The Fortean Times, legendary UK-based monthly magazine dedicated to all things weird, has reviewed Rockstar Ending in their ‘speculative and fantastic fiction’ section. Britain’s youth have
Record numbers of businesses have been showing their support for anti-racist campaigners over the past week. They appear keen to take a stand against discrimination.
To celebrate her 68th birthday, satirical singer Dillie Keane wrote this ‘Song for Dominic Cummings’, the controversial adviser to Boris Johnson, the UK Prime Minister,
My lovely sister-in-law sent me a link to Bowiebranchia, the most incredible Tumblr site, this week. As someone who is both a Bowie fan and
I have had some brilliant news from Tim Doyle, who designed the cover illustration for Rockstar Ending. Tim has produced a limited edition screenprint featuring
Today’s news, that YouTube is deleting all conspiracy theory videos linking coronavirus to 5G, exemplifies the social media giants’ ongoing dilemma. They have to navigte
A review of Rockstar Ending appeared in The Idler magazine alongside several other titles that owe a cultural debt to George Orwell’s dystopian classic Nineteen
Here is the Spotify link for the playlist in For Those About to Rock, my giveaway prequel novella for the Rockstar Ending series. Alternatively, you can click
This clip, which appeared on YouTube last week, showed off some of the latest playful wizardry from Fakening.com whose website is filled with satirical mashups. They love to take
I’m excited this month because series five of Better Call Saul, the prequel to Breaking Bad, is being released on Netflix on 24th February. The
Last night I was privileged to meet Sci Fi superstar William Gibson when he touched down in London promoting his latest novel, Agency. The book is a
You can see from the screen grab I took on Friday (above) that the book is currently displaying five stars as its badge of honour.
Check out this short video to find out what happened at the cosy event to celebrate the launch of Rockstar Ending at London’s Libreria bookshop in January 2020. I read from
January 2020 marks seventy years since George Orwell – whose real name was Eric Arthur Blair – died. I took this picture last summer, at
You can listen here or follow on Spotify There’s a playlist at the end of Rockstar Ending (and its free prequel) for two reasons. Above all,
Today, BBC News ran a piece on chatbots being used to help people with mental health problems after dealing with cancer. I’m glad the patient felt better.
Get my free book now! I had no idea we would be in the run up to a general election when I started work on
I caught a preview of Terminator: Dark Fate this week. Sarah Connor (pictured), human foil to the paradoxically endearing cyborg, played by Arnold Schwarzenneger, is
Today I sent an exclusive preview of the cover of my free dystopian novella, For Those About to Rock to everyone on my mailing list.
Yesterday evening I bumped into this mannequin dressed as one of the Handmaids who star in Margaret Atwood’s eponymous tale. It was a fitting end
For months I have been trying to get to see Shoshana Zuboff speak. She is an American scholar and the author of The Age
This is the second of two reviews looking at London exhibitions, on now, which provide food for thought to anyone interested in taking a sideways
In London this summer, there are two exhibitions which anyone interested in the development of Artificial Intelligence should try to see. I’ve written short accounts of
Anyone with an interest in how AIs are being used in the creative process right now should spend half an hour checking out the short films of Oscar Sharp and Ross Goodwin.
The PR industry’s worsening diversity record was rightly cast in a terrible light by Avril Lee, Chair of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations Diversity
Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, has surprised some commentators by suggesting that ‘a common global framework’ is needed to regulate the internet. Perhaps what happened in
Two stories in the news this week highlighted how ways of handling inaccurate data can lead to different consequences. It all comes down to who
To ghostwrite convincingly you need to do more than just string a few words together. It takes empathy and imagination as well as a good
Speaking at the 40th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners in Brussels last week, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook took the lead on the other tech
The news that Nick Clegg, former deputy Prime Minister of the UK, has been appointed vice-president of global affairs and communications at global social media
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