Do the British really know what makes success? I found myself wondering this after getting seriously irritated at something that really shouldn’t irritate anyone at all. I was watching ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ (yes I sometimes do). My favourite judge is Craig Revel...
How much should a top-level sportsperson be expected to take responsibility for themselves? That’s a question I find myself asking after the Court for Arbitration in Sport (CAS) ruled that Maria Sharapova’s suspension from tennis for taking a banned...
I wrote a story this week that brought into sharp focus just what an awful decision the government’s green light for the Hinkley Point C power station is. The story was for the European NGO lobby group Transport & Environment, for which I’ve been writing for 25...
There are days when two separate but related news stories appear alongside each other on the same day, and no-one makes the link between them. Yesterday was one such day. All the morning media carried the story of the report by the House of Commons Women and...
As a journalist, I’m always interested in what words we use in different situations, and sometimes the choice of one word (or term) over another determines how something I write will be understood. This is why I was very interested in the essay by Carys Afoko in The...
