It’s hard to process the death of one hundred thousand people. In fact, it’s almost impossible. I have been staring at pictures of packed football stadiums and festival crowds, but nothing seems to capture the enormity of it.
Read → January 29, 2021
What is Optimism Bias? And how is it affecting our response to the pandemic? Marie Helweg-Larsen - psychology professor at Dickinson College - joined me on talkRADIO to explain.
Read → January 25, 2021
Imagine my excitement today, at finding something new in a story that’s becoming exhaustingly repetitive. I haven’t seen a single newspaper headline, tweet or Facebook status using the pun ‘Oh Tier, What a Mess’. The only thing more tiresome than the COVID measures themselves are the puns. If my single
Read → November 27, 2020
Eating alone has had some bad PR. For decades, centuries, it has been regarded as a symbol of failure. People have sniggered and sneered, mocked and maligned. Popular culture is littered with characters whose desperation, loneliness or unpopularity has been portrayed through scenes of them eating alone. The idea that
Read → November 19, 2020
A few years ago, a producer for a popular TV news network called me for an opinion on a story with the reasoning that – said in jest, I think – I ‘always seem happy to harp on about the north being hard done by’. It was a jovial dig
Read → October 23, 2020
I bled a radiator this week. Not that I want to pander to toxic gender stereotypes, but I bloody nailed it because I’m a bloody man. We had a problem with the boiler. It started making a disturbing rumbling noise on Monday. After several days of doing what men also
Read → October 10, 2020Get my weekly newsletter in your inbox every Friday – I peel back the curtain on what we have planned for the weekend’s shows on talkRADIO. Subscribe here. Donald Trump contracting COVID-19 is strange news to process. It is not unprecedented. Boris Johnson was, of course, struck down at the
Read → October 07, 2020
It's been another week of rough and tumble in US politics - with the fraught debate over who should replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court - and America topping 200,000 Coronavirus deaths. We returned to the Road to the White House this weekend to consider that - and what
Read → September 29, 2020
Students across the country are facing weeks of self isolation after returning to University campuses, only to be thrown in to the centre of large-scale Coronavirus outbreaks.
Read → September 29, 2020Coming up this weekend on talkRADIO...
Read → September 18, 2020