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There has been much talk of late about how 'commissiong' as a practice, as a concept, as a job description (etc) is on the way out.....

At this time of year, I usually try to choose a meaningful word that somehow captures the past year. This year of course has been unlike any...

Aside from the traumatic human cost of Covid19 across the world, the pandemic is set to ravage the business models and disrupt the carefully...

Sorry for not posting much on this blog of late, I have been extraordinarily busy with a range of other tasks - not least becoming Mayor of ...

At this time of year, for the last few years, I have been selecting a word to 'adopt' as a background theme for the coming year. And...

I am hooked as I can't seem to give up seeing the leadership themes in contemporary movies... (but I am going to stick to the short form...

I have got to a point and although it may change, I am going to stop this series of blogs where I discuss movies from the point of view of l...

Tale of Tales is an intriguing and hypnotic film that draws you in to an increasingly surreal world that at one level seems entirely ordina...

Central Intelligence is an intelligent film. It is also very (laugh out loud) funny and has that narrative circle that I particularly like....

The Secret Life of Pets was always going to be a winner: with that title how could you fail? The idea that pets do some strange and miracul...

Stuff, just stuff!, is taking up quite sometime at the moment. So again - three films to intrigue - short reviews: I didn't know wheth...

Yesterday evening I held a launch for my book in the University of Buckingham Bookshop. The event was hosted and introduced by Sir Anthony S...

Referendum is taking up quite sometime at the moment - and my book launch is happening this week as well!! So again - three films to intrigu...

I know, if I have the time to see movies, I really ought to have the time to write each one up. But right now a combination of work and EU R...

Whisky Tango Foxtrot is a bit of a chaotic movie, but in many ways that represents the chaos of life in the 'Kabubble' as the press...

I had to be persuaded (by my good wife) to see Florence Foster Jenkins as I could not quite get what the point of it was... But I am very g...

There is one word that sums up Our Kind of Traitor : taut! This is a gripping thriller of the highest calibre with strong acting and a plau...

Bad Neighbours 2: Sorority Rising  really ought not to have been made. Not because some of the 'humour' is borderline (if not over t...

I like questions and so it is no surprise that my first book majors on asking questions. But prompted by an invitation to come and talk abo...

Eye in the Sky is the best film I have seen about modern warfare. You will probably hold your breath for the entire length of the movie. Th...