Ian Betteridge

The pressure from Conservatives on Durham Police to investigate Keir Starmer – and their jubilation when Durham agreed – perfectly illustrate why...

A wedding! Friday evening saw the lovely betrothal of an old friend and his darling in Kew Gardens (which has...

A brief note this week: we have only just got back from Oxford so there’s not much time to...

A sunny bank holiday feels like such a pleasure after the winter. Our ancestors knew a thing or two about...

It took me a few days but I feel like I’m finally over the bought of Covid which I...

It’s a week since I tested positive for Covid which means it’s been a week when not much...

In 5 years brexiters have gone from 'we hold all the cards' through 'global britain', '...

The only heated room was the living room when the coal fire was alight. The kitchen only had heat when...

Who remembers living in a house without central heating, no double glazing, no loft insulation etc. and waking up and...

Paul Thurrott is really unhappy with the current direction of Windows (subscriber only link, and I think he has a...

An interesting little app for quick capturing on the iPhone – either text, audio or scanned text https://quickcapture.xyz/...

This week I have mostly been working – which is not, of course unusual. We did manage a trip out to...

I wrote this piece 17 years ago for fun as part of a series about the life I was living...

Greetings everyone, it’s been a while hasn’t it? There’s been quite a bit going on. This week...

Want to see the best example of why the iPad isn’t really a multi-tasking professional machine yet? Try opening...