Social media intrigues me. And it worries me a little bit. Why? Not so much the data and privacy issues, although they’re a concern to some extent, it’s more the impact on kids’ minds, the time those platforms eat up and the way they’re designed to exploit our...

I’m quite fussy when choosing suppliers and service providers. I’d been wanting to make a subtle tweak to my blog for months. I’d tried Googling for a solution but without success. I’d tried various plugins but they didn’t work. I’d read (and learned, first-hand) that...

I was tired. It was late. I’d paid three hundred quid for an online training course. I was confused by it. I was frustrated with it. Got annoyed with it. Did I want to know what another student on the course thought about a particular brand? At that moment, no. I just...

There are many ways that people make money online. Here are seven of them:   Selling your own products Selling someone else’s products (affiliate marketing) Selling services Selling memberships or subscriptions Running Google ads on your site (AdSense)...

I have a love/hate relationship with Spotify. More specifically, the Spotify app. I rarely use the desktop version but listen to music via the app on my phone every day. But there’s a lot there that I never look at. Take an artist’s page, for example. Maybe it’s...

As a freelancer, you get to choose where to position yourself. Maybe you have a long, proven track record with fantastic clients, and can legitimately regard yourself as one of your industry’s superstars. Or you might think you’re best off finding work at Fiverr.com,...

My team, Watford, played at Southampton on Saturday, and came away with a 1-1 draw. The game featured a couple of major talking points: one, where Southampton had what I and many others thought looked like a decent goal ruled out by the referee, and another when we...

As you may know, I intend to write a book on the importance of inted and what I believe should be taught. But I've decided to postpone writing it, for a few reasons: One is that I want to watch and wait to see how the Brexit story unfolds. Also, I decided recently...

I’ve watched Watford home and away for years and I often tell the story of one particular experience I had while following the Golden Boys. I like telling this to kids because they’ve only known a connected world. When I decided, at the last minute, to join Big Al and...

Yesterday I learned about a new financial education textbook, funded by Martin Lewis, the founder of MoneySavingExpert.com. “Your Money Matters,” it says on that website, “is the first-ever curriculum-mapped financial education textbook, is aimed at students aged 15...