Slow Horses: Slow-Burn Rebuttal

Slow Horses: Slow-Burn Rebuttal

★★★★☆ [See-Saw Films Apple TV+] Slow Horses arrives like a corrective: a spy drama that chooses craft, patience, and moral seriousness over the usual streaming pyrotechnics. It refuses to be loud for loudness’s sake. The scripts, performances, opening graphics,...
When Representation Masks Prejudice

When Representation Masks Prejudice

Is it reasonable to expect marketing campaigns to reflect the demographics of the population they target, especially ethnicity? Should advertisements skew toward the majority ethnic group in a given society? The short answer is no. And not simply because such...
Becoming a Retail Impresario

Becoming a Retail Impresario

For years my wife encouraged me to commercialise my art and designs, starting with the car drawings on this site. A few years back I printed a couple of them on T-shirts and I was quietly impressed with the result. Nobody stopped me in the street to comment. That felt...
Thinking with Machines

Thinking with Machines

I feel genuinely privileged to be alive in this era. The technological leaps humanity has made over the past five decades are staggering. I belong to the first generation that grew up with home computers, game consoles, mobile phones, the internet and now, artificial...
The Polite Exclusion of Home

The Polite Exclusion of Home

I grew up in Birmingham during my formative years. Not inner‑city Birmingham, not the grey belt of suburbia that encloses the city; I grew up in Walmley in the Royal Borough of Sutton Coldfield. Forty or so years ago Walmley was still a village. Even then it was being...