MEN=TAL HEALTH In the 1990s I attempted to read a biography on David Beckham but stopped halfway through, bored with the uninteresting tale of someone…
THE NEW BUTTERFLY EFFECT We have all heard the expression ‘You’ve got the attention span of a goldfish.’ Sometimes it changes to butterfly but either…
SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS…OF PRODUCTIVITY! Treasure Champs is a BBC TV children’s programme which teaches children how to manage their feelings. In one episode, one…
THE AGE OF (UN) REASON Someone confided in me this week that they were looking for a job where there are no politics, back-stabbing and…
A WORKING PROPOSITION This week the UK government announced a major consultation designed to encourage people living with disabilities to return to, or enter, the…
A SPRING iN MY STEP We are at the start of a new season, and it occurs to me that I might just be a…
ROBOT WARS Playing war games with my son the other day I found myself explaining the purpose of a submarine’s periscope and then thought ‘do…
RUN, FORREST, RUN! I’m on holiday in the beautiful Algarve in Portugal but neither the scenery not the break from routine have stopped me waking…
HOBSON’S CHOICE “Until we start to view mental illness as an illness that impacts your brain the same way we view an illness that affects…
NO LONGER BEST BUDS You’ve heard it before – ‘Go woke, go broke’ and this month we’ve seen two classic examples of large corporations trying…