⏱ 9 Minute Read ✍🏻 30th March 2020
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As the UK death toll approaches 1,500, the arguments between those who claimed that COVID-19 is “just like flu” and those who took it more seriously are falling quiet. Even for those with their head still stuck firmly in the sand, it is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the noise of Italy and Spain on the tracks ahead.
⏱ 7 Minute Read ✍🏻 24th March 2020
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The Spanish philosopher George Santanyana wrote, “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
With that quote, I could be referencing the 1918 flu pandemic that killed around 50 million people—possibly as many as 100 million—and infected a third of the world’s population. Instead I am referring to the harsh lessons learned by China and Italy in the very recent past.
⏱ 9 Minute Read ✍🏻 21st March 2020
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My girlfriend Katie and I are currently ‘locked down’ on the Spanish island of Mallorca, watching from afar as the COVID-19 crisis unfolds in the UK (our former home).
This is an urgent warning to everyone living in the UK.
⏱ 19 Minute Read ✍🏻December 2017
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Kim, Khloé, Kourtney, Kendall and Kylie. Like an alliterative roll-call of Disney princesses, the five sisters of Kris Jenner’s powerhouse have become the ultimate fantasy for Millennial women. With a combined social media following of 700 million impressionable young people, the Kardashian-Jenners now influence the equivalent of 9% of the population of Earth.
⏱ 3 Minute Read ✍🏻 January 2018
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Overwork and pressure have put grit in his blood. Skin shadowy, tanned ashen from artificial light, mouth soured by stale air, back teeth aching from the lock-jaw of stress. There is shrapnel in his back; shot through with gristle, steel cables of torsion in his neck. His blood pumps thickly and sluggishly, sludging through brittle arteries, pooling as concrete in his chest. Later that night, insomnia mocks sleep, acid burning through bone-dry eyelids. Blinking blindly in the sickly glow of dawn, the road offers an escape.
⏱ 17 Minute Read ✍🏻 April 2019
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In an age when the aspiration to be an entrepreneur has exploded—egged on by all those Apprentice-esque TV shows that make such a mockery of the profession—it’s hardly surprising that the gap between fantasy and reality now resembles the Grand Canyon. This article is intended as an antidote to those typically saccharine popular portrayals.
10 Minute Read 
September 2017
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I am walking to the central Monument in the bright May Sunshine. I am carrying a paper bag that contains a sandwich, a bottle of sparkling water and an apple. The content of the sandwich is not important.
