Category: News

It’s one of my favourite lines from “Everyone’s free…”. It’s also one of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever heard in a song. This came to mind recently when a potentially interesting email came into my in box.  Not one of those that you know (or should know!) is a scam, but a genuine […]

  I know time flies when you’re having fun, but it is only September, so perhaps a bit premature to be celebrating the end of the year! Well not necessarily – for my friends and family in the Jewish community, we’re entering the “High Holy” days, starting with Jewish New Year.  Like all Jewish holidays, […]

  Anyone who knows me well (and there are plenty who do) would recognise the description of me as strong and confident. Anyone who knows my partner well, would assume that despite the fact that he’s also strong and confident, I hold my own in our relationship, and of course I do. They would therefore […]

    One of my many wonderful contacts/friends will recognise that saying as one said often by his mother (I think it originated from her mother) as representing people who seek your advice only to ignore it. I thought of it recently when I read a case in the popular press about waring step sisters […]

      Last year you couldn’t turn on a laptop or open a professional publication without being inundated with dire warnings about GDPR and the horrors that would befall you if you didn’t spend thousands on training and completely overhauling your systems. I spent much of that time doing talks and presentations on the […]

  You might LIKE it, but you might not love it! Or, the dangers of having a Facebook ‘Like’ Button on Your Website Do you know what the implications are of a recent case involving GDPR and the effect of having the Facebook “Like” Icon on your website. If you don’t, you could be in […]

  I’ve been fortune in my life in many ways.  One is not just the extent to which I’ve travelled but the amazing places I’ve been to.  As a youngster my parents took us on various adventures including just packing up the car and driving through the UK and then Europe until we ran out […]

  I was out for drinks recently (unusual for me, I know) with a very dear friend who is as fond of a drink as I am, but I’ve never seen him drunk…. until now. Ok, he wasn’t drunk, but he was definitely merrier than I’ve ever seen him before. So, strangely, it was my job to […]

Sometimes I have to stop and think how old I am and remind myself that I’m not in my 20s anymore. It’s not that age bothers me, I’m whatever age I choose to be, but because of the extent to which things have changed and how often I have to remind myself that the things I […]