Look, I’d very much like these statistics, published today in the Sunday Times, to be true, but frankly, I just don’t believe them. Is this the first year these statistics have been collected, from the same demographic sample? If so, we might properly ask if women business owners have different attitudes (on the whole) to...
Job board owners of the UK, how fantastic and spectacular a job board could you build for £17m? You might say “that’s crazy money. You could build a world beating job board for half that. You could even purchase any one of the technically brilliant, but commercially failing established recruitment web sites in the UK...
Have you ever wondered why there are credits at the end of movies and TV shows? Maybe it’s obvious to you, as there have always been credits, but not to me. Sure, I wouldn’t mind knowing the names of the cast and perhaps the director, but why do they insist on telling us the names...
So many logos I see these days are absolutely terrible, and have clearly not been designed for use online. I’m no designer, but have had occasion over the years to produce product and company graphics for a variety of purposes. The skills and talent of design professionals is not in any doubt, but as a...
Can someone please explain to me why it is generally accepted as a good thing to deny prisoners the right to vote in public elections? What precisely does David Cameron think he will achieve, other than pandering to public outraged sentiment, and tabloid faux disgust, by stating that his government will NEVER allow prisoners to...
Stop reading this immediately, if you get bored rigid with people talking about losing weight. I am about to write several paragraphs on the subject. I have long believed that most people are exactly the weight they want to be. Becoming overweight, and maintaining it requires considerable effort. I speak as someone who was becoming...
At this time of year, and for the last 12 years, I am usually immersed in a sea of recruitment websites. This is a lot less fun than you’d imagine, but far more fascinating too, and often involves very late nights squinting my eyes at spreadsheets and job boards. Whose stupid idea was it to...
Why do I get so excited when Andy Murray wins at tennis? An accident of birth means that he was born less than 20 miles from me, so does his success somehow validate me, and other Scots? I may actually have more in common with other sportsmen and women, but location of origin is usually...
Today I delivered son number two, and a ton of gear, to his new student halls in St Andrews for the first time. It was an emotional day. When kids are little, all parents look for any signs that their children will have what it takes to make their way in the world. The first...
A ship at sea relies upon 3 things: propulsion, steering and navigation. Without any one of these it will never reach its destination, cannot avoid immediate obstacles or can only go where the currents dictate, and eventually run aground. These three components are also vital to any individual’s career. Propulsion, or power. Even the very...
