkers and done something about it BEFORE the event.  It stands to reason.  It’s the summer holidays – they’re bored, with nothing to do […]

If I’m going to write about the soap opera previously known as News International, perhaps I need to adopt some tricks of the trade. It’s all about the headline.   In surveys 8 out of 10 people will read a headline, but only 2 out of 10 will go on to read the rest of […]

On the whole we’re pretty macho with our creativity.  We don’t like the airy-fairy nature of the ephemeral.  We talk about wresting our creative demons to the ground and showing them who’s boss. Creativity isn’t something we do, it’s something we are. For way too long masculine energy has ruled the world.  At first this […]