Sometimes it’s OK not to know. It really is better to be honest, stick to the facts and resist the temptation to spin stories around those facts when there’s no evidence to support them. If others are to be courageous enough to admit they don’t know we in turn must not mock them. We should [...]

I’ve let the dust settle before posting this. To catch everyone up, just before the last Formula1 race in Germany, the BBC announced they had ‘done a deal’ with Sky for 2012 onwards and would only be showing half the race season, live, on ‘regular’ television. F1 fans who want to watch the whole season, [...]

Reading is an ability we take for granted – we don’t even call it a skill or a talent. There is an assumption that those we meet in everyday life can read. But, pausing to challenge that assumption, we remember the newspaper reports we’ve read about adult illiteracy levels and we begin to appreciate that [...]