Back in the early 1690s, Edward Lloyd, a coffee shop entrepreneur, had a brilliant idea about how to sell more coffee. He would put all…

Last week I went to visit a prospective client. As in all such fact-finding meetings, I began by asking the team about the functionality…

I wasn’t born in 1964, the year Hollywood made the movie Seven Days in May, but curiosity compelled me to blow three quid to rent it on…

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I dipped in and out of an old Encyclopaedia Britannica to learn English when I was young. To my mind those oversized, mould-smelling books…

“That’s sick, papa,” my son said to me the other day. I thought I’d been reprimanded. When I asked what was nauseating about…

Imagine arriving in 2025 from 1825, and encountering a golf cart. You would no doubt consider this four-wheeled marvel the most incredible…

When I was little, every year I told Père Noël what I wanted for Christmas. I made list, attested vehemently to my goodness over the year…