Category Archives: Journalism

This Recording, 2013. Original article. Layer of fog The text he sent me yesterday, telling me he misses me and wants to be my friend. I respond I would like that too, but I don’t know how. We sigh, as far as that’s possible to do over text, and then do nothing. That I’m oldContinue reading “Layer of fog”

An ongoing monthly series running from 2012 to 2019, interviewing leading lights among UK technology CEOs, Chairmen, CFOs and investment professionals for Megabuyte.  * Steve Vaughan, CEO of Phoenix IT. “A lot of people have 10% of the answer, cluttered up with lots of things that aren’t part of the answer.” Vaughan’s job is to beContinue reading “The Megabuyte Interview”

Published in Businesslife, August 2013. Original article here (p48-50). What millennials want: Recruiting the next generation Money cannot buy you love, The Beatles once sang, but it turns out money also cannot buy you the loyalty of the millennials generation. Higher salaries may have been a key driving force for their parents, but for employeesContinue reading “What millennials want from work”

Published in Square Mile Magazine, April 2013. Original article here (p78-80). Interview with the Lord Mayor of the City of London, Roger Gifford If the Lord Mayor is the spirit of the City, as Roger Gifford suggests, it is tempting to wonder how his particular brand of banking could stir things up in the City.Continue reading “The other mayor”

This Recording, March 2013. Original article here. Berliner pretzel; Cornish pasty The train terminal at Berlin Schönefeld Airport is just across the lawn of the terminal building. As the plane to London was set to take off in less than 25 minutes I was walking fast across the grass, but I figured there was noContinue reading “Berliner pretzel; Cornish pasty”

Flamingo Magazine, Future Craft issue, March 2013. Knit, purl, catharsis In my garden I can hear the distant sounds of traffic, night and day like a constant hum. This is London, where only a few stars are still visible in the light-polluted sky, hanging over a metropolis of grit and push. I feel it surroundingContinue reading “Knit, purl, catharsis”

Megabuyte, February 2013. Original article here (£). The Early View Is London the hottest place in the world to be a start-up? There is a distinct buzz of optimism surrounding the London start-up scene. Yes, we could do with more money to create more opportunities, but everyone we’ve spoken to agree that London has comeContinue reading “Is London the hottest place in the world to be a start-up?”

Published in Megabuyte, January 2013. Original article here (£). The Early View London startups: The fundraising experience London is rapidly emerging as one of the best places in the world to be a startup. Even if opinions differ on the details, most people in the community seem to agree on this fact. “I think LondonContinue reading “London startups: The fundraising experience”

Published in Viator (here), 2013.  Literary pubs of London: A beer-soaked history The two thousand year old city that is London is a living, breathing history book. While Samuel Johnson was right: “There is in London all that life can afford”, often what we locals like doing most is to haul up in the pub.Continue reading “Literary pubs of London: A beer-soaked history”

Megabuyte, November 2012. Original article here (£). The Early View Land of plenty: London for startup investors The London startup ecosystem now constitutes at least 3,000 tech-focused companies, but possibly as many as 5,000, according to research by Charles Armstrong, the ethnographer and business innovator. Armstrong runs Trampoline Systems in Shoreditch, an award-winning social analyticsContinue reading “Land of plenty: London for startup investors”