Some politicians do care I was fortunate to attend a fundraising dinner in London recently for the MP for Plymouth, Johnny Mercer in London. Held at a private members...
Create memories As someone who regularly thinks about death, not in a morbid way just always have, I tend to think about what I would remember on...
Bye bye Facebook For about 11 years I have been a user of Facebook. Originally as the natural successor to Friends Reunited I got interested when they started...
Ariel demonstrates the genius of UK engineering Last week I was super excited to learn that Ariel Motors, designers of the exoskeleton car known as the Atom, are designing and building a...
Dogs in the Office When we moved our offices one of the prerequisites for me was to ensure wherever we ended up we would be allowed dogs in the...
Government needs to understand the facts on pollution I have been reading with interest the developments this year in relation to car emissions, specifically, but also the continuing development of Dieselgate (VW’s emission...
Pocket Rocket 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
