Strachan

You might have noticed that the titles of my past three posts have been song titles. It’s an idea I used for Mr Lizard and wanted to use again as I tell the story of how I got to where I am and how I’m putting my next book together, while hopefully...

Tick Tock

Hurry up and do your thing: you’ll be holding the match with the flame at your fingertips before you know it and you haven’t even lit the candle yet. Watching a programme about Billy Connolly recently increased my sense of urgency. Connolly has Parkinson’s...

Passion

Having concluded that consigning The Inted Manifesto was not a waste of time and effort, I’m thinking about the parts of that overly humongous project that are worth salvaging and developing. Possibly the biggest is the driver that got me to the point where...

What a Waste

I’ve started to tweak this site to reflect the shift of focus that I wrote about here. I still intend to write my next book by this summer but it won’t be called The Inted Manifesto. I’ve got limited time, energy and resources so the big campaign...

Will the UK ban social media?

I doubt it, despite the health secretary’s warning. But the terrible story of Molly Russell, the teenager who took her own life after viewing disturbing content about suicide on social media, just proves again that we don’t really understand what we’re dealing...