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I’VE had a glimpse of the future this week and it scares me…but it also excites me. Firstly my future as an event host and compere may be under challenge from characters like the chap in the photo with me above. Meet CAI, an AI MC created for a leadership summit that I’ve been working […]

WHAT is the point of first class rail travel? I ask that because I always aspired to travel first class. In fact one of the attractions of working for the Yorkshire Post – other than it then being the best regional newspaper in the country – was the perk in my contract that stipulated I

GOOD morning from Antigua. Yes I know, I didn’t expect to be here either. But one thing leads to another. After last week’s blog about the intrepid adventures of Yorkshire lawyers David Knaggs and Richard Larking who set out to row across the Atlantic in December, I did a speculative internet search to find out

LET’S start with a positive because things will go downhill a bit later on. My two friends David Knaggs and Richard Larking, who are currently rowing across the Atlantic, saw their boat capsize twice yesterday with David thrown overboard in a violent storm. Why is that a positive? Well they are both alive, and incredibly,

FOR today’s blog I will be mainly wearing leopard print. Well, I won’t because I am very fashion forward and I don’t want to look like a pub landlady circa 1989. But leopard print has been prominent in my thoughts this week. And that’s not just because I’ve been watching clips of Bet Lynch and

GOOD Morning Vietnam! I don’t know why I said that, I should really be wishing you a Happy New Year. Well I do know why I said it. It is either because I’ve got plans to expand this blog globally in 2026, or on Monday our Film Club’s first movie of the year was Good

LET’S start positively because I know I have a rant in me this week, despite it being nearly Christmas. This is me interviewing Sir Roger Marsh at the UK headquarters of Australian financial technology group PEXA in Leeds. I’ve been fortunate to win some work from PEXA thanks to its recently retired CEO Glenn King

IN just a week’s time, David Knaggs and Richard Larking will set off across the Atlantic Ocean on what is known as The World’s Toughest Row. And that definitely isn’t an exaggeration. The pair of lawyers, who are more used to the golf course than the high seas, will row 3,000 miles from La Gomera

WELCOME to a Budget free commentary zone. That is for two reasons. Firstly, we seem to have been talking about it for months – the “Autumn Budget” came so late that it was virtually covered in a hoary early winter frost by the time Rachel Reeves approached the despatch box in the House of Commons

I’VE always hankered after being mistaken for somebody famous or successful. But with my looks and talent, that doesn’t happen very often. Last week was different. I paid a visit to iconic North Leeds Italian restaurant The Flying Pizza, now part of the San Carlo stable, for the first time in a while. There were