Review: “The Gentlemen” starring Theo James and Kaya Scodelario

Many artists have an unmistakeable style.  Van Gogh’s brushstrokes are unlike anyone else’s; they may be imitated but never repeated.  Hemingway’s prose is clipped and edited to a degree dissimilar to another author’s.  No one used cinematic montage like Sergei Eisenstein did.   Similarly, a Guy Ritchie production bears hallmarks of its own. Characters are […]

No Filters, No Limits, No Romance

Regency and Georgian romantic dramas remain very popular; is it because we long for the constraints of civility?

Disenchanted

The early days of the web were magical; how did a tool for infinite connection turn into one fostering endless division?

The Writing on the Wall

All things eventually decline; is the phenomenon of far right populism a symptom of this?

Inflation: A Deadly Poison

After my Swedish grandmother died in 1996, my family and I sorted through some of her belongings.  We found a few German-language books among her personal effects.  Hidden in their dusty pages was a hastily printed Deutsche Mark; I was struck by how crude and jagged the text was.  It was my grandmother’s souvenir from […]

The End of Trump

There has been a constant expectation that something would pop Trump’s balloon: backing Kevin McCarthy may be it. 

Sketches of the Future

Perhaps it was inevitable that Reverend Warnock would win the Georgia runoff.  Reverend Warnock was by far the superior candidate.  Warnock did not discuss the relative merits of being a vampire or a werewolf on the campaign trail.  He had no stench of hypocrisy.  He did not have the backing of Donald Trump. Whoever persuaded […]

Life with A

For years I didn’t think of myself as being autistic; I merely thought I was odd…I’ve been on a journey of self discovery.

Tech Bros, Twitter, and Toxicity

I am old enough to remember the dot com boom. It was like the Palaeolithic Era. It was well before the “tech bros” had evolved, though the Neanderthal versions were there. At the time, I worked for a start up that was attempting to turn itself into a major corporation. The original owner was still […]

The Era of Missed Opportunities

It could have been very simple.  Boris Johnson could have sacked Dominic Cummings as soon as he had evidence that his special advisor had broken lockdown rules.  Johnson would have strengthened his authority by the move: he could have come out to brief the press, stared at the camera, and looked straight down the lens […]

Me And My Blog

Picture of meI'm a Doctor of both Creative Writing and Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering, a novelist, a technologist, and still an amateur in much else.