Life’s What You Make It

When I was 14, in 1986, I loved Life’s What You Make It by Talk Talk. So it’s sad to hear of the death today of Mark Hollis, the band’s co-founder, lead singer and principal songwriter. “Life’s what you make it.” “The more you...

Police & Thieves

Two ways that community policing has changed in recent years: Email: I get crime updates from Hertfordshire Constabulary and even though they sound like they’re copied and pasted straight out of the investigating officer’s notebook, I think they’re a...

Get Your Shirt

Kids need to understand their financial world and have three places where they can learn about it: at home, at school and online. Sadly, it seems that financial education in UK schools is absent. As well as how to make money, kids should be shown how they can save...

Jilted John

It took me a few years as I was gathering knowledge about internet marketing to realise that I probably knew more than I realised and more than I needed to start to get clients. In the end, it was a podcast that I was listening to that forced me to appreciate my...

To Cut a Long Story Short

Running in my local area, and hopping around the internet, it’s not long until I see superfluous language: Companies who install windows or alarms with ‘Systems’ in their name (someone looking through a window doesn’t involve a system, just...