I was somewhat relaxed about the Super Furry Animals becoming well-known in the UK, in 1996. …

The Internet regularly throws up paradoxes. My paradoxical experience in recent months has been trawling through the now-saturated market of AI-powered brand and logo generators. They are all much of a muchness, which creates a problem for them. While they all promise to deliver the customer a beautiful AI-powered identity…

Stereolab have been one of my favourite bands for years. I first encountered them on Mark and Lard’s much-missed GYS on Radio 1, where French Disko was played frequently. It led to one purchase after another in quick succession, from compilations such as Refried Ectoplasm and Aluminum Tunes to de…

This week’s mix is a special one. Following on from the Beatles mix which I made early last year, I have made one featuring another of my favourite bands from when I was younger — The Monkees. This is a band that was created for the well-known, eponymous TV series…

In 1987, the USSR was part-way through its programme of Perestroika (reconstruction) and Glasnost (openness). The country’s leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, was enjoying fruitful and productive relations with Western leaders, particularly Ronald Reagan, in a way that had not been seen since the second World War. As we now know, of…

When I was given the choice to choose a subject for university, I wanted to do what I was interested in, and liked. In my late teens, I desperately wanted to become a professional screenwriter, and it was that desire that opened up my path into studying film. …

(Part 1 of this 2-part blog post here…) Being product-led requires having the right culture and strategy across the organisation. It requires hard thinking as to what something is and does, who for, and what the derived benefits are. However, thinking about products in and of themselves is still only…

As a child of the 80s, there were a few universal fears that were driven into us through news, television ads and information films, and sensationalist chatter in the playground. …

I was recently browsing Reddit when the following discussion came up. Calculating the exact number of marshmallows needed to fill St. Paul’s Cathedral would require precise measurements of the cathedral’s interior space, which I do not have access to. …