Cars

How much money does a car insurance company make on a policy for a young, male driver? None. They make their money on such policies by taking their insured drivers’ premiums and investing on the money markets. But some some young, innovative insurance companies,...

Mirror in the Bathroom

The music world has lost another great: Ranking Roger, vocalist with The Beat. Here’s a shortened version of the Mirror in the Bathroom chapter from my book for young teens, Mr Lizard*: Before the internet, everyone read newspapers. Kids would get a job at a...

Children Of The Revolution

Ed Petrie is a CBBC presenter, actor and comedian. I asked him if he believes internet education is important and what he regards as the most important related subject. He told me: We’re currently going through a period in history that is as important as the...

Make It Easy On Yourself

As well as the sad new news today of Scott Walker’s death, there’s also coverage of research by the Office for National Statistics that suggests that 1.5 million people in England are at high risk of losing their jobs to automation. That screams to me that...

You’ve Really Got A Hold On Me

Thinking about which professional copywriting tips I could share got me listing (I love a list). Then I had an email from Brian Dean, one of my go-to teachers when I want to learn about SEO (Heather Loyd-Martin is another). And this email from Brian was promoting a...

Square One

I saw a post on Instagram recently that said: Don’t compare your chapter 1 to someone else’s chapter 20 That line was above this photo: My problem in 2007 and for some time beyond was my stupid habit of collecting enough training material to last a lifetime, and...