To break my six month sabbatical from the blog I wanted to talk about my new toy which arrived the day before my birthday in December. I have spoken about it before…
A better use of hybrid
I have owned by Golf GTE now for over a year and while I am still very impressed with electric technology, I am not as enamoured by hybrids and the combination of…
You make your own luck
A very good friend of mine, Jimmy, was diagnosed a year ago with bone cancer in his ankle shortly after attending my wedding and after a year of cemo, amputation and the…
Do not underestimate the value of resilience
With BT currently suffering a lot of negative publicity in the last two days with two major outages caused by power issues in two London datacentres, it is a timely reminder that…
No such thing as too much power
I had a very enjoyable weekend recently with my wife and daughter down on the south coast in Salcombe and even managed to see the sun for part of it. A three…
Does democracy matter?
With the EU referendum in the final throws and the likes of Trump or Clinton running for US presidency I am reminded that, while we think we live in a democracy, the…
Is less more?
This isn’t a blog about the EU referendum although I am sure the title could work… No this piece is about my favourite subject, automobiles. Recently I joined a new pilot with…
What about the Commonwealth?
When I returned from my honeymoon last year to Australia I was dumbfounded by the number of references to the Commonwealth and Britain in newspapers and on TV. I don’t think I…
Robots will take over the world
There has been a lot of talk recently on the march of the machines and the imminent demise of jobs across the world as computers and the Internet become more intelligent and…
Tiger Mothers
With a new small person joining our family in the very near future, my wife and I have been discussing our planned parenting style and how we want to inspire and nurture…
Driving addiction
With the march towards autonomous driving and the electrification of the car the ability for a petrol head to really enjoy a day behind the wheel can be fraught with frustration. Most…
Back to the floor
One of my favourite programs was ‘Back to the Floor’ where owners and high level executives went back to the grass roots of their business to work with staff and customers to…
Emission scandal – the death of VW?
As an avid fan of the VW group and the cars they develop I have been interested in the emission scandal, which is again in the press today as VW reports a…
Robots will take over the world
An interesting debate that is raging at the moment is that robots will not only take over the world, but also take our jobs. The latter point seems to have touched a…
It is easy to tick boxes
In a letter in the Financial Times this week SKY, Vodafone and TalkTalk signed a letter asking Ofcom, the Competition and Markets Authority to investigate BT for their poor delivery of internet…