As anyone who has seen the film Sliding Doors will know, chance is a funny old thing. If Gwyneth had made it through the closing doors of that tube train, how dramatically different might her life have turned out?
And if I hadn’t wasted three pounds renting the DVD at Blockbuster a couple of years ago, [...]

My feets gone cold, I’m wondering wh-y-y… I’m still in the office at 2am when the heating is broken.
Actually I’m not wondering – I’m here because Pond has to be up at the crack of dawn to appear on the Johnny Vaughan breakfast show on London’s own Capital FM. Seemed a little unfair to expect [...]

Not my words, but those of Tim Worstall, editor of 2005: Blogged. And indeed it does seem that the Guardian’s Jane Perrone liked what she read…
‘At first sight, an anthology of blog posts is a ludicrous idea.
So it was with some surprise that I realised 2005: Blogged is an accessible introduction to the breadth and [...]

Shhhh.
Did you hear that?
I think there’s someone following us…
Oh God.
It’s Random House.
…
So, I’ve just been reading an interesting article in Business Week entitled ‘Random House: Digital is our destiny’. And it’s fascinating stuff….
‘ Unwilling to let a Google, Yahoo!, or Microsoft dictate terms in cyberspace, Random House Inc., the world’s largest trade publisher, is taking [...]

I’ve had a bit of a hedonistic week this week – oh Christmas, how you surf towards us on a sea of socialising – so have decided to let my body and soul recover by spending the weekend quietly catching up with some work. It’s all about balance, you see.
And so it is that I’m [...]

Ask anyone who knows me and they’ll tell you I have no shortage of unattractive qualities. One of these unattractive qualities is my inability to walk away from an argument when I think I’m right. Another is the fact that I’m always right. You can imagine the trouble this causes.
But sometimes this stubbornness pays dividends, [...]

Well, it’s been quite a day.
Not only did The Holy Moly! Rules of Modern Life get ‘bigged-up’ on both Kiss FM and the Radio 1 Breakfast Show, but, like Avian flu, it soon spread to humans, getting a full – count it – page in today’s Mirror.
Also, Mr. Holy Moly! has a packed week of [...]

We have always tried to be environmentally responsible. We recycle our bottles and cans, we take public transport, we breed chickens, we go into branches of Dixons and switch off the televisions when no-one is watching them. Every little helps.
And so, last week’s publication of the brand new edition of London by London: the insiders’ [...]