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...

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...

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...

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...

An old idea reinvented

With Elon Musk's recent announcement of a battery for the home, I got thinking about how innovative this idea is and if it could change...

Have Microsoft gone mad?

I am not sure if you have seen a little icon appear on your Windows desktop next to your time on your taskbar, but last...

Mobile networks begin to innovate

I have always considered my iPhone very much like a modern day tricorder, bringing back memories of watching Star Trek when I should have been...

Take an interest and make a difference

With the election looming I am surprised by the lack of interest by my fellow generation and those younger who don’t seem at all enamoured...

Bye bye Scotland?

With the media slowly awaking to the sad truth that Scotland is close to leaving the United Kingdom it got me thinking about how badly...

It is finally here!

Well nearly a year ago I wrote about the loss of the Ariel Atom, as I sold it due to the realisation that having such...

Is more screen time a good thing?

Interesting report in the news last week was that by the time children had hit the age of seven they had spent a year of...

How can you inspire someone to be an Entrepreneur?

Every year I go back to my old school to help with a few days that they put on to talk about business. Now considering...

I would take the German

One of the nice past times of being a petrol bore is thinking about what the perfect garage would look like and which pieces of...

The importance of diversification

For a while I have been wondering how TomTom stays in business. I remember owning a few of their products and found them incredibly useful....