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Ultravox’s Vienna was the most popular music video of 1981. Of course, it wasn’t the first, but in the early 80s, music videos still hadn’t yet captured the imagination.

It was a cold, dark Sunday night in about this time two years ago when I posted an article on LinkedIn that I’d written just to get something off my chest.

Subtitles are on. And necessary for the new season Line of Duty: "We can keep it on the DL only if we’ve got a CHIS inside MIT." WTF?

With a multitude of social media channels at our fingertips, we can broadcast our own mundane lives, from every angle. But should we?

The year is 2091 and I’m with my best friend in the lounge of the Champagne and Toast Seaview Retirement Home or Maison de Retraite as they call it here, on what’s left of the French Riviera.

Referrals are all about context, a chance conversation with someone who mentions a need. Or has a cocktail-hungry look in their eye.

I am excited about the idea of a meal out, a haircut and perhaps the odd trip somewhere that isn’t a supermarket/eye/tooth/ear testing centre.

Lots of big brands are changing their graphics at the moment, smoothing their edges and rounding their corners in order to calm us all down. Things are far too globally tense for us to cope with straight lines and pointy angles it seems. We need something more playful.

If you want someone to do something, it’s easier to tell them what not to do.

It’s almost as if people are too scared to speak like normal human beings, to stir the emotions, to explain the real benefits of financial advice. Why??

It's quiz time. Can you spot bad stock photography? Take this test and find out!

When George Michael died on Christmas Day, 2016, the news interrupted our family viewing of American Psycho. But it did provide the springboard to festive conversation around the topic we’d usually try to avoid: what happens when Daddy Liversedge finally shuffles off?

Whether it’s the cobbler’s children going barefoot, the nurse who smokes 50 a day or the pension specialist with no pension, it’s a little bit awkward when we don’t practice what we preach.

How was Christmas? Sorry, I can’t hear you. Mine was great thanks. The only challenge was going without Netflix for 48 hours and trying to find entertainment among the wilderness that is live TV. That was awful...

The end-of-the-year email all of your clients will want to read.