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Management

• Pie Lessons (Articles/Experience)

  • - A senior manager and former business owner reflect on a time when he was forced to go 'back to the floor'.

Opinion

• Self Assessment - the con trick (Articles/opinion)

  • - HECTOR IS DEAD! In January 2001 the Inland Revenue announced there would be no more ads featuring Hector the Tax Inspector... We like to believe we sped his demise.

• The Twin Towers (Articles/Opinion)

  • - By destroying thousands of innocent people in New York terrorists provoked righteous outrage; but their most damaging achievement could be to make us forget our humanity. (new postscript added in September 2002).

Reviews

• Captain of controversy (Articles/Book reviews)

  • - One of the most controversial figures in British history, Oliver Cromwell has been the subject of hate and veneration. Antonia Fraser’s biography helps us understand the man by balancing the opposing views in a thoroughly researched and readable story.

• Abraham Lincoln - innocent hero (Articles/Book reviews)

  • - Abraham Lincoln is known to Britons but more as myth than history. This review of the biography by David Herbert Donald puts some flesh on the myth.

• Mother Tongue (Articles/Book reviews)

  • - This linguistics book takes Bill Bryson's writing away from the areas in which he has become famous, but it is a thoroughly researched educational book on the English language that is also thoroughly readable

• Pain - a compassionate science (Articles/Book reviews)

  • - Professor Wall's popularising book analyses an experience that touches us all, but which we seldom talk about. He dismisses traditional medical teachings as myth and demonstrates the complexity of the subject in a readable book that will increase awareness and understanding.

• Pooh is for adults (Articles/Book reviews)

  • - The Winnie the Pooh stories have always been classed as a childrens' reading but, to appreciate them properly, you need an adult mind. A WRITERsite book review.

Travel

• Code Talkers (Articles/travel)

  • - The Navaho contribution to the fight for freedom in the Second World War remained secret for almost 25 years, but a fast food restaurant near Monument Valley lets the secret out.

• A pommie relents (Articles/Travel)

  • - An Englishman's prejudices melt away as he samples the Australian scene in week's touring tagged on to a business trip

• Scotland's secret counties (Articles/travel)

  • - An area of awesome beauty, the northern region of Scotland is little known and seldom advertised. I suspect that the Scots are conspiring to keep it a secret

• The river flows backwards (Articles/Fact)

  • - The Severn Bore is a tidal phenomenon which few rivers in the world can match. But it is readily accessible and well worth the effort, especially during the equinoctial spring tides.

Web

• Surfing the talk (Articles/language)

  • - The Web has produced a new language to confuse the uninformed - but so has every previous new technology. You may find the article useful for net-phobic friends and relations!

• Words on the Web - 1. Website Copy

  • - Seven rules for making words count on your business web-pages. Helpful hints from a writer who understands.

• Words on the Web - 2. Newsletters

  • - Used well, a newsletter can create a sense of community for website visitors, which contradicts the impersonal distance of the Internet. If they feel involved, they will keep coming back.

Wildlife

• Bat Walk (Articles)

  • - The mysteries of British bats are unfolded during a guided night walk through a suburban housing estate.

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