How To Fly A Horse by Kevin Ashton
The Observer, January 2015 In the first few days of 2015, the CEO of Samsung promised that the Internet of Things – where everything is connected to the internet – was coming. That there really […]
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The Room by Jonas Karlsson
The Observer, January 2015 New year, same old office politics – a world in which missed tea runs, excessive time on Facebook or cigarette breaks somehow take on as much significance as, well, any actual […]
Simply English by Simon Heffer
The Observer, May 2014 If you are of the opinion that the newspaper headline “the economy shrank steeper than expected” isn’t just grammatically incorrect but, as Simon Heffer shrieks, a positively “barbaric” crime against language, […]
Gaiutra Bahadur’s coolie odyssey
The National, May 2014 The year was 1903 and a Brahmin woman set sail from Kolkata for a new life in the Caribbean. It wasn’t as exotic as it now sounds. Those on board suffered […]
The Spy With 29 Names by Jason Webster
The Observer, May 2014 At the end of this absorbing portrayal of Juan Pujol – the Catalan second world war double agent who was so good he won both the iron cross and an MBE – Jason […]