The cuts, the cuts – what does everyone think about the cuts? Of course EVERYONE has an opinion – and in typically British fashion, our opinion has to be extreme – black or white – positive or negative. The British talk in absolutes. Either we’re hitched to the stars or heading for hell in a [...]

I can fully understand why citizen journalism frightens the living daylights out of stalwart journalists. Quite suddenly, the doors on what seemed like a closeted and specialist profession have been kicked open by those irksome, eloquent members of the public, who’re taking the liberty of using these new channels of communication to articulate their innermost [...]

I’m not a fan of corporate spiel – business talk – fluff – waffle. We all know a client, contact or a colleague who does the “work voice.” Some folk change into another person when communicating on a business-level. They start to use words which exist only in the corporate world – words which they [...]