Writing

They get fined for not paying their taxes, they broke the law on dividend payments and their top director enjoys an enormously excessive pay package, but Lush is a luxury cosmetics empire that thinks justice requires them to engage in crude and divisive political campaigning to the detriment of thousands of public servants.

A poem that reworks and builds upon lyrics written by Jim Morrison.

Night is upon us, So predictable, yet so unexpected. We anticipated all would glow ever brighter until we were bathed in perpetual gold, But now we are surrounded by absence.

A poem about big internet businesses paying mind to the details when so many others did not.

There are many things you can carry on to an airplane so long as you are prepared to keep moving them from one pocket to another.

Sometimes it is easiest to thank people without letting them know.

New research on social mobility is suggestive of a relationship with voting behaviour in the referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union.

Citizens of the USA find it increasingly difficult to know what to wear at Halloween parties. Some simple rules should help them understand that almost every costume is an insult to somebody or other.

BBC journalist Nick Robinson argues for more alternative opinions to be broadcast, but the best way to encourage alternatives is through many narrowcasters, not one broadcaster pretending to be all things to all people.

One reason I began writing stories was because I felt unsatisfied with many of the stories I would read. When it comes to modern fiction, it often feels like the writer has an agenda which they are determined to hammer into my skull. Perhaps that just means I am out of keeping with the times...

There is no justice in the BBC harassing and intimidating millions of people in order to accommodate the overinflated egos of celebrities and the excessive wages they demand.

Democracy is not served by voters maintaining illusions whilst politicians insist on presenting poor choices.